Theatre
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Father/Daughter by Kait Kerrigan,
Produced by Aurora Theatre
By: - Nov 21st, 2021The Bay Area is blessed with many great performing artists, and Sam Jackson (for the sake of clarity – she!) and William Thomas Hodgson (he) are among the finest. Jackson portrays both females, and Hodgson both males. And both actors are scintillating.
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The Band's Visit at the Bushnell
Tony Winner in 2018
By: - Nov 19th, 2021The Band’s Visit is almost a chamber musical; limited cast, no big dance numbers, no flashy sets or projections. It tells a simple story, but one that slowly creeps up on you and, if you let it, packs an emotional wallop. It’s based on a 2007 Israeli film that won critical acclaim and success.
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sAiNt jOaN (burn/burn/burn)
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Nov 17th, 2021Playwright Lisa Ramirez draws on Jean d’Arc’s motive force as the basis for examining the will of young women to effect change in today’s frightening world. Her vehicle is a riveting, uber-energetic, often chaotic and confrontational clash of five young people one fateful night. “sAiNt jOaN” grabs the attention by the throat and throttles it for 60 exciting and exhausting minutes.
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Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Ginglold Group at Theatre Row on 42nd Street.
By: - Nov 17th, 2021The funniest complication is that Mrs. Warren has steadfastly refused to reveal who is Vivie’s father; so there is the possibility that it could be Sir George or even the Rev. Samuel, who wasn’t always a man of the cloth.
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Berkshire Theatre Critics Association
2021 "Berkie" Award Winners
By: - Nov 16th, 2021The big winners of the Berkies were A Crossing: A Dance Musical, presented by Barrington Stage Company, which won the Sally and Robert Sugarman Award for a World Premier of a New Work as well as many acting and design awards, and Nina Simone: Four Women, presented by the Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Dido and Aeneas Composed by Henry Purcell
Produced by Opera San José
By: - Nov 15th, 2021Rarely has an esteemed opera endured the ignominy of its birth as “Dido and Aeneas.” Although its composer, Henry Purcell, would reign as the preeminent producer of serious British music from his death in 1695 until the 20th century, his only pure opera borrowed slavishly from a crypto-opera, John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis,” that has not even remained in the canon.
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Arthur Miller's The Price
At GableStage in Coral Gables, a Miami suburb
By: - Nov 15th, 2021GableStage in Southeast Florida is opening its season with Arthur Miller's "The Price." New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport is directing it, based on late Producing Artistic Director Joe Adler's notes. This production of "The Price" marked Adler's last directorial effort at GableStage, where he spent 20 years as Producing Artistic Director. GableStage has dedicated this production to Adler.
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Hamlet and Me
The Danish prince and I Go Way Back
By: - Nov 14th, 2021I saw college productions—and I read Hamlet in a memorable Shakespeare course at one of my alma maters, Harvard on the Rocks—the two-year University of Illinois in Chicago at Navy Pier. (Later it became a four-year university and moved to its current campus.) The first Hamlet production that I remember vividly was during the 1963 opening season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
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Come from Away
National Touring Production in South Florida
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Come from Away is docked in South Florida before heading north. The musical relates the true tale of a small Canadian town that welcomed and cared for stranded passengers on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days after.
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Will Eno Takes on Peer Gynt
GNIT a Delight at Theatre for a New Audience
By: - Nov 12th, 2021Theatre for a New Audience is presenting GNIT, an update of Hendrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. The new version by Will Eno is daring in its exposition of many characters reaction to the her and their plight.
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Falsettoland by William Finn and James Lapine
At Music Theatre of Connecticut
By: - Nov 10th, 2021It is fitting to see this piece in Connecticut; after all in 1991 it was Mark Lamos, the artistic director at Hartford Stage who worked with composer/lyricist William Finn and co-book writer James Lapine to combine Finn’s two short musicals –In Trousers and March of the Falsettos into one more cohesive piece.
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A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Produced by 42nd Street Moon at Gateway Theatre
By: - Nov 09th, 2021Although Sondheim’s music and themes often have sharp edges, “A Little Night Music,” which is based on Ingmar Bergman’s film “Smiles of a Summer Night,” is written predominately in waltz time and is highly melodic.
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Warrior Class
Highly-Charged Political Drama at Boca Stage
By: - Nov 09th, 2021The past stalks a candidate for Congress in the gripping political drama, "Warrior Class." The riveting production runs through Nov. 21 at Boca Stage in Boca Raton, Fla. Boca Stage, a professional theater company, is the new name for the former Primal Forces.
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Definition Theatre's Social Justice Film
America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro,
By: - Nov 08th, 2021At a time when we should all be thinking about how America’s history might be taught in all its blood and glory, Definition Theatre succeeds in tossing new ingredients into this steamy pot of burgoo. Its new theatrical film, America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro, is a raw, sad and funny story of a future America, told in four parts.
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O'Neill's Comedy, Ah Wilderness
Melia Bensussen’s Directorial Debut at Hartford Stage
By: - Nov 06th, 2021Melia Bensussen demonstrates a sure hand with this Eugene O’Neill play set in Connecticut on July 4, 1906. In Ah, Wilderness!, O’Neill who is better known for his dramas of love, loss, disillusionment, self-delusion and alcoholism, shows his lighter touch. It is a family comedy about some of the same subjects but more upbeat.
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War Words
What Does 'Thank You for Your Service' Really Mean
By: - Nov 06th, 2021The Atlantic Council has partnered with professional theater companies, veterans service organizations, and corporate sponsors to bring staged readings of War Words. This Pulitzer Prize-nominated play depicts stories of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The production is traveling to different cities.
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Julianne Boyd Steps Down at Barrington Stage
Co Founded Theatre Company in 1995
By: - Nov 04th, 2021In 1995 Julianne Boyd co-founded Barrington Stage company producing sparsely attended but critically well received shows in a high school auditorium in Sheffield. In 2005 the company purchased and renovated a formed vaudeville house in Pittsfield. Coping with Covid-19 Boyd mounted a successful 2021 season. With the company is good shape, citing age, she is passing the reins to new leadership. In December she turns 77. She will stay on through the search and transition for a new artistic director.
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Eurydice by the Artistic Home
Adaptation of Greek Classic by Sarah Ruhl
By: - Nov 03rd, 2021Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl is the new production now being staged by the Artistic Home at the Den Theatre. It’s the ancient story of the wife who dies and the husband who tries to bring her back to the world of the living, but Ruhl tells this version from the viewpoint of Eurydice. She has written a funny, contemporized version of this love story, set somewhere nearby and perhaps in some current time.
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At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen
Written by Terry Guest, Produced by Theatre Rhinoceros
By: - Nov 02nd, 2021Appropriately, Theatre Rhinoceros presents “At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen” in its new, intimate home in The Castro. Their choice of play to christen the new venue fits like a glove. Thematically, the suitability is clear for the longest running LGBTQ theater company in the universe. And in a setting where the audience can reach out and touch the performers, a small two hander where the actors’ every small gesture can be seen.
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Shakeup at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Mandy Greenfield Out and Jenny Gersten Back In
By: - Nov 01st, 2021After seven seasons of woke programming Mandy Greenfield has resigned as artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival. There was a tech crew walkout last summer over brutal conditions during hazardous and stressful outdoor productions. During a production of Row in a reflecting pool at Clark Art Institute there were days of delays due to rain and thunder storms . Problems were widely reported in the media. Former artistic director, Jenny Gersten, has rejoined WTF as interim artistic director.
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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh
At Long Wharf Theater
By: - Oct 30th, 2021The play by Lloyd Suh is based on Afong May, who came to the US in 1834 to “perform” for curious Americans telling them about Chinese life. May was purported to be the first Chinese Woman to set foot on American soil.
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Save Broadway from the Grinch
Upcoming Escape Room Challenges People
By: - Oct 30th, 2021Stuart Brown, a theater critic and founder of a 24/7 online radio station devoted to musical theater, has created an escape room through which you strive to save Broadway from the Grinch. The escape room will go live around the first week of December. To access the escape room, go to https://soundsofbroadway.com/escaperoom. The "save Broadway" escape room will join two existing ones on the website.
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Barrinton Stage Company Program for Veterans
Playwriting Workshop With Mark St, Germain
By: - Oct 28th, 2021Barrington Stage Company will offer a Playwriting Workshop for Veterans under the direction of Barrington Stage Associate Artist and Award-Winning Playwright Mark St. Germain. In this 4-class seminar, students will explore the fundamental craft of playwriting with the goal of every student completing a ten-minute play. The culmination on the fourth and final day of class will be a rehearsal and performance by professional actors.
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M. Butterfly, the Opera, to Premiere in Santa Fe
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Join Forces
By: - Oct 25th, 2021The world premiere of M. Butterfly, the opera, will take place on July 30,2021 at the Santa Fe Opera. We got a taste of its music, its story and the sound of the delicious man/girl Song. Kangmin Justin Kim is a countertenor with special tremulos and vibratos which suggest the feminine voice. Many layers weave through the new telling to the tale made famous in its first iteration as a Tony and Pulitzer-finalist play by David Henry Hwang. He is the librettist for the new work by composer, Huang Ruo.
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Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom
Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
By: - Oct 23rd, 2021Kingdom is an entirely LGBTQ African American story, sensitively told, and illustrates through the characters’ varied life experiences how Black gay culture is different from White gay culture. The lyrical script keeps the symbolism of the Magic Kingdom as a meaningful background theme, until the very end.
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