Theatre
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Kissing the Floor in New York
Ellen McLaughlin's Moving Take on Antigone
By: - Mar 02nd, 2023Kissing the Floor, a radical and strangely beautiful retelling of Antigone by Sophocles, is playing on Theatre Row in New York through March 12th. It is beautifully acted. The language, even as it describes ugly scenes, is lilting and lovely. Playwright Ellen McLaughlin often delves into Greek subjects.
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Lorraine Hansberry at BAM
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Revived
By: - Feb 28th, 2023The Brooklyn Academy of Music is mounting Lorraine Hansberry’s second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s window at the Harvey Theater. Anne Kauffman, who directed the work at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in 2016, directs Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.
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Die Rache der Fledermaus, at the Komische Oper, Berlin
The Revenge of the Bat
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss, from 1874, is one of the most well known light operas the world over. Known for its indulgence into song and dance, the audience is at first surprised to find an almost empty stage with a five member musical ensemble to play all the tunes....
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Queen of Basel at TheaterWorks Hartford
Updates Stringberg's Miss Julie
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Miss Julie by the Nobel laureate playwright August Strindberg was initially set on Midsummer’s eve on an estate in 19th century Sweden. Could it work set in 21st-century America? Playwright Hilary Bettis’ clever adaptation shows that it can.
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42nd Street
2023 Broadway at LPAC Season in South Florida
By: - Feb 22nd, 2023Broadway at LPAC presents an invigorating "42nd Street" in South Florida. The professional production runs through March 5. Lauderhill is near Ft. Lauderdale.
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Wicked in South Florida
A National Equity Touring Production
By: - Feb 21st, 2023Wicked is playing at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami through March 5. The same production will play at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach from March 29 through April 9. Wicked offers theatergoers a breathtaking visual feast, a mental workout, and an emotionally fulfilling theatrical experience.
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Leo Reich Arrives in New York
Hot Comic in "Literally Who Cares"
By: - Feb 20th, 2023Leo Reich has arrived at the Greenwich House Theater in New York fresh from triumphs on the London stage and Edinburgh Fringe. Literally Who Cares? is a show about Reich. He is a Gen Zer, a graduate of Footlights at Cambridge where everyone who’s anyone begins their career.
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The 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
Barrington Stage Company Extended Through March 12
By: - Feb 20th, 2023It is time yet again for the much anticipated 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival which is part of the 2023 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival that runs through March 5. For the 2023 version, under new artistic director, Alan Paul, 10X10 New Play Festival cast features 10X10 veterans Matt Neely, BSC Associate Artist Peggy Pharr Wilson and Robert Zukerman. Making their BSC 10X10 debuts are Skyler Gallun, Sky Marie and Camille Upshaw.
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Ivanov, at the Berliner Ensemble, Germany
By Anton Chekhov
By: - Feb 17th, 2023"Ivanov" was Anton Chekhov's first play. It opened in 1887 and had been modified several times by the writer/playwright himself, vascillating between comedy and tragedy.
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Chicago the Musical
Non-equity Tour in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Feb 16th, 2023A non-equity touring production of "Chiacgo" is playing in Ft. Lauderdale through Sunday. The venue is the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Chicago is particularly timely today.
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Stephen R. Lawson, 73 of Williamstown
Founded Williamstown Film Festival
By: - Feb 15th, 2023Stephen R. Lawson, 73, a longtime resident of Williamstown died on February 7, 2023, of natural causes. In varying capacities he was an associate of the Williamstown Theatre Festival for some five decades. For 13 years he curated the Williamstown Film Festival which was produced at Images Cinema and MASS MoCA.
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Ann Bogart Directs Boston Lyric Opera
Bela Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Four Songs by Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler
By: - Feb 14th, 2023A brand-new production that blends Bela Bartók’s 1918 one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle with 1915’s Four Songs (Vier Lieder) by his contemporary Alma Maria Schindler-Mahler – and immerses audiences in a multi-room installation including a pre-show musical salon – arrives at the Flynn Cruiseport Boston for four performances. The legendary Ann Bogart directs for Boston Lyric Opera.
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Havel's Audience at LaMama
Czech Marionette Theater Adds Puppets to Wild Brew
By: - Feb 14th, 2023Vaclav Havel’s Audience circulated widely in a sanitized form during the Soviet occupation of his country after the Second World War. During the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968, Havel provided a narrative of the invasion on Radio Free Czechoslovakia and was banned from his work in the theater. To survive, he took a job in the Kraknos brewery in Trufnov. This is the setting of Audience.
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Gloucester Stage Presents Annisquam
A Dark Psychological Night of Theater
By: - Feb 13th, 2023For Rockport psychologist and playwright, Lawrence Hennessy, art imitates life in his new play Annisquam. Is the playwright moonlighting as a shrink or the other way around? Tickets for the three performances are available at Gloucester Stage.
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Falstaff
A Great Production of Verdi's Exquisite Comic Opera
By: - Feb 12th, 2023Frothy delights like “Falstaff” present particular challenges. Comic timing, enthusiastic affect, and vocal versatility must be heightened. Opera San Jose’s production excels in every dimension. Performers sing with joy and act with charm. All of the artistic elements strike the right note, resulting in a production that glitters.
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The Science of Leaving Omaha
World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida
By: - Feb 12th, 2023"The Science of Leaving Omaha" is a layered play about the power of words and the desire to matter and be acknowledged. The play's world premiere production is running through Feb. 19 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. Carter W. Lewis, a playwright who has won several national playwrighting awards, penned the play.
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Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson Star in Beckett
By: - Feb 10th, 2023Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is enjoying 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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La Cage Aux Folles, Komische Oper, Berlin
An Over The Top Production
By: - Feb 08th, 2023What a performance of La Cage Aux Folles at the Komische Oper, Berlin!! This musical with music by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein has seen many international interpretations since it opened in 1983 at the Palace Theatre in New York.
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& Juliet (and Juliet) on Broadway
Stephen Sondheim Theatre
By: - Feb 07th, 2023The new Broadway musical – already seen in London and Toronto — & Juliet (and Juliet) has a clever concept, that grows on you. I like the play now more than I did while I was in the theater. The clever idea behind & Juliet is what saves it from being preachy and predictable.
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Everest: An Immersive Experience (Opera)
Innovative Format for a Compelling Work from Opera Parallèle
By: - Feb 07th, 2023For all of human history and eons before, Mount Everest has stood as steady as a rock – literally. In its eight years, the opera “Everest: An Immersive Experience” has had three very different realizations, even though under the baton of Nicole Paiement for each version. The genesis of the opera’s narrative is a real-life tragedy about three members on an Everest expedition in 1996, two of whom never came back.
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Amore, at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
Lighter Fare for Valentine's Day
By: - Feb 06th, 2023Valentines Day is drawing near and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, seems to bow to this occasion with its new production 'Amore' under the direction of Aram Tafreshian.
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Indecent by Paula Vogel
West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park
By: - Feb 06th, 2023The play interweaves three elements – the life and works of the Yiddish author Sholem Asch, the history of productions of his play The God of Vengeance, and the stories of the people involved in a Broadway production of the show in the 1920s. It may sound confusing, but it isn’t.
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Opera Philadelphia Mounts Credos
Margaret Bonds and Carl Orff in One Performane
By: - Feb 06th, 2023In one smashing performance, Opera Philadelphia presented two Credos, statements of belief by composers who lived and worked at about the same time, in strikingly different circumstances. Carl Orff survived the Nazi regime in Germany by not protesting. Margaret Bonds grew up in a thriving Chicago art community.
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Paradise Blue
Urban Renewal and Human Destruction in 1950s Detroit.
By: - Feb 04th, 2023Dominique Morisseau has written a sometimes funny but always tense noirish drama which Director Dawn Monique Williams plumbs for all its nuance. The actors find the essence of each character and deliver a gripping entertainment.
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Christine Quintana's Espejos:Clean
Hartford Stage Company
By: - Feb 04th, 2023The playwright Christine Quintana makes an interesting point about communication in the program of Hartford Stage’s production of Espejos:Clean. She says, “Every interaction we have with one another is an act of translation.”
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