Theatre
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To Fall in Love
A Southeastern Premiere at FAU's Theatre Lab
By: - Nov 29th, 2021Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, is giving Jennifer Lane's two-hander, "To Fall in Love" its Southeastern premiere production. In the play, an estranged couple turns to a study that scientists claim can help people fall in love in order to save their marriage. The study features 36 questions that each individual asks the other.
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Così Fan Tutte
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 26th, 2021“Così Fan Tutte” was the last of three collaborations by perhaps the strongest composition team in opera history. Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte had previously written “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Don Giovanni.” Acknowledging the significance of this unplanned trilogy, San Francisco Opera is presenting them all over a three-season period.
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The People Downstairs
A World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Nov 24th, 2021Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida will present the world premiere production of Michael McKeever's new historical drama, The People Downstairs. The play explores the challenges faced by the folks who hid Anne Frank's family during World War II as the Nazis attempted to round up European Jews.The People Downstairs runs from Dec. 3 to Dec. 19 at Palm Beach Dramaworks' playing space in West Palm Beach.
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Cullud Wattah at the Public Theater
Powerful Public Issue Dramatized
By: - Nov 22nd, 2021The Public Theater presents Cullud Wattah, a timely social protest drama written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Candis C. Jones Profound contradictions are dramatized and shown throughout the drama. Adam Rigg (scenic design) creates a cozy furnished home of a working class African-American family surrounded by a macabre curtain of plastic bottles of dirty water.
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Middletown: The Ride of Your Life!
A Co-production of Actors' Playhouse, Miracle Theatre and GFour Productions.
By: - Nov 22nd, 2021Middletown: The Ride of Your Life! is a touching and humorous tale of friendship, life's joys, and difficulties. Actors' Playhouse and GFour Productions is presenting the comedy-drama through Dec. 12. The play reminds us how we missed in-person human interaction and connection during the pandemic.
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Thoughts of a Colored Man On Broadway
Twenty-nine Producers Express Faith in a Terrific New Play
By: - Nov 21st, 2021Keenan Scott, playwright, objected to the widespread notion that black men don’t express themselves. In his play, Thoughts of a Colored Man, they do. Our conventional notions of black silence are shattered by a rich rhetorical tradition of the group that Eldridge Cleaver called the most challenged in American society. In some ways not much has changed since Cleaver made that statement over a half century ago. Black men have an expiration date that expires before everyone elses'.
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Cullud Wattah at the Public Theater
Powerful Public Issue Dramatized
By: - Nov 21st, 2021The Public Theater Presents Cullud Wattah, a timely social protest drama written by Erika Dickerson-Despenza and directed by Candis C. Jones Adam Rigg (scenic design) creates a set full of profound contradictions. They weave through the drama on every level. A cozy furnished home of a working class African-American family is surrounded by a macabre curtain of plastic bottles of dirty water.
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Duncan Macmillan's Lungs
A New City Players Production
By: - Nov 21st, 2021Ft. Lauderdale-based New City Players presents Duncan Macmillan's drama, Lungs, in an uneven production running through Nov. 28. In Macmillan's play, a couple are trying to decide whether to have a baby in a world plagued by many problems. Lungs, which runs less than two hours with no intermission, speaks to a new generation of folks for whom uncertainty has become the norm.
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Father/Daughter by Kait Kerrigan,
Produced by Aurora Theatre
By: - Nov 21st, 2021The Bay Area is blessed with many great performing artists, and Sam Jackson (for the sake of clarity – she!) and William Thomas Hodgson (he) are among the finest. Jackson portrays both females, and Hodgson both males. And both actors are scintillating.
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The Band's Visit at the Bushnell
Tony Winner in 2018
By: - Nov 19th, 2021The Band’s Visit is almost a chamber musical; limited cast, no big dance numbers, no flashy sets or projections. It tells a simple story, but one that slowly creeps up on you and, if you let it, packs an emotional wallop. It’s based on a 2007 Israeli film that won critical acclaim and success.
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sAiNt jOaN (burn/burn/burn)
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Nov 17th, 2021Playwright Lisa Ramirez draws on Jean d’Arc’s motive force as the basis for examining the will of young women to effect change in today’s frightening world. Her vehicle is a riveting, uber-energetic, often chaotic and confrontational clash of five young people one fateful night. “sAiNt jOaN” grabs the attention by the throat and throttles it for 60 exciting and exhausting minutes.
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Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Ginglold Group at Theatre Row on 42nd Street.
By: - Nov 17th, 2021The funniest complication is that Mrs. Warren has steadfastly refused to reveal who is Vivie’s father; so there is the possibility that it could be Sir George or even the Rev. Samuel, who wasn’t always a man of the cloth.
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Berkshire Theatre Critics Association
2021 "Berkie" Award Winners
By: - Nov 16th, 2021The big winners of the Berkies were A Crossing: A Dance Musical, presented by Barrington Stage Company, which won the Sally and Robert Sugarman Award for a World Premier of a New Work as well as many acting and design awards, and Nina Simone: Four Women, presented by the Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Dido and Aeneas Composed by Henry Purcell
Produced by Opera San José
By: - Nov 15th, 2021Rarely has an esteemed opera endured the ignominy of its birth as “Dido and Aeneas.” Although its composer, Henry Purcell, would reign as the preeminent producer of serious British music from his death in 1695 until the 20th century, his only pure opera borrowed slavishly from a crypto-opera, John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis,” that has not even remained in the canon.
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Arthur Miller's The Price
At GableStage in Coral Gables, a Miami suburb
By: - Nov 15th, 2021GableStage in Southeast Florida is opening its season with Arthur Miller's "The Price." New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport is directing it, based on late Producing Artistic Director Joe Adler's notes. This production of "The Price" marked Adler's last directorial effort at GableStage, where he spent 20 years as Producing Artistic Director. GableStage has dedicated this production to Adler.
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Hamlet and Me
The Danish prince and I Go Way Back
By: - Nov 14th, 2021I saw college productions—and I read Hamlet in a memorable Shakespeare course at one of my alma maters, Harvard on the Rocks—the two-year University of Illinois in Chicago at Navy Pier. (Later it became a four-year university and moved to its current campus.) The first Hamlet production that I remember vividly was during the 1963 opening season of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
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Come from Away
National Touring Production in South Florida
By: - Nov 13th, 2021Come from Away is docked in South Florida before heading north. The musical relates the true tale of a small Canadian town that welcomed and cared for stranded passengers on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days after.
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Will Eno Takes on Peer Gynt
GNIT a Delight at Theatre for a New Audience
By: - Nov 12th, 2021Theatre for a New Audience is presenting GNIT, an update of Hendrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt. The new version by Will Eno is daring in its exposition of many characters reaction to the her and their plight.
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Falsettoland by William Finn and James Lapine
At Music Theatre of Connecticut
By: - Nov 10th, 2021It is fitting to see this piece in Connecticut; after all in 1991 it was Mark Lamos, the artistic director at Hartford Stage who worked with composer/lyricist William Finn and co-book writer James Lapine to combine Finn’s two short musicals –In Trousers and March of the Falsettos into one more cohesive piece.
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A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
Produced by 42nd Street Moon at Gateway Theatre
By: - Nov 09th, 2021Although Sondheim’s music and themes often have sharp edges, “A Little Night Music,” which is based on Ingmar Bergman’s film “Smiles of a Summer Night,” is written predominately in waltz time and is highly melodic.
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Warrior Class
Highly-Charged Political Drama at Boca Stage
By: - Nov 09th, 2021The past stalks a candidate for Congress in the gripping political drama, "Warrior Class." The riveting production runs through Nov. 21 at Boca Stage in Boca Raton, Fla. Boca Stage, a professional theater company, is the new name for the former Primal Forces.
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Definition Theatre's Social Justice Film
America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro,
By: - Nov 08th, 2021At a time when we should all be thinking about how America’s history might be taught in all its blood and glory, Definition Theatre succeeds in tossing new ingredients into this steamy pot of burgoo. Its new theatrical film, America v.2.1: The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro, is a raw, sad and funny story of a future America, told in four parts.
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O'Neill's Comedy, Ah Wilderness
Melia Bensussen’s Directorial Debut at Hartford Stage
By: - Nov 06th, 2021Melia Bensussen demonstrates a sure hand with this Eugene O’Neill play set in Connecticut on July 4, 1906. In Ah, Wilderness!, O’Neill who is better known for his dramas of love, loss, disillusionment, self-delusion and alcoholism, shows his lighter touch. It is a family comedy about some of the same subjects but more upbeat.
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War Words
What Does 'Thank You for Your Service' Really Mean
By: - Nov 06th, 2021The Atlantic Council has partnered with professional theater companies, veterans service organizations, and corporate sponsors to bring staged readings of War Words. This Pulitzer Prize-nominated play depicts stories of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The production is traveling to different cities.
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Julianne Boyd Steps Down at Barrington Stage
Co Founded Theatre Company in 1995
By: - Nov 04th, 2021In 1995 Julianne Boyd co-founded Barrington Stage company producing sparsely attended but critically well received shows in a high school auditorium in Sheffield. In 2005 the company purchased and renovated a formed vaudeville house in Pittsfield. Coping with Covid-19 Boyd mounted a successful 2021 season. With the company is good shape, citing age, she is passing the reins to new leadership. In December she turns 77. She will stay on through the search and transition for a new artistic director.
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