Theatre
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Irish Repertory Theatre Mounts The Smuggler
One Man in a Smashing Play
By: - Feb 04th, 2023No small theatrical space is better used than the Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott Lucas Studio. The stage fills the room, inviting the audience in. Selections are always apt. Ronan Noone’s The Smuggler is no exception.
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Rotterdam
At Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Feb 04th, 2023"Rotterdam" is an emotionally-rich play receiving a strong production at Island City Stage. The production runs through Feb. 19 at the company in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. "Rotterdam" opens Island City Stage's 2022-23 season.
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Cashed Out
World Premiere About Life on the Reservation and Addiction
By: - Feb 03rd, 2023“Cashed Out” takes place on the Gila River Reservation in southern Arizona, home to the Pima tribe, traditionally noted for their finely woven baskets – tightly twined bowls with crisp angular patterns. While the compelling narrative gives interesting insights into the culture of the native people, universal themes abound – the power of love in family and friendship; internal struggle and external conflict; forgiveness and redemption. The production is striking and highly appealing.
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Last Night in Inwood
A World Premiere Production by Theatre Lab
By: - Feb 03rd, 2023Theatre Lab in Boca Raton is producing a fine world premiere of "Last Night in Inwood" byu Alix Sobler. The production runs through Feb. 12. Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University's resident professional theater company, is dedicated solely to new work.
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Barrington Stage Company 2023 Season
Two Musical Revivals, Two World Premieres, and Two Modern Classics
By: - Jan 31st, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, will produce a 2023 season that will feature two major musical revivals, two world premiere plays, and two modern classic play revivals.
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Rhiannon Giddens at Carnegie Hall
Calling Us Home
By: - Jan 30th, 2023Rhiannon Giddens talks often of being comfortable in the crossroads of her art. The new configuration of Zankel Hall in Carnegie looks like a crossroads. The audience comes from every direction to focus on the world being presented. The stage is a hybrid space where different music from different times can exist side by side.
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Dear Evan Hansen
A Teenager's Conundrum
By: - Jan 29th, 2023Anyone who says they never got caught telling a fib is probably telling a fib. But what is worse is covering the tracks of the first lie with another, and then another, until the wheels finally come off. Often, the result is loss of respect from others, compounded by loss of self-respect. If there is a road back, it is an arduous one.
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Clyde's by Lynn Nottage
By Berkeley Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 27th, 2023In the hands of some, a sandwich may be a most humble joining of Wonder Bread with a plain and prosaic filler of any sort. In another, it can be a sublime assemblage of aspiration and dreams. Such is the aesthetic divide between most of the truckers who patronize Clyde’s Sandwich Shop in Reading, PA, and the unseen kitchen staff who fill their orders. The Berkeley Rep production exceeds every standard the script demands.
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In Every Generation
Family dynamics and seder through the years.
By: - Jan 24th, 2023“Mah nishtanah, ha-laylah ha-zeh,mi-kol ha-leylot” (Why is this night different from all other nights?). This invocation, spoken by the youngest capable person at the dinner table at seder, is perhaps the most famous and evocative sentence in Judaism. Not only does the ritual that follows those words reflect on the traumatic history of the Jewish people, but it speaks to their very existence.
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Kissing a Joyous Collaboration
Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington
By: - Jan 23rd, 2023Front Porch Arts Collective and The Huntington announce the cast and creative team of K-I-S-S-I-N-G, their co-production of the world premiere play written by Massachusetts playwright and Huntington Playwriting Fellow Lenelle Moïse and directed by The Porch’s Co-Producing Artistic Director Dawn M. Simmons. Front Porch Arts Collective is in residence at The Huntington as part of a multi-year strategic partnership.
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Slow Food
Perhaps McDonalds is not such a bad choice after all.
By: - Jan 22nd, 2023All of us have had that restaurant experience in which we thought the food would never come. In this case, the cause is not a lost order or long prep time or overtaxed restaurant staff. It is willful delay by the server from hell.
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Merrily We Roll Along
New York Theater Workshop
By: - Jan 21st, 2023Look for this production to come to Broadway and finally redeem the show. Merrily We Roll Along isn’t a great musical, but in reality, it is more interesting than many of the long-running “hits.”
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World Premiere Wisconsin
Festival of New Plays
By: - Jan 19th, 2023This spring, theater companies around Wisconsin are launching World Premiere Wisconsin, a statewide festival celebrating new plays and musicals that has been years in the making. We have 52 participating theaters along with festival partner Ten Chimneys. Quite the undertaking as we look to put new plays back at the center of our work post-pandemic.
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Tina Turner: The Tina Turner Musical
Equity National Touring Production
By: - Jan 19th, 2023A strong equity national touring production of "Turner: The Tina Turner Musical" is playing in Ft. Lauderdale through Jan. 29. This jukebox musical focuses on the life of a legendary performer. Triple threat performers shine in the production.
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David Lang at the Prototype Festival
A Chamber Opera Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa Short Stories
By: - Jan 18th, 2023David Lang is not surprisingly a highly educated, impish composer. We can’t take him at face value. Or perhaps we can. Discussing his new opera, presented as part of the Prototype Festival, he said that although he had first been intrigued by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short stories at age 16, he knows nothing about Japanee culture. Yet he is Japanese.
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The Full Monty at Broadway in Lauderhill
Do the Men Take It All Off
By: - Jan 17th, 2023A fine cast delivers with lesser material in Broadway in Lauderhill's opening season production of "The Full Monty." The Full Monty is charming and amusing in places, but a musical mess in others. The production runs through Jan. 29 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center.
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Clockwork Orange at Berliner Ensemble, Germany
Theatrical Adaptation by Tilo Nest
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Who does not remember Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film 'A Clockwork Orange' based on the novel by Anthony Burgess from 1962!? It was one of the most chilling cinematic affairs then, and it remains today on stage. Here, the photographs speak a million words....
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Julianne Boyd to Direct Faith Healer
Bannrington Strage Company August 2023
By: - Jan 17th, 2023Julianne Boyd says, “I am thrilled to be directing Faith Healer, Brian Friel’s hauntingly beautiful play that has been on my short list for years – and I am excited to be reunited with three tremendously talented actors and BSC Associate Artists, Christopher Innvar, Mark Dold and Gretchen Egolf.”
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Ennio: The Living Paper Cartoon
Frenetic Cavalcade of Musical Skits
By: - Jan 14th, 2023In a fast-moving 60 minutes, mime comic Ennio provides cleverly curated cartoon characterizations of celebrities and lip syncs to songs, mostly recorded by the people portrayed. The music is the songbook of our lives (if you’re middle aged or older!), including rock-and-roll, pop of various sorts, and rap.
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Time Alone
Boca Stage in Southeast Florida
By: - Jan 14th, 2023"Time Alone" is a moving and intense play about two prisoners. Boca Stage is presenting a riveting production of Alessandro Camon's play. The production runs through Jan. 22.
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Annie
Touring show at Broadway San Jose
By: - Jan 12th, 2023So, what makes “Annie” so popular? Where to start? Set during the Great Depression and opening in an orphanage with conditions straight out of a Charles Dickens novel doesn’t seem a likely starting point.
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Prototype Festival Captures New York
Forms of New Opera Abound
By: - Jan 12th, 2023All the big opera companies have something to learn from the Prototype Festival, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
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Poetic Justice - When Art Is Everything
Vignettes of Robert Lowell and Rainer Maria Rilke
By: - Jan 10th, 2023In short order, playwright Lynne Kaufman offers enticing insights into two contrasting, important modern poets, and the simple production succeeds through fine acting. This compact but impactful taste of familiarity fully satisfies on its own, while many attendees will want to learn even more about these fragile artists and their robust literary works.
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Some Like It Hot on Broadway
Billy Wilder Comedy Now a Musical
By: - Jan 06th, 2023Some Like It Hot is fun, tuneful and worth spending Broadway prices to see. Is the musical really an adaptation of the classic slapstick, Billy Wilder comedy?
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Winter Theatre at Barrington Stage Company
12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
By: - Jan 06th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces the 10-minute plays, playwrights and casting for the 12th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival, part of the 2023 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival. Performances February 17 through March 5, 2023.
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