Theatre
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The Turn of the Screw
Santa Fe's Excellent Production of the Ghost Story
By: - Jul 24th, 2025In this Gothic ghost tale, a young governess is charged with caring for two orphans under the guardianship of an absentee uncle. Two employees on the estate whom the governess encounters are deceased. Is she dreaming, or is their presence real? And are the children innocents, or are they possessed by the ghosts? Benjamin Britten's eerie music fits the ghost story.
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All Shook UP
At Goodspeed
By: - Jul 23rd, 2025The list of things All Shook Up does well is long, from the show itself to the outstanding Goodspeed production and the talented cast.
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The Rake's Progress
Glimmerglass Festival's Production of Stravinsky's Opera Sparkles
By: - Jul 21st, 2025Tom Rakewell shuns regular work. His desire to make it on his wits alone plays into the hands of Nick Shadow, alias, The Devil. Willing to leave his betrothed, Anne Trulove, behind, and seduced by the attractions of London, Tom falls deeper and deeper into despair.
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The House on Mango Street
Glimmerglass's Compelling World Premiere Opera
By: - Jul 20th, 2025Forty years ago, Sandra Cisneros authored one of the world's best-selling and most influential young adult novels. Together with composer Derek Bermel, they have created an opera based on that work, telling about coming of age in a Mexican-American community in Chicago.
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Les Blancs
Oakland Theater Project's Gender Bending Take on Lorraine Hansberry
By: - Jul 16th, 2025Having settled in London, Tshembe visits his African homeland at a time of unrest. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry plumbs conflicts among natives and colonialists with various philosophies. OTP's production casts a wholly black female ensemble to portray men and women, black and white.
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fuzzy at Barrington Stage Company
A World Premiere Musical
By: - Jul 13th, 2025The musical fuzzy is a puppet show for adults. This inventive production breaks all the rules. The one act play has been written, it seems, by the main character. The charm of this production is that the audience comes to believe that.
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Opera Comes to the Williamstown Festival
Samuel Barber's Vanessa in a New Take by Heartbeat Opera
By: - Jul 12th, 2025Vanessa is the first opera to be performed at the Williamstown Festival, running from July 17 through August 3. It will be produced by Heartbeat Opera, a company known for revitalizing underperformed masterpieces and breathing new life into opera’s staples.
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Jurassiq Parq: A Musiqal Parody
A Fun Time with Raucous Theater at Oasis, San Francisco's LGBTQ Nightclub
By: - Jul 12th, 2025A spoof of the popular movie, this jukebox-musical-plus offers a great catalog of singalong pop and rock hits from the '80s and '90s along with broad and racy humor. The production values are impressive as Dr. Laura Dern and Dr. Jeff Goldblum try to save the world from the re-birth of dinosaurs.
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Constellations
Pear Theatre Innovates a Two-Hander About Multiple Realities
By: - Jul 08th, 2025Marianne, an astrophysicist, and Roland, a beekeeper, strike an unlikely relationship. In Nick Payne's original realization, two actors repeat each scene three times, each variation having its own twist and suggesting multiple realities. The Pear uses three separate couples, increasing the dynamics with each couple reflecting different aspects of their character's personality.
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About Time by Maltby and Shire
At Goodspeed
By: - Jul 05th, 2025About Time, the new Maltby and Shire revue that recently completed a run at About Time, the new Maltby and Shire seems inevitable, given that the pair previously composed the revues Starting Here, Starting Now (1976) and Closer Than Ever (1989).While Starting Here’s songs dealt with starting out in a big city and finding romance, Closer Than Ever’s songs dealt with subjects related to mid-life.
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Camelot at Barrington Stage Company
Utopian Message for Hard Times
By: - Jul 04th, 2025Camelot, a lesser work by Lerner & Loewe with its utopian vision of a medieval kingdom, came to signify the youthful and energetic presidency of John F. Kennedy. It has been revised by Alan Paul and Barrington Stage Company as contrast to the current evil empire and faint hope that a better America has been and will be again.
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The Last Goat
Central Works' Premiere About Isolation and Desire
By: - Jul 03rd, 2025On a desolate Greek island in the Bronze Age, only an older woman and her granddaughter remain. An exhausted, disheveled young man appears, claiming to have been shipwrecked. His presence prompts revelations, creates new dynamics, and imposes new decisions to be made.
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Aztlán
An Intriguing World Premiere of Luis Alfaro's Latest at Magic Theatre
By: - Jul 02nd, 2025A still young Aztlán has been released from nine years in prison but must deal with a sadistic parole officer who makes it difficult to meet parole requirements and a landlord who tries to take advantage of his vulnerability. Having been diagnosed as violent even as a pre-teen, this environment is hardly conducive to rehabilitation. Against this personal story is overlaid the myth and spirit of the Aztec empire.
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Shakespeare & Company Gala 2025
Honoring Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson
By: - Jun 30th, 2025Gala 25 of Shakespeare & Company honored alumni of its Center for Acting Training, Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson. Both are distinguished “lifers” who have been with the company for more than 20 years.
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World Premiere of Long Days
Legacy Theatre in Branford
By: - Jun 25th, 2025The closing night of a show can be fraught with emotions. Cast and crew members have worked hard for weeks through rehearsals and performances. Friendships and feuds have developed. Add in an emotionally demanding play such as Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, and everything is intensified.
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Annunciation
Word for Word's Production of Lauen Groff's Fine Short Story
By: - Jun 24th, 2025Upon college graduation, The Woman re-settles in the Golden State in hopes of finding a new happiness. In her scrounging existence, her life becomes entangled with a co-worker and her landlady. The Woman grows as she faces the challenges of life.
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A Class Act
Norman Shabel Produces His Own Play in South Florida
By: - Jun 24th, 2025A South Florida professional production of Norman Shabel's legal drama, "A Class Act" runs through this weekend. "A Class Act" is a call to conscience that we cannot afford to ignore.
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Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean: A New Musical
This Cult Success as a Play and Movie Now a Musical
By: - Jun 23rd, 2025It is 1975. In the small west Texas town of McCarthy, unwed mother Mona leads a life in remembrance of the 1955 filming of "Giant" in nearby Marfa. Her claim to fame is that her son Jimmy Dean was fathered by the iconic actor James Dean while he was on location and shortly before his death. His "disciples" 20th reunion of his fatal car accident reveals friendship, conflict, and more denouement than you could shake a stick at.
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The Victim at Shakespeare & Company
Lawrence Goodman World Premiere
By: - Jun 22nd, 2025With The Victim playwright, Lawrence Goodman, has bitten off a lot to chew in a dense one act play that feels more like three. It presents monologues by three remarkable actresses: Stephanie Clayman (Daphne), Yvette King (Maria), and Annette Miller (Ruth). He takes on DEI, The Holocaust, and The Covid Pandemic.
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Greg Reiner Managing Director for Barrington Stage
Was Director of Theater and Musical Theater for NEA
By: - Jun 20th, 2025The Board of Directors of Barrington Stage Company (BSC) is pleased to announce Greg Reiner as the company’s new Managing Director. Reiner, who most recently served as Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), joins BSC as of August 4, 2025.
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Tartuffe
Pocket Opera's Zany Production Based on the Classic Moliere Farce
By: - Jun 17th, 2025Orgon is taken in by the false piety of rapscallion Tartuffe. He wants his daughter to marry Tartuffe but arranges to make the fraudster his sole heir before the wedding occurs. Needless to say, this causes consternation and crisis to his blood family.
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Fast Eddy Rubin at 84
Astounding NY Theatre and Arts Critic
By: - Jun 16th, 2025Colleague and friend Edward Fast Eddy Rubin was astounding and incorrigible. He was a regular contributor to Berkshire Fine Arts. Though he enjoyed getting comped he was slow to submit reviews often just when shows were about to or already had closed. He was the leader of our pack with unflinching panache and humor. The moniker came early on when he worked for a PR firm. He was dispatched with orders "Eddy, quick go here or there and do this or that." His promptness in executing these commands identified him as Fast Eddy. This obit is written by New Orleans based critic and ATCA member Alan Smason.
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Idomeneo
San Francisco Opera Brings Out the Best of Mozart's Earliest Major Opera
By: - Jun 16th, 2025Drawn from classic Greek tragedy, the King of Crete begs an indulgence from Neptune to save him from raging waters. The price is that Idomeneo is to sacrifice the first person he sees on shore. That turns out to be his son. Idomeneo deals with internal conflict throughout.
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The Baroness
Playhouse on Park
By: - Jun 15th, 2025This world premiere provides for a delightfully funny evening in the theater. You can always count on Jacques Lamarre to push the envelope with his humor. He is at his best with this show..
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Your Name Means Dream by José Rivera
TheaterWorks-Hartford
By: - Jun 15th, 2025Is this the future? Elderly people “cared for” by artificial intelligence humanoids?
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