Theatre
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Beauty and the Beast
Road Company Visited Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 18th, 2016Pretend we’re on an airplane, because the oxygen mask above will prove beneficial. Certainly it will help you deal with the spectacular, breathtaking special effects of the mostly impressive non-equity national touring version we will see of the beloved Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast.”
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Golem Haunts Charleston
Robotic Presence in Annual Spoleto Festival 2016
By: - Jun 18th, 2016With a reviw of The Golem our Charleston correspondent, Sandy Katz, completes her coverage of the annual Spoleto Festival 2016. The mytical Golem was an exotic and exciting production.
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What's Next for Hamilton Winners
From Broadway Sensation to Years on the Road
By: - Jun 14th, 2016At about $150 each my pal and BFA contributor, Jack Lyons, managed to get a few "cheap seats" for the Broadway smash Hamilton. We even got to go back stage and chat with now Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. Back in November I asked him "what's next." It was a bit premature but all of the original contracts expire this summer. Its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, has already announced plans to leave. The show will continue indefinitly on Broadway while several touring companies are launched.
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Heathers The Musical a Smash Hit
At Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Jun 14th, 2016The lyric “Beautiful” fits right into the musical adaptation of the 1989 cult classic “Heathers” if you look at the heart of the darkly comic, electric, fun show.
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4000 Miles at Magic Carpet Showroom
Amy Herzog's Intriguing Play in Denver
By: - Jun 13th, 2016Every nook and cranny of Denver is packed with terrific theatre. Cherry Creek Theatre makes a carpet showroom its home. Here we get to know Leo and Grandma in Amy Herzog's justly celebrated play, 4000 Miles.
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Sweet and Lucky by Zach Morris
Denver Gives a New Audience Experience
By: - Jun 12th, 2016How can theater reach out to new, young audiences? Brooklyn's Third Rail and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts have come up with one answer: Keep the audience standing and walking. Let the audiences move through a 14,000 square foot set. Keep the audience guessing where they are and what they are looking at. Disorient, move, provoke, satisfy.
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Hauptmann by John Logan in Chicago
Lindbergh Baby Killer Trial at City Lit Theater
By: - Jun 12th, 2016Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the “baby killer,” the man tried, convicted and executed for the 1932 kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby, is vividly personified by George Seegebrecht in City Lit Theater’s new production of Hauptmann by John Logan.
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White Man on a Bus by Bruce Graham
Curious Theatre in Denver Produces
By: - Jun 12th, 2016Curious Theatre in Denver is committed to plays which pack a powerful punch. White Man on a Bus is a knockout, describing the current state of race relations in the US. It is also very good theatre.
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A Gambler's Guide To Dying
Gary McNair's Spoleto Festival Gem
By: - Jun 11th, 2016Our Charleston correspondent, Sandy Katz, continues with coverage of the annual Spoleto Festival. She was completely absorbed by a poignant one-man-show by the Scottish actor and playwright Gary McNair. He narrates as himself telling the tale of his colorful grandfather in A Gambler's Guide To Dying. By the end of the evening she was endeared to a colorful rascal.
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Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
At North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego.
By: - Jun 10th, 2016Long before TV soaps made their debut in America, Henrik Ibsen was scandalizing the patrons of Europe’s theatrical stages with similar themed plays. There’ is no doubt about it. We human beings are a complicated, conflicted, and a fascinating lot. Hedda Gabler has a fresh translation for this lively production.
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Huntington Theatre Company Gets A Reprieve
Theatre To Stay Put on Avenue of the Arts
By: - Jun 09th, 2016After Boston University decided to sell the building in which the Huntington Theatre Company has had its lovely theatre last Fall, there was a great deal of agita and even grief as to what would become of the Huntington. Would the theatre company have to relocate? Would the large structure be torn down for expensive condos? Could the City of Boston help find a development/real estate partner? Like a Deus Ex Machina, Good News has arrived with a happy ending.
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Provincetown Festival to Combine Williams and O'Neill
Annual Theatre Event from September 22 to 25
By: - Jun 09th, 2016We attended the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans which inspired us to participate in TWF in Provincetown in 2015. Both festivals were thrilling in presenting rare and insightful works. For the 2016 festival in Provincetown works by Williams will be paired with plays by Eugene O'Neill. His first works we created and produced by the Provincetown Players. The annual event will occur from September 22 to 25.
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Full Committed in Charleston
Smash Hit in 2016 Piccolo Spoleto Festival
By: - Jun 09th, 2016The Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina presented the hilarious and zany "Fully Committed" as a 2016 Piccolo Spoleto offering which was a festival favorite with sold-out performances.
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Tokyo Fish Story at Old Globe
If You Knew Sushi
By: - Jun 08th, 2016“tokyo fish story” is a splendid production that performs, without an intermission, on the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Stage and runs through June 26, 2016.
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Feeding the Bear by Michael Aman
World Premiere at Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 08th, 2016If “Feeding the Bear” doesn’t exactly break new ground, it works primarily because it’s the type of story with which many can identify. It’s a work that will make you cry one moment and laugh the next. Sometimes, you’ll do both simultaneously.
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Nick Payne's Constellations
Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2016Constellations, the new two-character play at Steppenwolf Theatre, is certainly a nonlinear story. Marianne (Jessie Fisher) and Roland (Jon Michael Hill) at times seem to be in parallel universes. She, an academic theoretical physicist, and he, a beekeeper.
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Camp David by Lawrence Wright
At Old Globe in San Diego
By: - Jun 06th, 2016Artistic Director Barry Edelstein continues to provide San Diego audiences with first rate theatrical entertainment. “Camp David” performs on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage through June 19, 2016.
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Nunsense in Charleston
Footlight Players Part of Piccolo Spoleto
By: - Jun 05th, 2016Our coverage of Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston continues with Nunsense at Footlight Players. Saints preserve us.
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Lauren Gunderson's The Taming at S&Co;.
Political Comedy Disconnects
By: - Jun 05th, 2016Lauren Gunderson is widely renegaded as among the best and brightest of American playwrights. She can be thoughtful and provocative. With The Taming, however, which is being given an energetic and ambitious production, the comedy of brought down as too clever, thinky and talky for its own good. It was just too difficult to connect with and care for the unmanageable characters and their absurd situations.
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The Royale by Marco Ramirez
GableStage at Coral Gables, Florida
By: - Jun 04th, 2016The latter part of The Royale which played Broadway’s Lincoln Center Theater earlier this year, features one of the strongest, most powerful scenes of dramatic tension I’ve encountered in a theater in a long while
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Tragedy of Eugene O'Neill
Family Ravaged as Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: - Jun 04th, 2016Currently Long Day's Journey Into Night, the masterpiece of Eugene O'Neill, is enjoying an all star Broadway revival. One of the last of his plays before a decade of illness he left instructions that it not be published until 25 years after his life. It was produced in Sweden within three years of his death. Based on the horrendous circumstances of his alcoholic, drug addicted family he hoped to avoid collateral damage to survivors. It begs the question of who owns the moral and legal rights when artists draw upon family and friends as material for their art.
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Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival
Fever Was Red Hot in Charleston
By: - Jun 03rd, 2016Piccolo Spoleto Festival is officially the outreach arm of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of Spoleto Festival USA, and thirty-eighth year of Piccolo Spoleto.
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At Home With Lindsay Ann Crouse
Reflecting on a Remarkable Life in Theatre
By: - May 31st, 2016Having returned to Annisquam where she grew up during summers Lindsay Ann Crouse is performing annually with Gloucester Stage. We saw her launch the season with a lively and hilarious production of Lettice ad Lovage. As kids my sister Pip was Lindsay's age and I was a bit older than her brother Timothy. On a rainy day we met in her vintage village home and discussed a remarkable life in theatre with numerous stage, TV and film credits including an Oscar nomination and an Emmy.
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Spinning by Deirdre Kinahan
US Premiere at Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - May 31st, 2016Spinning is notable for its fine direction and acting. Dan Waller is one of those solid Chicago actors who plays many types of roles and makes each one his own. His portrayal of Conor is wrenching and passionate as he gradually learns so accept his responsibility for his actions.
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Haymarket: The Anarchist’s Songbook
Chicago's Underscore Theatre Company
By: - May 30th, 2016If the Haymarket story is unfamiliar, you can read about it before you see the play. The creators do a good job of telling a complex story, but everything will make more sense if you read before seeing this production.
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