Theatre
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage: Three
Defining and Transgressing Boundaries
By: - Nov 06th, 2011In this third installment of a dialogue with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, we discussed the value and impact of reviews and critical dialogues. Is theater more of a life than a profession? What happens when boundaries get blurred?
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The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls
WAM Theatre at Barrington’s Stage Two Through Nov. 20
By: - Nov 05th, 2011Now in only its second season the itinerant WAM Theatre is well received by Berkshire critics and audiences. Currently it is being hosted by Barrington Stage Company on its Stage Two through November 20. The Attic, The Pearls & Three Fine Girls by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer & Marta Ross is directed by Kristen van Ginhoven.
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ArtsEmerson Mabou Mines DollHouse
Six Performances in Boston
By: - Nov 02nd, 2011Boston premiere ends after six performances the 9 year, international run of Mabou Mines DollHouse. A free-wheeling adaption of Henrik Iben's 19th century play A Doll's House makes use of scale to undress power.
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The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
St. Augustine's A Classical Theatre
By: - Nov 01st, 2011From the very opening of play when actress Anne Kraft, comes downstage, front and center, and anxiously tells the audience with great insistence that “This happened on December 30, 2003. You might think that's awhile ago, but you won't when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. That’s what I am here to tell you,†we just know that we are in for an emotional ride. Just how great of a ride we were to find out during the play’s 2 hours (one intermission) as we watched the actress’s body and soul, mind and heart, twist and turn, as she slowly morphs into Everywoman, if not Joan Didion herself.
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Barrington Stage Company Retires Debt to City
Pays Back Pittsfield's $500,000 Loan
By: - Oct 31st, 2011Five years ago the City of Pittsfield loaned $500,000 to Barrington Stage Copmany. Since relocating to the city the company has become financially secure. Artistic director Julianne Boyd announces that BSC has paid back its financial obligation to the city.
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WAM's The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls
Barrington Stage Company Stage 2, Nov. 3-20
By: - Oct 31st, 2011WAM Theatre’s November Production of ‘The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls’ is a comedy collectively written by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross. The production will be the Berkshire Premiere of this Canadian play, which the Ottawa Citizen called ‘a piece of theatre with warmth, humour and irresistible broadness of heart’.
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Chinglish by David Henry Hwang
Lost in Translation
By: - Oct 27th, 2011Tony winning playwright (M Butterfly) returns to Broadway with a comedy, Chinglish, after a successful run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. With no Holywood stars on the marquee, and almost the double the norm of production costs for a non musical, this play will depend on strong reviews and word of mouth for an extended run. It provides an often hilarious escape with a capable and enthusiastic cast.
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Before I Leave You At Huntington Theatre
A Love Story About Second Chances Premieres
By: - Oct 26th, 201172 year old playwright Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro demonstrates that new ideas and creativity are not limited to just the young. Her new play Before I Leave You speaks of love, friendship and disconnection in various funny and sensitive ways. Set at and around Cambridge's Harvard Square, it is a story of academics as flawed members of the human family.
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Sondheim’s Follies on Broadway until January 22
Bernadette Peters and Phyllis Rogers Stone Star in Revival
By: - Oct 25th, 2011From 1971 Follies by Stephen Sondheim with a book by James Goldman is having a successful Broadway revival through January 22, 2012. It has been praised as an American masterpiece. As always Sondheim is demanding and rewarding for attentive audiences.
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Frank Langella Roars in Man and Boy
Revival of Terence Rattigan's 1960s Drama
By: - Oct 18th, 2011In the centennial of his birth there is a revival of interest in the plays of the formerly celebrated Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977). Because of an uncanny resemblance to the downfall of Bernard Madoff an unsuccessful play from 1963 Man and Boy is being restaged as a vehicle for another rip roaring, scorching performance by a larger than life Frank Langella.
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The Mountaintop Topples Martin Luther King
Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Flirt on Broadway
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Veteran screen actor Samuel J. Jackson is making his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop. Jackson has been paired with Hollywood star Angela Bassett. The much anticipated show is well received and appreciated by audiences but has received mixed to negative reviews. Jackson is pitch perfect as Dr. King but Bassett as the maid/ mystery woman is all over the map.
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Playwright Katori Hall Dreams about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capturing the Man As He Was is a Tough Climb
By: - Oct 15th, 2011The surviving members of the King family have made it very difficult to portray Martin Luther King, Jr. as a human. In her play, King says that to fear is to be human. Hall richly portrays King's fears.
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Venus in Fur Finally Reaches Broadway
Nina Ariadna's Rocket Ascent to Marquee Star
By: - Oct 15th, 2011It took some time but a sure hit has finally may its way from rave reviews off Broadway to the Great White Way. Nina Arianda was a graduate student when she first appeared in Venus in Fur. What came between was a Tony nominated role in Born Yesterday. Now her name is in lights.
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Sulayman al-Bassam's The Speaker’s Progress
The Arab Spring Movements at ArtsEmerson Paramount Theatre
By: - Oct 14th, 2011Shakespeare's Twelfth Night adaptation to Arabic, the Speaker's Progress is a 90-minute theatrical performance where direction & acting are laboratories in a state of change & transformation, full of ambiguities & great fluidity. It is a prophetic text preceding the Arab Spring Movements.
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Best of Enemies Returns Through October 16
Riveting Drama at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 09th, 2011By the end of this second run the riveting new drama The Best of Enemies by Mark St. Germain will have sold some 10,000 tickets which is an all time high for a drama presented by Barrington Stage Company. Critics are unanimous that this was the best new play of the Berkshire season. Don't miss out on this too brief second chance.
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Benito Cereno Presented by the Horizon Theater Rep
Woodie King, Jr. Directs
By: - Oct 09th, 2011Woodie King, Jr. directs this marvelous Robert Lowell play at the Flea Theater in New York. King is one of America's great directors and this production is just the latest of wonderful theatrical evenings he has put on.
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War of the Worlds
Shakespeare & Company to Nov. 6
By: - Oct 08th, 2011The bad boy genius Orson Welles scared the crap out of Americans who tuned in late to his Mercury Theatre radio broadcast based on War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. In a play within a play, or broadcast within a broadcast, Shakespeare & Comnpany is re staging that legendary hoax as a spoofy comedic romp.
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Candide Highest Grossing Huntington Musical
Great Production Succeeds Brilliantly At Box Office
By: - Oct 07th, 2011Great box office returns underscore the quality and appeal of the Mary Zimmerman production of Candide at the Huntington Theatre Company. The record for a musical has garnered over $1.5 million dollars. Candide has left audiences amused, entertained and thoughtfully stimulated. Only 12 more performances left.
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Next Fall At SpeakEasy Stage Company
A Gay Relationship Wrestling With Faith and Disbelief
By: - Oct 02nd, 2011Tony Award nominee (2010) Next Fall is a relationship play about a mismatched gay couple. They are conflicted by one's conservative Christianity and the other's cynical disbelief. The drama considers fundamentalist faith versus atheism, and what constitutes love and sin in a contemporary tough world. Perhaps compelling to a gay audience, the play attempts to portray a universal authenticity. Unfortunately, it does not make the case.
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Confessions of a Serial Killer Stars John Malkovich
The Infernal Comedy at ArtsEmerson
By: - Sep 29th, 2011A two night stand is not enough to savor John Malkovich's cleverly diabolical malevolent portrayal of serial killer Jack Unterweger. Based on a true story of the Austrian killer who went on to be a literary celebrity with the publication of his autobiography, Purgatory. This is a theatrical hybrid of parts dramatic chiller, dark humor and orchestral concert. This is a strangely brilliant production. John Malkovich is well, John Malkovich--enough said.
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Eagle Hill Launches Fourth Season
Interview with Director Sean Hunley
By: - Sep 28th, 2011A sit down chat with Eagle Hill's Cultural Center director to discuss the path traveled and the road ahead.
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Laurie Anderson Premieres Delusion
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage
By: - Sep 28th, 2011At Empire's End, Laurie Anderson plays her electric violin amid ghost ships and elves. A virtual collage of beauty and hope, Anderson asks how do we begin, again?
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Brilliant Candide At Huntington Theatre Company
30th Anniversary Begins With Theatrical Electricity
By: - Sep 22nd, 2011Inaugurating its 30th anniversary season, Voltaire's satirical picaresque story with Leonard Bernstein's music has been beautifully presented by the Huntington Theatre Company. This is a full blown show of exquisite pageantry with magnificent singing, musical score, humor, staging and choreography. A true theatrical spectacle, this presentation is a don't miss event.
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Elizabeth Hess in Dust to Dust
Stage Left Studio New York
By: - Sep 21st, 2011Elizabeth Hess first came to the attention of the New York theatre world in the mid-eighties for her portrayal of actress Frances Farmer, in Sebastian Stuart’s incendiary play, The Frances Farmer Story. While the critics panned the play, and the fire department mysteriously closed it – at the time it was rumored to politically be too hot to handle – Hess’s “brave and powerful performance†was singled out by critic Clive Barnes as the evening’s saving grace.
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Big River Runs Through Boston’s Lyric Stage
Going with the Flow of an American Odyssey
By: - Sep 17th, 2011The Lyric Stage Company of Boston opens its season, September 2 through October 8, with a lively and ambitious production of the musical Big River; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on the novel by Mark Twain with music and lyrics by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. On Broadway the musical won seven Tony Awards and ran for 1,005 performances.
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