Theatre
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The Drowsy Chaperone in Boca Raton
Send Up of 1920s Musicals in South Florida
By: - Oct 20th, 2017The Drowsy Chaperone offers good ole' escapist fare. Musical lovingly parodies shows from the Prohibition era. The Wick Theatre's production features high-octane, physical comedy and robust singing.
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Gordon Getty Unearths Ghosts
A Pair of Seasonal Operas
By: - Oct 20th, 2017The Center for Contemporary Opera is presenting the premier of a pair of operas by Gordon Getty. One is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The House of Usher. The other, on Oscar Wilde’s sympathetic take on a ghost who cannot die, poor guy.
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Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera
James Morris' 1000th performance at the Met
By: - Oct 18th, 2017Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final, unfinished work. It is a a grand fantasy of legendary China as reimagined through the lens of Italian romanticism. It is a farm tale, the story of an ice-hearted princess and the fearless Prince who wins her hand. It is seen (wrongly) as the end point of the genre of Italian opera. It is also, along with La bohème, the last of the Metropolitan Opera’s giant Franco Zeffirelli productions, crowded extravaganzas that evoke the opulence of a bygone era. (In this case, we’re talking about the 1980s.)
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The Home Place at Irish Repertory Theatre
Brian Friel's Play Directed by Charlotte Moore
By: - Oct 14th, 2017The Last Rose of Summer and Minstrel Boy were written by Irish poet and lyricist Thomas Moore and are at the heart of the Irish soul. Satisfying direction by Charlotte Moore, undoubtedly a descendant, brings the poetry and music home in Brian Friel's "The Home Place."
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The Crucible at Steppenwolf
Miller's Witch Hunt All Too Relevant
By: - Oct 12th, 2017Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Arthur Miller’s 1952 play, skillfully directed by Jonathan Berry, is a chilling allegory of the McCarthy era’s assault on freedom. Staged for the Steppenwolf for Young Adults series, the play pulls no punches in telling the story of guilt and accusation during the Salem witch trials.
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The Sound of Music on National Tour
Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical Stops in South Florida
By: - Oct 11th, 2017A new production of The Sound of Music dusts off the cobwebs from classic musical .A vibrant company performs Rodgers and Hammerstein classic in national tour. Award-winning director Jack O'Brien's new production allows us to rediscover a classic.
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The Song of the Nightingale
Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette California
By: - Oct 10th, 2017The Song of the Nightingale is comprised of numerous clashes – the well being of the poor fishermen who must provide fish for the Emperor’s banquets versus the pleasure of Emperor; the needs of the Emperor’s sister who is the brains behind the administration versus the ego of the Emperor; and the young fisherman Xaio versus the girl that he loves, Mei, who aspires to higher goals and has been lifted from the fishing village to become a maid in the palace.
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Opera at the Apollo
We Shall Not Be Moved Triumphs
By: - Oct 09th, 2017We Shall Not Be Moved opened at the Apollo last weekend. Under the bright lights on the Apollo marquee on 125th Street in Harlem, the gathering crowd was dressed in high fashion, from tinsel and glitter to designer jeans and platform heels. Talk was all of the subject matter and the artists who had created this opera. Bill T. Jones is well-known, but the composer and librettist not so. People were going to see the work of their own community.
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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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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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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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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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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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On Your Feet! in Miami
National Tour of Show About the Estefans
By: - Oct 06th, 2017On Your Feet! opens in main characters' hometown of Miami. An energetic cast sizzles in first national tour of Broadway musical. The show's emotional core is not lost in vibrant dancing, dazzling choreography and spectacle.
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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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The Breathing Hole By Colleen Murphy
Inuit Play at Stratford Festival
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Hardly anyone leaves a performance of Stratford’s The Breathing Hole unaffected.
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Bounce Opens in Lexington, Kentucky
Basketball Opera Comes to Basketball's Home
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Artists committed to the continuing attraction of opera as a form that draws an audience are experimenting. A workshop of Bounce, an opera conceived by Grete Holby and her Ardea Arts in conjunction with the University of Kentucky, is performed in a park in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. With dribbles as drumming and heros like Flight and Future, the future of opera itself is secured. Now this opera goes to the University of Kentucky, collaborators on its creation.
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Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Chicago's Eclectic Theatre at the Athenaeum
By: - Oct 03rd, 2017Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2005 play The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a deliciously irreverent romp through a parade of history and fiction, including Judas’ imagined childhood.
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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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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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Principles of Uncertainty at BAM
John Heginbotham and Maira Kalman
By: - Sep 29th, 2017John Heginbotham of DH Dance wanted to work with Maira Kalman after he read her books. They walked together, drank coffee, talked and decided they'd like to do something. They had no idea what. Jacob's Pillow premiered the result in August. Now it is playing at BAM in Brooklyn.
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As You Like It at Classic Stage
A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
By: - Sep 29th, 2017The Classic Stage Theater is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and Shakespeare seems a natural choice. Classic Stage always has an interesting take on playwrights in their productions. This is reflected as soon as you enter the theater area. For this production, it looks unlike any other production you’ve seen here.
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Composer Librettists Development Program
Lawrence Edelson Celebrates Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2017American Lyric Theater was founded in 2005. Lawrence Edelson, a tenor and stage director, wondered how best to develop national operas. When opera was first introduced to the US was intentionally European and elitist. That formula no longer works. New works are springing up all over the country, and the ALT and its composer librettist programs has trained and launched the careers of many of this generations' composers and librettists. At the heart of their program is a kind of master's degree in opera. It is based on mentorship, which subtly differs from teaching.
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Hand to God, by Robert Askins
At The Stage in San Jose
By: - Sep 26th, 2017Playwright Robert Askins draws on his small town Texas upbringing in the Lutheran Church to craft this tale of perverse adults hiding behind conservative fabric and teens ill-suited to their community.
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In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hip Hop Musical in Rochester
By: - Sep 26th, 2017On opening night, everyone in the theater – from old, expected attendees to first-time youngsters – seemed involved and excited throughout. We are looking at a neighborhood — a single block of New York’s Washington Heights – and we simultaneously observe separate families, shops, households.
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