Theatre
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
At Yale Rep
By: - Oct 26th, 2022Director Bundy and René Augesen and Dan Donohue as Martha and George, manage to convey that these two people – as dysfunctional as their relationship may be – truly and deeply love each other. In other productions this often gets lost in the fighting, obscenities, insults and lies that they hurl at each other. Because of this, the play in this production ends on a more optimistic note.
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Milk and Honey
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida
By: - Oct 25th, 2022The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton has mounted an impressive production of the rarely-produced musical, "Milk and Honey." The production runs through Nov. 6. "Milk and Honey" takes place in early 1960's Israel. The plot focuses on a lover affair, set against the backdrop of Israel trying to gain recognition as an independent nation.
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We, the Innumerable at National Sawdust
Nilofar Nourbakash Captures Iranian Protests
By: - Oct 25th, 2022We The Innumerable is an opera created by the Iranian/American composer Niloufar Nourbakash with libretto by Australian aborigine Lisa Flanigan. Sara Jobin, who is committed to works which bring about peace and global understanding, conducted. National Sawdust staged. The opera tells the story of a woman who protects the truth at all costs It is set during protests in Iran after a contested election in 2009. It echoes in today’s protests.
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Anthony Davis X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
Record Released
By: - Oct 25th, 2022Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning BMOP/sound announced the world premiere recording of the revised version of Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.
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A Nice Family Gathering by Phil Olson
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Oct 23rd, 2022We can often overlook any deeper meaning when seeing a comedic play, but this one actually has a lot to say. It honors selfless mothers; urges the courage to say and do the right things before it is too late; advocates following our dreams; pillories slavish devotion to status symbols; and asks us to better understand those who are near to us.
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42nd Street at Goodspeed
A Timeless Musical
By: - Oct 22nd, 2022The projections and the equipment used – which I’m told were very expensive – by Shawn Duan really helped to create the setting and the locations without taking up room on the stage. I wanted to “ooh” and “aah” at them
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4000 Miles
Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida
By: - Oct 21st, 20224000 Miles is a comedy-drama that nourishes the soul and makes you think. Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida is presenting Amy Herzog's dramedy through Oct. 30.
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Critic Jack Lyons at 91
Covered California Theatre and Film
By: - Oct 19th, 2022We met in Chicago in 2012 as new members of American Theatre Critics Association. Since then critic Jack Lyons and I have shared a decade of theatre. He generously reposted to this site reviews first appearing in Desert Weekly News in Palm Springs, California. At the ripe age of 91 he passed recently. With credits in writing, producing and directing, he was a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild.
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Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason
Produced by San Jose Stage
By: - Oct 18th, 2022Laura Eason’s “Sex With Strangers” explores the concept of public versus private behavior and much more. At first, it seems that this may simply be an amusing story, but the longer it plays, the deeper it gets, exposing many provocative layers, peppered with humor and conflict. San Jose Stage presents a sensationally acted and directed production of this powerhouse two hander.
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6th Berkshire Theatre Awards
Nominees Announced
By: - Oct 17th, 2022The purpose of the BTCA and the Berkshire Theatre Awards is to promote and celebrate the quality and diversity of theatre in the region. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on the evening of November 14 at Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield.
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Death of Classical Presents Nico Muhly's The Street
Live Artists Parker Ramsey, Monica Wyche and Hannah Spierman
By: - Oct 16th, 2022The Street is a triptych of tones and textures created by composer Nico Muhly and writer Alice Goodman. Goodman points out that this is not a libretto. It is a meditation on Christ’s walk up the stations of the cross in Jerusalem on the day he would be crucified by his fellow Jews. Its take is a street scene, and on the streets where we live.
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Jennifer Koh and Davone Tines at BAM
Outsider Voices in an Alien Culture
By: - Oct 14th, 2022Across a crowded room at the Paris Opera, Jennifer Koh and Davóne Tines looked at each other and realized they had something in common, something that was different from everyone else in the room: their color. They have joined forces to bring ther unique stories to a culture they find alien. Everything Rises is presented as part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The play by Simon Levy (who has also adapted two other Fitzgerald novels to play form) follows the book. While there have been other stage versions, this one, written in 2006 seems now to be the standard.
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The Music of Mothers by Victoria Evans Erville
Produced by TheatreF1rst
By: - Oct 14th, 2022The playwright, Victoria Evans Erville, who also directs, dispatches a dizzying number of important social messages and does so in an entertaining and involving manner. The central theme considers the effects of politics Victoria Evans Erville on the two lifelong friends, and while May remains consistent throughout, Ethyl offers more interest as a character because she evolves, and not always in one direction or with consistency, which makes for a more intriguing person and reflects realism.
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Misery
Empire Stage in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 10th, 2022The stage adaptation of "Misery" is running through Oct. 30 in a mesmerizing production through Oct. 30. The play is faithful to the source material, Stephen King's 1987 novel about a romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan. "Misery" takes place in the late 1980's in a small Colorado town.
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Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt
Family Secrets Brilliantly Revealed
By: - Oct 10th, 2022The playwright Tom Stoppdard’s mother, his only connection to his earliest life, born in Czechoslovakia and traveled to Singapore and then to England. She did not discuss her Jewish origins. Growing up in Britain, Stoppard asked her to write the family story. He gave her a beautiful notebook, which she returned. She would scribble the bare outlines in a small cheap exercise book. Now he fleshes the story out on stage in New York.
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Where Locals Eat
Getting Off the Beach
By: - Oct 10th, 2022To find the best, fresh seafood you have to get off the honky-tonk beach and head inland to where the locals dine.
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Experiments in Opera Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Everything for Dawn TV Series Format
By: - Oct 06th, 2022Experiments in Opera is celebrating its tenth anniversary. The statistics for artistic involvement are impressive. EiO has commissioned 85 new works from 55 composers collaborating with over three hundred performers, designers, and directors from the New York City artists community. Now they present opera in TV series format on All Arts.
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4000 Miles
Palm Beach Dramaworks in Southeast Florida
By: - Oct 04th, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in Southeast Florida will open its 2022-23 season with "4000 Miles." The comedy-drama by Amy Herzog was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. PBD's production will run from Oct. 14-30, with preview performances on Oct. 12 and 13.
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The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti
Produced by Livermore Valley Opera
By: - Oct 03rd, 2022Although Donizetti concocted this superficially light-hearted confection, “Elixir” is a serious delight from curtain to curtain, both as an entertainment and as a great work of composition. As we have come to expect, Livermore Valley Opera once again punches above its weight with a totally appealing production that hits all the right notes, literally and figuratively.
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Seascape By Edward Albee
Gamely Directed by Eric Hill for Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 02nd, 2022Leapin Lizards! Berkshire Theatre Group has mounted Seascape Edward Albee's absurdist answer to Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot. Albee, one of America's leading playwrights won a Pulitizer for it (one of three) but it was a flop with critics and audiences. The Broadway run ended after just 65 performances. Hit or miss you can draw your own conclusions based on the production directed by Eric Hill.
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Indecent by Paula Vogel
San Francisco Playhouse and Co-produced with Yiddish Theatre Ensemble,
By: - Oct 01st, 2022The genesis of “Indecent” begins in Warsaw in 1906. Young author Sholem Asch has written a Yiddish play called “God of Vengeance,” which acts as a play-within-a-play in “Indecent,” as scenes from the former appear throughout the latter. Portrayed passionately and with grand gestures by Billy Cohen, Asch entreats other writers to participate in a table reading. After the reading, I. L. Peretz, Warsaw’s most distinguished Yiddish author, tells Asch to burn the play. Despite contentiousness and only a modicum of support, a Yiddish language company produces the play.
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Opera Philadelphia Expands Poe's Raven
Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue with Dance
By: - Sep 29th, 2022Opera Philadelphia and the Obvious Agency present a choreographed Raven, based on Toshio Hosokawa's Monologue. The audience is transported by the fantastic music and dance.
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Renovated Huntington Theatre Reopens
August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
By: - Sep 28th, 2022The Huntington announces the casting and creative team for the highly anticipated revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, directed by Lili-Anne Brown. Wilson’s masterpiece serves as the inaugural production of the newly renovated Huntington Theatre and runs from October 14 – November 13, 2022, with digital access to the filmed performance available until November 27, 2022.
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Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
San Francisco Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2022But, oh, that music. Those haunting melodies and the euphonic lilt of the language produce a signature Russian experience. It should be no surprise that this is currently the world’s most produced Slavic opera, given its many attractions. Happily, it remains in the repertory of San Francisco Opera, which offers a striking and highly enjoyable rendition.
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