Theatre
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The Duration
World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Feb 21st, 2022Bruce Graham's new play, The Duration, is about, among other things, how different people deal with grief. The world premiere production is running through March 6 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. The Duration is a layered, engrossing piece of live theater.
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Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Book, Film and Now an Opera
By: - Feb 21st, 2022The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, a collaboration between the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and New York City Opera opened Off Broadway on Holocaust Remembrance Day for a limited run of eight performance from January 27- February 6 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Sung in English, also with subtitles, and running three barely noticeable hours with one intermission, the opera sold out even before it opened.
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Black No More at the New Group
Bill T. Jones Choreographs, Scott Elliott Directs
By: - Feb 19th, 2022Broadway Bound? Black No More is packed with A list creative talent. It is in a limited run produced by the New Group, The book’s creators wondered whether rap would work for a serious story. Black No More succeeds in spades. Andy Blankenbeuler (Lian Manuel Miranda’s dance man) learned to tell a story in movement from Bill T. Jones. Jones is the choreographer of this show.
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Master Class by Terrence McNally
Produced by Sonoma Arts Live
By: - Feb 16th, 2022Playwright Terrence McNally’s paean to Maria Callas is less a dramatic narrative than a platform for a virtuoso performance by an actress capable of displaying La Davina’s charisma and self-absorption. Sonoma Arts Live offers an absolutely delightful rendering of this chamber play.
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Theatre for a New Audience's Merchant of Venice
John Douglas Thompson Humanizes Shylock
By: - Feb 15th, 2022Shakespeare invites the elevation of Shylock to centrality in Merchant of Venice. Many characters in his play have equal time. Now Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) makes the case for the play as Shylock’s. John Douglas Thompson assumes the role as the ultimate outsider. He is an irresistible actor who quickly overcomes resistance any prior knowledge of the play calls forth
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Loretta Greco New Huntington Theatre Artistic Director
Joins Company in July
By: - Feb 15th, 2022The Huntington’s Board of Trustees and Advisors, announced today the appointment of acclaimed stage director, producer, and community builder Loretta Greco as The Huntington’s next Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. She will be the first woman in the role and the fourth artistic leader in The Huntington’s 40-year history.
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Heartbeat Opera's Fidelio
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By: - Feb 14th, 2022Heartbeat Opera is a New York based company committed to making opera for the Now. Years before George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, they adapted Fidelio, Beethoven’s sole opera, to prison life today.
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Once On This Island
Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Feb 13th, 2022Slow Burn Theatre Company has mounted a radiant production of Once On This Island. The musical is a calypso-flavored re-telling of The Little Mermaid. The production runs through Feb. 20 in Broward Center for the Performing Arts' Amaturo Theater.
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Manhattan Theater Club Revives Skeleton Crew
Dominique Morisseau's Masterpiece in New York
By: - Feb 12th, 2022For Black History Month, Broadway has opened its arms and stages. Skeleton Crew, by an honored Black playwright, makes no mention of race. The cast is all Black. The characters are all Black. The city of Detroit, where the play takes place, has been felled by race riots and a hardhit economy.
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Katori Hall's The Mountaintop
At MTC in Norwalk
By: - Feb 12th, 2022The Mountaintop features fine performances. It is the type of show that audience members will like, feeling as though they saw something meaningful. I am part of the group that thinks this is a very flawed play that often takes the easy way out.
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The Duration
World Premiere to Open at Palm Beach Dramaworks.
By: - Feb 11th, 2022The Duration, by Bruce Graham, will experience its world premiere production at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. The production will run from Feb. 16-March 6. The Duration will mark the second play that Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts.
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Shakespeare & Company Tickets on Sale
Two Shakespeare Plays and Homer's Iliad
By: - Feb 10th, 2022Shakespeare & Company has announced tickets are on sale now for the three Classic productions of its 45th Season: Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure, and An Iliad, an adaptation of Homer’s epic poem by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare.
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Lynn Nottage at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with a Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LCT, each tugging for their own interests.
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What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck
On Tour at the Huntington Theatre
By: - Feb 09th, 2022The Huntington announces Heidi Schreck’s Tony Award nominated play and Pulitzer Prize finalist What the Constitution Means to Me, a Broadway hit that is now on its national tour. The production runs from February 22 to March 20, 2022 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Palo Alto Players’Men on Boats
By: - Feb 09th, 2022By leaving much to the playgoer’s imagination, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus came up with a solution in her play “Men on Boats.” She figured - what if we present the action without boats and without a river and with only rudimentary set and props? And just for fun, how about as a final conceit that we eliminate the men? So, there you have it – a cast of all females and non-binaries with bare-bones staging, and the curtain can be raised.
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Armature
World Premiere at South Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Feb 09th, 2022Armature is a searing and disturbing new play receiving a commendable world premiere production at Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale. The production runs through Feb. 27.
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World Premiere Opera in Washington
Four A List Composer/librettist Teams Contribute
By: - Feb 07th, 2022Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum offered a preview of a world premiere opera developed by Washington National Opera. Written in Stone will be staged at the Kennedy Center from March 5 to March 25. It will be a must-see production.
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The Kind Ones by Miranda Rose Hall
Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - Feb 07th, 2022The Biblically- inspired adage suggests that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” and the same could be said of idle minds. With time to spare, mischief finds Miranda Rose Hall’s central character in this compact, 70 minute, two-hander.
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Lynn Nottage Turns to Opera at Lincoln Center Theater
Intimate Apparel with Score by Ricky Ian Gordon
By: - Feb 06th, 2022Lynn Nottage’s brilliant play Intimate Apparel has been incubating as an opera since 2007 when Ricky Ian Gordon was commissioned to write the music by the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center Theater. Nottage speaks of development meetings with Peter Gelb of the Met and Andre Bishop of LTC, each tugging for their own interests.
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Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
At Long Wharf Theater
By: - Feb 05th, 2022Anna Deavere Smith was a pioneer in what is often referred to as verbatim drama; the use of transcripts from interviews to create a work that explores an incident of social importance. She has used this form frequently, most recently with Notes from the Field about the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery
San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Feb 04th, 2022“Heroes of the Fourth Turning” is well produced; highly provocative; dense with scholarly detail; and even has a few unexpected turnings of its own. But be prepared for something that may be outside your normal comfort zone.
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The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Virtual Programming This Spring
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance (CTD) is presenting an exciting mix of theatre and dance, virtual and in-person. CTD presents student and world-class artists celebrating diverse and challenging theatre, music, and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond. As a community service, all our virtual programming is free and open to all.
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Angry, Raucous & Shamelessly Gorgeous
At Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 04th, 2022The actress, Anna has returned to the US from Amsterdam where she has lived for 25 years. She left the US after the “Naked Wilson” theater piece she devised and performed became the subject of controversy. Now, she has returned to Atlanta to, she thinks, perform the piece for the last time at a new arts festival.
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Terence Blanchard's Champion at Boston Lyric Opera
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe to Perform
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022Stephanie Blythe makes her role debut as the welcoming and supportive bar owner Kathy Hagen in Champion. A renowned opera singer and recitalist, Blythe is among the most highly respected artists of her generation.
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Knock Me a Kiss by Playwright Charles Smith
Staged Reading by Shakespeare & Company
By: - Feb 03rd, 2022The performance precedes the memorial service and burial of Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irvin, the granddaughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, at the family gravesite at the Mahaiwe Cemetery in Great Barrington. Other Dr. Yolande Du Bois Williams Irving Memorial events will be hosted by BRIDGE as part of the Town of Great Barrington's fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Festival, marking a special reparations moment in racial justice organizing.
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