Theatre
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Don Giovanni Entrances in Philadelphia
Opera Philadelphia Triumphs
By: - Apr 29th, 2025Opera Philadelphia is presenting Mozart’s original version of Don Giovanni at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It’s a lively, visually striking production designed to showcase both the richness of Mozart’s score and Da Ponte’s intricate libretto.
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Writing Fragments Home
Charming Premiere of a Boomerang Philippine-American Style
By: - Apr 26th, 2025Jeffrey Lo invites us into his imagination and relationships in this semi-autobiographical look at a 40-year-old wannabe playwright who has to return to his mother's home after losing his job and his girlfriend. Equally funny and sad, it offers insights into mother and adult child relationships.
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Huntington Theatre 26/26 Season
Seven Plays
By: - Apr 24th, 2025Huntington Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli announce seven titles in The Huntington’s electrifying 2025/26 season, featuring poignant fresh works, a bitingly funny comedy, and a love-affirming contemporary musical – powerful stories about love and family, both epic and intimate in scale and scope.
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Floyd Collins Echoes at Lincoln Center
Fresh Faces Enliven the Cast
By: - Apr 24th, 2025In 1925, a seemingly prescient family farmer became captivated by the idea of bringing a one-act Barnum and Bailey-style circus to the caves of Kentucky. Against this backdrop unfolds the story of Floyd Collins, whose entrapment in this famously fragile landscape—formed by the dissolution of limestone, collapsing sinkholes, sinking streams, and springs—captured national attention. His burial in the very Sand Cave he had chosen became a media sensation. Now it is a musical, Floyd Collins.
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Zorro
Origins of a Superhero at Opera San Jose
By: - Apr 21st, 2025Diego returns to his father's home in Los Angeles to find his former friend Moncada is now mayor and brutalizes mestizos (mixed bloods), a group that includes Diego's love, Ana Maria. In this origin story, Diego takes on the disguise Zorro and fights to improve the plight of the disadvantaged.
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It's True, It's True, It's True
Rape in Renaissance Italy: A Feminist Perspective
By: - Apr 19th, 2025Artemisia Gentileschi, who would become a renowned Baroque painter and had produced her first masterpiece at age 15, is raped by an older man, papal painter Agostino Tassi. Remarkable for its time, the teenaged victim takes the perpetrator to court. This account is based on Roman court transcripts .
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Cafe Resistance at Theater for the New City
Robert Monticello Play Directed by Lissa Moira
By: - Apr 14th, 2025Cafe Resistance, a new play by Robert Monticello, and directed by Lissa Moira, is playing at Theater for the New City through April 27th. Set in Paris in 1940 as the Germans enter to occupy the city, a bordello is the perfect place to watch all the parties in action.
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Here There Are Blueberries
Documentary About Lives of Officers at Auschwitz
By: - Apr 11th, 2025In 2007, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum received a photo album which alone and cross-referenced with other documents provided a new look into the lives of officers at the Auschwitz concentration camp at the end of World War II. The research process also corroborated evidence to prove the guilt of some perpetrators of war crimes.
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Streetcar Named Desire at BAM
The Williams' Language Falls Flat
By: - Apr 09th, 2025The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently presented A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Rebecca Frecknall and featuring a set by Madeleine Girling, this production, which was a smash hit in London, also made a strong impression at BAM.
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Anette Miller and John Doughlas Thompson Honored
Celebrated at Gala 2025
By: - Mar 31st, 2025Shakespeare & Company has announced its Gala 2025, slated for Saturday, June 28, will honor award-winning actors Annette Miller and John Douglas Thompson. In addition to performing on its stages – including together in Richard III in 2010 – both actors are alumni of Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training, which offers acting intensives and workshops for artists at varied stages in their careers and provides the basis for the company’s aesthetic.
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Grease
Nostalgia and Hijinks by the Bucketful at Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 31st, 2025Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski didn't expect to see each other after their summer fling, but Sandy transfers into Danny's school, Rydell High. How can Danny still be cool with his Greaser friends, yet rekindle the sensitive relationship with Sandy? And how can Sandy befriend the Pink Ladies while poaching in their territory? A great soundtrack and a ton of humor tell the story.
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Fat Ham
Hamlet Reimagined as a Contemporary Comic Drama
By: - Mar 29th, 2025Juicy, a young, thicc, gay, black man, is visited by the ghost of his father, Pap, who demands that Juicy exact revenge for Pap's murder by his brother Rev. But Juicy's disposition doesn't lean toward violence, and mother Tedra suggests that he leave the past behind. Serious themes underlie the comedy.
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Laughs in Spanish at Hartford Stage
Not So Funny
By: - Mar 27th, 2025The play is set in an art gallery in Miami during the Basel Art Festival, a major cultural event. Mariana runs a small gallery and discovers that the paintings from the current exhibition have been stolen; later that day, she is hosting a reception with many affluent collectors attending.
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The Inspector at Yale Rep
Less is More
By: - Mar 26th, 2025The primary difficulty with this production is because each “bit” is drawn out to its utmost, the play runs over two and a half hours. A tighter production would have had more effect.
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La Jolla Playhouse Presents the New Hamilton
3 Summers of Lincoln Soars
By: - Mar 24th, 20253 Summers of Lincoln is a captivating production blending historical and contemporary dance and music to explore the meetings between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass during the American Civil War. Set across three summers—1862, 1863, and 1864—the play dramatizes Lincoln's leadership struggle and Douglass’ unwavering commitment to abolition.
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Mrs. Krishnan's Party
Celebrating India's Onam Festival Via New Zealand
By: - Mar 21st, 2025In this immersive theatrical event, the title character prepares dal and rice for 100 theater goers, while she and her assistant entertain and engage with the visitors. The script, acting, and improvisation provide a fun-filled experience and a bit of learning about Indian festivities.
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Push/Pull
Central Work's Premiere of an Innovative Piece with Unusual Subject Matter
By: - Mar 18th, 2025Sculpting the human body may not seem like dramatic grist, but this two-hander transcends its topic matter by incorporating universal themes. Nolan and Clark were friends from the sixth grade but went separate ways after school. Nolan seeks a professional certificate in body building. Meanwhile, Clark wants his weightlifting mentorship, believing that muscles will make him more masculine.
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Last Call Sizzles at New World Stages
Bernstin and Von Karajan Wrestle at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna
By: - Mar 16th, 2025You'd never know that Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan skied together. Their meeting at the Sacher Hotel in Vienna did take place and is compellingly dramatized in a new play, Last Call.
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Nobody Loves You
ACT's Sparkling Musical Send-up of Reality Dating Shows
By: - Mar 14th, 2025Jeff is a PhD candidate in philosophy who ridicules reality shows. But chasing after his ex-girlfriend, he finds himself in the studio of such a show. Although he's candid about hating everything about them, the show runner anticipates good audience response if Jeff becomes a contestant. Like oil and water, they don't mix. But comedy ensues.
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Fly by Night
Hillbarn's Charming Rendition of a Musical About Hope, Love, and Loss
By: - Mar 11th, 2025Daphne leaves South Dakota for New York City along with sister Miriam. Set over a year leading up to the Northeast Blackout of 1965, one sister seeks stardom on Broadway and the other is happy as a diner waitress. Their aspirations, relationships, and random events are the basis for a thoughtful pop musical.
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The Pigeon Keeper
Opera Parallele's World Premiere of a Timely Fable
By: - Mar 08th, 2025During a time of drought and poor fish catch, a fisherman and his daughter save a young boy from the sea, but he is from a different land and does not speak their language. Clashes ensue over how to deal with this involuntary interloper. The touching and well-produced opera benefits from its relevance to our current times and from the large role played by the San Francisco Girls Chorus.
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TheaterWorks Hartford Upcoming 40th Season.
Opens With Prize Winner English
By: - Mar 07th, 2025The theater’s 40th anniversary season opens with ENGLISH by Sanaz Toossi, the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. “English Only” is the mantra that rules one classroom in Iran, where four adults are preparing for the TOEFL - the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Together, with their teacher, they leapfrog through a linguistic playground that is a funny, stunning triumph about the universal foibles of language and miscommunication, hoping that one day English will make them whole. TheaterWorks Hartford’s production of English will run October - November of 2025 (exact dates to be announced).
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Don Giovanni
Livermore Valley Opera's Fine Rendering of Mozart and da Ponte's Masterpiece
By: - Mar 03rd, 2025In this great serio-comic fantasy, the famed lothario Don Giovanni "courts" three ladies in short order. He also slays the father of one, setting off a man hunt and revenge by the spirit of the deceased.
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All My Sons
New City Players in South Florida
By: - Feb 27th, 2025New City Players in South Florida triumphs with its first production of an Arthur Miller Play "All My Sons" runs through March 9 in Island City Stage's intimate black box space in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. Acting does not get much better than this.
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Lazours at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.)
The Lazours’ Night Side Songs, Commissioned by A.R.T.
By: - Feb 27th, 2025Night Side Songs is a communal music-theater experience performed for—and with—an intimate audience that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. Inspired by American writer, philosopher, and cultural critic Susan Sontag’s observation that “illness is the night side of life.”
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