Theatre
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Grapes of Wrath in Chicago
Gift Theatre Production
By: - Jul 05th, 2016The Gift Theatre’s eloquent new production of The Grapes of Wrath is a story of Dust Bowl migrants during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it bears witness to many of the personal tragedies of today’s ongoing Great Recession.
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Jessica Lange Wins Tony for O'Neill Play
Long Day's Journey Into Night
By: - Jul 04th, 2016The family based Long Day's Journey Into Night is regarded as the masterpiece of Eugene O'Neill. In a Broadway revval now closed Jessica Lange won a Tony Award for the paradigmatic role of the morphine addicted mother Mary Tyrone.
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Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 04th, 2016The powerful drama Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok, having its world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival entails two individuals with disabilities and those who provide care for them. The production will transfer to Manhattan Theatre Club during the coming season. It is an evening of theatre that audiences will never recover from.
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Marisa Tomei in The Rose Tattoo
Williams in Williamstown
By: - Jul 03rd, 2016Based on the casting of Academy Award winner, Marisa Tomei, the production of The Rose Tattoo at Williamstown Theatre Festival is the most anticipated theatre event of the summer season in the Berkshires. For the most part audiences will be thrilled with her perfomance in a sprawling and chaotic production of the Tennessee Williams classic play.
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New York Theatre Workshop's Hadestown
To Hell and Highwater with Anaïs Mitchell
By: - Jul 02nd, 2016A brilliant new take on the Orpheus myth by Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice was the basis of the first opera written in 1600. It has intrigued artists ever since, from Monteverdi to Christoph Willibald Gluck to Jacques Offenbach. Dramatists too have found the tale impossible to resist, Thomas Pynchon, Salmon Rushie and Tennessee William among them. This may be the first time the audience sits in purgatory.
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Ugly Lies the Bone in Lenox
A Searing Play of Renewal at S&Co;.
By: - Jun 28th, 2016Lindsey Ferrentino has written a play weaving the end of the NASA shuttle program with the return of a severely wounded war veteran. As directed by Daniela Varon, the ensemble group of actors, turns in a bravura performance, with Christianna Nelson at its center, as Jess returning from a third tour of Afghanistan.
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Disgraced at Mark Taper Forum
Muslims in America Explored by Ayad Akhtar
By: - Jun 28th, 2016In playwright Ayad Akhtar’s blistering comedy, “Disgraced” he explores the dark underbelly of the politically correct subject matter of anti-semitism and Islamophobia that is simmering just beneath the surface at first only to boil over later on, dragging its five characters into open verbal warfare.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in Stockbridge
Mendacity Prevails at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jun 26th, 2016This summer there will be two Tennessee Williams plays in the Berkshires. The first is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge. It is a great play being given a so so production.
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O'Neill at the Metropolitan Playhouse
Alex Roe Directs the Playwright's First Stammers
By: - Jun 25th, 2016The Metropolitan Playhouse is producing two early Eugene O’Neill plays as part of their season on the topic of Hope. A satisfying evening of theatre makes a trip to the East Village a must for theatre buffs.
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American Son by Christopher Demos-Brown
Black Lives Matter at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 23rd, 2016In a ripped from the headlines, award winning play, American Son having its world premiere at Barrington Stage, the theme that black lives matter is explored with riveting power, The company comissioned the play by Christopher Demos-Brown and is flaunting conventional wisdow by opening the main stage season with something other than the usual light summer fare.
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Fiorello! at Uniciorn Stage in Stockbridge
Political Musical Soars During God Awful Election Year
By: - Jun 21st, 2016Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947)a true man of the people was a study in contradiction. Of Italian and Jewish heritage he was an Episcopalian Republican who was elected Mayor of New York on a fusion ticket. A small, portly, homely man in a rumpled suit he possessed towering charisma. The 1959 Tony and Pulitzer winning musical Fiorello! is being given a compressed and powerful production at Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
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The Maxim Gorki Theater - Berlin, Germany
Small But Look-Out!
By: - Jun 20th, 2016The Maxim Gorki Theater is situated in the center of Berlin, just off the boulevard 'Unter den Linden.' Since 2013, after a change in directors, 'The Gorki ' has again become a most vital forum for current socio-political and humanistic themes and plays. We are discussing here some on the 2016 playlist.
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Kimberly Akimbo at Barrington Stage
Debra Jo Rupp 60 Going on 16
By: - Jun 20th, 2016In Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire, as played by the masterful Debra Jo Rupp, Kimberly, celebrating her sixteenth birthday is about to die of old age. In a superb performance Rupp conflates giddy youth and the world weary wisdom that comes with time and lifde experience.
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Beauty and the Beast
Road Company Visited Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 18th, 2016Pretend we’re on an airplane, because the oxygen mask above will prove beneficial. Certainly it will help you deal with the spectacular, breathtaking special effects of the mostly impressive non-equity national touring version we will see of the beloved Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast.”
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Golem Haunts Charleston
Robotic Presence in Annual Spoleto Festival 2016
By: - Jun 18th, 2016With a reviw of The Golem our Charleston correspondent, Sandy Katz, completes her coverage of the annual Spoleto Festival 2016. The mytical Golem was an exotic and exciting production.
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What's Next for Hamilton Winners
From Broadway Sensation to Years on the Road
By: - Jun 14th, 2016At about $150 each my pal and BFA contributor, Jack Lyons, managed to get a few "cheap seats" for the Broadway smash Hamilton. We even got to go back stage and chat with now Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. Back in November I asked him "what's next." It was a bit premature but all of the original contracts expire this summer. Its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, has already announced plans to leave. The show will continue indefinitly on Broadway while several touring companies are launched.
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Heathers The Musical a Smash Hit
At Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Jun 14th, 2016The lyric “Beautiful” fits right into the musical adaptation of the 1989 cult classic “Heathers” if you look at the heart of the darkly comic, electric, fun show.
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4000 Miles at Magic Carpet Showroom
Amy Herzog's Intriguing Play in Denver
By: - Jun 13th, 2016Every nook and cranny of Denver is packed with terrific theatre. Cherry Creek Theatre makes a carpet showroom its home. Here we get to know Leo and Grandma in Amy Herzog's justly celebrated play, 4000 Miles.
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Sweet and Lucky by Zach Morris
Denver Gives a New Audience Experience
By: - Jun 12th, 2016How can theater reach out to new, young audiences? Brooklyn's Third Rail and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts have come up with one answer: Keep the audience standing and walking. Let the audiences move through a 14,000 square foot set. Keep the audience guessing where they are and what they are looking at. Disorient, move, provoke, satisfy.
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Hauptmann by John Logan in Chicago
Lindbergh Baby Killer Trial at City Lit Theater
By: - Jun 12th, 2016Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the “baby killer,” the man tried, convicted and executed for the 1932 kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby, is vividly personified by George Seegebrecht in City Lit Theater’s new production of Hauptmann by John Logan.
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White Man on a Bus by Bruce Graham
Curious Theatre in Denver Produces
By: - Jun 12th, 2016Curious Theatre in Denver is committed to plays which pack a powerful punch. White Man on a Bus is a knockout, describing the current state of race relations in the US. It is also very good theatre.
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A Gambler's Guide To Dying
Gary McNair's Spoleto Festival Gem
By: - Jun 11th, 2016Our Charleston correspondent, Sandy Katz, continues with coverage of the annual Spoleto Festival. She was completely absorbed by a poignant one-man-show by the Scottish actor and playwright Gary McNair. He narrates as himself telling the tale of his colorful grandfather in A Gambler's Guide To Dying. By the end of the evening she was endeared to a colorful rascal.
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Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler
At North Coast Repertory Theatre in San Diego.
By: - Jun 10th, 2016Long before TV soaps made their debut in America, Henrik Ibsen was scandalizing the patrons of Europe’s theatrical stages with similar themed plays. There’ is no doubt about it. We human beings are a complicated, conflicted, and a fascinating lot. Hedda Gabler has a fresh translation for this lively production.
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Huntington Theatre Company Gets A Reprieve
Theatre To Stay Put on Avenue of the Arts
By: - Jun 09th, 2016After Boston University decided to sell the building in which the Huntington Theatre Company has had its lovely theatre last Fall, there was a great deal of agita and even grief as to what would become of the Huntington. Would the theatre company have to relocate? Would the large structure be torn down for expensive condos? Could the City of Boston help find a development/real estate partner? Like a Deus Ex Machina, Good News has arrived with a happy ending.
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Provincetown Festival to Combine Williams and O'Neill
Annual Theatre Event from September 22 to 25
By: - Jun 09th, 2016We attended the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans which inspired us to participate in TWF in Provincetown in 2015. Both festivals were thrilling in presenting rare and insightful works. For the 2016 festival in Provincetown works by Williams will be paired with plays by Eugene O'Neill. His first works we created and produced by the Provincetown Players. The annual event will occur from September 22 to 25.
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