Theatre
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Pipeline
The Dangers of Growing Up Black in America
By: - Mar 18th, 2024In response to provocation, Black private-school-student Omari has crossed a line with his White teacher. The boy's mother, Nya, who is a teacher, is conflicted, as she values the rules that serve to protect society, but she understands that her son is a good boy with a future now in peril. Dominique Morisseau's riveting play explores numerous issues of race and relationships, and African-American Shakespeare's production does the play justice.
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The Far Country
Berkeley Rep's Fine Version of a Drama Set in Nearby Environs
By: - Mar 15th, 2024Gee, a Chinese immigrant living in San Francisco, wishes to visit China but needs documentation that will ensure his return. To obtain that, he must undergo interrogation at the notorious Angel Island detention center. Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, immigration officials are loathe to facilitate entry and re-entry into the U.S. by Asians, who are crafty in developing strategies to overcome the resistance.
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Moulin Rouge the Musical
Equity Production in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Mar 08th, 2024Moulin Rouge the Musical is gorgeous to look at but slight on story An equity national touring production runs through March 17 in Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Much of Moulin Rouge carries the celebratory aura of a party.
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Grumpy Old Men The Musical
At Seven Angels Theatre
By: - Mar 07th, 2024Most of the humor is of the middle-school-boy type – lots of insults and adolescent sexual innuendo. How much of this you find funny or just too much depends on your sense of humor and how much seeing grown men call each other a variety of offensive words is enjoyable. How many sexual jokes do you want John’s father, who is ninety, to make? For me, it was way overdone.
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Million Dollar Quartet
At ACT-CT
By: - Mar 04th, 2024Hunter Foster, who played Sam Philips in the original Broadway cast, directs this production with a fine hand. His experience with the show reveals itself in the nuances and choices he makes. The scenic design by Josh Smith shows us the studio of Sun Records in Memphis in the 1950s. The founder of the studio, Phillips helped put rock ‘n roll on the charts.
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La Jolla Playhouse Presents Redwood
Is Living in a Forest Canopy the Answer
By: - Mar 03rd, 2024Redwood, a musical drama conceived and written by Tina Landau and Idina Menzel, is currently playing at the La Jolla Playhouse. Composer Kate Diaz provides the expansive score with lyrics by Diaz and Landau. Redwood tells the story of Jesse (played by Idina Menzel), a hard-charging, no-holds-barred New Yorker who is struggling to find purpose in her life following the death of her young adult son.
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Miller's View From the Bridge
Long Wharf
By: - Feb 29th, 2024I was apprehensive about Long Wharf’s new production, which runs through Sunday, March 10, mainly when I read that director James Dean Palmer is known for his “reinterpretations” of classics.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride
Music Theatre of Connecticut
By: - Feb 26th, 2024One of the unique features of the show is that it is up to the director and the performers to decide which famous women performers and songs are in the drag sequences. Here, Connors and the cast have offered terrific performances.
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Gloucester's Legendary Dogtown Common
Conjured by Playwright Peter Littlefield and Artist Gabrielle Barzaghi
By: - Feb 25th, 2024Percy MacKaye’s 1922 poem, Dogtown Common, is a beloved document of Gloucester lore. It tells the story of two legendary figures, Tammy Younger and her niece Judy Rhines, shunned for practicing witchcraft. It was inspired by Charles Mann’s 1906, The Story of Dogtown or In the Heart of Cape Ann, that compiles recollections about the outsiders, berry-pickers, subsistence farms and self-proclaimed witches that inhabited Dogtown after it was abandoned in the early 1800s.
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39th annual Bistro Awards
Steve Hayes Will Host Event
By: - Feb 23rd, 2024Celebrated comedian-actor-singer Robert Klein and Grammy Award–winning songwriter and singer Julie Gold are among the 14 artists who will be honored for their musical and comedy artistry at the 39th annual Bistro Awards gala on Monday, April, 1 at Gotham Comedy Club in New York. As is the Bistro Award tradition, the evening will feature performances by all the awardees.
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Barrington Stage Company
Season Set for 2024
By: - Feb 22nd, 2024Barrington Stage Company will celebrate its 30th anniversary season with two major musical revivals, a world premiere play, two regional premiere plays and a raucous comedy featuring three of BSC’s most beloved associate artists.
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Berkshire Opera Festival Announces Season
Mark Your Calendars
By: - Feb 21st, 2024Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) announces its 2024 season in Great Barrington, MA and New York City. The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, BOF produces opera at the highest level under the vision of esteemed co-founders Brian Garman (Artistic Director) and Jonathan Loy ((Director of Production).
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Foreverness of Plastic by Artist Robin Frohardt
Co-Produced by WTF and MASS MoCA
By: - Feb 20th, 2024Williamstown Theatre Festival announces The Plastic Bag Store, produced by MASS MoCA in association with WTF, opening May 9. Created by artist Robin Frohardt and produced by Pomegranate Arts, this immersive, multimedia experience will be open from May 9 through September 2 in MASS MoCA’s Building 1.
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10x10 New Play Festival
Thirteenth Version at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Feb 20th, 2024During the dead of winter yet again, for the thirteenth time, we embraced 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company. At least for a matinee we woke from hibernation to embrace the treat of arts in the Berkshires.
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The Garbologists
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - Feb 19th, 2024The playwright points out that sanitation people often feel “invisible” to the people whose garbage they pick up. In the same way, both Marlowe and Danny feel they have become invisible.
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The Cancellation of Lauren Fein
World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Feb 18th, 2024Christopher Demos-Brown's suspenseful play, "The Cancellation of Lauren Fein" is experiencing a riveting world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. The production runs through Feb. 25. Demand for tickets was high, so Palm Beach Dramaworks extended the production of the timely and layered play by a few performances.
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Corpus Evita
West Bay Opera Performs 2006 Grammy Nominee
By: - Feb 17th, 2024The composer and librettist both grew up in Argentina during Juan Peron's return to power and his third wife Isabel's ascension to the presidency on his death. Employing magical realism, the ghost of Evita, Juan's second wife beloved by the people, looms over Isabel, who fails to capture a similar relationship, despite the machinations of her advisor, Ministro. Lush neo-romantic music and Argentina's dramatic political events in the last half of the 20th century drive this beautifully produced rendition.
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Days of Wine and Roses
Studio 54 through April 28
By: - Feb 16th, 2024The musical is based on the teleplay by JP Miller and the Warner Brothers film, all with the same name. The 1958 Playhouse 90 production starred Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie. The 1962 film starred Jack Lemon and Lee Remick.
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Rigoletto
Opera San Jose's Powerful Production of Verdi Masterpiece
By: - Feb 15th, 2024The jester Rigoletto's life is dedicated to the care and safety of his daughter, Gilda. When she is kidnapped and compromised by his employer, the Duke of Mantua, he plans revenge but is also cursed by the father of another victim of the Duke's lechery. His plans backfire catastrophically. The glorious opera receives a powerful treatment.
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Love, Loss and Waffles
Mona Pirnot’s I Love You So Much I Could Die
By: - Feb 14th, 2024Running approximately 65 minutes without intermission, I Love You So Much I Could Die isn’t just theater, it’s an experience. The fact that I found it disturbing is a compliment to the playwright because she made me feel something, even though that something was emotionally unsettling. As Edward Albee said: “if the theater must bring us only what we can comfortably relate to, let us stop going entirely and sit in our rooms and contemplate our paunchy middles.”
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Barrington Stage Celebrates Black History Month
Free Event February 26
By: - Feb 13th, 2024Barrington Stage Company’s Black Voices Matter Program is proud to present “Black History: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future” on Monday, February 26 at 6:00pm at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (36 Linden St.)
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Prayer for the French Republic
Manhattan Theatre Club
By: - Feb 08th, 2024Prayer for the French Republic is thought-provoking, but last season’s Leopoldstadt, which addresses many of the same themes, is a better work.
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Simona’s Search at Hartford Stage
World Preimere Needs Work
By: - Feb 07th, 2024Simona’s Search is worth seeing, even if you finally conclude that it needs improvement. Less monologue would help, as would having someone point out that Simona’s conclusions may be wrong. The only person who does that, her thesis director, is so blatantly sexist and demeaning that the audience immediately discounts that position.
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My Home on the Moon
SF Playhouse Dramedy About Soup and Artificial Intelligence
By: - Feb 06th, 2024A Vietnamese soup shop verges on closure when it "wins a grant" from a mysterious company that offers to pay to implement a new marketing strategy to revive the business. A consultant's program includes an unlikely and unseemly advertising campaign, but it works. Or does it?
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Cult of Love at Berkeley Rep
Awesome Treatment of Leslye Headland's Seventh Deadly Sin - Pride
By: - Feb 02nd, 2024The Dahls raised their children in the "Christian way," and Christmas homecoming celebrated by food and song is a great family tradition. But as adults the four offspring have deviated from the parents' hopes - among them a lesbian, a pathological believer, a recovering addict, and a lost sheep. When singing together, they seem the idyllic family, but when the music stops, the fractures appear. Despite the holiday setting, this is not a Christmas play.
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