Theatre
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Eurydice by Promethean Theatre Ensemble
Sarah Ruhl’s Play Directed by Nicole Hand
By: - Jan 20th, 2017Promethean Theatre Ensemble’s new production of Eurydice, directed by Nicole Hand, is staged in modern dress with a chorus made up of three Stones.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage
Fun In February
By: - Jan 19th, 2017The 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to downtown Pittsfield for the sixth year and features music, theatre, dance, film, visual art, spoken word, comedy and more, including BSC’s 10X10 New Play Festival.
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The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict
Graphic Michel Leeds Play at Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Jan 17th, 2017Writer/director Michael Leeds presents an honest, funny, vivid and unapologetically shameless and bold play “The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict.”
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NY City Opera Revives
Iconic Candide at the Rose Theater
By: - Jan 13th, 2017In the best of all possible worlds, the New York City Opera is alive and well at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center. With Harold Prince at the helm in a production he has mounted for NYCO before, an exuberant romp through Voltaire's classic shows just how live NYCO is in its new incarnation.
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Racine’s Phèdre in Chicago
Trap Door Theatre’s Punky, Funky Production
By: - Jan 12th, 2017Jean Racine was one of the three great 17th century French playwrights, along with Molière and Corneille. He is known mostly for his adaptations of Greek tragedies and wrote Phèdre (inspired by Euripides’ play) in 1677. It’s considered his masterpiece.
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The Most Happy Fella
Breathtaking at Florida's Stage Door Theatre
By: - Jan 10th, 2017Whether “The Most Happy Fella” falls more closely into the realm of musical theater or opera, the show has the necessary ingredients for success. Stage Door Theatre’s breathtaking production offers some of the strongest singing you’ll hear on a stage.
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Chekhov with Cate Blanchett
Andrew Upton Updates Untitled in Four Acts
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Cate Blanchett can do anything, but her Chekhov is unique and apt. Following a triumphant run in Uncle Vanya in 2012, Broadway welcomes her as Anna, in what is probably Chekhov's first play.
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Decline in Theatre and Arts Media Coverage
Matt Windman Panel for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Matt Windman, author of “The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future,” led a panel discussion during the NY ATCA conference on the state of theater criticism in today’s world of social media bloggers and a decreasing number of full-time print theater critics
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Light Up the Night for New Year
Treasure Trove of Songs by the National Yiddish Theater
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Jewish music is often in the minor mode, but the enduring spirit of the people who sing it and live it creates a hopeful and joyous atmosphere.
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Touring Company of 42nd Street
On the Road in Florida
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Current non-equity national tour director Mark Bramble doesn’t disappoint in a mostly commendable production of 42nd Street that played a one-night stand in West Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve. The 16-week touring production will continue at Florida venues until Jan. 6, when it heads north.
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An American in Paris
Road Company in Miami
By: - Dec 29th, 2016“An American in Paris” is a musical composition by George Gershwin, which he referred to as an “extended symphonic tone poem.” The New York Philharmonic commissioned it and the piece soon became one of his most famous compositions. It was inspired by his visit to Paris during the 1920s.
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Avenue Q Lives On in the US
From College Grads to the 99%
By: - Dec 28th, 2016In the beginning, almost a decade and a half ago, target audiences were young people whose lives paralleled those of the characters on stage. Princeton has just graduated from college with an unmarketable BA in English. Kate can't find a job to fulfill her teaching ambitions. Gary Coleman peaked at fifteen and is now a building superintendent. Today these characters can be any one of the 99 % that make up our nation.
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Conor McPherson’s The Weir
Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - Dec 26th, 2016Conor McPherson’s The Weir isn’t your typical Christmas play, but I’ll take it any day over any of the traditional treacly tales that grace our stages this time of year. The play, however, has a Holiday theme.
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My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton
By: - Dec 23rd, 2016While Zimmerman’s show is obviously meant mostly for laughs, there is at least one lesson to learn: In life, perseverance, thick skin and luck can lead to successes that once seemed impossible.
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Sandy on Broadway
No Business Like Show Business
By: - Dec 20th, 2016During the ATCA NY conference Sandy and Gerry Katz saw a bunch of shows on Broadway. She also has terrific travel tips.
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Million Dollar Quartet In Coral Gables
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Dec 20th, 2016The Tony Award winning show,which enjoyed a Broadway run, Million Dollar Quartet, dramatizes a real-life historic jam session between rock stars Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tenn. on Dec. 4, 1956.
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Lucas Hnath’s Play The Christians
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Dec 20th, 2016Lucas Hnath’s play The Christians at Steppenwolf Theatre challenges the belief systems of its characters on stage as well as those of religious and nonreligious audience members.
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Projection and Sound Design in Theatre
Panel During ATCA Critics NY Conference
By: - Dec 17th, 2016“See Me, Hear Me: Innovations and Challenges in Projection and Sound Design," moderated by Martha Wade Steketee, was the toipic of a penel during the New York conference of American Theatre Critics Association. A video of the panel may be viewed at the ATCA website.,
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Promethean Theatre Ensembles
By: - Dec 15th, 2016Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a documentary-style play set in a courtroom. Lest you think that sounds dry, it isn’t. Jamie Bragg stars as Oscar Wilde. Her performance is nuanced and persuasive as the jaunty Oscar in her every word, look, gesture and posture.
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Dear Evan Hansen
Backstory of How the Musical Made Its Way to Broadway
By: - Dec 15th, 2016During a meeting of American Theatre Critics Association in New York there was a panel devoted to the development from page to stage of the recently opened, well reviewed musical Dear Evan Hansen
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Holiday Inn at Roundabout Theatre
The New Irving Berlin Musical
By: - Dec 15th, 2016With a book co-written by Chad Hodge and Gordon Greenberg (he is also the director), Holiday Inn, stuffed with 22 Irving Berlin songs, some standards, others resurrected from the dead, is back on the boards again.
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The Charleston Christmas Special
Yet Again Produced by Brad and Jennifer Moranz
By: - Dec 14th, 2016Brad and Jennifer Moranz want y'all to have a Holly Jolly Christmas and a Happy New Year. For the past 21 years their Charleston Christmas Special has provided Broadway-quality entertainment with the gusto of holiday happiness.
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Jay Presson Allen’s Tru
At Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Dec 13th, 2016Jay Presson Allen’s historical one-man play, “Tru,” which is on stage through Jan. 1 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in a first-rate production, deftly depicts the humanity and resiliency of late celebrity author Truman Capote.
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Beware the Jabberwocky
Holiday Production in North Miami
By: - Dec 13th, 2016“Beware the Jabberwocky” is on stage at North Miami’s Storycrafter Studio, an intimate nonprofit theater company and arts institution, through Dec. 18.
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Icebergs by Alena Smith
A Geffen Playhouse World Premiere
By: - Dec 12th, 2016“Icebergs” is a light, nice, TV sitcom-like play with plenty of laughs. The actors are solid, in their verisimilitude performances, but it’s not like they’re splitting the atom or solving world hunger during this weekend in LA’ Silver Lake District setting
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