Theatre
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American Theatre Critics Association Honors Yusseff El Guindi
Ken LaZebnik and A. Rey Pamatmat Also Honored
By: - Apr 01st, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association has named Yussef El Guindi’s Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, winner of the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2012. The Steinberg/ATCA recognizes the best American scripts that premiered professionally the previous year outside New York City.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Schedule of Summer Program
By: - Mar 29th, 2012Highlights include comedic evenings with the Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music (July 14) and Freddie Roman's Friars Club Comedy Festival (July 15), performances by legendary modern dance troupes MOMIX (July 6 and 7) and Paul Taylor Dance Company (July 26, 27, and 28), musical concerts by Tony winner Faith Prince (July 21), Kennedy Center Honors recipient Barbara Cook and Grammy nominee John Pizzarelli (August 4), and by Grammy Award winners Judy Collins and Jimmy Webb (August 26)
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Barrington Stage Company Calendar
Performances and Events Day by Day Through October
By: - Mar 27th, 2012The season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield kicks off on May 23 and stretches through October. This is a cheat sheet to mark your calendar. Here is a day by day break down of the entire theatre season.
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Ain Gordon at Mass MoCA April 28
Not What Happened
By: - Mar 26th, 2012After a weeklong residency, writer, director, and actor Ain Gordon will present his new contemporary theatre piece Not What Happened on Saturday, April 28, at 8 PM in MASS MoCA'S Hunter Center, as part of MASS MoCA's series of work-in-progress showings. Gordon's work, which The New York Times calls "smart" and characterized by "genuine emotion", investigates the notion of place as it relates to forgotten histories.
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Ethan Lipton's No Place to Go
Joe's Pub at New York's Public Theater
By: - Mar 24th, 2012Currently drawing crowds at Joe’s Pub in NY's Public Theatrer due to good reviews, word of mouth, and what appears to be a cult following is Ethan Lipton’s and his 3 piece orchestra’s (saxophone, guitar, and bass) musical journey No Place To Go. Lipton brings to mind the plaintive lyrics of Leonard Cohen, as well as Pete Seeger.
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Rinde Eckert Creates Melville's Great Whale
A Classic Opera out of Pittsfield into New York
By: - Mar 22nd, 2012Rinde Eckert is an extraordinary artist, a writer, composer, singer, actor. Just name his talent. A testament to the creative process, and to the tentative triumph of love over hate.
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The Lyons Previews Start April 5
Transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre
By: - Mar 21st, 2012Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS -- a critical and popular success when it debuted last fall at Vineyard Theatre -- transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre (138 W. 48 St.) with its entire original cast intact, including the Tony Award-winning stars Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, along with Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley and Gregory Wooddell. The Vineyard Theatre production of THE LYONS will be presented on Broadway by producer Kathleen K. Johnson. Mark Brokaw directs.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Legacy of Blues Women of the 1920s
By: - Mar 20th, 2012The formidable August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom isn't really about the legendary blues woman of the 1920s and her music. The erastz recording session is a trope for Wilson's views of social and cultural issues of the 1920s in a cycle of ten plays representing ten decades. All of which have been produced by the Huntington Theatre Company.
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Next to Normal at SpeakEasy Extended to April 22
2010 Pulitizer Prize Drama in Boston Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2012In 2010, the deep and dark musical Next to Normal, with music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While a stunning work of literature, it would seem to be a hard sell for audiences for whom the notion of musical implies a light and easy, tuneful evening of song and dance. The stunning and galvanic production at SpeakEasy Stage Company brilliantly and inventively directed by Paul Diagneault with prodigious music direction by Nicholas James Connell was anything but that.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
First Play Brilliantly Completes Huntington's Cycle
By: - Mar 17th, 2012With wonderful performances, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of the 10 play Cycle by playwright August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of the 20th Century African-American experience. Set in Chicago in the 1920s, it is an ambitious discourse about race, art, God and religion along with exploitation of black recording artists. This fact based drama is brilliantly performed and produced-- a must see.
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Berkshire Actor’s Theatre 2012 Season
Auditions for Doubt Slated for March 17
By: - Mar 10th, 2012The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley, both performed at Berkshire Museum. The season will open June 21 with Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. Opening one week later will be a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone, which will be performed in repertory with Doubt: A Parable.
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Tony Award Winning Musical Avenue Q
1000th Perofrmance at New World Stages March 14
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The Tony Award winning musical AVENUE Q -- which played a triumphant 6-year run on Broadway before moving to New World Stages over two years ago -- will celebrate its 1000th performance at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) on Wednesday, March 14. On that date, AVENUE Q will reach a combined total number of 3, 534 performances -- 2,534 on Broadway and 1000 at New World Stages -- placing the show in the company of such beloved, long-running musicals from the past as 42ND STREET (3,486), GREASE (3,388) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (3,242).
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2012
Season Program
By: - Mar 08th, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group announces programming for Summer 2012. BTG’s Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.
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Barrington Stage Adds Four Associate Artists
Darren R. Cohen, Mark H. Dold, Debra Jo Rupp, and Renee Lutz.
By: - Mar 07th, 2012Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces four new Associate Artists. Formed in 2010, the Associate Artists Program’s inaugural honorees were composer/lyricist William Finn, actor/director Christopher Innvar and playwright Mark St. Germain. This year’s new Associate Artists are music director Darren R. Cohen, actors Mark H. Dold and Debra Jo Rupp, and production stage manager Renee Lutz.
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Obama 44 by Mario Fratti Off Broadway
La MaMa World-Premiere March 29
By: - Mar 06th, 2012La MaMa will present the world-premiere of Mario Fratti's newest play, OBAMA 44, with performances starting March 29, 2012 prior to an official press opening April 1 at La MaMa (74 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Directed by Wayne Maugans, the cast of OBAMA 44 includes Rob Sedgwick, Julia Motyka, Dennis Ostermaier, Thomas Poarch and Richard Ugino.
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24Hour Project by WAM Theatre and MOPCO
April 14 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Mar 06th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project brings together playwrights, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians and actors from both the Berkshires and the Capital Region armed with the common task of mounting 5 new short works by female playwrights; all written, rehearsed and performed in 24 Hours.
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Calixto Bieito Brings Camino Real to Chicago
A Provocative Williams at the Goodman Theater
By: - Mar 06th, 2012What was Williams thinking and feeling is the first question a director like Calixto Bieito asks. And he is not afraid to go where the answers lead him. A sad and yet exhilarating production of Camino Real at the Goodman.
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Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg
NY's Barefoot Theatre Company April 20 to May 20
By: - Mar 01st, 2012Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world-premiere of Rivka Beekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Friday, April 27 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.
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Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project
Patricia Buckley's Evolution March 13 to 24
By: - Feb 29th, 2012Cherry Lane Theatre's award-winning MENTOR PROJECT will continue its 13th season with a production of EVOLUTION, written and performed by Patricia Buckley, directed Michele Chivu and mentored Jean-Claude van Itallie with performances scheduled March 13 through March 24 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street in Manhattan), where the 2012 MENTOR PROJECT is in residence through April 14.
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Just Sex by Brandt Johnson March 22 to April 15
Theatre for the New City, NYC
By: - Feb 29th, 2012Following its acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this season as part of Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival, playwright Brandt Johnson’s JUST SEX will return to Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue) for a limited Off-Broadway engagement. Preview performances of JUST SEX begin March 22 prior to an official press opening of March 27
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John Douglas Thompson in WTF Reading at the Clark
Richard Wilbur's Translation of The Misanthrope
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The two time Pulitzer honored translator of Moliere, Richard Wilbur, was present for a reading of The Misanthrope at the Clark Art Institute. The Williamstown Theatre Festival event, sponsored by the Williams Inn, was a benefit for the Williamstown based charity Higher Ground. We discussed the presentation and Moliere with John Douglas Thompson who portrayed Alceste.
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Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Award
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) Finalists
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2011. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques, will be presented March 31.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012
Oscar Wilde in Witness Protection
By: - Feb 28th, 2012Yes, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as announced today, will open its season on the Main Stage with a perennially witty The Importance of Being Earnest. But no, this comedy will not play on the current mania for all things Downton Abbey. Rather, think Sopranos. Seems some Joisey boys are on the lam in the Berkshires. It will run head to head with Blythe Danner in a new work in the smaller Nikos Stage. The fun begins on June 26.
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Dennis Lehane's Coronado in Denver
Mysterious Heartbreaks, Murder and Mayhem Lehane Style
By: - Feb 27th, 2012Dennis Lehane is a well-known Massachusetts novelist whose books are often made into movies like Mystic River. This is his first play and is based on several short stories. At the Firehouse Theater in Denver the play received its regional premier.
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Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Germinal
Remembering the Days Before Stonewall
By: - Feb 25th, 2012Gary Oldman, nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, once played Joe Orton in the great film, Prick up Your Ears. Orton's partner and murderer had suggested the title for a film Orton was writing for the Beatles, but Orton thought the title too good. No question when you hear Orton done well, as it is in Denver, you prick up your ears.
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