Theatre
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Experiments in Opera Presents Anthony Braxton
Feisty Opera Company Improvises at The Brick
By: - Jun 18th, 2023In 1999, Anthony Braxton caught the performance of an Improv group at Wesleyan College where he has taught for twenty-three years. Among its members was Lin Manuel Miranda. He picked a trooper and asked him to do an improvisation with him. The duo, collaborating on compositions 279 to 283, was the inspiration for this funny, hip and moving improv designed by Experiments in Opera (EiO).
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San Francisco Opera 100th Anniversary Concert
America's Third Oldest Opera Company Celebrates Its First Century
By: - Jun 18th, 2023San Francisco Opera celebrated its centenary at War Memorial Opera House with a grand concert of 21 operatic pieces, performed by 15 principals and the company’s orchestra and chorus. Artistic Director Eun Sun Kim, past Artistic Director Donald Runnicles, and past Principal Guest Conductor Patrick Summers shared the baton. Matthew Shilvock, only the seventh General Director of the company, hosted the glorious event.
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Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress
Closing the Hartford Stage Season
By: - Jun 16th, 2023Trouble in Mind, at Hartford Stage, was written in the mid-50s. It was the first full-length play by Alice Childress whose career encompassed acting and writing both plays and novels. The play deals with topics that are major points of discussion today both in our society and the theatrical world: representation, authenticity, sexism, and workplace bullying
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The Doctor at Park Avenue Armory
Is it Possible to Function in Fully Human Mode
By: - Jun 16th, 2023Arthur `Schnitzler's play "Professor Bernhardi" has been completely rewritten by director Robert Icke, who takes the action from 1900 Vienna to present-day Britain. Now called "The Doctor", it was a smash hit in London and is running until August 19th at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
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Love All at the La Jolla Playhouse
Billie Jean King Wins This Match
By: - Jun 15th, 2023Love All, a new play by Anna Deavere Smith and directed by Marc Bruni, is running at the La Jolla Playhouse through July 2. 'Love all' is the score of a tennis match before it starts. It is a word used often during the course of a game. It means zero. And that is what athletes were making when Billie Jean Moffit (later King) started playing tennis. She also loved men and women.
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El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Two Modern Artists Fictionalized in an Opera with an Orpheus-like Story.
By: - Jun 15th, 2023Composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s special compassion for Frida Kahlo may derive from their shared experience. Cuban-born, Pulitzer Prize winning (“Anna in the Tropics”) playwright Nilo Cruz provides the literate libretto. Wishing to integrate aspects of Mexican culture into the story in a magical realism fashion, he builds the narrative around the culturally significant Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and Aztec mythology.
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Tennessee Williams: Science Fiction and Fantasy
18th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
By: - Jun 14th, 2023The 18th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival announces its September program titled Tennessee Williams: Science Fiction and Fantasy. Over four days, in venues throughout the town, the Festival will share Williams’ lifelong fascination with science fiction and fantasy by presenting performances of plays, short stories and unfinished works by Williams. 2023 will feature the return of the Festival’s popular “Hotel Plays” where audiences, moving from one hotel room to the next, are treated to several short works by Williams.
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Treat Williams Performed for Berkshire Theatre Group
In 2013 We Discussed Lion in Winter
By: - Jun 13th, 2023Treat Williams, the actor known for his roles in the movies “Hair” and “Deep Rising” and the TV show “Everwood,” has died. He was 71. A S.U.V. crashed into his motorcycle in Dorset, Vt. He was 71. We spoke with him in 2013 following a performance as King Henry in “Lion in Winter.”
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Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss's Lush Music, Captivating Fairy Tale Story, and Pop Art Scenery.
By: - Jun 12th, 2023The Empress faces Sophie’s choice. Either decision - to accept or reject the shadow - could leave blood on her hands. High drama occurs with real or perceived betrayals and threats of killing, but since nobody dies, some would characterize “Die Frau” as a comedy!
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Webster’s Bitch by Jacqueline Bircher
At Playhouse on Park
By: - Jun 10th, 2023The world premiere play by Jacqueline Bircher attempts to deal with arbitrariness as well as the continual change in language and meaning, the politicization of language, and what is called “cancel culture.” It is a lot to ask one play to handle.
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The Wizard of Oz
A Fanciful Stage Adaptation of an American Movie Classic
By: - Jun 09th, 2023L. Frank Baum’s beloved “The Wizard of Oz” has become an American touchstone and introduced a bevy of memes and tropes that define our narrative. While it is easy to sit back and enjoy it as an entertaining pastime, in its richness, it is also a fable of the American spirit. Dorothy, despite being young and female, represents the prototypical hero on an odyssey, a quest to find her way home after defeating the odds, aided by trusty sidekicks she has met along the way. Together, using brains and hearts and courage, they conquer fears and earn their way to becoming what they had aspired to be.
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On Golden Pond
Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jun 09th, 2023You may recall the 1981 movie that starred Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn with Jane Fonda playing the daughter. The 1979 play by Ernest Thompson (he also wrote the screenplay) can be sentimental and predictable. But with Naughton and Dillon in the leads, you will be willing to suspend your critical judgment about the play.
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Madame Butterfly
At War Memorial Opera House San Francisco
By: - Jun 08th, 2023“Madame Butterfly” integrates the best of the earlier "La Boheme" and "Tosca" and overlays pentatonic scale Japanese folk melodies to add a whole new dimension to the score. The popularity of this beautiful and exotic wonder should be no surprise. San Francisco Opera’s wonderous creative and visually striking production is led by four powerful singers - Karah Son, Michael Fabiano, Hyona Kim, and Lucas Meachem.
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Lucia di Lammermoor at Deutsch Opera
One of Three Choices
By: - Jun 08th, 2023A charming throwback, or, The High School Musical version, of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Deutsch Oper, Berlin
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Parade Returns to Broadway
Rave Reviews and Sell Out Crowds
By: - Jun 07th, 2023Alfred Uhry’s musical Parade, co-conceived by Hal Prince with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, is now playing to sell-out crowds and rave reviews, and back on Broadway after 25 years (for a limited run through Sunday, August 6) at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City.
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Soul Doctor
One day only nationwide screening upcoming
By: - Jun 06th, 2023"Soul Doctor," a film about the unlikely relationship between an Orthodox rabbi and a musical/Civil Rights icon, will be shown at movie theaters nationwide on Tuesday, June 13. Nina Simone introduced Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach to Soul and Gospel music, which influenced the kind of Jewish music that he composed. Taping of the film took place in Israel five years after the original Broadway production of Soul Doctor opened in New York in 2008.
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Master of Puppets
World Premiere at Legacy Theater
By: - Jun 06th, 2023Master of Puppets suffers from problems that afflict many new works. It doesn’t know what it wants to be or what it wants to say. Is it a comedy? Satire? A thriller? It tries to be all of these, which results in uneven shifts in tone.
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A Soldier's Play
Murder, Mystery, and Racism on the Home Front During World War II
By: - Jun 05th, 2023In 1944, African-American military units were always commanded by white officers, with black non-coms, and enlisted men, reflecting the plantation structure that preceded it by a century and more. This organization represents the natural order to Captain Charles Taylor, a West Point grad, who happily manages and cajoles a platoon comprised of talented black baseball players who will get to play the Yankees if they continue to win all of their games. To this day, a common condition persists, that racists like Taylor often carve out exceptions to allow minority peoples to reflect glory on their white overlords.
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Curtis Stewart Erupts at Merkin Hall
Kaufman Music Center Produces Ecstatic Music
By: - Jun 04th, 2023Curtis Stewart is a man for all seasons. He took over Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Center this week. When you hear him, you know that Nietzsche was right: without music, life would be a mistake.
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The Shining - an Opera
Horror is Added to the Traditional Operatic Themes of Love, Conflict, and Death
By: - Jun 03rd, 2023Jack Torrance, an unstable recovering alcoholic and unsuccessful writer, hires on as caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies during its off-season. He hopes that the seclusion will not only give him undistracted time for writing but also allow him to rebuild his relationships with his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny. What the parents don’t realize is that Danny possesses “the shining,” which is the psychic ability of clairvoyance. This attribute will allow the boy to see the hotel’s sordid past and set the stage for the horrors to come.
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The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman
At ACT-CT in Ridgefield
By: - May 31st, 2023The show is based on the novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which was turned into a fine film in 1993 and a more recent film in 2020. The young adult book, as it would now be described, was written in 1911.
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Flying Dutchman Transports at the Met Opera
Francois Girard in Top Form as Producer
By: - May 31st, 2023The new Flying Dutchman at the Metropolitan Opera transports. Grounded shortly after its debut as the pandemic erupted in March of 2020, the cast has changed. Like many of the Met's new productions, singing is excellent across the board and gives great pleasure.
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Topdog/Underdog
Pulitzer Prize-winning Play at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 30th, 2023Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the failure of the Amrerican Dream. A top-notch production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs through June 11 at South Florida's Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach. .
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Playwright Mark St Germain
Anthony Hopkins to Star in Freud's Last Session
By: - May 29th, 2023Many of Mark St Germain's plays have premiered at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. One of his most successful was Freud's Last Session with some 200 global productions. Recently he discussed how the play is being filmed in Ireland starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. He also spoke about his new play The Happiest Man on Earth which is having its world premiere at BSC.
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The Happiest Man on Earth by Mark St. Germain
Back by Popular Demand at Barrington Stage Company
By: - May 29th, 2023By popular demand Barrington Stage Company brings back a world premiere by Mark St Germain on the stage that bears his name. The Happiest Man on Earth is a one-man show based on the holocaust memoir The Happiest Man on Earth published by Eddie Jaku when he was one hundred years old. It is profoundly performed by Kenneth Tigar.
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