Theatre
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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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Seven Deadly Sins Wins Drama League Award
Production is New York-bound
By: - May 23rd, 2021Miami New Drama's production of Seven Deadly Sins won a Drama League Award on Friday. The Drama League Awards have recognized outstanding achievements on and off Broadway since 1935. Seven Deadly Sins won in a new category -- “Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater.”
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Legacy Theatre in Branford Connecticut
Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park
By: - May 22nd, 2021The brand new Legacy Theatre in Branford opened with a production of the first big Neil Simon hit, Barefoot in the Park which runs through Sunday, May 23.
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Barrington Stage's NEA Grant
Surrports The Supadupa Kid by Pittsfield Author Ty Alan Jackson
By: - May 18th, 2021Barrington Stage Company has been approved for a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects from the National Endowment for the Arts. This project will support a World Premiere production of The Supadupa Kid, a new musical based on the children's book of the same name by local Pittsfield author Ty Allan Jackson.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
George St. Playhouse in New Jersey
By: - May 14th, 2021The 90 minute performance, consists of three “readers” here given names if not characters asking her questions, sometimes challenging her and hearing her answers. No real conversations among characters, no real context for their questions or problems and no real solutions.
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Two Sisters and a Piano
By New Normal Rep
By: - May 10th, 2021In Two Sisters and a Piano, two sisters in 1991 Cuba “escape” their time under house arrest through music and by hearing and speaking heartfelt words. This play, by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz, is streaming through May 23 at NewNormalRep.org. New Normal Rep was founded during the pandemic. The company aims to digitally present new and lesser-known plays from diverse perspectives.
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Finalists Named for New Play Award
ATCA Annually Administers Honor
By: - May 07th, 2021Five finalists are vying for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. The annual honor recognizes playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during the previous year. At $40,000, Steinberg/ATCA is the largest national new play award program of its kind.
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WAM Theatre 2021
Madeline Sayet’s Solo Show Where We Belong
By: - May 06th, 2021WAM Theatre will present a special limited run of Madeline Sayet’s solo show, WHERE WE BELONG, directed by Mei Ann Teo. This Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company film adaptation, produced in partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library, is filming now at Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C., and will be available for digital streaming through WAM Theatre June 24-27, 2021 only.
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The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
Manhattan Theatre Club and The Huntington Live Stream
By: - May 03rd, 2021Manhattan Theatre Club in association with The Huntington presents the virtual premiere of The Niceties, written by Eleanor Burgess and directed by Kimberly Senior. The presentation reunites the original stars Lisa Banes and Jordan Boatman, and has been reimagined for the virtual stage since its original production in MTC’s 2018-2019 Season at The Studio at Stage II.
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Take a Deep Breath Campaign
For COVID-related Safety Measures at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 03rd, 2021Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) is seeking donations for an almost $1 million effort to implement COVID-safety measures. The Southeast Florida nonprofit, professional theater company will fund the work almost entirely through donations. The work includes installing a new HVAC system to ensure proper filtration. The project will precede PBD's 2021-22 season, which starts on Oct. 5.
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Olympia Dukakis at 89
Performed Twice at Shakespeare & Company
By: - May 02nd, 2021The Oscar winning actress, Olympia Dukakis, died yesterday at 89. She will be remembered in the Berkshires for two productions at Shakespeare & Company. Then in her 80s she was lured to Lenox by her former student the artistic director Tony Simotes.
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Tru at Music Theatre of Connecticut
Jeff Gurner Plays Truman Capote
By: - May 01st, 2021Jeff Gurner plays Truman Capote in this production directed by Kevin Connor. Guner does not hide Capote’s self-destructive tendencies and he manages to keep Capote from sounding like a whiner. On some level, he makes us see and feel Capote’s pain.
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Irish Rep Streams Little Gem
Elaine Murphy's Moving Tritych Is a Jewel
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Irish Repertory Theatre is streaming its 11th production in the time of Covid. Today we seldom see heterosexual women of three generations loving their men, despite difficulties that boyfriends and husbands bring to a relationship. This is a tender, funny revelation.
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Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
Fundraiser on June 5
By: - Apr 29th, 2021Seats and tables are now available for the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival’s annual fundraiser, to be held outdoors under a tent at the Bas Relief Park behind Provincetown Town Hall on Saturday, June 5 at 4pm Eastern.
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American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University
Return Engagement of The Conjurors’ Club
By: - Apr 27th, 2021American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announces today the ensemble of magicians to perform in the return engagement of The Conjurors’ Club created by Vinny DePonto and Geoff Kanick. Back by popular demand, the live interactive multi-magician experience runs online April 28 - May 16, 2021.
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Tippet Rise Spring Festival
Streaming from New York
By: - Apr 27th, 2021Tippet Rise is a striking arrival on the music scene. Just when interest in conventional venues offering conventional programs is waning, along comes a venture located amidst grazing cattle on 12,000 acres in Fishtail, Montana. The venue traveled east for its spring festival. You begin to get a sense of how they fill their mission wherever they alight. The splendid array of talent seems present wherever they are. Topping the list in New York are veterans Richard Goode and Claire Chase.
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A Bronx Tale
At Ft. Myers' Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre
By: - Apr 25th, 2021A Bronx Tale is a crowd-pleasing, familiar tale. A production of the stage musical is docked at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre. The production, which runs through May 22, features strong acting.
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A Letter To Harvey Milk: The Musical
Coming Out in San Francisco
By: - Apr 23rd, 2021A Letter to Harvey Milk had a successful run at the Acorn Theatre in New York in 2018. It is streming free with suggested donations for the Actor’s Fund and The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Now it is streaming live.
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Huntington Theatre World Premiere
Black Beans Project to Live Stream
By: - Apr 21st, 2021The Huntington presents 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, and available for on-demand streaming from May 11 – 30, 2021.
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Noah Haidle’s Sweet and Painful play, Smokefall
An Encore by Goodman Theatre
By: - Apr 15th, 2021Noah Haidle’s sweet and painful play, Smokefall, directed by Anne Kaufman, staged by Goodman Theatre in 2013-14, and now streaming as part of Goodman’s Encore series.
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Huntington Theatre 2021
Season Starts in Late August
By: - Apr 14th, 2021The Huntington announces the return to live, in-person performances following an incomparable year-and-a-half of stages left dark because of the global pandemic. The 7-play season will begin on August 27, 2021 and take place primarily at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA in the South End while The Huntington Theatre undergoes a transformational renovation; one production will take place at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.
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Lisa Ramirez Performs Eliot's The Waste Land
April is the Cruelest Month
By: - Apr 13th, 2021John Wilkens has adapted “The Waste Land” to the stage as a vehicle for a solo performer. Oakland Theater Project has produced the staging, starring the multi-talented Lisa Ramirez and directed by Michael Socrates Moran. This production is the first live performance with a live audience sanctioned by Actors Equity in the state of California since the start of the pandemic. But to accomplish the approval, the performance is outdoors, and the audience remain in their cars.
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The Niceties
At Southeast Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The Niceties is an explosive drama that asks us how we might be contributing to systemic racism. The Eleanor Burgess drama takes place on a prestigious university in the Northeast. Island City Stage in suburban Ft. Lauderdale is presenting the show in person and online. In-person performances continue through April 18. Streaming will be available from April 16-25.
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Les Arts Florissants at Versailles
William Christie Brings Us Charpentier
By: - Apr 12th, 2021The always delightful Les Arts Florissants’ bring us a performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Grand Motets, now available on Qwest TV. Qwest was developed by Quincy Jones, whose middle name is “Delight.” And delight is what he brings us with the 17th century music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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