Theatre
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The Hudson Eye
Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation Performance + Visual Arts Series
By: - Jul 09th, 2021The Hudson Eye, arranged by curator Aaron Levi Garvey, presented by Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation commences August 27th - September 6th, 2021, timed throughout Labor Day Weekend in historic downtown Hudson, NY. The Hudson Eye curatorially frames 26 participating artists with performances, exhibitions, and a Hot Topics humanities symposium co-organized by Operation Unite NY confronting nine issues spanning global topics at a local level.
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Lines in the Dust
A New Normal Rep Production
By: - Jul 08th, 2021The online-only theater company New Normal Rep scores another hit with its riveting production of Nikkole Salter's riveting drama, "Lines in the Dust." The production is streaming on demand through Aug. 8. The play centers on a poor, single mother who commits residency fraud in an effort to give her daughter the best possible education. "Lines in the Dust" takes place in New Jersey in 2009-2010.
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Short New Play Festival
New York's Red Bull Theater Company
By: - Jul 06th, 2021Red Bull theater company's 11th Annual Short New Play Festival will take place virtually on Monday, July 12. A recording of the livestream will be available until 7 p.m. ET on Friday, July 16. This year's theme is "Restoration." Red Bull is a professional company in New York City. It “brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences.”
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Ambassador of Love
Celebrating Pearl Bailey at Goodspeed by the River
By: - Jul 06th, 2021If you know Pearl Bailey’s work, the show by Rashidra Scott will let you enjoy not only the music but her wisdom and if you don’t know about her, you will discover this terrific entertainer.
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Tennessee Rising: The Dawn of Tennessee Williams
One Man Show by Jacob Storms
By: - Jun 29th, 2021In an earlier version of Tennessee Rising, presented at the 2017 United Solo Festival in New York City, Jacob Storms received an award for the Best One-Man show. The following year, fast-travelling word of mouth got him a headlining gig at the Saint Louis’ Tennessee Williams Festival. This current version, directed by Alan Cumming, was originally scheduled to premiere at the Beaubourg Theatre in New Orleans in March 2020.
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Hounds by Hirschfeld
Online Exhibit Runs Through Aug. 15
By: - Jun 29th, 2021The Al Hirschfeld Foundation's latest online exhibition focuses on canines. The show features drawings of some of the most famous dogs in 20th century media. The drawings of Al Hirschfeld stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishing the visual language of modern art through caricature in the 20th century.
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Barrington Stage Company Updates
Four Productions to Be Extended
By: - Jun 28th, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces extensions for the first four productions of the theatre’s 2021 season: Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Chester Bailey, Eleanor and Boca.
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Cowboy by Layon Gray
Bass Reeves First Black U.S. Deputy Marshall
By: - Jun 22nd, 2021Layon Gray's historical drama "Cowboy" tells the tale of the first black U.S. Deputy Marshal. The play is Off-Broadway-bound. The world premiere production at the National Black Theatre Festival in 2019 sold out its run in a few hours. The current Miami production is nearing its closing weekend, and has been selling out .
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Nancy Rhodes Champions American Opera
Encompass Opera Theatre Produced American First
By: - Jun 21st, 2021Nancy Rhodes, founder and artistic director of Encompass New Opera Theatre, led a Zoom for an international audience of teachers. Rhodes formed Encompass just as the women’s movement was blossoming. There are special women in the American music world who have soldiered on in their professions, whatever complications were created by gender. Bursting onto the scene at about the same time as Gloria Steinem, Nancy Rhodes created an innovative company..
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The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen
Produced by California's Pear Theatre
By: - Jun 21st, 2021With their fully-staged production of Christopher Chen’s work, kudos to Mountain View’s Pear Theatre for leading the way in the return to indoor theater after 15 months of pandemic-imposed darkness. The adventuresome small company not only offers socially-distanced indoor performances to a play with a full cast, but also outdoor performances and online streaming, to accommodate all manner of theater lover. Hallelujah!
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A Different Approach to Annie
Area Stage Company's Immersive Production
By: - Jun 14th, 2021Area Stage mounts 'Annie' with eight actors, all of them adults. The production takes place inside a speakeasy. This immersive 'Annie' is yet another triumph for visionary theater artist Giancarlo Rodaz. The production runs through July 4.
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Summer Theatre in Connecticut
Adapting to Change
By: - Jun 13th, 2021How theater is presented this summer continues to expand. TheaterWorks in Hartford, West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park and Ridgefield’s Thrown Stone Theater are exploring what are called “site-specific” productions – where the production’s content has a relationship to the site where it is performed.
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Hold These Truths by Jeanne Sakata
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jun 10th, 2021Playwright Jeanne Takata’s one-man, biographical drama “Hold These Truths” beautifully captures Gordon Hirabayashi’s courage and sacrifice in challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1942 Executive Order 9066, which consigned Japanese-Americans, including those who were American citizens, to internment camps during World War II.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS & CENSORSHIP SEPTEMBER 23-26
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Featuring four Williams plays, the newest from Penny Arcade, Mae West’s shuttered 1926 Broadway smash, a witchy satire from 1616, and more. The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival was founded in 2006 in Provincetown—the birthplace of modern American theater—where Williams worked on many of his major plays during the 1940s.
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Bright Colors and Bold Patterns
An Island City Stage production
By: - Jun 07th, 2021Southeast Florida's Island City Stage presents a delightfully comic 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns." The Drew Droege one-man comedy is onstage through June 29. The production will also include a period during which people can virtually watch the show. 'Bright Colors and Bold Patterns' completes Island City Stage's 9th season.
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American Repertory Theater 2021
1776 Revival Broadway Bound
By: - Jun 06th, 2021“It has been a long time since we were all together in a theater, and we need this now more than ever—artists and audiences alike,” says Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus. “We have spent the last year in deep learning and reflection at the A.R.T., and we are excited to share our 2021/22 programming, which welcomes audiences back in person and reflects our core values, from centering anti-racism to embracing regenerative practice that promotes the health of our planet, our organization, and each other.”
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Tiny Beautiful Things
George Street Playhouse’s Filmed Play
By: - Jun 04th, 2021Tiny Beautiful Things, George Street Playhouse’s filmed play, based on Cheryl Strayed’s book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (2012), a collection of Strayed’s columns is beautifully brought to life by actress Laiona Michelle, who as Sugar, plays a down-to-earth, expletive-spouting advice-giving columnist
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Woodie King Jr. Steps Down
Insights from 50 Years of New Federal Theatre
By: - Jun 04th, 2021Woodie King Jr. is stepping down as Artistic Director of the New Federal Theatre, the company he founded in 1970. His original mission was to give voice to actors and writers of color, black, Hispanic and Asian, and to women. The mission has been richly fulfilled. The list of artists to whom King gave a first chance includes every important performing artist of color and many women..
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Aaron Tveit Live! In Concert
Barrington Stage Adds Second Performance
By: - Jun 03rd, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces that a second performance has been scheduled for Aaron Tveit Live! In Concert on Monday, July 19 at 8:00pm. The encore performance has been scheduled to accommodate worldwide audience demand after tickets for BSC’s Gala performance of Aaron Tveit Live! on Sunday, July 18 quickly sold out.
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Black Beans Project at Boston's Huntington
Extended through June 13
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021The Huntington announces the extension of Black Beans Project, a world premiere digital work by Huntington artist-in-residence Melinda Lopez and award-winning performer Joel Perez, directed by Jaime Castañeda, now available for on-demand streaming through June 13, 2021. All tickets are pay-what-you-can.
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Begin the Beguine: A Quartet of One-Acts
Performance Space New York and Oakland Theater Project
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021One can only imagine how many treasure troves of artistry lie hidden away around the world in dusty attics and musty cellars. Nina Collins, daughter of playwright and poet Kathleen Collins, has collected and released a rich reserve of her late mother’s previously unpublished works from the 1970s and 1980s. Included are four short plays that, while they are uneven, and despite their age, resonate today.
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Festival of Classics
A Livestream Event from South Florida
By: - Jun 02nd, 2021South Florida groups to present "Festival of Classics." The livestream event is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST on Saturday, June 5. Expect to see selections from Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Diary of Anne Frank, and more.
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Berliner Festspiele: 58th Theatertreffen
2021 Theatre Festival in Berlin
By: - May 30th, 2021Berlin’s cultural life is slowly awakening. One of the early highlights of this development was the 58th Theatertreffen (theatre festival) of the Berliner Festspiele from May 13 to May 24.
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An 'Annie' for Today
Miami's Area Stage Company's Fresh Production
By: - May 26th, 2021They promise an 'Annie' like you've never seen. Area Stage Company in Miami will mount the much-loved musical on weekends from June 11-July 4. This 'in-the-round' production will feature an all-adult cast of eight actors.
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Barrington Stage Presents Prize Winner
Daniella De Jesús Won the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award
By: - May 24th, 2021Get Your Pink Hands Off Me Sucka and Give Me Back by Daniella De Jesús, is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award. Directed by Taylor Reynolds it will be presented June 4-6, 2021.
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