Theatre
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Stage Musical Adaptation of Frozen
National Equity Production in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Mar 12th, 2022An equity national touring production of Frozen is playing in Ft. Lauderdale through March 20. Performances are at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. There are visual delights galore, but they do not overshadow a story with heart. The stage adaptation is darker than the film.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival
Back Inside This Summer
By: - Mar 15th, 2022The 2022 Williamstown Theatre Festival season promises laughs, singing, and introspection, including a thrilling new suspense comedy, a disarmingly personal and intimate WTF-commissioned world premiere play, and a musical concert event celebrating Frank Loesser's magnificent score from The Most Happy Fella, retold with dazzling new orchestrations
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Boston Symphony Performs Stunning Wozzech
Carnegie Hall Hosts
By: - Mar 16th, 2022The Boston Symphony with Andris Nelsons at the helm performed Alban Berg’s Wozzeck at Carnegie Hall. The composer left an early performance of Georg Buchner’s play on which the opera would be based, remarking: this must be an opera and I will compose it. The Boston Symphony gave a defining performance of the work.
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Opera Philadelphia Returns with O Festival
Premiere Opera Company Surprises and Delights
By: - Mar 15th, 2022Opera Philadelphia will return with the O Festival in September. 2022.
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Huang Ruo and Basil Twist Team-up in New York
St. Ann's Warehouse Holds Magical Moments
By: - Mar 18th, 2022Book of Mountains & Seas, a new opera by Huang Ruo and Basil Twist, takes us out of ourselves and our space into a new and exotic world. Yet we are anchored in human concerns. Huang Ruo originally adapted The Book of Mountains and Seas, a work created in China in the 4th century BC and set its spirit in a vocal-theater for twelve singers. Full of good humor and infinite curiosity, Ruo comments on the visions possible with this unusual number: 2, 3, 4, 6. He uses all the combinations seamlessly.
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Passing Strange by Stew
Produced by Shotgun Players
By: - Mar 20th, 2022With “Passing Strange,” musician/playwright Stew created a multi-faceted coming-of-age story set to music and verse. The music is a mashup of rock era styles that never hits a false note. Both song lyrics and spoken sections set to music drive the narrative forward.
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The Hours by Kevin Puts
Philadelphia Hosts Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Jenifer Johnson Cano
By: - Mar 21st, 2022The Hours, a new opera by Kevin Puts, previewed at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Cultural Center in Philadelphia. The stellar cast featuring Renee Fleming in what we call the Meryl Streep role, Kelli O’Hara in Julianne Moore’s and Jennifer Johnson Cano in the role for which Nicole Kidman, with a fake nose, won an Academy Award for best actress. Philip Glass wrote the score for the film. Puts gives us a richer diversity in orchestration.
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Repertorio Resident Director Leyma Lopez
Feminism in Classic Works
By: - Mar 21st, 2022Leyma Lopez discusses her work with Berkshire Fine Arts
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Intimate Apparel
Palm Beach Dramaworks to Present Lynn Nottage play
By: - Mar 21st, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida will present Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" from April 1-17. South Florida actress Rita Cole will portray Esther Mills, one of her "bucket list" roles. Palm Beach Dramaworks is a professional, nonprofit company located at 201 Clematis St. in West Palm Beach.
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Otto Frank the Father of Anne Frank
Written by Roger Guenveur Smith
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022Otto Frank was the father of Anne Frank. He gave his daughter a blank autograph book on her 13th birthday in which Anne diligently recorded her thoughts and experiences from mundane activities to pathos to hope over the next two years. Otto retrieved the diary after World War II and had it translated and published. It would become the biggest selling non-fiction book in the world after the Bible. In English, its title is “The Diary of a Young Girl.”
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Escape from the Asylum by Patricia Milton
Produced by Central Works
By: - Mar 23rd, 2022With her most recent world premiere, “Escape from the Asylum,” Patricia Milton provides a sequel that is starting to suggest a series of crime-procedural, period-pieces of the sort that would run on PBS. Like its predecessor, this comedic play charms with quirky characters, clever dialog, feminist issues, and a plot twist leading to a surprise ending.
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Anastasia
Non-equity National Touring Production
By: - Mar 24th, 2022A non-equity national touring production of Anastasia is traveling the country. The production has included a stop at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This production is a visual delight, and also delivers emotionally. For information about touring stops, go to https://anastasiathemusical.com/tour.
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Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes
2012 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - Mar 25th, 2022In action that shifts back and forth between scenarios, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’ clever 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning “Water by the Spoonful” follows two seemingly independent threads through Act 1. One is a chat group for recovering cocaine addicts. The other concerns two young adult, Puerto Rican American cousins bereaving the passing of one’s mother. The threads will intertwine in Act 2.
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Little Girl Blue by Laiona Michelle
Nina Simone Lives Again in New York
By: - Mar 27th, 2022Laiona Michelle inhabits and projects the great American soul singer, social activist and classical pianist Nina Simone in a compelling stage show. Designed as two of the evenings Nina Simone actually created, mixing storytelling and moving melodies, Michelle brings the Little Girl Blue to life.
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La Cage aux Folles
Produced by Altarena Playhouse
By: - Mar 27th, 2022The musical ran on Broadway for over four years, garnering six Tonys, including the most coveted – Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. Accordingly, any production of “La Cage aux Folles” starts with great material.
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Michel Van Der Aa at the Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Mar 28th, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work.
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Ben Butler
Boca Stage in Boca Raton
By: - Mar 28th, 2022"Ben Butler" is a comedy that takes place at the beginning of the Civil War. The play, by Richard Strand, is part comedy, part historical drama, and part biography. Boca Stage is presenting the play through April 10.
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Composer Jeremy Gill and the Parker Quartet
Premiere of a Kaleidoscope of Fairy Tales
By: - Mar 28th, 2022“Motherwhere” continues Jeremy Gill’s ongoing collaboration with the award-winning Parker Quartet, and is his first work for New York Classical Players. It premieres in New York on April 1. The author of the book that inspired the work, Zsófia Bán, is arriving from Hungary for the performance.
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Kevin Puts Discusses His New Opera
The Hours Premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in the Fall
By: - Mar 28th, 2022The Hours is the highly anticipated new work by Kevin Puts. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce Di Donato will star.
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Dishwasher Dreams at Hartford Stage
Written and Performed by Alaudin Ullah
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Dishwasher Dreams looks through the lens of two generations of an immigrant family. Written and performed by Alaudin Ullah, it is filled with humor but also sharp observations. Ullah was a ground-breaker as one of the first East Asian standup comedians who gained wide appeal.
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Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2022Annie Baker has established herself with a naturalistic stream of plays, including the trilogy taking place in the town of Shirley, Vermont, of which this play is a member. These are narratives about ordinary people doing ordinary things, often written and acted with such uninflected manner as to elevate boredom and long silences as virtues.
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Duke Ellington at Carnegie Hall
American Symphony Orchestra Embraces the Lion
By: - Mar 31st, 2022Leave it to Leon Botstein, America’s great educator, to bring Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige to Carnegie Hall, where is premiered in 1943 as a fundraiser for the Russian war effort, (The world turns.) Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson and Langston Hughes were in attendance that evening. Now Botstein conducting is cool. He often listens and taps his foot, slightly swaying to the improvisatory sections of works performed
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Michel Van Der Aa at Park Avenue Armory
Upload with Julia Bullock and Roderick Williams
By: - Apr 01st, 2022Michel Van der Aa's music theatre works. This is a miracle, because he deploys many instruments, not only a libretto, often based on wild imaginings, yet sensibly based on a very simple story. In Upload, we are in the revere of the last act of Walkerie. Now a father is defying his daughter, not the reverse. The Park Avenue Armory mounts a compelling case fot his work
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Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes
At Long Wharf
By: - Apr 02nd, 2022I found much to like about this show which focuses on Latinx sisters who turn to one of these shows – called Flip It and List It — to sell their family home. The home was built by their great grandfather after he arrived from Mexico in the late 1800s and has been passed down through the generations.
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Berliner Ensemble, Berlin
God Is Not Bashful
By: - Apr 05th, 2022Gott Ist Nicht Schuechtern (God is not bashful) received its re-opening at the New Stage of the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin at the end of March 2022. It is now more appropriate with the war raging in Ukraine.
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