Theatre
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Virtual Theatre
Through Pandemic and Beyond
By: - Dec 12th, 2020Virtual theater has come in many forms during the last eight pandemic months. Our most recent theater review was actor/clown Bill Irwin’s new version of his bravura performance of On Beckett adapted for livestreaming by Irish Repertory Theatre. In this article, we look at how virtual theater is faring in Chicago and beyond.
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A Christmas Carol
From Theatre to Radio PLay
By: - Dec 12th, 2020For the first time in its 44-year history, American Conservatory Theater’s holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, comes to life as a radio play.
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Norm Lewis Returns to A.R.T.
Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here
By: - Dec 12th, 2020Norm Lewis: Christmastime Is Here premieres Thursday, December 17 at 8PM and streams on demand through December 31. It is part of the 54 Below Premieres series. Previously he co stared with Audra McDonald in Porgy and Bess at American Repertory Theatre.
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A Christmas Carol
Dickens' Classic is Streaming through Early January
By: - Dec 11th, 2020Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Jefferson Mays plays more than 50 characters in an online streaming version of A Christmas Carol. This production is a filmed version of Geffen Playhouse's 2018 production. Streaming continues thru early January.
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Barrington Stage Company Awards Spark Grants
Intended to Spark New Work
By: - Dec 09th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), is pleased to announce the first round of Spark Grants of $2,500 each to eleven artists with whom Barrington Stage Company has either collaborated with on past work or looks forward to collaborating with in the future. Each recipient was awarded the grant under the single condition that the money be used to spark the artist’s creativity.
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Ring In the New Year With New Play Development
Annual Festival Develops New Works
By: - Dec 07th, 2020Palm Beach Dramaworks' third annual New Year/New Plays Festival will take place via Zoom. This year, the South Florida theater company's annual event will last five days, instead of the usual three. Audiences assist in the process of writing new plays by offering feedback.
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Italian & American Playwrights Project
Live on US Non-Profit Digital Theatre Platform
By: - Dec 07th, 2020New York theatre curators Valeria Orani and Frank Hentschker will host the Third Edition of the Italian & American Playwrights Project (IAPP) on Monday, December 14, 2020, 4:30 pm live on US Non-Profit Digital Theatre Platform www.HowlRound.com.
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Closer Than Ever
Maltby & Shire Musical Revue in South Florida
By: - Dec 01st, 2020South Florida's MNM Theatre Company is streaming the musical revue 'Closer Than Ever' through Dec. 31. Director Jonathan Van Dyke has found a creative way to make the actors look like they're close to each other on screen. 'Closer Than Ever' is a riveting, sung-thru song cycle.
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Barrington Stage Company 2020 Associate Artists
David Lander, Jeffrey Page and Alysha Umphress.
By: - Nov 30th, 2020Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces the 2020 Associate Artists – lighting designer David Lander, director/choreographer Jeffrey Page and actress Alysha Umphress.
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The Ballad of Janis Matthews and the Dodo Scouts
New, Original Musical Presented As a Radio Series
By: - Nov 28th, 2020South Miami-based Area Stage Company is presenting a new, original musical as an online radio series. The Ballad of Janis Matthews & The Dodo Scouts takes place in Colorado during the 1960's. Area Stage will present the musical as a four-part radio series. The musical's live world premiere is scheduled for Summer 2021.
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James Darrah At Boston Lyric Opera
Creating Streamed Productions
By: - Nov 24th, 2020Boston Lyric Opera, ever on the lookout for startling innovations that work, has hired Darrah to produce a stop motion feature-length animated version of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher.
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Barrington Stage Company Reading
By Pittsfield-based Author Ty Allan Jackson.
By: - Nov 20th, 2020Barrington Stage Company will present a free virtual reading of The Supadupa Kid 2: Move, the action/superhero book by Pittsfield-based author Ty Allan Jackson. The reading will feature a cast of local youth and parents from the Berkshires and NY State Capital Region. Julianne Boyd will direct the reading, which will begin streaming free on December 3.
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Kev Berry at The Tank
A Hefty, Engaging Monologue
By: - Nov 19th, 2020Kev Berry is an award-winning playwright and a superb monologist. In Harsh Cacophonies I and II,, he is directed by his usual collaborator, Alex Tobey. The monologue was created in three separate pieces, which can be performed as stand alones. The three are joined for this production and work well together. Two hours fly by, in part because Berry is in a manic state. His speech and stories are always clear, but often rush. This locates us in the urgent terrain from which his stories grow.
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Home for the Holidays
A Series of Plays Presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Nov 18th, 2020Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida will present a virtual holiday season of plays. The South Florida theater company will offer Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The plays will premiere on Mondays later this month.
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Playwrite Israel Horovitz at 81
Co Founded Gloucester Stage Company
By: - Nov 12th, 2020Israel Horovitz (March 31, 1939 – November 9, 2020) was an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.
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Sounds of Broadway
Online Radio Station plays Theater Music 24/7
By: - Nov 11th, 2020A 24/7 online radio station plays the music of Broadway, Off-Broadway, the London stage, and much more. Connecticut Theater Critics Circle President and American Theatre Critics Association member Stuart Brown founded "Sounds of Broadway" in March 2019. Brown said he believes in engaging with listeners. In addition to operating his radio station, Brown is also a theater critic and a university administrator.
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Licensing Available for Trilingual Our Town
Miami New Drama Premiered Production in 2017.
By: - Nov 07th, 2020The script for a trilingual production of Our Town is available for licensing. 'Concord Theatricals has acquired licensing rights. Miami New Drama commissioned the adaptation and staged the world premiere in 2017.
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HBO’s Coastal Elites
New York City’s Public Theater.
By: - Nov 05th, 2020Another pre-and post-COVID-19 slanted offering, muchly peppered with condemnation of Trump and the current administration, was presented one time only this past September. HBO’s Coastal Elites was originally written by playwright and novelist Paul Rudnick, intended to be performed at New York City’s Public Theater.
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Woodie King Jr. Wraps Up Octoberfest
Stories About the Old Days by Bill Harris
By: - Nov 03rd, 2020Stories About The Old Days closes this delightful retrospective with a nostalgic reflection on the meaning of faith, art and friendship. Richardson-Jackson's direction provides an evocatively genuine space as the light filters through the red and gold stained glass windows of an old church. This two-person piece, is atmospheric, a feat which masterfully conquers the restrictions of the “zoom” style presentation.
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Irish Repertory Theatre's Touch of the Poet
Ciarán O’Reilly Directs
By: - Nov 01st, 2020The Irish Repertory Theatre was preparing to present Eugene O’Neill’s Touch of the Poet when Covid struck and theatres closed. Sets were ready. Costumes had been fitted. Most importantly, rehearsals were underway. Ever inventive, the troupe has re-grouped to put the production on streaming. The advantage of a set richly reflecting the progress of the drama is immediately evident. Our eyes rest on the stage.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Gift
$1 Million in Memory of Mary Anne Gross
By: - Oct 29th, 2020Berkshire Theatre Group announcees a gift of just over $1 million dollars from the family of the late Mary Anne Gross in honor of her lifetime love of both theatre and the Berkshires
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Jefferson Mays As Ebenezer Scrooge
Award-Winning Actor To Star in A Christmas Carol
By: - Oct 29th, 2020Jefferson Mays will star in a new production of A Christmas Carol. Proceeds will benefit the hard-hit theater community, which has been devastated by the pandemic. A worldwide release is set for Saturday, Nov. 28.
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Closer Than Ever In South Florida
MNM Theatre Company To Stream Musical
By: - Oct 27th, 2020West Palm Beach-based MNM Theatre Company to mount virtual production of the musical revue Closer Than Ever. The stream will be available starting on Nov. 27 and remain online through Dec. 31. Due to the pandemic, MNM Theatre Company has cancelled or postponed all live shows.
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Laced By Samantha Mueller
A Thinking Cap Theatre Virtual Production
By: - Oct 26th, 2020Thinking Cap Theatre’s ‘Laced’ will leave you hopeful for better days. The South Florida theater company is presenting a virtual production of Samantha Mueller's play. The engagement continues and ends this coming weekend.
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Moliere in the Park Takes Flight
The School for Wives as Fresh as Now
By: - Oct 26th, 2020We have been introduced to streaming technology across the boards in this time of Covid. It is a global experiment, which, whether or not it is smooth and realizes the intentions of the creators, is welcome. It provides connection. Safe connection as we are socially distanced. An opportunity also for grand experiments. The School for Wives produced by Moliere in the Park leads the way.
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