Theatre
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Today It Rains
Composed by Laura Kaminsky Libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed
By: - Mar 30th, 2019Maestra Nichole Paiement conducts the chamber orchestra to its polished sound with energy and precision, finding a visual and aural expressiveness in the combining of the instruments, parallel to that of Georgia O’Keeffe combining her paints. Laura Kaminsky honors this great artist with her world premiere opera Today It Rains, commissioned and presented by Opera Parallèle.
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Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Announces 45th Season
By: - Mar 29th, 2019Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces its 45th season. The program of seven plays starts with a yet to be announced award winning musical from August 30 to October 6. The suspense is brutal.
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The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini
Sam Mendes Directs at Park Avenue Armory
By: - Mar 28th, 2019In a co-production with National Theatre and Neal Street Productions, the Park Avenue Armory is presenting a multi-generational story of the Bavarian family Lehman in America. Captivated by Ben Powers' Biblical translation of Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy, director Sam Mendes has worked with three brilliant actors to create a cast of hundreds. It is a testimony to the talents of Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles that we believe one man can be a young woman, a child, and an aging patriarch if not all at once, certainly standing next to each other.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
2019 Festival September 26 through 29
By: - Mar 26th, 2019The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival will offer a round trip charter bus for New York patrons. The 2019 Festival program (Sept. 26 – 29) will feature plays by Tennessee Williams and the provocative Japanese author Yukio Mishima.
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Huntington Theatre Company
Lineup of the 2019-2020 Season
By: - Mar 26th, 2019Huntington Theatre Company announces the lineup of the 2019-2020 season, featuring three world premieres, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a classic Tony Award-winning comedy by one of the world’s most celebrated playwrights, and two adaptations of powerful literary works.
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From White Plains
Comedy-Drama About the Past and Bullying
By: - Mar 25th, 2019Michael Perlman's From White Plains examines the effects of bullying decades after one's school days. Cast members largely shine in a South Florida regional production of this comedic drama. The play's characters are unable to escape the past in From White Plains. The set's centerpiece, which resembles a prison cell's gate, symbolizes this.
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John Guare’s Nantucket Sleigh Ride
At Lincoln Center in New York
By: - Mar 25th, 2019Nantucket Sleigh Ride by John Guare is a revised version of an earlier play, Are You There, McPhee?, produced at McCarter Theatre at Princeton in 2012. It’s a farce, a puzzle and a jumble of pop culture references with a lot of laughs, and may leave you feeling unglued.
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Richard II at DeSotelle Studios
C.A.G.E Commited to Shakespeare Realized
By: - Mar 24th, 2019DeSotelle Studios is committed to doing staged readings of eight Shakespeare plays in eight months. Richard II seems perfect for this form. Perhaps no Shakespeare play rests more securely in its lyric laurels. Rhymed couplets and parallel constructions abound for listening pleasure. The cast took full advantage under Katrin Hilbe's direction.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
At the Shubert Theater
By: - Mar 23rd, 2019Aaron Sorkin received permission from author Harper Lee before she died in 2016. However, when Tonja Carter whom Lee had named as her personal representative, learned of some of the changes lawsuits ensued. Eventually the matter was settled.
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Skinnamarink at New York Theater Workshop
Little Lord Skewers US Education with Style
By: - Mar 23rd, 2019Little Lord transforms the Fourth Street Theater of New York Theater Workshop into a one room schoolhouse. We the audience get to face the demons of our early education where "Run Dick Run" at the very least bored us to tears. Based on the educational theories of William McGuffey, who after roaming the midwest as an itinerant teacher, created elementary readers for grades one to six, McGuffey's texts were used throughout the US for a hundred years.
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Memphis In South Florida
A Rousing Production by Actors' Playhouse
By: - Mar 21st, 2019Memphis the Musical sizzles in South Florida. Cast and crew shine in mounting by Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. The show's themes resonate powerfully. This production features a mix of local and regional talent, as well as a member of the Broadway national tour of Memphis.
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Juno and the Paycock by O'Casey
At Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 21st, 2019Sean O’Casey, considered one of Ireland’s finest playwrights, was born in the Dublin slums and was involved in the Irish Nationalist cause for years. His Dublin trilogy focuses on the Irish wars and their impact on the Irish people. Irish Repertory, New York’s distinguished Irish theater company, is in the midst of its O’Casey Cycle, three plays by Sean O’Casey set during the Irish war for independence and the civil war that followed.
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Musical Chess at CVRep
Premiere at New Venue in Cathedral City
By: - Mar 21st, 2019“CHESS,” is a musical written by three giants of the Broadway stage: librettist Richard Nelson, lyricist Tim Rice, and a musical score composed by two members of the world-famous Swedish pop music group ABBA: Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson. It was a glorious evening several years in the making, but the result is a stunning Broadway-like venue of comfortable 208 seats to please even the fussiest of theatre-goers.
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The Barber of Seville
At Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Mar 20th, 2019In the opera canon, The Barber of Seville is one of relatively few that can ease many unfamiliar with opera into enjoying it.
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Man of La Mancha in Annapolis
Patrick Gerard Lynch Plays the Don and his Creator
By: - Mar 18th, 2019Man of La Mancha acted and sung with all the passion it can arouse, is revived by the Compass Rose Theater in Annapolis, Maryland. It is a treat. While its score may be Broadway- lite, a reminder that there is hope for humans who dream is a welcome.
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Hairspray at Oregon Shakespeare
Baltimore Based Musical Packs Hefty Impact
By: - Mar 18th, 2019Hairspray challenges prejudices against women who lack an idealized body type and pushes for racial integration and acceptance of non-binary genders. It slyly and adroitly conveys its message even to conservative audiences through an entertaining package of sympathetic characters and shared enjoyment.
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Ashes by Plexus Polaris
Yngvild Aspeli Directs at HERE
By: - Mar 18th, 2019Ashes is touring the world and landed at the adventuresome theater HERE in New York. Billed as a puppet show, yet so much more, Ashes tells the tale of a pyromaniac in 1970s Norway as the story is being woven by Gaute Helvoli. In his novel Before I Burn, the author strives to tell the story of arson in his own town at the time he was a very young child. Parallels between his story, typed on a scrim and intermittently woven into Dag, the arson's story, are Biblical in dimension. Fathers and sons are the subject.
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Mother Road by Octavio Solis
At Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 17th, 2019Mother Road by Octavio Solis is produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and plays in repertory at its August Bowmer Theatre in Ashland, Oregon through October 26, 2019. The tone of Mother Road successfully drifts between realism and dream state, between drama and comedy.
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Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 17th, 2019In Lauren Yee’s tense and scintillating comedy/drama, Cambodian Rock Band, lead character Chum had escaped Cambodia during the height of the atrocities and resettled in Massachusetts. It is produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and plays in repertory through October 27, 2019.
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True West at Roundabout Theatre
With Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano
By: - Mar 17th, 2019True West, Roundabout Theatre’s staging of the Sam Shepard play, stars two fine actors—Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. It’s a play that descends from brotherly rivalry to rage and chaos, amidst a dozen toasters and piles of toast. And then Mom arrives home from vacation to her little tract house east of LA and her sons turn into little boys—briefly.
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Crossing Delancey In South Florida
At the Levis JCC Sandler Center Theater
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Crossing Delancey is heartwarming and life-affirming at the Levis JCC Sandler Center Theater at the J. The stage version of this well-known story is the source material for the 1988 movie starring Amy Irving. The play is faithful to the film, but different. Cast members and behind-the-scenes folks excel in their work on the production in Boca Raton.
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Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey
NY's Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Sean O’Casey’s play, The Shadow of a Gunman, now on stage at Irish Repertory Theatre, tricks us into thinking this might be a comedy about drunken and verbose Irishmen.
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The Rape of Lucretia
Review at Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Mar 16th, 2019Boston Lyric Opera’s production and interpretation of Benjamin Britten’s contemporary tragic opera “The Rape of Lucretia” is once again an example of a willingness and commitment to perform dramatically intense and socially relevant subject matter.
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Judas Kiss in Pasadena
Just Wilde About Oscar
By: - Mar 12th, 2019“The Judas Kiss”, written by playwright Hare, is deftly directed by Boston Court’s co-artistic director Michael Michetti, and, boldly explores Hare’s raison d’etre for his roman a clef story. Act One of the play is set in the Cadogan Hotel in London, in 1895.
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Diana The Musical
Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Mar 12th, 2019La Jolla Playhouse presents a new musical about Diana and Charles who as heir to the British throne, at 70, is still waiting. For global fans she was a fairybook princess in real life.
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