Theatre
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Man of La Mancha
At Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Oct 09th, 2018A successful production requires an excellent Cervantes/Don Quixote and Phillip Hernandez meets the challenge. His voice is expressive and powerful, he bring a sense of age to the part, and his acting totally encompasses the character.
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Tom Stoppard's Rock and Roll
At Chicago's Artistic Home Theatre
By: - Oct 09th, 2018Kathy Scambiatterra directs this complex political/musical story, based on the Czech music fans and political dissidents in the years between the Prague Spring in 1968 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
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Glass Menagerie at Barrington Stage Company
Dehorning the Unicorn
By: - Oct 08th, 2018The final fall production of Barrington Stage Company for a number of years had been coordinated with the reginal school curriculum. It has been the norm to explore an agenda with social justice theatre. This time, however, Barrington has opted to focus on ars gratia artis. Teachers as their lesson plan will discuss a harrowing masterpiece of American theatre, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
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Little Shop Of Horrors
Popular Musical at Florida's Lightning Bolt Productions
By: - Oct 08th, 2018Audiences will eat up South Florida fun and funny production of Little Shop of Horrors. Over-the-top humor, mixed with some subtlety, add up to a biting Lightning Bolt Productions' mounting. The director serves double duty as the nerdy Seymour.
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Zürich by Amelia Roper
At Chicago's Steep Theatre
By: - Oct 07th, 2018Zürich is played by 10 actors—two each in five scenes—set in a luxury hotel room or rooms in that Swiss banking city. The play begins in a seemingly lighthearted way, with a man and a woman who have spent the night together in a room on the 40th floor of a Zürich hotel.
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Mile Long Opera at The High Line
Co-Created by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and David Lang
By: - Oct 06th, 2018The High Line is a big idea writ large, just like operas. It forms a perfect set for Mile Long Opera. Elizabeth Diller gets a director’s credit for an opera written specially for this location by David Lang. Anne Carson is librettist and Claudia Rankine, essayist. Mile Long Opera is subtitled, a biography of 7 pm, a time of transition from work to home.
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Tosca at San Francisco Opera
Carmen Giannattasio Debut in Title Role
By: - Oct 06th, 2018A star attraction on the European circuit, Italian Carmen Giannattasio makes her San Francisco Opera debut and role debut as the title character. The soprano was offered the part earlier in her career, but she declined.
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Oslo by J.T. Rogers
produced by Marin Theatre Company
By: - Oct 06th, 2018One complaint about Oslo that may be heard is that we already know its outcome. Twenty-five years beyond, notable progress has been made, but the condition between Israelis and Palestinians remains sad and unresolved.
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Downstate at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Bruce Norris’ Uproarious, Heartbreaking, World Premiere
By: - Oct 05th, 2018This is a group of detestable, rotten apples, but each of these men is also, in his own way, disarming and hilarious, with quirks and charms that make us forget why they are in this make-shift homestead wearing ankle bracelets; until we’re reminded, and once again infuriated by the hypocrisy. This is a world premiere by Bruce Norris.
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Mendoza at Goodman Theatre
Macbeth by Los Colochos Teatro of Mexico City
By: - Oct 05th, 2018Mendoza, a thrillingly raw and earthy adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is being presented this week at Goodman Theatre in collaboration with the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance.
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Bill Irwin On Beckett
The Irish Repertory Theater's Delightful Production
By: - Oct 03rd, 2018Bill Irwin, with his mastery of the physical, clownish gesture and the musical lines of language presents a moving portrait of selections from Samuel Beckett’s work at the Irish Repertory Theater through November 4. Interspersing his own commentary with performance, we are taken in and out of the playwright’s work, as Irwin explains clowning and physical theater, an important part of Beckett, and also productions past in which he has enjoyed the company of Steve Martin and the late Robin Williams whose body sailed into a Godot scene. In Beckett you laugh through pain.
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The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
At Town Hall Theatre Company
By: - Oct 03rd, 2018For the greater part, history has been made by and written by men. Like Olympe, Lauren Gunderson hopes to rectify gender imbalances in some small measure by sharing the stories of four women who impacted and were victims of the French Revolution
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Paula Vogel’s compelling Indecent,
At Victory Gardens Theater.
By: - Oct 01st, 2018Indecent blends time-jumping scenes with an occasional dance routine and klezmer-flavored music. It’s a fine example of a dramatic play with music. The story and its characters are paramount and the music provides a lyrical underpinning. It’s an epic story told on a very personal level.
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'Ol Blue Eyes In South Florida
MNM Theatre Company mounts Frank Sinatra revue
By: - Sep 30th, 2018A quartet of performers in musical tribute find the emotion in songs Frank Sinatra made popular. MNM Theatre Company in West Palm Beach stages a lavish production that will leave you reminiscing. The male cast members offer no impersonations of Ol' Blue Eyes and don't sound like him. However, they, and their female partners, capture the legend's essence.
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Janet McTeer in Bernhardt/Hamlet
Roundabout Theatre Premiere by Theresa Rebeck
By: - Sep 30th, 2018Bernhardt/Hamlet by Theresa Rebeck has arrived at the Roundabout Theatre where it plays in a limited run through November 11. Bernhardt is played by the glorious Janet McTeer, seen as a powerful Nora in Ibsen’s The Doll House and as Albert Nobb's Hubert Page, her Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated role.
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Luigi Pirandello’s Naked
New Translation at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Sep 30th, 2018The avant-garde master and Nobel Prize winner, Luigi Pirandello, was a prolific writer including some 40 plays. Other than the iconic Six Characters in Search of an Author they are rarely produced today. Notably Berkshire Theatre Group is presenting a new translation of the 1922 melodrama (his term) Naked.
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Conrad Tao and Bruckner at NY Philharmonic
Shock and Awe Under Jaap Van Zweden
By: - Sep 30th, 2018Conrad Tao’s world premier composition Everything Must Go was performed by the New York Philharmonic and followed without a breath by Anton Bruckner’s powerful Eighth Symphony.
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Miller Theater Premiers Missy Mazzoli
Proving Up Arrives in New York
By: - Sep 27th, 2018Aware that all art forms now compete with Netflix, composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek seek out stories for their musical theater that will attract audiences. Mazzoli, a masterful young composer, can go very dark in tales because her music, in its blocks of beauty no matter what the subject, is compelling and evocative.
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A Classic Play by Ntozake Shange
African-American Shakespeare Company
By: - Sep 27th, 2018Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf is a work of great moment that gave black women a platform, in some ways a pedestal, from which to denounce their double indignity of racial and gender discrimination and announce their worth and beauty.
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The Agitators at Gloucester Stage
Remarkable Friends Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Beyond their names most folks don't know much about abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, and women's suffrage leader, Susan B. Anthony. The remarkable play, The Agitators, by Mat Smart, offers more than a history lesson at Gloucester Stage. It has been given a compact and powerful production sharply directed by Jacqui Parker.
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Ne Quittez Pas at Opera Philadelphia
Patricia Racette Compels as Elle
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Ne Quittez Pas is writ large on a marquee in a hot neighborhood of Philadelphia. Hold on, it says. Don’t leave. Stay on the line. This is a phrase used repeatedly in the old French telephone service, a main character in the opera to unfold inside the club, Theater of the Living Arts, a disco/nightclub near the harbor.
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Shaw's Arms and the Man
Chicago's City Lit Theater
By: - Sep 26th, 2018City Lit Theater’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play, Arms and the Man, takes full advantage of its broad humor. Perhaps Shaw’s most frothy script, director Brian Pastor directs it with panache, although he sometimes lets his cast drift into silliness.
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Pirandello's Naked
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre,
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Pirandello is best known for his 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author, but he wrote a huge volume of novels and short stories, as well as 20 major plays. Trap Door’s production of Naked is engrossing and sometimes confusing, but Martinovich’s direction is smooth.
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Bess Wohl’s Make Believe
World Premiere at Hartford Stage
By: - Sep 25th, 2018Make Believe has potential but it isn’t ready for prime time. When people start taking peeks at their watches during a 90 minute play, it’s a clear sign that something isn’t working.
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Debra Jo Rupp Romps in The Cake
Geffen Playhouse Bakes Hilarous Comedy
By: - Sep 25th, 2018The Barrington Stage Company production of The Cake has gone West young man to LA's Geffen Playhouse. Now another coast shares the delicious comedy of Debra Jo Rupp. This is a run don't walk production.
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