Theatre
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Superior Donuts Delicious At Lyric Stage Company
Tasty Comedy/Drama Food For Thought
By: - Jan 08th, 2012Set in a shabby Chicago neighborhood, a downtrodden former hippy donut shop owner hires a street-savvy aspiring young writer with hustle and bright ideas. Elegantly directed by Spiro Veloudos, this is a play full of pathos, laughs and compelling characters. Written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of August: Osage County, this drama mixes the challenge of embracing one's past with the redemptive power of friendship. This is a must see and tell your friends comedy/drama.
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Red Masterpiece at SpeakEasy Stage Company
Thomas Derrah Channels Mark Rothko
By: - Jan 08th, 2012Winner of six 2010 Tony Awards including Best Play, Red is a glowing colorful portrait of an artist’s ego, ambition and vulnerability. After he lands the biggest commission in the history of modern art, first generation abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko begins work on a series of large paintings (murals) assisted by a new young artist assistant. What takes place between the two men is a master class on the methods and purpose of art and the dynamic relationship between an artist, his creations and his life purpose.
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Year Ends on High Note for S&Co.
Looking forward to 34Th Season
By: - Jan 04th, 2012With its 34th Performance Season still running until March 25, Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director Tony Simotes announces a strong end to its 2011 performance year on both critical and financial fronts.
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The Pearl Theatre Does Richard II Proud
An Apt Play for Our Times
By: - Dec 19th, 2011Ambition, greed and corruption stalk our lands. But we are not really different from most historical periods. Is this the necessary condition of man? The Pearl production provokes this question in a lively staging.
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Chorus Line Opens Colonial Summer
Great Mix for Berkshire Theatre Group’s Second Season
By: - Dec 10th, 2011For the second season this summer there will be head to head musicals in Pittsfield. Berkshire Theatre Group has announced that A Chorus Line will be presented at the Colonial Theatre. While a few blocks away Barrington Stage will feature Fiddler on the Roof. Both theatre companies have yet to announce their complete summer season of plays and performances.
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Three Pianos At American Repertory Theatre
A Delicious Toast to Franz Schubert and His Music
By: - Dec 08th, 2011Many laughs and a few tears unfold on a wintery night when three musically gifted friends find a copy of Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. Each with a piano and talented trained voices, the trio plays and sings into an often dreamlike reenactment of a Schubertiad—a musical salon often given by the composer and his friends. Butchering of the German language results as they wrestle with fundamental questions about the nature of music, love, and friendship. This OBIE-winning music-theater event wowed New York audiences and critics during a sold-out run. It wows at A.R.T. as well.
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle at Berliner Ensemble
Bertold Brecht - Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
By: - Nov 27th, 2011It's a storied threatre, the Berliner Ensemble! Bertold Brecht premiered his 'Three Penny Opera' there in 1929. He opened with 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' in 1954, when he took over the theatre at Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin. Today's production, presented with a 2011 vision by director Manfred Karge and ensemble, delivered food for thought as it did in 1954.
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Girls Only at the Garner Galleria in Denver
Plus Ca Change But Not Quite La Meme Chose
By: - Nov 25th, 2011In the cabaret venue of the Denver Performing Arts Center, women of all ages gathered to hear and participate in stories about growing up which haven't changed much over the years, but are fresh and achingly funny here.
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Thanksgiving in America Presented at the Denver Arts Center
American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose
By: - Nov 24th, 2011In Denver where the purple mountains majesty rises above the plains, the playwright Richard Montoya takes a satirical but also heart-rending look at American history. This take is based more on Howard Zinn than Sarah Palin.
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Life in Lake Quabbigon Gone Honk
With Apologies to Garrison Keillor
By: - Nov 21st, 2011Where all the artists draw with finer lines, musicians play more melodious chords and cows give sweeter milk. Randy Stevens, she lives just a short piece down the road here, talked some about how some of the darker events in her life have affected her vision and her creations.
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Ain't Misbehavin' At Lyric Stage Company
A Soulful Musical Review In Joyful Harmony
By: - Nov 20th, 2011The special comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging show. The music and performances are rowdy, raunchy, and humorous. With great songs, we are embraced by the various moods of the era reflecting the Harlem Renaissance and Fats Waller's view of life. Through his music, Waller's helps us to experience life as a journey meant for pleasure and play. The joint was jumpin'.
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Captivating Captors at Huntington Theatre
Based on True Story of Capturing Adolph Eichmann
By: - Nov 19th, 2011The World Premiere of Captors at the Huntington Theatre Company is a provocative drama about the capture and immediate aftermath of infamous Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann's captivity. Brilliantly orchestrated to illuminate the interaction between Mossad operatives and fugitive Eichmann as he is attempted to be interrogated. This play wrestles with the issues of good and great evil, the refocus of the world's lens upon the Holocaust and the question of what it means to be a meaningful part of humanity.
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Taylor Made Christmas Carol
Family Holiday at the Colonial Dec. 17-30
By: - Nov 11th, 2011James Taylor and members of his family will appear on stage at the Colonial Theatre is a celebrity update of the annual holiday event. A Christmas Carol will have a limited run of eleven performances from December 17–30 at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. An annual production that previously was performed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, it is a community production that sees friends and neighbors come together – this year for the first time on the Colonial stage.
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Captors at Huntington Theatre
Alan Dershowitz to Speak Nov. 16
By: - Nov 08th, 2011In conjunction with the world premiere of Captors, the Huntington Theatre Company will host a Jewish Community Night featuring Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday, November 16 at the BU Theatre, Avenue of the Arts (264 Huntington Avenue). Captors, by Evan M. Wiener and directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, tells the thrilling true story of the capture of architect of the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann by secret Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960.
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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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