Theatre
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Alice Childress at Theatre for a New Audience
Brilliant Production Highlights a Formidable Playwright
By: - May 06th, 2022Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) brings us Alice Childress’ 1962 play, Wedding Band. It is set in a South Carolina backyard and the bedroom of Julia Augustine, a Black seamstress who is loud and proud with her neighbors, and a soft and loving companion to a German baker, Herman. He is white. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary of not-being-married,. Miscegenation is banned by law.
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American Buffalo by David Mamet
Nick Pepe Makes the Play Live
By: - May 04th, 2022American Buffalo, David Mamet’s great play, is running on Broadway now with a stellar cast. Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss give us Donny, Teach and Bobby, pacing the thrust stage chock full of junk like pieces of junk themselves. Bobby is a junkie. All three men have a false belief that they can alter the downward trajectory of their lives.
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Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta
At A Red Orchid Theatre
By: - May 04th, 2022Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere.
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Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out
Broadway Revival at Helen Hayes Theater
By: - May 04th, 2022Take a star baseball player who is talented, thoughtful and charismatic and see what happens when he announces that he is gay. What is the effect on his longtime friend? the locker room? What happens later on when a red-neck rookie is called up from the minor leagues? Does this one announcement cause a championship team to struggle?
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All’s Well That End Well
At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
By: - May 02nd, 2022All’s Well That End Well is based on a tale from Boccaccio’s The Decameron. (It was tale 9 of day 3: the story of Giletta di Narbona.) Like a few other Shakespeare plays, All’s Well is considered a problem play, suggesting that it involves complex ethical issues that can’t be dealt with by simple solutions. Most scholars believe that Thomas Middleton, a noted playwright of his time, either collaborated with Shakespeare on the play or revised it later.
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Two Synge One Acts at Irish Rep
Charlotte Moore Captures the Playwright's Spirit
By: - May 02nd, 2022Charlotte Moore must have the same feeling for the Irish and their language that the playwright John Milington Synge did. In the W. Scott McLucas Studio Theater, a small venue located underneath the main house at the Irish Repertory Theatre, the people of Ireland are brought startlingly, truly to life. Two Synge One Acts abut each other. As audience in this theater, you are so close that you feel a part of the action, the language invades and elevates you. It is a thrilling experience.
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Barrington Stage Company
Broadway's Best
By: - Apr 29th, 2022Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces Summer 2022 Events with Broadway’s Best at the Boyd-Quinson Stage and the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center.
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71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards
Honoring Broadway and Off Broadway
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Leading the pack with the most honors of the season is the Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy with nine nominations, followed by the Off-Broadway musicals Harmony and Kimberly Akimbo which earned eight nods each. The most recognized Broadway musicals of the season are MJ the Musical and Paradise Square, with seven nominations each.
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Star of Freedom
World Premiere Musical at Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Star of Freedom has music by Connecticut resident Jeff Blaney and a book by Lawrence Thelen. The piece began life as the concept album Exodus; Executive/Artistic Director Jacqueline Hubbard saw the possibilities and brought it to Thelen to write the book.
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Confederates by Dominique Morisseau
Signature Theatre Produces Premiere
By: - Apr 26th, 2022Dominique Morisseau has taken a loaded topic, the Big Mamma of black plantation culture, and fixed her in a space during the Civil War mashed up with the present. Big Mamma is bursting out of her role in the 1860s, getting the notion that with gun in hand and books to be read she can be free. In the present, she is a university professor, nurturing a young black student, a white student and a black female assistant anxious for tenure. Tyler Perry and Martin Lawrence have made fun of Big Mamma. The strength of Tennessee Williams’ white Big Mamma in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, comes from the springboard of this icon of plantation life.
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Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias
Produced by California's CVREP
By: - Apr 20th, 2022Latina/American born in Mexico, Karen Zacharias bases her “Native Gardens” comedy on her book of the same name, becoming the most produced playwright in America over the last four years. Her plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, The Book Club, and Legacy of Light, among many others
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ATCA New Play Awards
Critics Organization Announces Winners
By: - Apr 20th, 2022The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) recently announced the winners of new play awards for 2021. The Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award went to "Poor Clare" by Chiara Atik. The M. Elizabeth Osborn Award went to Makasha Copeland for their play, "Extreme Home Makeover."
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IATI Theater Presents Bloom
By Marco Antonio Rodriguez
By: - Apr 19th, 2022The story is placed in “the not so distant future”, a dystopian exposition of the legal persecution of people with non-binary sexual and gender orientation. Julia is completely rejecting of her son's sexual reality. Roan has been taken away by the authorities, imprisoned and tortured. We learn that neighbors, family members and 'friends' have been responsible for turning him in. It is only a matter of hours before he will be picked up and returned to prison.
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Next to Normal
Opens Season at Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Apr 18th, 2022Next to Normal which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama is opening the season at Westport Country Playhouse through Sunday, April 24. The musical by Tom Kitts (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) tells the story of an American family facing a serious mental health issue.
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Rabatt, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
A Serious Issue as a Farce
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Rabatt (discount), the newest production at the Gorki Theater in Berlin is a hilarious farce about a very serious issue – the burials of poor people in the world of the well to do.
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Boston's Lyric Stage
Program for 2022/23 Season
By: - Apr 15th, 2022Unforgettable moments, laughter, discovery, and joy, he Lyric Stage 2022/23 Season is a season to share.
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BAM Presents Jamie Lloyd and Martin Crimp
James McAvoy, a New Cyrano
By: - Apr 14th, 2022In the beginning was the word, said John in the Bible. This was also said about Cyrano de Bergerac. Jamie Lloyd and James McAvoy follow up with a version of Edmund Rostand’s play which celebrates the word as it is spoken today. No longer does it depend on a continuously mellifluous voice.
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Broadway Across America
2022-23 Season for Miami and Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Apr 14th, 2022Broadway Across America has announced the 2022-23 line-ups for Broadway in Miami and Broadway in Ft. Lauderdale. Among the shows, audiences will be able to see "Hamilton" again in Ft. Lauderdale, and "Wicked" in Miami. Perhaps the hottest show on Broadway, "Six" will play in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
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Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater
Biography by Alexis Greene
By: - Apr 13th, 2022Alexis Greene is the author and editor of numerous books about theater, including The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway, written with Julie Taymor, and the biography Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off Broadway. In addition to writing and editing books about women and theater, Greene’s career spans acting, theater criticism and teaching. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Endlings by Celine Song
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Apr 12th, 2022The main subjects of “Endlings” seem like inspiration for the kind of article you would see in “Parade” magazine – “World’s Most Unusual Occupations.” Three Korean women, aged 78 to 93, are the last of a dying breed in a centuries-old occupation.
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Gong Lum's Legacy at New Federal Theatre
Elizabeth Van Dyke Directs World Premiere by Charles L. White
By: - Apr 11th, 2022Gong Lum's Legacy is presented by Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company. Written by Charles L. White. Directed by Elizabeth Van Dyke. The world is still Jim Crow's. We can peek into to the the lives of those oppressed by the system, both the African Americans and the newly arrived Chinese immigrants.
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Cats
Non-equity, National Touring Production
By: - Apr 10th, 2022A quality national, non-equity production of Cats is touring the country. The production's most recent stop was the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. Cats delivers emotionally.
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Guys and Dolls
South Florida's MNM Theatre Company
By: - Apr 09th, 2022MNM Theatre Company achieves mixed results with its current production of "Guys and Dolls." The production at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center runs through April 16. MNM Theatre Company is an award-winning, not-for-profit, professional group.
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Fefu And Her Friends
produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Apr 08th, 2022In 1977, María Irene Fornés’ innovative “Fefu and Her Friends” replicated the notion of an all-female cast but flips the script on all of those dimensions. It concerns a reunion of a group of friends gathered to rehearse a presentation to be given to a charity; themes are varied, including women’s relationships with women, which was pretty daring at the time; the single setting is Fefu’s house; action takes place in one day; and the characters, if a little wacky, are grounded in realism.
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Hotter Than Egypt by Yussef El Guindi
Co-produced by Marin Theatre Company and A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle
By: - Apr 08th, 2022Yussef El Guindi’s new play deftly delves into a constellation of differences – not only cultural, but marital, economic, power, gender, and generational – some between cultures and some within. The result is a lively dramedy that reveals the causes and consequences of the cracks in the American couple’s marriage.
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