Theatre
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One Night In Miami
Kemp Powers Play On South Beach
By: - Oct 28th, 2018Historic Night in Segregated Miami is depicted in One Night in Miami. Miami New Drama opens its season with Kemp Powers poet play featuring familiar real life, historical characters. In Powers' play, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke, Malcolm X and Jim Brown spend a night at a Miami hotel when the city was segregated.
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Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t
By: - Oct 27th, 2018Bernhardt/Hamlet is a new play by Theresa Rebeck that tries to capture both Bernhardt and comment on our modern era. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
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Dancing Lessons by Mark St. Germain
Produced by Center Repertory Theatre
By: - Oct 27th, 2018Despite the limits of 90 minutes, two characters, and mostly one room, Dancing Lessons covers a lot of ground. It’s about relationships and truth. A script full of laughs and things to think about; great direction by Joy Carlin and fine creative elements by her team; plus two terrific performances yield an entertaining evening.
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Marnie at the Metropolitan Opera
Nico Muhly's North American Premier
By: - Oct 26th, 2018Nico Muhly’s third opera, his second for the Metropolitan Opera, has its North American premiere this month and next. Muhly states clearly that when he was approached by director Michael Mayer about making the book Marnie into an opera, he was intrigued. At the end of opera, one wonders what happened to the screenplay of Alfred Hitchcock’s film based on the book.
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Arabella at San Francisco Opera
By Richard Strauss with Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
By: - Oct 26th, 2018Arabella does not artistically match the model it targeted, Der Rosenkavalier, nor does it replicate the earlier work’s market success. Despite some issues with this opera, it certainly deserves its place in the repertoire.
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The Drowsy Chaperone at Goodspeed
Fun on the Run
By: - Oct 25th, 2018You may not recognize the title or know much about the show; it arrived quietly on Broadway in April 2006 and immediately captured multiple Tony award nominations. It won for best book and best score but was beat out for Outstanding Musical by Jersey Boys.
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Jeffery Hatcher's Holmes and Watson
At North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Oct 23rd, 2018North Coast Rep artistic director David Ellenstein has a penchant for selecting interesting plays for his theatre audiences. With his selection of playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s new drama/mystery “Holmes & Watson”, and as the director of this clever play, Ellenstein subliminally tosses out a gentle unstated challenge to his patrons.
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Frankenstein Adapted by English Playwright Nick Dear
At Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre
By: - Oct 22nd, 2018The script for Remy Bumppo Theatre’s production of Frankenstein was adapted by English playwright Nick Dear from Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Ian Frank directs a warm and heart-wrenching production, staged on Joe Schermoly’s handsome minimalist set.
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The Barber of Seville
Launches Season of Boston Lyric Opera
By: - Oct 22nd, 2018Rossini’s classic story of the oppressed woman who upends the patriarchal dowry system to pursue true love, is wonderfully invigorated by BLO’s selection and cast of critically acclaimed singers. This production launches the fall season of Boston Lyric Opera with stunning panache.
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Admissions Near Miami
First Regional Production of Joshua Harmon Play
By: - Oct 22nd, 2018Coral Gables' GableStage is the first regional theater to mount Joshua Harmon's explosive 'Admissions.' A palpable urgency, tension hovers over the stage in this triumphant production. 'Admissions' is a highly complex, yet taut satire covering topics such as affirmative action.
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The Resting Place by Ashlin Halfnight
Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - Oct 20th, 2018The playwright, Ashlin Halfnight, touches a tender nerve with his exposé. So many bad actions by people in our real world have been telegraphed to others before they occurred. Antisocial attitudes. Deviant behavior. Threats. Fascination with the perverse. Collections of weapons. Memorabilia of cruelty. But how can one know at what point to interfere?
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Barrington Stage Company 2019
Annuncing Two Musicals and a Drama
By: - Oct 19th, 2018Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announced today three productions for its upcoming 25th season – Into the Woods, the musical classic by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine; the world premiere new musical Fall Springs, by Niko Tsakalakos and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb; and Gertrude and Claudius, a new play by Mark St. Germain.
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The Musical Fun Home
At TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Oct 19th, 2018Fun Home looks at coming-of-age and coming-out through the eyes of Alison Bechdel, whose graphic novel memoir is the source material. TheatreWorks offers a delightful production of the Tony Award winning musical.
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Gloria a Life by Emily Mann
Steinem as Hope-aholic, Directed by Diane Paulus
By: - Oct 19th, 2018Gloria, A Life, by Emily Mann is playing at the Daryl Roth Theater in Manhattan. The theater is configured as a circle of bleachers. Gloria Steinem, whose role as journalist and activist in the women’s movement is the subject of this event, has come to believe that people, women and men, sitting in circles and talking, is the answer to humanly rich and fulfilling lives.
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Nancy Bishop is Born to Run
Chicago Critic Springs for Springsteen on Broadway
By: - Oct 18th, 2018Chicago critic, Nancy Bishop, a die hard rock fan dug deep for Bruce. Paying through the nose she scored a ticket for his sold out Broadway show. Springing for a Springsteen binge she added a couple of other compelling plays. She will be back in Manhattan later this month for the annual American Theatre Critics Association conference So this is a teaser with more golden apples to follow.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens at 3 Below Theaters,
By: - Oct 17th, 2018Charles Dickens would roll over in his grave. The master of the hard, the twisted, the bleak expectations, who chronicled grime, abuse, and despair. How could his material be used as the basis for a mash up between a raucous “who dunnit?” and a Gay ’90s vaudevillian music hall entertainment? The Mystery of Edwin Drood does just that, earning its spurs on Broadway in 1985 with a long run and a handful of Tonys.
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Arendt/Heidegger by Douglass Lackey
A Love Story in Ideas at Theater for the New CIty
By: - Oct 15th, 2018Arendt/Heidegger is a love story which has happened countless times, and yet his betrayal of his beloved mirrors the profundity of the Heidegger's political, spiritual and intellectual betrayals. It is a most extraordinary love story. The realities of the times are ever present in the lives.
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Berkshire Theatre Critics Association
Third Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards
By: - Oct 15th, 2018This week the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association is voting on the final award list in preparation for the Third Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held on Monday, November 12 at 7 pm at the Zion Lutheran Church, 74 First Street (Route 7) in Pittsfield, MA. --
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Dracula In Miami
World Premiere Of Play In South Florida
By: - Oct 15th, 2018Playwright Michael McKeever has created a feminist, modern take on the classic Bram Stoker novel. The World Premiere production runs through Oct. 28 at Downtown Miami's Zoetic Stage. A fine cast and crew are mounting a production that is suspenseful and scary but not too graphic. The sound effects work well in enhancing dramatic, tension-filled moments.
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Place Premieres at the Harvey Theater
BAM's Next Wave Festival Featured Ted Hearne
By: - Oct 13th, 2018Place by Ted Hearne has its world premier as part of BAM’s New Wave Festival. Like Giuseppe Verdi whose music became the anthem of Italian unification, Hearne is a voice for the big issues before our country. His new oratorio addresses ‘gentrification.’ It is deeply personal and deeply moving.
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The Tell Tale Heart at Angel's Share
Green-Wood Cemetery Hosts Gregg Kallor
By: - Oct 12th, 2018The Angel's Share at Green-Wood cemetery concluded is season with a double bill of horror operas. In Tell-Tale Heart, Jennifer Johnson Cano charted her devolution into violence and self-incrimination with gusto, her final outcry answered only by that thumping two-note figure from Gregg Kallor's keyboard. Was she mad? Had she committed murder? Was there ever an old man to be killed in the first place? All these questions swirled and squirmed in one's mind, and the only answer follows.
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My Parsifal Conductor by Allan Leicht
Cosima Wagner Redeemed, A Comedy
By: - Oct 11th, 2018My Parsifal Conductor, Allan Leicht's hilarious and touching comedy on the late domestic life of Richard Wagner, which extends into immortality, is playing at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater through November 3. At the center of the curtainless stage is a big double bed over which a heavenly canopy hangs. We are somewhere between heaven and earth where Cosima Liszt Bulow Wagner is taking her last gasps. She is ninety and married Richard Wagner 60 years ago, after the birth of their three children, Isolde, Eva and Siegfried. Wagner died after 13 years of marriage.
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Girl of the Golden West at Metropolitan Opera
Blazing Saddles
By: - Oct 10th, 2018The Girl of the Golden West returned to the Met this month with a good cast. On Monday night, a performance featuring tenor Yusif Eyvazov and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek provided a much needed shot of red blood to an anemic fall season.
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A Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde at A Noise Within Theatre
By: - Oct 10th, 2018Wilde’s highly-charged, sexual novella, and the Hollywood production code-driven 1945 movie, intrigued A Noise Within theatre director Michael Michetti, into tackling a stage adaptation in 2006 at Pasadena’s Boston Court Theatre. Mr. Michetti’s 2018 production now on stage at the A Noise Within Theatre, in East Pasadena, closely adheres to Wilde’s original story and most of his dialogue.
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Final Follies at The Cherry Lane Theater
A.J. Gurney Lives On
By: - Oct 09th, 2018Final Follies, an evening of one act plays by A.J.Gurney is playing at The Cherry Lane Theater home of Primary Stages, Gurney's primary producers over the past decade. The first play, titled Final Follies was delivered to Gurney's agent a week before he died last year. It is a juicy send off for a haute Wasp author, who sees acting in porn movies as a job solution for waning WASPs looking for a way to earn a living.
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