Theatre
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Lincoln Center's Flying Over Sunset.
Musical About Early Acid Trips
By: - Jan 08th, 2022In the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, LSD (before Dr. Timothy Leary) was a trendy drug used by both psychiatrists and other to help individuals explore their past and their subconscious. Among the well-known people who experimented with the drug was actor Cary Grant, novelist Aldous Huxley and playwright/journalist/diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
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The Musical Kimberly Akimbo
NYC’s Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater
By: - Jan 07th, 2022Kimberly Akimbo the newly penned musical with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Shrek the Musical) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Caroline, or Change) is the most loving, loveliest, and poignant theatrical experience of the year.
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Almost, Maine
An Upcoming Palm Beach Dramaworks Production
By: - Jan 03rd, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks will perform Almost, Maine from Jan. 12-30. In this play about love and romance, magic is literally in the air. Almost, Maine is an example of Magical Realism.
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Hairspray
A New Non-Equity Touring Production
By: - Jan 02nd, 2022A new non-equity touring production of the musical-comedy hit, Hairspray, is touring the country. The production, which achieves mixed results, recently played Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, but some performances were cancelled due to positive COVID tests within the company. The next tour stop is Cincinnati's Aronoff Center from Jan. 4-9.
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Charlotte Moore Directs Irish Repertory Theatre
The Streets of New York Sizzle
By: - Dec 31st, 2021The Streets of New York laugh and cry as they burst into song in Charlotte Moore’s production. Everyone you've ever met is on stage. Celebrate the holidays at the Irish Repertory Theatre
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Joe Papp at the Ballroom
A World Premiere by GableStage
By: - Dec 27th, 2021Joe Papp at the Ballroom attempts to recreate the theater legend's public concert in 1978. GableStage, together with Yiddishkayt Initiative (https://yilovejewish.org). The production runs through Dec. 31 at the award-winning Coral Gables professional, nonprofit theater company.
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Becoming Dr. Ruth with Tovah Feldshuh
A remarkable life at Museum of Jewish Heritage
By: - Dec 26th, 2021Mark St. Germain has crafted a moving and funny portrait of the great radio and television sex-pert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. It plays at the Safra Hall in the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Scott Schwartz directs. Dr. Ruth triumphs over Hitler.
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Kinky Boots
Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 25th, 2021Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of "Kinky Boots" raises us up. The Ft. Lauderdale company's production runs through Jan. 2. Kinky Boots is based on a film of the same name, which, in turn, is based on a true story.
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The Play That Goes Wrong
And That's the Truth
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021The premise of the play that actually goes wrong is introduced by Chris Bean, president of the Cornley University Drama Society (played by Matt Mueller). The drama society is staging the play The Murder at Haversham Manor in the USA, a production made possible, the program notes, by the British-American Cultural Exchange Program.
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The Perennial Woman in Black
Produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Dec 20th, 2021The Woman in Black has drawn sufficient audience to run on London’s West End for over 30 years – second in longevity only to Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap.” It’s had productions around the world and has been translated into 14 languages. Not bad bona fides. Produced by American Conservatory Theater it plays at ACT’s Strand Theater, 1127 Market St., San Francisco.
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James Lapine's Flying Over Sunset
Lincoln Center Theater Mounts Premier
By: - Dec 19th, 2021Flying Over Sunset, a new musical with book by James Lapine and music by Tom Kitt premieres at the Lincoln Center Theater. It features Aldous Huxley ( Harry Hadden-Paton), Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck)and Claire Boothe Luce (Carmen Cusack), who all experimented with LSD in the 1950s. Both Huxley and Luce wanted to expand their horizons. Grant went to a psychiatrist for a supervised dose of the drug at the recommendation of his then wife, Betsy Drake.
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Roundabout Theatre's Trouble in Mind
Alice CHildreds' Drama Transfers after Decades in Limbo
By: - Dec 18th, 2021Roundabout Theater is mounting Alice Childress’ play, Trouble in Mind. It premiered off Broadway in 1957 to excellent reviews. Transfer to Broadway failed when the producers demanded changes the playwright refused to make. Now we get a look.
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Shakespeare & Company News
First Three Titles For 45th Season
By: - Dec 16th, 2021Shakespeare & Company announces the first three titles slated for production during its 45th Season, beginning in June 2022. Two works by Shakespeare and a modern production will open the season, which also marks the one-year anniversary of The New Spruce Theatre – Shakespeare & Company’s 500-seat amphitheater, constructed in the summer of 2021.
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MJ Moonwalks to Broadway
Aces the Audience
By: - Dec 15th, 2021Lynn Nottage, the first female American playwright to win two Pulitzers, has created the story for MJ, the musical celebrating Michael Jackson. It has been due on Broadway for a while. The opening date is now postponed until February. Previews opened this week. If it stays in previews until the line of tickets dwindles, it will be a financial success. If it formally opens to reviews, it will succeed despite pederasty accusations.
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Pianist Inna Faliks Finds Kindred Spirits
The Schmanns, Beethoven and Ravel Explored
By: - Dec 13th, 2021Inna Faliks is a superb concert pianist, who also heads the piano studies department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her recordings are devoted to revealing kindred spirits. Husband and wife, Robert and Clara Schumann, are offered together in The Schumann Project. Their entwined influence is suggested. Her interpretations of Beethoven will be presented as part of a Barge Concert in New York on December 16.
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Morning Sun
Manhattan Theatre Club
By: - Dec 11th, 2021The magic of this play lies in the everyday ordinariness of each character’s lives which frequently tend to echo our own. I might add, when the lights went down there was not a dry eye in the house. Nor was there a heart left untouched.
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Miss Bennet – Christmas at Pemberley.
Playhouse on Park in West Hartford
By: - Dec 11th, 2021The play is set two years after Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married and settled at his home. The family is arriving to celebrate Christmas.
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Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
Miami's City Theatre
By: - Dec 10th, 2021In Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, playwright Tom Mula tells the familiar tale, but from Jacob Marley's perspective. City Theatre in Miami has mounted an engaging production that runs through Dec. 19. Long-time British Actor Colin McPhillamy plays 18 characters in this minimalist production.
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Sound of Music at Palm Canyon Theatre
Enjoy the Tender Trapp
By: - Dec 08th, 2021“The Sound of Music”, is a show that the whole family can enjoy. It’s based on an inspirational true story of the famous Austrian von Trapp Family Singers and their escape to Switzerland on the eve of Germany’s 1938 Anschluss, and it’s annexing of Austria prior to World War II that will break out one year later.
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The People Downstairs
A World Premiere Production by Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Dec 05th, 2021In "The People Downstairs," versatile and prolific South Florida playwright Michael McKeever presents the Anne Frank story from the perspective of the people who hid the 13-year-old girl and others during World War II. Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in West Palm Beach is presenting the world premiere.
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Christmas Theatre in Connecticut
Tons of Fun
By: - Dec 04th, 2021There's lots of fun for the whole family on stage in Connecticut. Here's a cheat sheet.
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Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol
Performed by Shadow Puppets
By: - Dec 04th, 2021If you like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol performed by shadow puppets with special effects from an overhead projector, Manual Cinema has an adaptation of the holiday classic for you. Its 2020 virtual production of the Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol is available for viewing this year and it’s still quirky and delightful, even though it retains its earlier pandemic theme. (Yes, we’re still in the damnable pandemic or endemic, so enjoy this view of it.)
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A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
Genius in a Minor Key
By: - Dec 03rd, 2021It may sound like ‘Heresy’ to some of my colleagues, but for me personally, the gifts that resided inside the genius that was Stephen Sondheim was an acquired taste.
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The Wickhams at Shakespeare & Company
Written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
By: - Dec 03rd, 2021Written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon and directed by Ariel Bock, The Wickhams features many familiar characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, as well as some new faces: a no-nonsense housekeeper, a spirited new maid, and a love-sick, enterprising footman. The staff is deeply engaged in holiday preparations at Pemberley, the estate of Elizabeth and Darcy.
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Remembering Stephen Sondheim
A Graduate of Williams College
By: - Dec 01st, 2021Stephen Sondheim was a Class if 1950 graduate of Williams College. Regarded as an icon of American theatre he passed recently at 91. We repost tributes by several members of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA).
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