Theatre
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St. Germain at Barrington and Theatre Works
Revival in Pittsfield and New Einstein Play with Richard Dreyfuss in Hartford
By: - Sep 20th, 2016Since 2009 when Freud's Last Session opened at Barrington Stage there have been annual meetings and numerous e mails with playwright Mark St. Germain. We met recently at Dottie's for brunch to talk about current projects. In Pittsfield there is a revival of Camping with Henry and Tom. At TheatreWorks in Hartford is a production of Relativity about Albert Einstein that stars Richard Dreyfuss. He is also adapting Freud, which has had 200 plus global productions, as a screenplay. He ranks at 14 on the 2016 list of most produced American Playwrights. That does not include his global productions.
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Circle Mirror Transformation
Annie Baker Play at Florida's Area Stage Company
By: - Sep 20th, 2016The plays by the 35-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, Annie Baker, can be long, and with their pregnant silences, exasperating for audiences. Patience, however, is rewarded by enduring Circle Mirror Transformation which is having its regional premiere at the renowned Area Stage Company in Coral Gables, Florida.
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Gutenberg the Musical
Florida's Sol Theatre
By: - Sep 19th, 2016Audience members play a pivotal role in any show, but especially this one. That’s because the fate of a musical by characters Doug and Bud rests in the pocketbooks and banks of the producers.
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Isabel Huppert is Phaedra(s) at BAM
Triple Queen Seduces at the Harvey Theater
By: - Sep 18th, 2016Phaedra is a character who has fascinated through time. Now the fascinating actress Isabel Huppert plays her. Racine best captured Phaedra's sense that neither lucidity nor sincerity is helpful in resolving emotional problems. Consciousness of failure is a noble human trait. Phaedra knows but her knowledge is useless.
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Fortune's Ire by Ramon Guillermo
At Miami's Storycrafter Studio
By: - Sep 17th, 2016The captivating play Fortune's Ire by Ramon Guillermo is on stage in North Miami’s intimate Storycrafter Studio space, through September 25. It is a finely acted and directed production. It begins with an interesting but seemingly harmless premise: A woman who claims to be suffering from amnesia steps into a psychologist’s office to receive help in figuring out her identity.
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'62 Center at Williams Announces Its Program
Launching Twelth Season
By: - Sep 16th, 2016The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance unveiled its twelfth season of diverse and challenging theatre and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond.
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The Birds Updated for the Stage
Du Maurier to Hitchcock to McPherson
By: - Sep 15th, 2016The Birds comes to the stage via a Daphne Du Maurier story on which Alfred Hitchcock's classic film of the same title was based. Now it provides the basis for playwright Conor McPherson's innovative play at 59E59th Street Theatres. McPherson has moved his story into a setting that is more reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road than Du Maurier and Hitchcock.
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Sam Shepard's True West
Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre
By: - Sep 15th, 2016In Sam Shepard's True West the duality of emotion lies in wait in every aspect of our tense two hours with brothers Lee (Joseph Wiens) and Austin (Kevin Viol). They compete and collaborate, love and hate, drink and work, reminisce and prevaricate.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By C.S. Lewis; Adapted by Adrian Mitchell, at Stratford Festival
By: - Sep 13th, 2016Stratford’s lovely production is enormously imaginative. The stage-creature that is Aslan, the holy lion, is inhabited by three men and made up of five separate segments which move fascinatingly together.
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Sondheim's A Little Night Music
Stratford Festival of Canada to October 23
By: - Sep 12th, 2016Gary Griffin has established himself internationally as an exciting director and re-thinker of staging musicals and has created a streamlined but very elegant production with Stratford’s great ensemble. This is really a wonderful revival.
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Invasion of Privacy by Larry Parr
Florida's The Abyss Stage
By: - Sep 12th, 2016Pigs Do Fly Productions is a small theater company that has, until this point, produced short plays featuring characters over age 50. “Invasion of Privacy” is its “first foray” into a full-length play, founder and artistic director Ellen Wacher announced before Saturday evening’s performance.
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Hershey Felder's Maestro
Leonard Bernstein's Tanglewood and So Much More
By: - Sep 11th, 2016After an early triumphant conducting performance, the press crowded into the green room to speak to the young Maestro. They then turned to his father Sam and asked," Why did you block your son’s early career in music,?" To which Sam replied "How did I know he was Leonard Bernstein?"
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Love’s Labor’s Lost
Old Globe’s Lowell Davies Outdoor Festival Theatre
By: - Sep 10th, 2016Director Marshall nicely controls the on stage silliness that frothy, light Shakespearean rom-coms deliver to audiences while at the same time providing the actors the opportunity to enjoy themselves. When they have a good time we have a good time.
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Gregorian by Matthew Greene at Walkerspace Theatre
Armenian Genocide Based Drama
By: - Sep 09th, 2016Gregorian, Matthew Greene’s latest play, produced by Working Artists Theatre Project at the Walkerspace Theater, digs deep into the painful history of the Armenian people, examining the century long effects of the 1915 genocide on four generations of the Gregorian family, in which the Ottoman Empire slaughtered 1.5 million Armenians.
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Allyn Burrows Named Artistic Director
No Stranger to Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Sep 08th, 2016Shakespeare & Company announces that actor and director, Allyn Burrows, a long-time member of the Company, has been named its new Artistic Director.
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The Rothschilds at Stage Door Theatre
Through October 16 in Margate, Florida
By: - Sep 06th, 2016“The Rothschilds” is based on a real-life European family whose members established a powerhouse banking operation and secured rights for their fellow Jews during a time of anti-Semitism in late 18th century Europe. Family members faced boulder-size odds throughout their efforts, making their dream seem impossible.
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Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Sep 03rd, 2016This production is worth seeing less, I believe, for a seldom-seen, lesser Ibsen play, than for a sensitively directed, brilliant cast. The plot development may be drawn out and repetitious, but its dramatic effect onstage is mesmerizing.
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Sotto Voce at Shakespeare & Co.
Displaced Persons Seeking a New Nome.
By: - Aug 28th, 2016Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz spins a lyrical drama centering on the long forgotten voyage of the St. Louis, which carried 939 German Jews seeking asylum. They were turned away and 234 ultimately died in concentration camps. "I can't believe this is happening again," Bernadette, the protagonist, says toward the end of Sotto Voce. The plight of these refugees seems reenacted in today's conflicts.
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The Hypochondriac by Moliere
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Aug 26th, 2016Antoni Cimolino’s production is showy, full of brilliant moments, superbly cast, and elaborately staged. But what should be a souffle soon begins to feel like a heavy, overfilled, over-spiced stew.
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Chorus Line in Charleston
Opens 85th Season of Footlight Players
By: - Aug 25th, 2016The production of A Chorus Line which opened the 85th season of Footlight Players in Charleston was so fresh and lively that it was hard to fathom that the musical premiered some four decades ago. The smallish stage was packed with 26 hopefuls auditioning for just eight roles.
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Steve Martin's Meteor Shower
World Premiere at Old Globe Theatre
By: - Aug 24th, 2016“Meteor Shower”, Steve Martin's latest play, is currently wowing audiences at the Old Globe with his far-out sense of humor that deals with the social mores of 1990s California. It has already been extended twice.
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Two Gentlemen Of Verona at S&Co.
A Complicated Tale Of First love
By: - Aug 23rd, 2016In this early play by Shakespeare, rarely produced, we find four main characters, two love triangles, two fathers hoping to help their children, two of Shakespeare's clowns and a dog (!) providing laughs for the whole family. The absurdist atmosphere created by the director, Jonathan Croy, allows the audience to see the wonders and obsessions of first love.
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Tribes at Barrington Stage Company
Award Winning British Drama by Nina Raine
By: - Aug 22nd, 2016Since its London premiere in 2010 Tribes, an award winning drama by Nina Raine, opened Off Broadway and has since been produced by major regional companies. It is being directed at Barrington Stage Company by Jenn Thompson
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Broadway Bounty Hunter Stars Annie Golden
Barrington Stage Debuts Hit Musical by Joe Iconis
By: - Aug 20th, 2016Annie Golden broke out with Hair in 1979. As she sings in a sure to be standard the actress is a "Woman of a Certain Age." She plays herself in a world premiere of Broadway Bounty Hunters by Joe Iconis at Barrington Stage Company. This is a fun musical that you will want to see at least twice. They just don't make them like this anymore.
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Terrence McNally Play in Fort Lauderdale
Love! Valour! Compassion! at Andrews Living Arts Studio
By: - Aug 16th, 2016“Love! Valour! Compassion!” is a character-driven, relatable, touching and terribly timely work with just a smidgen of sentimentality. The play, which will cause you to laugh one moment and cry the next, a la Neil Simon, vividly captures the fears, hopes, heartbreaks, tension and pride of a group of eight gay men in the summer of 1995.
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