Theatre
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Season Closer at Yale Rep Disappoints
the ripple, the wave that carried me home by Christina Anderson
By: - May 18th, 2023Yes, there are some funny moments and some touching ones, but overall, it is hard to become engaged with the characters. Except for Janice, they appear only in short scenes that allow for little depth of character.
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Casting for William Finn's New Brain
Barrington Stage Company in Association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - May 18th, 2023A New Brain features music and lyrics by BSC Associate Artist William Finn (BSC: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Royal Family of Broadway), book by Finn and Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner James Lapine (Broadway: Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George), and direction by BSC Associate Artist Joe Calarco (BSC: Waiting for Godot, Into the Woods, Ragtime), with music direction by Vadim Feichtner (BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway; Broadway: Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and choreography by Chloe O. Davis (Paradise Square).
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Fat Ham by Pulitzer Winner James IJames
American Airlines Theatre on Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2023Fat Ham turns Shakespeare’s Hamlet upside down without minimizing the issues the original raises or the brilliance. The play by James IJames won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and it is easy to see why.
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The Rembrandt
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - May 12th, 2023Rembrandt, the play at TheaterWorks Hartford through Sunday, May 14, is part meditation on art and part a very human exploration of love, dying and grieving
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Live from the Edge
At Long Wharf
By: - May 12th, 2023Live from the Edge by Universes has moments that will reach you emotionally. But the question remains, “What is it?” – Theater? A performance piece? A poetry slam? They describe themselves as a theater company, but I would describe it as being closer to a performance piece/poetry slam than theater.
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Boheme La La La at Opera Philadelphia
Helping Opera Live in the 21st Century
By: - May 11th, 2023Opera Philadelphia is ahead of the curve in keeping the operatic form alive and relevant. New operas and altered operas inevitably raise the question: What is opera? Music drives a story or an idea. That is at opera’s heart. La Boheme in Philadelphia meets the standard and then some.
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Champion at the Metropoitan Opera
Boxing, Gaydom, Blanchard all in the Mix
By: - May 09th, 2023The Metropolitan Opera’s heavily promoted Champion is concluding its run in New York. The first opera by Terrence Blanchard, which succeeds his Fire in My Bones at the Met, has a weaker score than its successor. One feels that Blanchard as composer of film scores (he is well-known as a colleague of Spike Lee), may have succumbed to the notion that music should lie under the visual track.
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New Play Awards
ATCA Presents Annual Honors
By: - May 09th, 2023The 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) New Play Award goes to "the ripple, the wave that carried me home." The 2023 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award goes to Madison Fiedler for her play, "Spay." ATCA also presents citations to Suzan-Lori Parks for her play, "Sally & Tom," and Rebecca Gilman for her piece, "Swing State."
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One More Yesterday
A World Premiere Production in South Florida
By: - May 05th, 2023Versatile theater artist Ronnie Larsen's new musical, "One More Yesterday," is running through May 14 in a fine professional world premiere production. "One More Yesterday" is an upbeat show about an aging live theater performer yearning for the spotlight one more time. "One More Yesterday" is a layered show covering many themes.
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New Federal Theatre Tells Tales
Underbellies of the Harlem Renaissance Directed by Woodie King, Jr.
By: - May 04th, 2023Four women writers of the Harlem Renaissance meet in "Telling Tales Out of School" by Wesley Brown, directed by Woodie King, Jr.
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Sweat
Main Street Players in Miami Lakes
By: - May 03rd, 2023Lynn Nottage's drama, "Sweat" serves as a cautionary play about what can happen when unrestrained, explosive emotions flow during especially tense, sensitive times. Main Street Players in Miami Lakes, a professional, nonprofit company, is presenting a stellar production through May 14. "Sweat" takes place during the turbulent 2000s in a blue-collar community in Pennsylvania.
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The Winter's Tale
At Hartford Stage
By: - May 02nd, 2023The Winter’s Tale can be a confusing play. Written late in Shakespeare’s career, it is usually grouped with The Tempest, Pericles, and Cymbeline, as one of the “romance” plays.
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Barrington Stage Company Announces Cast and Crews
The Happiest Man on Earth and Cabaret
By: - Apr 27th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces full casting for the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s new play The Happiest Man on Earth (May 24-June 17) and a new production of the legendary Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret (June 14-July 8).
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Pippin
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts near Ft. Lauderdale has mounted an entertaining and energetic production of "Pippin." The 1972 musical is timely more than 50 years after it premiered on Broadway. PPTOPA's production takes place during the 1960's. Setting the show during that time period makes sense.
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Sweeney Todd on Broadway
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford
By: - Apr 26th, 2023Some may quibble, but I would see this production of Sweeney Todd anytime. It is changing my mind about the show.
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Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Abbreviated "War and Peace" at a Breakneck Pace with Song
By: - Apr 25th, 2023The simple storyline centers on Natasha, betrothed to Prince Andrey, who has been sent to fight against Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. But when she visits Moscow, Natasha is taken with womanizer Anatole, and decides to abandon Andrey for the more glamorous option. Things don’t go as planned. The end.
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Windhover Center for the Performing Arts and Gloucester 400+
Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye Adapted and Directed by Peter Littlefield
By: - Apr 24th, 2023In the heart of Cape Ann, with its boulders and cellar holes, Dogtown Common stokes the cauldron of witchcraft and early New England mythology. Dogtown Common by Percy MacKaye, adapted and directed by Peter Littlefield will be performed at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, Rockport, Ma.
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Cry Old Kingdom
New City Players Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Apr 22nd, 2023Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players presents a production of "Cry Old Kingdom." The piece, set during 1960's Haiti, deals with many themes and topics, including art, revolution, and what hope for a better future can look like.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Apr 20th, 2023It was great to see an audience laughing and enjoying themselves at The Legend of Georgia McBride now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, April 30.
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Parade a Revival on Broadway
By Albert Uhry Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
By: - Apr 20th, 2023If Parade doesn’t win the Tony Award for the outstanding revival of a musical, the producers should demand a recount.
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Mandy Patinkin at Barrington Stage
Performs June 27
By: - Apr 18th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces that Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to the Boyd-Quinson Stage for one night only on Tuesday, June 27.
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Tosca
Love, Intrigue, Betrayal, Death. It's Opera.
By: - Apr 17th, 2023Tosca has been one of the most performed operas in the world for over a century. There is a good reason for that. Beautiful music delights from curtain rise to fall, starting with the resounding orchestral chords of the Scarpia theme, and punctuated by memorable arias and powerful ensembles. Opera San José offers a beautifully staged and performed rendering that sears with passion.
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Poor Yella Rednecks - Vietgone 2
A Vietnamese Family in Arkansas - Strangers in a Strange Land
By: - Apr 15th, 2023With his highly successful “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen, told the beginning of his family’s immigrant story, following the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War. His equally thoughtful and humorous sequel, “Poor Yella Rednecks,” continues the family’s saga. Amusingly, he writes himself in as a character in the play and facetiously disavows to the audience that its characters are real.
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Endgame from the Irish Repertory Livestream
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson Star
By: - Apr 14th, 2023Endgame livestreamed from the Irish Rep. Samuel Beckett’s Endgame enjoyed a must-see run at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Starring Bill Irwin, the clown and Beckett aficionado, as Clov and John Douglas Thompson as Hamm, here uncharacteristically for Thompson, the “insider.” He is bound to a wheelchair, blind and dependent on painkillers, yet the clear force of the moment. Clov lurches around him
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Honoring Julianne Boyd
The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards
By: - Apr 13th, 2023Barrington Stage Company announces that Founding Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will be honored with The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, in partnership with The Berkshire Eagle on May 23.
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