Theatre
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Take a Deep Breath Campaign
For COVID-related Safety Measures at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 03rd, 2021Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is seeking donations for an almost $1 million effort to implement COVID-safety measures. The Southeast Florida nonprofit, professional theater company will fund the work almost entirely through donations. The work includes installing a new HVAC system to ensure proper filtration. The project will precede PBD's 2021-22 season, which starts on Oct. 5.
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Olympia Dukakis at 89
Performed Twice at Shakespeare & Company
By: - May 02nd, 2021The Oscar winning actress, Olympia Dukakis, died yesterday at 89. She will be remembered in the Berkshires for two productions at Shakespeare & Company. Then in her 80s she was lured to Lenox by her former student the artistic director Tony Simotes.
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Tru at Music Theatre of Connecticut
Jeff Gurner Plays Truman Capote
By: - May 01st, 2021Jeff Gurner plays Truman Capote in this production directed by Kevin Connor. Guner does not hide Capote’s self-destructive tendencies and he manages to keep Capote from sounding like a whiner. On some level, he makes us see and feel Capote’s pain.
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Irish Rep Streams Little Gem
Elaine Murphy's Moving Tritych Is a Jewel
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Irish Repertory Theatre is streaming its 11th production in the time of Covid. Today we seldom see heterosexual women of three generations loving their men, despite difficulties that boyfriends and husbands bring to a relationship. This is a tender, funny revelation.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
Fundraiser on June 5
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Seats and tables are now available for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s annual fundraiser, to be held outdoors under a tent at the Bas Relief Park behind Provincetown Town Hall on Saturday, June 5 at 4pm Eastern.
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American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University
Return Engagement of The Conjurors’ Club
By: - Apr 27th, 2021American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces today the ensemble of magicians to perform in the return engagement of The Conjurors’ Club created by Vinny DePonto and Geoff Kanick. Back by popular demand, the live interactive multi-magician experience runs online April 28 - May 16, 2021.
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Tippet Rise Spring Festival
Streaming from New York
By: - Apr 27th, 2021Tippet Rise is a striking arrival on the music scene. Just when interest in conventional venues offering conventional programs is waning, along comes a venture located amidst grazing cattle on 12,000 acres in Fishtail, Montana. The venue traveled east for its spring festival. You begin to get a sense of how they fill their mission wherever they alight. The splendid array of talent seems present wherever they are. Topping the list in New York are veterans Richard Goode and Claire Chase.
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A Bronx Tale
At Ft. Myers' Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre
By: - Apr 25th, 2021A Bronx Tale is a crowd-pleasing, familiar tale. A production of the stage musical is docked at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre. The production, which runs through May 22, features strong acting.
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A Letter To Harvey Milk: The Musical
Coming Out in San Francisco
By: - Apr 23rd, 2021A Letter to Harvey Milk had a successful run at the Acorn Theatre in New York in 2018. It is streming free with suggested donations for the Actor’s Fund and The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Now it is streaming live.
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Huntington Theatre World Premiere
Black Beans Project to Live Stream
By: - Apr 21st, 2021The Huntington presents 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, and available for on-demand streaming from May 11 – 30, 2021.
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Noah Haidle’s Sweet and Painful play, Smokefall
An Encore by Goodman Theatre
By: - Apr 15th, 2021Noah Haidle’s sweet and painful play, Smokefall, directed by Anne Kaufman, staged by Goodman Theatre in 2013-14, and now streaming as part of Goodman’s Encore series.
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Huntington Theatre 2021
Season Starts in Late August
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Huntington announces the return to live, in-person performances following an incomparable year-and-a-half of stages left dark because of the global pandemic. The 7-play season will begin on August 27, 2021 and take place primarily at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End while The Huntington Theatre undergoes a transformational renovation; one production will take place at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Lisa Ramirez Performs Eliot's The Waste Land
April is the Cruelest Month
By: - Apr 13th, 2021John Wilkens has adapted “The Waste Land” to the stage as a vehicle for a solo performer. Oakland Theater Project has produced the staging, starring the multi-talented Lisa Ramirez and directed by Michael Socrates Moran. This production is the first live performance with a live audience sanctioned by Actors Equity in the state of California since the start of the pandemic. But to accomplish the approval, the performance is outdoors, and the audience remain in their cars.
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The Niceties
At Southeast Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The Niceties is an explosive drama that asks us how we might be contributing to systemic racism. The Eleanor Burgess drama takes place on a prestigious university in the Northeast. Island City Stage in suburban Ft. Lauderdale is presenting the show in person and online. In-person performances continue through April 18. Streaming will be available from April 16-25.
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Les Arts Florissants at Versailles
William Christie Brings Us Charpentier
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The always delightful Les Arts Florissants’ bring us a performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Grand Motets, now available on Qwest TV. Qwest was developed by Quincy Jones, whose middle name is “Delight.” And delight is what he brings us with the 17th century music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Julliard :Launches Julliard Live
Presenting Music, Dance and Drama
By: - Apr 08th, 2021Juilliard announces the launch of Juilliard LIVE, a new streaming initiative offering performances from across its three divisions—music, dance, and drama—online to a global audience. The broad initiative, part of the school’s long-term strategic plan, was accelerated over the past year when indoor performances were halted due to the pandemic. With a mix of livestreamed and on-demand content, Juilliard LIVE expands student performance opportunities both now and in the future, and it will increase accessibility to the performing arts for audiences around the world.
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town
Howard Sherman on an American Icon
By: - Apr 08th, 2021Thornton Wilder's Our Town is a widely produced icon of American Theatre. It is the subject of a new oral history by Howard Sherman.
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The Irish Repertory Theatre Presents The Aran Islands
Synge's Language Captured Brilliantly by Brendon Conroy
By: - Mar 18th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre has given ten streamed performances, or arranged for them, during the time of Covid. Each one has added immensely to our pleasure. The latest comes straight from Dublin. It is a one man performance on stage by the actor Brendan Conroy. His lilting voice, describing the bleak Aran Islands and the lives of its inhabitants draws us in. We quickly understand that the man who wrote the words, J. M. Synge, was a musician. As words roll in Conroy's mouth, we hear musical phrases, dips and crescendos, textured takes on vowels and consonants.
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Jericho
New Normal Rep's inaugural production
By: - Mar 15th, 2021New Normal Rep.'s inaugural production is the dramedy Jericho, by the company's artistic director, Jack Canfora. The new online theater company's debut production features strong acting, quality direction. Jericho is streaming through April 4 at NewNormalRep.org. The play is touching and funny, but not particularly original.
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[hieroglyph] by Erika Dickerson-Despenza
San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
By: - Mar 15th, 2021Playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s poignant drama deals with trauma and loss that most of us, thankfully, will never have to handle. She speaks to the fears that women particularly suffer – and moreso, women of color; and moreso yet, teenage girls of color. These core elements are enhanced by a rich exploration of boundaries – parent-child, teacher-student, parent-teacher, friend-to-friend, as well as those of professional and sexual propriety.
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New Federal Theatre Celebrates Women's History Month
Riverting Production of Pearl Cleag's Hospice
By: - Mar 13th, 2021New Federal Theatre has always promoted the inclusion of women artists as part of its mission. It is no surprise that they are offering works by and with women for Women’s History Month. They appeal to everyone. Petronia Paley and Margaret Odette are featured in the two-hander, Hospice by Pearl Cleage. Billed as a reading, the performances are full characterizations by actors.
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Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre
Award Honors Most Promising Artists
By: - Mar 10th, 2021This year, the presentation of the Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre will be digital. The event honoring promising lyricists and librettists will stream at 7 p.m. EST Monday, March 15. Melissa Li, Benjamin Scheuer, and Kit Yan are this year's winners. The award's namesake, Edward Kleban, is the late Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist of A Chorus Line.
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The Art of Sacrifice by Anthony Clarvoe
Produced by Remote Theater
By: - Mar 08th, 2021While no others loomed so large in the public’s fascination, “The Queen’s Gambit” was certainly not the first performance work to feature chess as a central theme. Among others was Anthony Clarvoe’s play “The Art of Sacrifice” which was first produced in 2006. This production is captured with Zoom technology. Director Desdemona Chiang has chosen to use conventional Zoom format with actors facing separate fixed cameras. With this limitation, actors appear as talking heads delivering competing monologues.
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Safe House
An Immersive Theatrical Experience in Sarasota
By: - Mar 03rd, 2021Audiences will find a missing person in the show Safe House, a hybrid between a film and a live show. Sarasota's Urbanite Theatre's production runs through April 4.
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Pat White Keeps New Federal Theatre Alive and Well
Multi-talented Executive Producer
By: - Mar 02nd, 2021Patricia “Pat” White is a mainstay of the New Federal Theatre (NFT). For twenty-five years she has handled all the details of running the producing company. This allows founder Woodie King Jr. to read scripts until 2 o’clock in the morning.
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