Theatre
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Nancy Rhodes Champions American Opera
Encompass Opera Theatre Produced American First
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Nancy Rhodes, founder and artistic director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, led a Zoom for an international audience of teachers. Rhodes formed Encompass just as the women’s movement was blossoming. There are special women in the American music world who have soldiered on in their professions, whatever complications were created by gender. Bursting onto the scene at about the same time as Gloria Steinem, Nancy Rhodes created an innovative company..
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The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
Produced by California's Pear Theatre
By: - Jun 21st, 2021With their fully-staged production of Christopher Chen’s work, kudos to Mountain View’s Pear Theatre for leading the way in the return to indoor theater after 15 months of pandemic-imposed darkness. The adventuresome small company not only offers socially-distanced indoor performances to a play with a full cast, but also outdoor performances and online streaming, to accommodate all manner of theater lover. Hallelujah!
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A Different Approach to Annie
Area Stage Company's Immersive Production
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Area Stage mounts 'Annie' with eight actors, all of them adults. The production takes place inside a speakeasy. This immersive 'Annie' is yet another triumph for visionary theater artist Giancarlo Rodaz. The production runs through July 4.
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Summer Theatre in Connecticut
Adapting to Change
By: - Jun 13th, 2021How theater is presented this summer continues to expand. TheaterWorks in Hartford, West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park and Ridgefield’s Thrown Stone Theater are exploring what are called “site-specific” productions – where the production’s content has a relationship to the site where it is performed.
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Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Playwright Jeanne Takata’s one-man, biographical drama “Hold These Truths” beautifully captures Gordon Hirabayashi’s courage and sacrifice in challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066, which consigned Japanese-Americans, including those who were American citizens, to internment camps during World War II.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & CENSORSHIP SEPTEMBER 23-26
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Featuring four Williams plays, the newest from Penny Arcade, Mae West’s shuttered 1926 Broadway smash, a witchy satire from 1616, and more. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 in Provincetown—the birthplace of modern American theater—where Williams worked on many of his major plays during the 1940s.
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Bright Colors and Bold Patterns
An Island City Stage production
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Southeast Florida's Island City Stage presents a delightfully comic 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns." The Drew Droege one-man comedy is onstage through June 29. The production will also include a period during which people can virtually watch the show. 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns' completes Island City Stage's 9th season.
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American Repertory Theater 2021
1776 Revival Broadway Bound
By: - Jun 06th, 2021“It has been a long time since we were all together in a theater, and we need this now more than ever—artists and audiences alike,” says Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus. “We have spent the last year in deep learning and reflection at the A.R.T., and we are excited to share our 2021/22 programming, which welcomes audiences back in person and reflects our core values, from centering anti-racism to embracing regenerative practice that promotes the health of our planet, our organization, and each other.”
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Tiny Beautiful Things
George Street Playhouse’s Filmed Play
By: - Jun 04th, 2021Tiny Beautiful Things, George Street Playhouse’s filmed play, based on Cheryl Strayed’s book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012), a collection of Strayed’s columns is beautifully brought to life by actress Laiona Michelle, who as Sugar, plays a down-to-earth, expletive-spouting advice-giving columnist
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Woodie King Jr. Steps Down
Insights from 50 Years of New Federal Theatre
By: - Jun 04th, 2021Woodie King Jr. is stepping down as Artistic Director of the New Federal Theatre, the company he founded in 1970. His original mission was to give voice to actors and writers of color, black, Hispanic and Asian, and to women. The mission has been richly fulfilled. The list of artists to whom King gave a first chance includes every important performing artist of color and many women..
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Aaron Tveit Live! In Concert
Barrington Stage Adds Second Performance
By: - Jun 03rd, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces that a second performance has been scheduled for Aaron Tveit Live! In Concert on Monday, July 19 at 8:00pm. The encore performance has been scheduled to accommodate worldwide audience demand after tickets for BSC’s Gala performance of Aaron Tveit Live! on Sunday, July 18 quickly sold out.
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Black Beans Project at Boston's Huntington
Extended through June 13
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021The Huntington announces the extension of Black Beans Project, a world premiere digital work by Huntington artist-in-residence Melinda Lopez and award-winning performer Joel Perez, directed by Jaime Castañeda, now available for on-demand streaming through June 13, 2021. All tickets are pay-what-you-can.
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Begin the Beguine: A Quartet of One-Acts
Performance Space New York and Oakland Theater Project
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021One can only imagine how many treasure troves of artistry lie hidden away around the world in dusty attics and musty cellars. Nina Collins, daughter of playwright and poet Kathleen Collins, has collected and released a rich reserve of her late mother’s previously unpublished works from the 1970s and 1980s. Included are four short plays that, while they are uneven, and despite their age, resonate today.
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Festival of Classics
A Livestream Event from South Florida
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021South Florida groups to present "Festival of Classics." The livestream event is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST on Saturday, June 5. Expect to see selections from Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Diary of Anne Frank, and more.
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Berliner Festspiele: 58th Theatertreffen
2021 Theatre Festival in Berlin
By: - May 30th, 2021Berlin’s cultural life is slowly awakening. One of the early highlights of this development was the 58th Theatertreffen (theatre festival) of the Berliner Festspiele from May 13 to May 24.
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An 'Annie' for Today
Miami's Area Stage Company's Fresh Production
By: - May 26th, 2021They promise an 'Annie' like you've never seen. Area Stage Company in Miami will mount the much-loved musical on weekends from June 11-July 4. This 'in-the-round' production will feature an all-adult cast of eight actors.
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Barrington Stage Presents Prize Winner
Daniella De Jesús Won the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award
By: - May 24th, 2021Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back by Daniella De Jesús, is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. Directed by Taylor Reynolds it will be presented June 4-6, 2021.
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Seven Deadly Sins Wins Drama League Award
Production is New York-bound
By: - May 23rd, 2021Miami New Drama's production of Seven Deadly Sins won a Drama League Award on Friday. The Drama League Awards have recognized outstanding achievements on and off Broadway since 1935. Seven Deadly Sins won in a new category -- “Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater.”
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Legacy Theatre in Branford Connecticut
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park
By: - May 22nd, 2021The brand new Legacy Theatre in Branford opened with a production of the first big Neil Simon hit, Barefoot in the Park which runs through Sunday, May 23.
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Barrington Stage's NEA Grant
Surrports The Supadupa Kid by Pittsfield Author Ty Alan Jackson
By: - May 18th, 2021Barrington Stage Company has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project will support a World Premiere production of The Supadupa Kid, a new musical based on the children's book of the same name by local Pittsfield author Ty Allan Jackson.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
George St. Playhouse in New Jersey
By: - May 14th, 2021The 90 minute performance, consists of three “readers” here given names if not characters asking her questions, sometimes challenging her and hearing her answers. No real conversations among characters, no real context for their questions or problems and no real solutions.
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Two Sisters and a Piano
By New Normal Rep
By: - May 10th, 2021In Two Sisters and a Piano, two sisters in 1991 Cuba “escape” their time under house arrest through music and by hearing and speaking heartfelt words. This play, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz, is streaming through May 23 at NewNormalRep.org. New Normal Rep was founded during the pandemic. The company aims to digitally present new and lesser-known plays from diverse perspectives.
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Finalists Named for New Play Award
ATCA Annually Administers Honor
By: - May 07th, 2021Five finalists are vying for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The annual honor recognizes playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during the previous year. At $40,000, Steinberg/ATCA is the largest national new play award program of its kind.
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WAM Theatre 2021
Madeline Sayet’s Solo Show Where We Belong
By: - May 06th, 2021WAM Theatre will present a special limited run of Madeline Sayet’s solo show, WHERE WE BELONG, directed by Mei Ann Teo. This Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company film adaptation, produced in partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, is filming now at Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C., and will be available for digital streaming through WAM Theatre June 24-27, 2021 only.
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The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
Manhattan Theatre Club and The Huntington Live Stream
By: - May 03rd, 2021Manhattan Theatre Club in association with The Huntington presents the virtual premiere of The Niceties, written by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Kimberly Senior. The presentation reunites the original stars Lisa Banes and Jordan Boatman, and has been reimagined for the virtual stage since its original production in MTC’s 2018-2019 Season at The Studio at Stage II.
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