Theatre
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ACT's Riveting World Premiere of a Bay Area Based Hip-Hop Musical
By: - Jun 14th, 2025Esata is an ace computer coder, and Conway has a high-tech innovation that lacks code. They join forces and aspire to develop the product at an incubator in San Francisco. The narrative follows this and several other subplots in an uplifting homage to the Bay Area, and especially, a love letter to Oakland.
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Something Beautiful: The Songs of Ahrens and Flaherty
Coming to Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 13th, 2025Widely regarded as one of Broadway’s most celebrated songwriting duos, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award-winning creators of Ragtime, as well as the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated team behind the animated feature Anastasia.
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N/A A New Play at Barrington Stage
Timely Political Drama.
By: - Jun 12th, 2025Given the President’s assault on the arts and higher education the one act, two hander “N/A a New Play” by Mario Correa may be taken as a bold act of defiance by Barrington Stage Company. It is likely to move the Berkshires based company up a few notches on the White House enemies list.
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Mud by Maria Irene Fornes
Latine Theater Lab Debuts Riveting Drama
By: - Jun 11th, 2025For its debut production, Latine Theater Lab in Ft. Lauderdale is leaning into the horror of Maria Irene Fornes's captivating drama, "Mud." In Mud, the groundbreaking Fornes deals with grim themes that seem especially urgent today.
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The Dying Gaul
Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 11th, 2025Don't let the pristine set fool you in Island City Stage's piercing production of "The Dying Gaul" by Craig Lucas. People may be most familiar with Lucas from his Romantic fantasy "Prelude to a Kiss."
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David Margulies’ Play, Lunar Eclipse
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
By: - Jun 11th, 2025The brief (80-minute) play opens with George, the wonderful Reed Birney, sitting in a darkened field, sobbing. As the lights come up, we hear sounds, and soon his wife, Em, appears carrying a lawn chair and a basket of provisions – blankets, hot chocolate and more.. She has come to join him, something she hasn’t done in a long time. George loves astronomy.
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La Boheme
San Francisco Opera's Record 46th Production
By: - Jun 09th, 2025In opera's most beloved work, Rodolfo and Mimi encounter love and tragedy, while Rodolfo and his three comrades share the Bohemian life of starving artists. Replete with memorable music, gentle comedy, and the inevitable death of the lead soprano, La Boheme, continues to deservedly fill opera houses almost in a class of its own.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Orinda Company Makes Good with Agatha Christie Gem
By: - Jun 08th, 2025The first-class carriage in the westbound train from Istanbul is filled with diverse travelers. One of them is drugged and stabbed to death. Hercule Poirot is on the scene and systematically solves the mystery.
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Guntram Performed by American Symphony Orchestra
First opera of Richard Strauss
By: - Jun 08th, 2025Leon Botstein, the ever-adventuresome conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, brought Richard Strauss's first opera, Guntram, to Carnegie Hall. This early work by Strauss showcases a prolifically productive composer whose treasured operas and symphonic works would eventually become cornerstones of concert halls worldwide.
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Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground
Launches Summer Season at Barrington Stage
By: - Jun 04th, 2025A panel of historians, in the New York Time Magazine, have positioned Dwight D. Eisenhower at 22. That’s one behind Andrew Johnson and staring up at Chester A. Arthur. It's 1962 and he's writing his memoir. A projection at the end of the compelling one man play by Richard Hellensen, starring Tony winner, John Rubenstein, has him rising in periodic polls to #5 in 2023.
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Harvey Milk Reimagined
Opera Parallele Co-Commission of Revision Hits the Mark
By: - Jun 02nd, 2025Harvey Milk became the first elected openly gay city official in the United States. Along with the notoriety, he became an icon and a victim of assassination. His story is told in a gripping revision of Stewart Wallace and Michael Korie's 1995 opera.
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Ragtime at Goodspeed
Not To Be Missed
By: - Jun 01st, 2025A strength of this production is the outstanding performances of the leading characters, Michael Wordly as Coalhouse Walker, Mami Parris as Mother, and David R Gordon as Tateh; each truly embodies the role and has the vocal chops to handle the music.
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Barringtpn Stage Update
Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind”
By: - May 30th, 2025Will Van Dyke, Jeff Talbott, and Derik Lee release “Squirrel in the Wind” on Joy Machine Records. The track is the first single of a two song EP fuzzy (Barrington Stage Company Sessions), featuring music and lyrics by Van Dyke & Talbott and performed by Cass Morgan and John Cariani.
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Dangerous Instruments
World Premiere in South Florida
By: - May 29th, 2025"Dangerous Instruments," a play about a mother trying to get her son help, is receiving its world premiere in a fine production by Palm Beach Dramaworks. The play, by Gina Montet, runs through June 1 in West Palm Beach. Palm Beach Dramaworks featured the piece in one of its recent new play festivals.
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Otello
West Bay Conquers Notoriously Difficult Verdi Masterpiece
By: - May 26th, 2025Many opera aficionados argue that Arrigo Boito's libretto improves on the Shakespeare source material. Machinations by Iago, one of the best developed and vile villains in literature, wreak tragedy upon Otello and Desdemona in response to Iago's being passed over for a promotion. Verdi's music is both sublime and powerful.
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Heartbeat Opera Shapeshifts Faust
Gounod's Opera Updated
By: - May 20th, 2025Heartbeat Opera is a crown jewel in New York’s opera diadem. Their productions make opera accessible and compelling to contemporary audiences by breathing new life into beloved classics. Faust, their current production running through May 25, is no exception—it’s a bold, inventive take that succeeds on many fronts.
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The Cake
Values Clash in City Lights' Masterful Take on Fine Dramedy
By: - May 19th, 2025Jen returns to North Carolina to plan her wedding with Macy. What Jen doesn't expect is that bakery-owning, cake-maker Della, who had been Jen's proxy mother, would not want to make her wedding cake because her religion doesn't support same sex marriage. Many social issues are uncovered along the way.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Seeing the World Through the Eyes of an Autistic
By: - May 17th, 2025Autistic fifteen-year-old Christopher tries to solve the mystery of the killing of a dog. Along the way, we learn about his character, his abilities, and of his relationship with his parents. A splendid production by San Francisco Playhouse brings out the strength of story.
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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
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Irishtown at the Irish Rep
Ever Wondered What Makes an Irish Play
By: - May 08th, 2025Irishtown is currently playing at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York through May 25th. Nicola Murphy Dubey directs.
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The Engish Concert at Carnegie Hall
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
By: - May 07th, 2025The English Concert performed a semi-staged, off-book production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Carnegie Hall. This annual visit by one of the world’s premier Baroque ensembles is eagerly awaited — and this year did not disappoint.
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Less Than Smashing
A Musical from TV to Broadway
By: - May 04th, 2025If you are expecting a faithful translation of the 2012-13 TV series, you may be disappointed. Changes have occurred in transferring Smash to the Broadway stage. Characters have new names, some characters have been added to the cast, and the backstory of some of the characters has changed dramatically.
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Painting Churches by Tina Howe
Pigs Do Fly Productions in South Florida
By: - May 02nd, 2025Pigs Do Fly Productions' mounting of "Painting Churches" is a winner. Art, memory, and aging collide in the poetic play.
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Beetlejuice the Musical
Strong Equity National Touring Production Stops in Miami
By: - May 02nd, 2025It's showtime, as the "ghost with the most" visits Miami to haunt audiences as Beetlejuice. It delivers a winning combination of whimsy, weirdness, and spookiness. An equity national touring production's stops in Miami.
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Handel in Hudson
R.B. Schlather Captures Handel's Spirit with a Fresh View
By: - May 02nd, 2025Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York, presents Handel’s Giulio Cesare as part of its ambitious celebration of the composer’s forty operas—each of which will eventually be staged here. It’s an exciting prospect.
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