Theatre
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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
Annenberg Theatre, Palm Springs
By: - Feb 15th, 2017Insightfully written by Richard Alfieri, and inventively directed by Larry Raben, “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks”, at the Annenberg Theatre, Palm Springs, stars Loretta Swit as Lily and David Engle as Michael.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2017
Million Dollar Quartet and Music Man on Tap
By: - Feb 16th, 2017BTG is expanding its 2017 summer festival offerings, including The Music Man and the Million Dollar Quartet, Arsenic and Old Lace, as well as two productions by playwrights, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo (Zoo story) and David Auburn's Lost Lake.
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Huntington Theatre Company 2017-2018
Extensive Upgrade of Site and Services
By: - Mar 08th, 2017The 36th season will include four plays at the Huntington Avenue Theatre, as well as three plays at the Wimberly Theatre and one special event in the Roberts Studio Theatre, both located in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End.
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Newsies: The Broadway Musical in Movie Theaters
Filmed Performance of Tony-Award Winning Musical
By: - Feb 21st, 2017In the Disney musical hit “Newsies,” which is based on a true story, the hated man is newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who jacked up the price for newsboys to buy the very papers they were to sell.
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The Spitfire Grill a Musical Dramedy
North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Jun 09th, 2017The current North Coast Repertory Theatre revival production of “The Spitfire Grill”, a musical dramedy written by James Valcq and Fred Alley with music by Valcq and lyrics by Alley, is a shining example of the power some ‘outsiders’ can bring to the table or to a community if just given a chance.
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A Legendary Romance in Williamstown
Music and Lyrics, Geoff Morrow, Book, Timothy Prager
By: - Aug 06th, 2017This is the second producton of the musical A Legendary Romance with music and lyrics, Geoff Morrow, book by Timothy Prager. While it needs more work, the norm for musicals, starring Jeff McCarthy and Lora Lee Gayer it is the best work we have seen this season from Wiliamstown Theatre Festival. It is a tragic love story set to music about lives and careers ruined during the 1950s when Holywood was on trial for its alleged communism.
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Shorts Gone Wild in South Florida
Annual Short Play Festival at times a hoot
By: - Aug 22nd, 2017Audiences choose the order of the plays in annual "Shorts" festival. Actors bring comic energy to roles in production of popular theatrical event. Relevance not hard to spot in largely-escapist shows
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Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Douglas Morrisson Theatre
By: - Aug 30th, 2017The play is set in 1941 and to an extent is time-bound. Older patrons and history buffs might better understand some references to Judith Anderson, 'Hellzapoppin', and Teddy Roosevelt's life. More so, a running gag in the script suggests that the menacing Jonathan looks a lot like Boris Karloff. The original Broadway production had a distinct advantage on this point as Karloff was cast as Jonathan.
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Noni Stapleton at 59E59 Theater
Turn de Force One Woman Quartet
By: - Sep 01st, 2017Noni Stapleton is a mesmerizing artist. Her writing gifts launch the characterization of a quartet of characters at 59E59 Theaters. Stapleton plays three humans and a charming, and then not so charming cow. You can't take your eyes off her.
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Ivan Fischer's Don Giovanni
Mozart at his Most Sublime
By: - Aug 20th, 2017Ivan Fischer, the great Hungarian conductor, returns to Mozart's original version of Don Giovanni. Putting on a production from the Don's point of view, everything is a body. Furniture, peasants, chorus all are wearing white body suits and often strike arresting poses. This concept invites us to listen more closely to the terrific Budapest Festival Orchestra and the singers.
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This by Melissa James Gibson
Theatrical Thirty-Something Sitcom at Barrington Stage
By: - Aug 07th, 2017Moving on from an endemic fixations with plays about milennials Barrington Stage has progressed by a generation with This by Melissa James Gibson. The focus is on the trials and tribulations of friends who met in college. Add to this a dark and sexy stranger in a French doctor without borders,
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Informed Consent in South Florida
Play Pitting Science vs. Religion in Coral Gables
By: - Aug 08th, 2017Issue-packed, yet taut play receives strong production at suburban Miami's GableStage. Informed Consent is unsettling, but is leavened with humor and optimism. Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer directs a talented quintent of performers in a riveting production of her play.
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Hannah and the Dread Gazebo by Jiehae Park
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Aug 08th, 2017Jiehae Park’s innovative and fast moving world premiere play, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, touches on a dizzying number of themes including familial relationships, aspirations, wishes, creation mythology, international relations, cross-culturalism, and even a humorous twist on racism.
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Actually at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Maat the Ancient Egyptian Feather of Truth
By: - Aug 14th, 2017At the end of a night of binge drinking the Princetown freshmen Tom (Joshua Boone) and Amber (Alexandre Socha) hook up. In the clear night of morning was she raped?. They were so drunk that neither can recall details. It is up to a review panel of faculty to hear both sides and decide on appropriate action. It is a poignant and timely issue as lives are in the balance on college campuses all over America.
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Company by Stephen Sondheim
Stunning Revival at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2017This season Julianne Boyd has taken another crack at Sondheim's Company and critics appear to be unanimous that a sensational production is on the short list of her best work. She is noted for loving musicals and this one is a corker.
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Broken Box Mime Theater in Bennington
Brooklyn Based Ensemble on Tap
By: - Aug 15th, 2017Award-wining ensemble, Broken Box Mime Theater will host an Open Studio Share at the Bennington Center for the Arts on Sunday, August 27 at the conclusion of a week-long residency
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Neil Simon Comedy at North Coast Rep Theatre
By: - Sep 15th, 2017North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) artistic director David Ellenstein’s selection of “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers”, is a definite winner in kicking off its 36th season. It’s one of Simon’s best comedies. Deftly directed by Christopher Williams, the four person cast takes to this play like ducks to water.
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Lost Lake by David Auburn
Two Hander at BTG’s Unicorn Theatre
By: - Oct 02nd, 2017The shoulder season play Lost Lake, by Tony and Pulitzer winner, David Auburn, is an enthralling and richly rewarding two hander. It would be difficult to image a more finely nuanced production of a skillful and clever play.
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An Octoroon Near Miami
Florida Premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Play
By: - Oct 02nd, 2017Area stage Company shines in satire about race as An Octoroon's cast finds the right mixture of over-the-top theatricality and nuance. This unique play by an award-winning playwright is entertaining, yet disturbing.
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Barrington Stage Announces Two Musicals for 2018
World Premiere of The Royal Family of Broadway & West Side Story
By: - Oct 05th, 2017It's not yet Holiday season and Barrington Stage is first out of the get with booking for the 2018 season It annouices. the world premiere of The Royal Family of Broadway, a new musical comedy based on The Royal Family by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber, by the Tony Award winning creators of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; and West Side Story, in honor of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbin’s 100th birthdays.
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Rome Neal as Thelonious Monk
Laurence Holder's Play Captures the Jazz Icon
By: - Oct 07th, 2017Laurence Holder’s iconic one man show Monk brings the jazz legend life to the stage. Rome Neal, actor and director, becomes Thelonious Monk, and for 90 minutes we move through the defeats and triumph’s of the man’s work, life and artistic era.
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Musical Redemption: Huntington's Merrily We Roll Along
Stephen Sondheim Musical Initially Considered a Flop.
By: - Oct 07th, 2017One of the more obscure of Sondheim's musical, the Huntington Theatre Company's terrific production underscore's its vitality and quality. Director Maria Friedman’s stunning London production of Merrily We Roll Along received universal rave reviews – the most five star reviews in West End history as well as the Olivier Award for Best Musical. Now she has recreated it for Boston audiences. Travelling backwards in time over 20 years in the entertainment business, this musical focuses on the relationships of close friends Franklin, Charley, and Mary, and features some of Sondheim’s most memorable songs, including “Good Thing Going,” “Old Friends,” and “Not a Day Goes By." Seeing the show is like an old friend remembered.
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Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton at Barrington Stage
Illuminating Vintage Psychological Thriller
By: - Oct 09th, 2017For community and school based fall programming Barrington Stage has revised the 1938 Patrick Hamilton play Gaslight. It's best know for its second of two film versions in 1944 which starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton and the ingenue, Angela Lansberry as the frisky maid Nancy. The Barrington production, while well cast and crafted, given the zeitgeist and setting of the 1880s, is dark, somber and drab.
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Crossing at BAM
Whitman Focus of Composer Matthew Aucoin
By: - Oct 08th, 2017Crossing premiered at ART in Cambridge, Mass. in 2015. Now it comes to BAM as part of the Next Wave Festival.
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The Humans In Suburban Miami
Tony Award-Winning Play at GableStage
By: - Oct 09th, 2017One can't overstate The Humans relevance to modern times. Stephen Karam's play is humorous, heartbreaking and creepy. The cast offers multi-dimensional performances in a first-rate production.
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