Theatre
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The Play That Goes Wrong
British Farce Wows Broadway Audiences
By: - Dec 02nd, 2017“The Play That Goes Wrong”, is written by three talented British playwright/actors: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, who are members of the London-based, Mischief Theatre Company. The production is wowing New York audiences at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. Last summer there was a change to an American cast which is every bit as hilarious as the original Brits.
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Junk by Ayad Akhtar
NY's Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center,
By: - Dec 02nd, 2017Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, (“Disgraced”) is back on Broadway with a riveting new play "Junk." Crisply directed by Doug Hughes, the play is a searing indictment of financial perfidy and recklessness and its seeming disdain for the rule of law when ‘it’ comes too close to getting in the way of the art of the all-important deal.
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Bright Star by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
At the Curran Theatre San Francisco
By: - Dec 02nd, 2017While Steve Martin’s comedy work pays the mortgage on the mansion, he plays banjo professionally as well. Collaborating with rock/pop/folk artist Edie Brickell on the acclaimed bluegrass album Love Has Come for You led to the deeper involvement of developing the stage show Bright Star. Inspired by a true 1904 event, the artists created a fiction around the occurrence.
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Book of Mormon National Tour
Mega-Popular Musical in MIami
By: - Nov 30th, 2017The Book of Mormon's messages about belief and religion resonate particularly strongly these days.Triple threat actors on national tour of musical are performing in Miami.
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Sam Shepard's Fool for Love
At The Stage in San Jose
By: - Nov 29th, 2017Fool for Love is one of Sam Shepard's most respected works, and the cast of the San Jose Stage production extracts every bit of meaning and emotion from it.
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42nd Street
Bay Area Musicals in San Francisco
By: - Nov 27th, 2017There are several distinctions that mark this wonderful material. The 1980 stage show is based on the 1933 movie of the same name, which was the seminal film on this topic. As hard as it is to believe, a filmed musical had never been successfully transferred to the stage. This one succeeded wildly with critics, winning the Tony for Best Musical and more.
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Die Walküre at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Christine Goerke Defines Brunhilde
By: - Nov 27th, 2017Everything about the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s second installment in David Pountney's new Ring cycle feels, sounds and looks right. Yet starting with the singing actors’ performances seems only fair. They are superb, one and all. Surely one element of opera under the control of producers is the uniform quality of singing. The Lyric Opera understands this deeply and delivers.
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Becoming Dr. Ruth at Gable Stage
One-woman Show About Sex Therapist
By: - Nov 27th, 2017Famed sex therapist Dr. Ruth warmly welcomes us into her home in an impressive South Florida production. The play by Mark St. Germaine premiered at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield.The Broadway actress Anne O'Sullivan impressively inhabits the role.
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Seniors Visit Broadway
An Annual Visit with ATCA
By: - Nov 26th, 2017Not getting any younger Sandy and Gerry Katz treated themseles to a week at The Row in the heart of NY's theatre district. From there were short cab rides to all the hit shows from Hamilton and Come from Away. They ejoyed events of American Theatre Criics Assocation inncluding the traiditional lunch with the stars at Sardis.
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West Side Story at Disney Hall
LA Philharmonic Provides Live Score
By: - Nov 24th, 2017The theater world was abuzz with West Side Story in the summer of 1957. It was to open on Broadway in the fall, and sure to be a smash hit. That was the word. It was also going to revolutionize musical theater. It did. Now the LA Philharmonic performs the score live as the film rolls on before the audience.
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Black Rider at Shotgun Players
By William S. Burroughs With Music by Tom Waits
By: - Nov 23rd, 2017The play is a riff on Der Freischütz, (The Freeshooter) a Germanic tale made most famous by the seminal German Romantic opera of the same name, composed in 1821 by Carl Maria von Weber. Black Rider is a trip by William S. Burroughs with Music by Tom Waits
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This One’s for the Girls by Dorothy Marcic
St. Luke’s Theatre Off Broadway
By: - Nov 21st, 2017Dorothy Marcic’s This One’s for the Girls evidences the changes in a nostalgic journey through selections from the music catalogue of pop songs performed by women since 1900.
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Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine
Performed by Opera San José
By: - Nov 21st, 2017La Rondine is an outlier in the Puccini canon. If we dismiss his failed first full-length opera Edgar from consideration,
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The Minutes by Tracy Letts
World Premiere at Steppenwolf
By: - Nov 21st, 2017The playwright T racy Letts,, who can be depended upon for complexity, turns a small town city council meeting into a modern morality play. The Minutes is having i ts world Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre.
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HIR near Ft. Lauderdale
Taylor Mac's Outrageous Play at Island City Stage
By: - Nov 20th, 2017Ft. Lauderdale area theater company scores a triumph with its season-opening production of the wacky play HIR. The production is marked by first-rate acting HIR is a meaty play, with suggestions of absurd realism and Greek Tragedy.
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Hannigan and de Leeuw at Park Avenue Armory
Eric Satie's Death of Socrates Performed
By: - Nov 19th, 2017The lights in the corridor outside the Veterans Room in the Park Avenue Armory, dimmed to black and down the hallway proceeded the featured artist, Barbara Hannigan, bearing a candle.
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Love Never Dies in Florida
National Tour of Phantom Sequel
By: - Nov 18th, 2017Memorable music seduces in Love Never Dies. A fine cast is up to the task of singing with flair Andrew Lloyd Webber's soaring songs. The book is not a strong point
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National Sawdust 5 Boroughs Music Fest
New York's Composers a Riot of Song
By: - Nov 17th, 2017In one fell swoop, Jesse Bloomberg, the artistic director for the 5 Boroughs Music Festival, brings together a sampling of composers who are tucked into the nooks and crannies of our city. Assigning them the subject of the city unleashes their spirited take on New York. Songs ranged from poetic evocation to the tiny drama about a struggling barista which was inspired by Monteverdi.
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Alyson Cambridge Sings at The Crypt
William Bolcom's Song Cycle on Sally Hemings
By: - Nov 16th, 2017Composer William Bolcom and librettist Sanda Seaton have drawn a complex and moving picture of Sally Heings in an 18 song cycle. Soprano Alyson Cambridge is Sally and her performances evokes the slave/mistress of Thomas Jefferson.
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The Band's Visit on Broadway
Popular Musical at the Ethel Barrymore
By: - Nov 11th, 2017The Band's Visit restores faith in the goodness of humanity. The new musical adaptation features tender, heartfelt songs. Show is well acted and sung by a talented cast
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Freight with J. Alphonse Nicholson
New Federal and Castillo Theatres Triumphant Team Up
By: - Nov 11th, 2017Howard L. Craft has crafted a superb play in Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green. What was it like to be a young black man in America throughout the 20th century and on into our own? Minstrel, preacher, panther, sub-prime mortgage salesman, Abel Green has tried them all. J. Alphonse Nicholson makes his efforts palpably moving.
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ATCA at Sardi’s
Lunch with Broadway Stars
By: - Nov 10th, 2017A highlight of the American Theatre Critics Association’s New York conference is a now traditional lunch at Sardi’s with stars of current Broadway shows. Cast members of seven shows were represented.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert, (the musical).
Smashing at Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Nov 10th, 2017Musicals are the specialty of the Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) where they are sensationally produced and performed. PCT is now in its twenty-first year of providing quality entertainment to the Coachella Valley, presenting thirteen productions a year that include comedies, dramas, and special events as well as their signature musicals.
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Dominick Argento at Carnegie Hall
New York City Opera Gives Composer a Birthday Bash
By: - Nov 10th, 2017Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Dominick Argento, celebrated his 90th birthday at Carnegie Hall. New York City Opera in its wonderful new incarnation mounted two of the composer's one act monologues in dramatic productions.
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Our Chicago Correspondent Visited New York
Focusing on Off Broadway
By: - Nov 09th, 2017Our correspondant, Nancy Bishop, in NY for the ATCA conference regrets that " I’m a huge Bruce Springsteen fan—I’ve seen him in concert dozens of times, but I thought the tickets to his Springsteen on Broadway show were too expensive. I was able to buy tickets for these off-Broadway plays and pay for dinner as well for the price of one Springsteen ticket." She offers an overview of affordable shows that will be up through the Holidays.
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