Theatre
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Baby The Musical Directed by Ron Celona
At CV Repertory Theatre in Rancho Mirage
By: - Jan 28th, 2017“Baby The Musical” a musical directed by Ron Celona, boasts a cast of ten highly talented singer/actors that shine in the intimate staging space of CV REP. In addition, the production also features four, live off-stage musicians, under the first-rate musical direction of Scott Storr. In 1983 it ran for a year on Broadway.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
At California's Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Jan 28th, 2017“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, now on stage at Palm Canyon Theatre, is creatively directed, by veteran actor/director Charles Harvey, who brings a wealth of experience that cleverly breathes life into those fifty cast members, including a nine person on-stage “kid’s choir” (perhaps ages six to ten?). It’s a visual feast for the eyes and ears.
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Complicité 's A Disappearing Number
At Chicago's Timeline Theatre
By: - Jan 28th, 2017The story of the Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan—who went from being a clerk in Madras in 1913 to work with a renowned mathematician in Cambridge—is told in a series of overlapping vignettes, beautifully choreographed by director Nick Bowling. Video and other electronic projections greatly enhance the production and our understanding of the math.
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Gloria by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
At Chicago's Goodman Theatre
By: - Jan 27th, 2017Playwright Bradon Jacobs-Jenkins has won several awards, including a “genius” grant in 2015 from the MacArthur Foundation. His other plays include Appropriate, produced in 2013 at Victory Gardens, and An Octoroon. He is a resident playwright at Signature Theatre in New York. Gloria is playing at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim in Miami
By: - Jan 27th, 2017This production, the South Florida premiere of the musical, combines striking stage pictures, stark lighting by Rebecca Montero, eye-catching video projections by Greg Duffy and top-notch singing voices from a talented cast of veterans and younger thespians who nail Sondheim’s complex music. They are accompanied by a vibrant, live orchestra.
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2017 Season at Barrington Stage Company
Sondheim's Company the Featured Musical.
By: - Jan 25th, 2017The Barrington Stage Company season begins on May 18 with Kunstler by Jeffrey Sweet. It will end on October 22 with Gaslight (Angel Street) by Patrick Hamilton. The featured musicals, a signature of BSC will be Ragtime, June 21 to July 15 and Sondheim's Company which will be directed by BSC's Julianne Boyd from August 10 to September 3.
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Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky
Harlem Renaissance at Chicago's Court Theatre
By: - Jan 25th, 2017Pearl Cleage has written six plays, nine novels and several nonfiction books. Blues for an Alabama Sky was published in 1999 and premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Blues weaves in references to issues that are still troubling today, such as homophobia, racism and abortion. The Harlem Renaissance is alluded to casually with references to a “party at Langston’s” and the ideas of Marcus Garvey.
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Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
Premiere at North Coast Rep in San Diego
By: - Jan 24th, 2017The story playwright Jordon Harrison presents in Marjorie Prime is a tale set in the not-to-distant future in which artificial intelligence is used to treat dementia and depression in the forms of “primes”- ‘humanoid’ lifelike robots that speak with patients in the form of lost loved ones and provide companionship for the lonely. Marjorie’s prime is modeled to look and talk like her dead husband Walter, at age thirty.
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Finalists for Theatre's Primus Award
Playwrights Honored by Primus Foundation and ATCA
By: - Jan 24th, 2017The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced the names of the seven finalists for the 2016 Francesca Primus Prize. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize, which includes a cash award of $10,000, is given annually to an emerging woman playwright.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses in San Diego
Mannered Tale of Seduction
By: - Jan 22nd, 2017“Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at San Diego Rep Theatre’s Lyceum Space stage, is the third production from the young New Fortune Theatre Company co-founded by Richard Baird and Amanda Schaar. The play centers around two ex-lovers: The Le Vicomte de Valmont (Richard Baird) and La Marquise de Merteuil (Jessica John Gercke) who scheme to ruin the reputation of an innocent young aristocrat Cecile de Volanges (Gentry Roth).
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Men on Boats at American Theater Company
Exploring America's Rivers
By: - Jan 22nd, 2017Men on Boats continues at American Theater Company Men on Boats, a regional premiere now on stage at American Theater Company, is the story of the 1869 exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers for the U.S. government. John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran who lost an arm in the war, leads a government-sanctioned expedition with nine other men and four boats.
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Ibsen Adaption At Huntington Theatre
A Doll's House that Should Not Be Played With
By: - Jan 20th, 2017Nora and Torvald Helmer are living their dream, Now happily married with children and financial security, but previously Nora risked her reputation to save her husband’s life. The consequences test the limits of their love. A new translation by Bryony Lavery of Ibsen’s powerful and groundbreaking classic about marriage, money, and equality shows that in the theatre if it aint broke, don't fix it. Trying to be contemporary and relevant takes skill not just daring.
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Eurydice by Promethean Theatre Ensemble
Sarah Ruhl’s Play Directed by Nicole Hand
By: - Jan 20th, 2017Promethean Theatre Ensemble’s new production of Eurydice, directed by Nicole Hand, is staged in modern dress with a chorus made up of three Stones.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage
Fun In February
By: - Jan 19th, 2017The 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to downtown Pittsfield for the sixth year and features music, theatre, dance, film, visual art, spoken word, comedy and more, including BSC’s 10X10 New Play Festival.
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The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict
Graphic Michel Leeds Play at Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Jan 17th, 2017Writer/director Michael Leeds presents an honest, funny, vivid and unapologetically shameless and bold play “The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict.”
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NY City Opera Revives
Iconic Candide at the Rose Theater
By: - Jan 13th, 2017In the best of all possible worlds, the New York City Opera is alive and well at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center. With Harold Prince at the helm in a production he has mounted for NYCO before, an exuberant romp through Voltaire's classic shows just how live NYCO is in its new incarnation.
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Racine’s Phèdre in Chicago
Trap Door Theatre’s Punky, Funky Production
By: - Jan 12th, 2017Jean Racine was one of the three great 17th century French playwrights, along with Molière and Corneille. He is known mostly for his adaptations of Greek tragedies and wrote Phèdre (inspired by Euripides’ play) in 1677. It’s considered his masterpiece.
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The Most Happy Fella
Breathtaking at Florida's Stage Door Theatre
By: - Jan 10th, 2017Whether “The Most Happy Fella” falls more closely into the realm of musical theater or opera, the show has the necessary ingredients for success. Stage Door Theatre’s breathtaking production offers some of the strongest singing you’ll hear on a stage.
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Chekhov with Cate Blanchett
Andrew Upton Updates Untitled in Four Acts
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Cate Blanchett can do anything, but her Chekhov is unique and apt. Following a triumphant run in Uncle Vanya in 2012, Broadway welcomes her as Anna, in what is probably Chekhov's first play.
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Decline in Theatre and Arts Media Coverage
Matt Windman Panel for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Matt Windman, author of “The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future,” led a panel discussion during the NY ATCA conference on the state of theater criticism in today’s world of social media bloggers and a decreasing number of full-time print theater critics
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Light Up the Night for New Year
Treasure Trove of Songs by the National Yiddish Theater
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Jewish music is often in the minor mode, but the enduring spirit of the people who sing it and live it creates a hopeful and joyous atmosphere.
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Touring Company of 42nd Street
On the Road in Florida
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Current non-equity national tour director Mark Bramble doesn’t disappoint in a mostly commendable production of 42nd Street that played a one-night stand in West Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve. The 16-week touring production will continue at Florida venues until Jan. 6, when it heads north.
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An American in Paris
Road Company in Miami
By: - Dec 29th, 2016“An American in Paris” is a musical composition by George Gershwin, which he referred to as an “extended symphonic tone poem.” The New York Philharmonic commissioned it and the piece soon became one of his most famous compositions. It was inspired by his visit to Paris during the 1920s.
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Avenue Q Lives On in the US
From College Grads to the 99%
By: - Dec 28th, 2016In the beginning, almost a decade and a half ago, target audiences were young people whose lives paralleled those of the characters on stage. Princeton has just graduated from college with an unmarketable BA in English. Kate can't find a job to fulfill her teaching ambitions. Gary Coleman peaked at fifteen and is now a building superintendent. Today these characters can be any one of the 99 % that make up our nation.
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Conor McPherson’s The Weir
Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - Dec 26th, 2016Conor McPherson’s The Weir isn’t your typical Christmas play, but I’ll take it any day over any of the traditional treacly tales that grace our stages this time of year. The play, however, has a Holiday theme.
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