Lauren Yee wins award for Emerging Female Playwrights. ATCA/ Primus Foundation recognizes playwright for her use of language. Yee was selected from 26 applicants by critics.

Actors triumphantly illustrate and perform in stage version of award-winning Italian film. Chalk up another success to South Florida's Miami New Drama company.

The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is 105 minutes of fast-paced Brechtian dialogue and gangland-style murders. It is a brutal and not always subtle satire laced with literary and dramatic references, and performed in a highly physical way.

What qualities would you guess are incubators of a talent like Robert LePage's? His Dad was a cab driver. He shared a room with two sisters when his grandmother moved into the already crowded apartment to die with Alzheimer's. Memory obsesses LePage. He struggles to memorize "Speak White", a radical poem which details great class divides. Yet this is LePage and you often find yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as his art takes over his pain.

“Disgraced”, staged and insightfully directed by Joanne Gordon, at CV REP, first premiered in 2011 in Chicago, then transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center, then on to Broadway capturing a Pulitzer Prize for Akhtar. The play was the most produced play in America in 2015.

Joe Rosen, n crucial patron of the arts in New York City, often introduces the work of a composer who should be better known, James Cohn. Like Bartok and Dvorak, Cohn has plucked melodies from America’s folk music, adding distinctly modern disharmony, and yet capturing the rhythms, for instance, of the West.

Cast Shines in Electric Production of "Big River." Ft. Lauderdale Theater Company is Performing "Huck Finn" Stage Adaptation Through April 2. This South Florida production of "Big River" is a winning combination of strong singing and acting

“Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.

Mark Morris does not leave not-well-enough alone. He enlivens Benjamin Britten's Curlew River with instruments on stage as they would be in the Noh drama on which this opera is based. He places the singers in the pit for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. On stage, dancers enact the roles to entrance and also enhance the music. Morris conducts, directs, conceives and pleases along the way.

On a dark and stormy night when many shows were cancelled in New York, young artists who had been prize winners in competitions held by the almost seventy-year-old Concert Artists Guild, performed in the jewel like concert hall, Weill Recital Hall. Their performances radiated warmth and style.

The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."

Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.

In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.

John Adams has close ties to the New York Philharmonic. He was in David Gefffen Hall to hear two works performed. In Absolute Jest a quartet formed by the principal performers of the Philharmonic was embedded, an alien force in their own home.

Kirk Jackson has succinctly directed a production of The Book Club by Karen Zacarias.

The Irish Repertory Theatre knows how to produce terrific plays with stunning actors and telling sets, costumes and lights. The Emperor Jones returns with a new Brutus Jones, Obi Abili. It is a smashing success.

Kings & Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago sets 16 working vintage pinball machines in several galleries with about 30 pieces of art by the pioneers of 1960s and ‘70s Chicago Imagists: Ed Paschke, Karl Wirsum, Suellen Rocca, Ed Flood, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Christine Ramberg, Roger Brown and Ray Yoshida. The connection, of course, is that the artists were influenced in childhood and adolescence by the art of pinball machines and comic books.

After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.

West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series featured the 92-year-old lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick.

Serge Sabarsky was co-founded of the Neue Gallery, one of the most learned and charming places in New York. Cafe Sabarsky offers an Austrian menu. Often you can find cabaraet Artists like Rachelle Garniez performing.

Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.

Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.

The 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.

Love battles evil in Swan Lake and Bluebeard's Castle. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who comes to the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, is a masterful story teller, forging drama and complex pictures in the performance.of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

When the Institute of Contemporary Art opened its waterfront home there were awards for the dramatic design by Diller Scofido and Renfro. Immediately, however, it was obvious that with 65,000 square feet, and just its top floor for exhibitions, there was no plan for expansion and growth. For the next five to ten years the ICA is leasing a 15,000 square foot industrial place in East Boston. Visitors will commute by ferry to the seasonal Watershed which opens in the summer of 2018.