Theatre
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Fefu & Her Friends
A Thinking Cap Theatre production
By: - Jun 10th, 2022Thinking Cap Theatre, based in South Florida, has mounted a strong production of the classic play, Fefu & Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes. The mostly plotless play is an absurdist piece featuring eight female characters. Fefu & Her Friends touches on themes such as female relationships, insanity, and gender roles.
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Hadestown Produced by Broadway SF
Plays at the Orpheum Theatre
By: - Jun 10th, 2022From this play’s outset, it is clear that “Hadestown” will have a distinctive style. Although the musical’s auteur, Anaïs Mitchell, comes from the folk world, she developed a unique musical amalgam for the show with elements from blues, jazz, and pop in addition to folk. Her orchestration is as unexpected as it is brilliant in providing a magnificent background sound.
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Andy Warhol in Iran by Brent Askari
Hit Premiere at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jun 09th, 2022Overall we loved this new play. The actors were compelling in their roles and the direction of Skip Greer navigated them nicely. There were twists and turns that kept us engaged.Henry Stram was a very good if not great Warhol. He was actually too pretty with none of Andy’s awkward enigma. This was a play after all and not a documentary. To portray an authentic Andy would have added another half hour at least. This production kept it tight and sweet.
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The Pajama Game
Produced by 42nd Street Moon at the Gateway Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Although “The Pajama Game” may not come across as an expressly political play, it was written when over 300 entertainers were still blacklisted as a result of House Un-American Activities Committee investigations. The central clash is certainly a classic between capital and labor. “Old Man” Hasler, the factory head, is played unsympathetically for his dishonesty and for his rigid rejection of a workers’ raise when the factory is doing extremely well.
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Belfast Girls by Jaki McCarrick
Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Belfast Girls, the Irish Rep’s current play by Jaki McCarrick is a sure-fire winner. Though all of the play’s action takes place on the transport ship Inchinnan in 1848 bound for Australia, the majority of the two act, 12-scene play with one intermission, takes place in a small, cramped, and windowless 5-bunk bed cabin in the ship’s steerage, and to a lesser degree on the ship’s deck where the girls can be seen contemplating their future.
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McConnia Chesser Narrates An Iliad at S&Co.
Was the War Fought in Troy or Pittsfield
By: - Jun 06th, 2022Following an all too familiar trend the playwrights, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, have rewritten the iconic epic poem The Iliad, to the here and now. In the one act play McConnia Chesser compresses a ten year war into 110 minutes. It's a daunting task that exhausts the performer and her audience.
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Queen by Madhuri Shekar
At Long Wharf
By: - Jun 04th, 2022I wasn’t sure what to expect from this work by Madhuri Shekar and produced in partnership with the National Asian American Theater Company’s project. But I found it an engrossing, if not always totally motivated work.
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Beehive: the ‘60s Musical
Produced by Center REPertory
By: - Jun 04th, 2022In an implicit nod to the growing marijuana and hallucinogenic drug culture of the decade, David Crosby famously said that if you can remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there. Fortunately, for most of us who lived through it, that is a canard.
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The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp
Produced by Marin Theatre Company
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022A relationship staple in the catalog of dramatic themes is that of professor and student. Traditionally, the professor is a man who takes sexual or emotional advantage of a female student, but that formula has diversified in recent decades.
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Paradise Square, the Musical
Up for ten Tony Awards
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Paradise Square directed by Moises Kaufman with choreography by Bill T. Jones, is an exuberant, refreshing and intelligent presentation of a significant moment in our history. It has been nominated for ten Tony awards, among them best musical, best choreography by Bill T. Jones and best actress in a musical, Joaqulna Kalukango.
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Funny Girl at the August Wilson Theater
Beanie Feldstein Disappoints
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Fanny Brice – the real-like comedian who is the title character – had that quality. Unfortunately, while Beanie Feldstein is talented and tries hard – she doesn’t.
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Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding
TheaterWorks in Hartford
By: - Jun 03rd, 2022Zoey’s PERFECT Wedding now playing at TheaterWorks in Hartford looks at what happens when the “perfect” part of the wedding doesn’t happen. Playwright Matthew López has combined humor (some farce, some slapstick) with an insightful understanding of our need for human connection and love.
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Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls on Broadway
Poet's Language Dances
By: - Jun 02nd, 2022Ntozake Shange began developing poems on the West Coast as a spoken word artist. She speaks to girls who are maturing into women. Black girls, yes. Yet white girls understand her too. What did words mean to Shange? Her sister Ifa Bayeza describes it best. They dance off the page with flourish and drama and beauty.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
50th Anniversary Rouring Production
By: - Jun 02nd, 2022The Olivier Award-winning 50th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in Miami. The production originated at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. At the center of the production is a very human Jesus.
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Hat Matter: Thoughts of a Black Mad Hatter
By Michael Wayne Turner III
By: - May 28th, 2022On a line-by-line basis, the text of “Hat Matter:…” is dramatic and compelling. Audiences will find much to cheer and reflect upon. Some tracts may seem stream of consciousness and disjointed, but overall, the language is colorful and riveting, and the thoughts are profound. “
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Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad
MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.
By: - May 27th, 2022Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.
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The Drag at Provincetown Theatre
Banned on Broadway in 1927 Now a Smash
By: - May 26th, 2022Heading into Memorial Day weekend after our smashing opening of Mae West’s 1927 banned-from-Broadway The Drag, the tickets are selling quickly, and the raves are pouring in…
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Which Way To The Stage
Robert W. Wilson Theater Space
By: - May 25th, 2022As the lights go up, standing in front of the stage door of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, we find ourselves in the midst of an intense and rapid rat-a-tat-tat- conversation between Judy, a rather plain-looking, dressed down Judy (Sas Goldberg) and the obviously gay (he makes no bones about it), Jeff (Max Jenkins), two theater loving actors, and longtime best friends since college.
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Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - May 25th, 2022Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.
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The Belle of Amherst
A Remount by Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 25th, 2022More than a year after co-producing a filmed production of "The Belle of Amherst," Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida presents the show live. The Belle of Amherst is a one-performer show about the life of Emily Dickinson. Dickinson, a world-famous poetess, lived from 1830-1886 in Amherst, Mass.
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VOLT Festival in New York
Plays by Karen Hartman at 59E59 Theaters
By: - May 23rd, 2022Karen Hartman’s work launches VOLT at 59E59 Theaters, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author. Denver Theater Center presented the world premiere musical Rattlesnake Kate, book by Hartman with a score by Neyla Pekarek earlier this year.
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The Elliot Norton Awards
Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association
By: - May 23rd, 2022The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,
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Puppetopia Festival at HERE
Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents
By: - May 21st, 2022The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year. its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program. Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022. Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.
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Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - May 19th, 2022I know. Your first question will be “What’s with that name?” Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play. It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative.
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for colored girls who have considered suicide
Ntozake's Classic Lives at the Booth Theater
By: - May 19th, 2022"for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf " is having a brilliant re-incarnation. The stage is lit only by the abstract chiaroscuro photos projected on soft screen, like the hazy landscape. A quiet light reveals Lady In Brown (Tendayi Kuumba) as this rhythmic dance poem begins. “Dark phases of womanhood , of never having been a girl..” Her movements are as powerful and sensuous as the words, with a spiritual nod to African roots.
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