Theatre
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George M. Cohan Tonight!
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production.
By: - Aug 19th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) is streaming a shortened version of George M. Cohan Tonight! through Aug. 29. IRT gave the piece its theatrical debut in 2006. The original IRT production earned award nominations. While reservations are free, IRT suggests a $25 donation for those who can afford it.
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World Premiere by Composer Eve Beglarian
Twenty-four Double Basses in a Grove of Trees
By: - Aug 16th, 2021When was the last time you listened to music that was composed by a piece of birch wood? Eve Beglarian, in collaboration with superstar bassist Robert Black, one of the founding members of the renowned Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, has composed a fascinating new work entitled "A Murmur in the Trees."
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A Tony Award for Woodie King Jr.
At Last
By: - Aug 16th, 2021Woodie King Jr. will receive a Tony Honoring for Excellence in the Theatre on September 26. These awards were established in 1990. It's about time! King and his New Federal Theatre have been producing excellent work for over fifty years.
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Walden by Amy Berryman
TheaterWorks in Conjunction with Riverfront Recapture
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Welcome to Walden the new play presented by TheaterWorks in conjunction with Riverfront Recapture running through Sunday, Aug. 29. It will also be available for streaming from Sunday, Aug. 15 to Sunday, Aug. 29.
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Oedipus Rex
Legacy Theatre CT
By: - Aug 13th, 2021This production features a translation by Ian Johnston, who has translated many Greek works. I have read better translations, this one lacks poetry. At times the wording is jarring, too informal for such a work.
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Maltz Jupiter Theatre
The Company's 2021-22 Season
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Southeast Florida will kick off this upcoming season by presenting "Jersey Boys" in a baseball stadium. The season opens on Jan. 11, with Jersey Boys running from Jan. 11-30. Maltz Jupiter Theatre will re-open following a $36 million expansion. Highlights of the theater’s expansion include a new larger stage.
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Parsifal at Bayreuth
Celebrating 139 Years of Wagner
By: - Aug 12th, 2021One hundred and thirty-nine years after Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, it was performed in concert in this house that Wagner built for its performance. Apparently, Richard Wagner himself took the podium to conduct Act III of Parsifal at the Festival performance in 1883. He died later that year in Venice. There is no recording of the performance, but witnesses commented on the extremely slow tempos and the majesty of the reading.
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Sondheim's Into the Woods
At Conn'sPlayhouse on Park
By: - Aug 08th, 2021The production is enjoyable due to the hard work and talent of the cast. Because of various complications caused by Covid, the cast does not include any members of Actor’s Equity.
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Irish Repertory Theatre Streams The Cordelia Dream
Marina Carr Play in Dublin
By: - Aug 06th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre has expanded our notion of performance in their streamed productions. A company with a small theatre (146 seats in the main house), now offers its consistently superior productions to the wide audience they deserve.
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The Many Loves of Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Harris in Eleanor
By: - Aug 02nd, 2021Harriet Harris has caught Eleanor’s mannerisms well, her physical motions exactly - living in the age of newsreels, her figure, her speech, her presence are indelible in public memory.
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And Away We Stared
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Jul 28th, 2021And Away We Stared is an inventive and theatrically imaginative production, using text from the works of writers Charles Mee, Gertrude Stein and Matei Visniec, a Romanian-French playwright frequently produced by Trap Door. The theater is committed to “seeking out challenging yet obscure works and bringing them to startling life on stage” and they’ve succeeded here.
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Wolf and Badger
World Premiere by Miami Lakes' Main Street Players
By: - Jul 26th, 2021Wolf and Badger is a tight and intense drama receiving its world premiere production at Main Street Players in Miami Lakes. The drama by Michael John McGoldrick shows what can happen drug use becomes habitual. The play takes place in 2006 in a working class neighborhood of Syracuse, N.Y. Main Street Players' strong production runs through Aug. 29. People can watch the play virtually if they choose.
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Salome in Munich
Marlis Petersen, Kirill Petrenko and Krzysztof Warlikowski
By: - Jul 26th, 2021The Munich State Opera is presenting Salome, the opera by Richard Strauss. The set is dark, yet in full view as we enter the opera house. A man is fidgeting over a desk deep in the set. On it sits a banker’s lamp with its classic green hood. A patent for this lamp was taken out in 1909. In a prologue to the opera, Mahler songs are being sung, another brief clue to date the monumental, elegant setting created by Malgorzata Szczesniak.
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The Song of Summer by Lauren Yee
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jul 25th, 2021“The Song of Summer” contains many stock situations, but they are written and performed with great flair, and the outcomes are not always as expected. Importantly, the play’s subtext provides layers of depth that result in a thoughtful work. Though the work doesn’t wallow in self-importance, this is not an episode of “Happy Days.”
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Dr. Glas Based on Norwegian Hjalmar Soderberg
California's North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Jul 24th, 2021American journeyman playwright and author Jeremy Hatcher has fashioned a new version of Dr. Glas that takes into considerations the heart of the story set in 1905 Sweden, while creating a riveting psychological thriller, and a perfect vehicle for the talent of polished British actor Daniel Gerroll, in a solo tour-de-force performance that is smartly directed by NCRT artistic director David Ellenstein.
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GableStage's 2021-22 Season
The First Under New Producing Artistic Director Bari Newport
By: - Jul 24th, 2021GableStage in Coral Gables will open its 2021-22 season with Arthur Miller's The Price. The nonprofit, professional theater company near Miami had planned to produce Miller's drama last season, however, the pandemic closed theaters. GableStage's 2021-22 season will be the first under new producing artistic director Bari Newport. Newport succeeds Joe Adler, a South Florida theater icon who has died.
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Murder for Two
Reopening Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Jul 23rd, 2021Blending several different theatrical genres and making it all work is a challenge. Murder for Two, which is reopening Ivoryton Playhouse combines elements of farce, murder mysteries and musicals.
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ATCA New Play Awards
Critics Group Announces Honors
By: - Jul 23rd, 2021The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) recently announced awards for authors of new plays.Her Honor, Jayne Byrne received the 2021 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. SHIP, by Douglas Williams, takes home the 2021 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award. Runners-up for the ATCA/Steinberg honor were Khat Knotahaiku for Graveyard Shift as well as Jason Narducy and Brett Neveu for the musical Verboten.
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Putting It Together
Broadway Legends to Discuss New Book
By: - Jul 21st, 2021James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim will talk during a digital event about Lapine's new book, Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park With George. This "intimate digital conversation event" will take place on the day of the book's release -- Aug. 3. Tickets are available at www.TheTownHall.org for the 7 p.m. EST, Aug. 3 event. Go to www.TheTownHall.org. Award-winning actress Christine Baranski will moderate the digital conversation.
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Becoming Othello: A Black Girl’s Journey
Debra Ann Byrd Solos at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jul 19th, 2021The stunning matinee production of the monologue Becoming Othello: a Black Girl’s Journey at Shakespeare &Co. this July is set outside in the Roman Garden Theater. On a broiling hot summer day the air rippled with energy as the tall, imposing actor who wrote and conceived of the play, the award-winning Debra Ann Byrd, opened with a chaotic scene at a difficult time of her life, when options seemed blocked and things were not working out for her personally or professionally.
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Barrington Stage Company Update
Casting Announced for World Premieres
By: - Jul 19th, 2021Casting announced for the World Premiere productions of Boca by Jessica Provenz (July 30-August 29 at the BSC Production Center, 34 Laurel Street) and Sister Sorry by Alec Wilkinson (August 13-29 at the Boyd-Quinson Stage, 30 Union Street)
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¡FUÁCATA!
Actors' Playhouse at Miracle Theatre
By: - Jul 17th, 2021Award-winning South Florida actress Elena Maria Garcia will mount her hilarious, one-performer show for a third time. ¡FUÁCATA! or A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe features more than 20 characters, mostly Hispanic women. ¡FUÁCATA in English basically means a backhanded slap.
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Tristan and Isolde in Munich
Petrenko and Company Take Us Into the Beyond
By: - Jul 15th, 2021Kirill Petrenko and Jonas Kaufmann are still standing after four performances of the grueling Tristan and Isolde in Munich. In 1869, the New York Times reported that Wagner’s music was driving people to insanity and suicide. “We learn from Munich that Herr Eberle, the piano-forte conductor, has gone mad over Tristan and Isolde and it is known that rehearsals of this unique opera had previously killed a celebrated German tenor, Ludwig Schnorr.” Familiarity has made this opera an all the more thrilling experience.
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Fruma-Sarah (Waiting In The Wings)
Chelsea-based Cell Theatre
By: - Jul 13th, 2021The very mention of the New York City’s own wildly popular actress and comedian Jackie Hoffman – she of 1000 facial expressions, bodily quirks, a score of well-placed adlibs, and a mesmerizing voice that takes you prisoner with a waterfall of precisely enunciated words – signals that somewhere lurking around a corner is yet another not-to-missed Hoffman Happening.
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Tiny House By Michael Gotch
Streamed by Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Jul 09th, 2021Playwright Michael Gotch uses the current trend toward tiny houses – those houses that are under 500 square feet (and often smaller) that forces closeness and massive downsizing of possessions.
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