Theatre
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Cry Old Kingdom
New City Players Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Apr 22nd, 2023Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players presents a production of "Cry Old Kingdom." The piece, set during 1960's Haiti, deals with many themes and topics, including art, revolution, and what hope for a better future can look like.
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The Legend of Georgia McBride
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Apr 20th, 2023It was great to see an audience laughing and enjoying themselves at The Legend of Georgia McBride now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, April 30.
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Parade a Revival on Broadway
By Albert Uhry Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
By: - Apr 20th, 2023If Parade doesn’t win the Tony Award for the outstanding revival of a musical, the producers should demand a recount.
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Mandy Patinkin at Barrington Stage
Performs June 27
By: - Apr 18th, 2023Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces that Broadway’s master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to the Boyd-Quinson Stage for one night only on Tuesday, June 27.
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Tosca
Love, Intrigue, Betrayal, Death. It's Opera.
By: - Apr 17th, 2023Tosca has been one of the most performed operas in the world for over a century. There is a good reason for that. Beautiful music delights from curtain rise to fall, starting with the resounding orchestral chords of the Scarpia theme, and punctuated by memorable arias and powerful ensembles. Opera San José offers a beautifully staged and performed rendering that sears with passion.
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Poor Yella Rednecks - Vietgone 2
A Vietnamese Family in Arkansas - Strangers in a Strange Land
By: - Apr 15th, 2023With his highly successful “Vietgone,” playwright Qui Nguyen, told the beginning of his family’s immigrant story, following the fall of Saigon in the Vietnam War. His equally thoughtful and humorous sequel, “Poor Yella Rednecks,” continues the family’s saga. Amusingly, he writes himself in as a character in the play and facetiously disavows to the audience that its characters are real.
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Endgame from the Irish Repertory Livestream
Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson Star
By: - Apr 14th, 2023Endgame livestreamed from the Irish Rep. Samuel Beckett’s Endgame enjoyed a must-see run at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Starring Bill Irwin, the clown and Beckett aficionado, as Clov and John Douglas Thompson as Hamm, here uncharacteristically for Thompson, the “insider.” He is bound to a wheelchair, blind and dependent on painkillers, yet the clear force of the moment. Clov lurches around him
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Honoring Julianne Boyd
The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards
By: - Apr 13th, 2023Barrington Stage Company announces that Founding Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will be honored with The Berkshire Nonprofit Awards Lifetime Achievement Award from The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires, in partnership with The Berkshire Eagle on May 23.
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The Huntington's Coming Season
First by New Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco.
By: - Apr 12th, 2023The Huntington announces its complete lineup for the 23/24 season, featuring an eclectic mix of 7 highly acclaimed shows by a wide variety of diverse artists, the first full season completely programmed by new Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco.
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Refuge
Rolling World Premiere at Theatre Lab in South Florida
By: - Apr 12th, 2023As part of a rolling world premiere, Refuge is running at Theatre Lab in Boca Raton, Fl. in an intense and believable production through April 23. The production features music, magical realism, and puppets. Refuge is about the migration crisis, but does not deal with politics. Rather, it is a piece brimming with humanity.
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Grand Horizons
A New Look on Life Late in Life
By: - Apr 11th, 2023Bill and Nancy have been married for 50 years, and on the surface, they have been happy, or at least content. But when they dispassionately announce their decision to divorce to their visiting adult sons, Brian and Ben, the boys are flabbergasted. As expected, they have questions like “What happened?” but worse, they have answers, like “We can fix this,” as if the breakup could be within their control. And when they finally realize that it could actually happen, it’s “Why couldn’t you get divorced when we finished school, like normal people?”
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A Distinct Society
Cruel Consequences of Misguided Regulations
By: - Apr 10th, 2023Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border between the U.S. and Quebec Province in Canada as a result of a surveying error that occurred before the library was built. A line on the floor designates the border. The playwright has deftly used this real-life anomaly as the crucible for the play’s conflicts. After the Muslim Travel Ban of 2017, a kerfuffle arises as a result of a social media posting which suggests that the library is a good crossborder meeting place. The message is not lost on Muslims, particularly families with members on both sides of the divide.
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Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera
Great Singing Across the Boards
By: - Apr 08th, 2023Richard Strauss preferred to spell the title of his most popular opera: Der Rosencavalier. Although the opera began with conversations between librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Count Kessler, a diplomat, scholar and director of the Cranach-Presse in Weimar, the opera is very much Strauss’s. Kessler promised Hofmannsthal that he could pay for his children’s education with the proceeds from productions. That he did.
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English
Adult Iranians Struggle with Unexpected Social and Cultural Issues Involved in Learning English
By: - Apr 08th, 2023Born to immigrant parents, Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi looks at a part of a global industry that has derived from the ubiquitous nature of English – teaching English to non-native speakers. Calling upon her own heritage to generate a narrative, her incisive dramedy “English” won both the Lucille Lortel and Obie awards for best new play in 2022.
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Prospero's Island
A Compelling Operatic Update of Shakespeare's "The Tempest"
By: - Apr 05th, 2023Composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens's “Prospero’s Island” borrows from the “The Tempest.” But they have moved it a significant measure from the source material. In addition to lyrics in modern American-English vernacular interspersed with poetic accents, a plot update and revision gives the material more contemporary relevance while altering the moral profile of the main character. The result is a riveting chronicle of moral corruption followed by a quest for redemption that is accompanied by equally compelling music, calling on diverse idioms. Although the narrative arc is clearly dramatic, the creators frequently punctuate the proceedings with humorous interludes.
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Blithe Spirit
Fun With Farce And Fantasy
By: - Apr 03rd, 2023The flamboyant bon vivant Noël Coward excelled in many aspects of the performing arts, but he is best remembered today as a playwright who exposed the foibles of English society in several between-the-wars, comedy-of-manners plays. The last of these was “Blithe Spirit.” Many of us, having seen the movie and perhaps productions of the play as well, may wish to pass on seeing this war horse once again. That would be a mistake. City Lights has produced a sparkling rendition that hits the mark on every measure.
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Steinberg/ ATCA New Play Award
2023 Finalists Announced
By: - Mar 29th, 2023The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced the six finalists for the 2023 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. ATCA presents the honor annually. The presentation will take place on May 7 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, Calif as part of the annual Pacific Playwrights Festival.
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Merrily We Roll Along
Sondheim's Checkered Musical Rises Again
By: - Mar 28th, 2023Those familiar with 42nd Street Moon will see how this offering fits the company’s modus operandi. Obviously, it is a musical, and one that calls for a large ensemble, but with limited orchestration and minimal staging, all of which suit the company. But for that, you get Sondheim – witty, and sometimes searing lyrics, creative rhythms, often delivered in patter style, and great music. The music, however, is a little off the composer’s beaten path – a bit more conventional Broadway and a bit less dissonance.
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Art Bath Overflows in New York
Wildly Original Programming Delights
By: - Mar 28th, 2023The producers of Art Bath, who dance together at the Metropolitan Opera, are warm individuals who make inspired selections for programs that range from conventional songs accompanied by live, drawn art to wild Moroccan sintir music which inspires accompanying clapping and ululation in joy.
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Ruthless! The Musical
A Delightful Spoof of Mame, Gypsy, and The Bad Seed
By: - Mar 27th, 2023Send-ups can be tricky, since pastiche, and particularly farce, can wear thin. But “Ruthless! The Musical” pushes all the right buttons, offering a bright script and bouncy music with clever and provocative lyrics. Altarena Playhouse gives it a rousing rendition that is enjoyable from start to finish. The casting and acting are superb, and the creative elements sparkle.
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Endgame at Irish Rep
John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin
By: - Mar 24th, 2023The Irish Rep has mounted a superb production of Samuel Beckett's difficult and riveting Endgame. It features Bill Irwin, know for his Beckett interpretations, and renowned Shakespearean actor John Douglas Thompson. The hit show will be live streamed for its final performances,
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Working Based on Studs Terkel
Modern Theatre Boston
By: - Mar 22nd, 2023WORKING celebrates the everyday laborers who create purpose in their lives by doing their life’s work. Ever wonder what your teacher is really thinking? Does your waiter really want you to, “enjoy your meal”? Witness these often unsung employees take center stage and tell their side of the story.
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August: Osage County
Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida
By: - Mar 22nd, 2023Palm Beach Dramaworks is poised to perform August: Osage County. The production runs from March 31 thru April 16. Playwright Tracey Letts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County. The director and a cast member say that despite its three-plus hours, the play flies by.
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The Art of Burning
Riff on Medea At Hartford Stage
By: - Mar 21st, 2023Though The Art of Burning is described as a comedy, it is really a drama centering on Patricia (Patti) who is about to be divorced from Jason, after a many year marriage (they have a 16-year-old daughter).
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Oliver!
Maltz Jupiter Theatre in South Florida
By: - Mar 18th, 2023Maltz Jupiter Theatre triumphs with its production of the infrequently produced musical, "Oliver!" This production is the company's largest yet. Maltz's production runs through April 2.
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