Theatre
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Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta
At A Red Orchid Theatre
By: - May 04th, 2022Last Hermanos by Exal Iraheta, a Chicago-based Salvi-American, was developed as part of the Martha Heasley Cox Virgin Play Festival at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and was further developed by A Red Orchid Theatre, which produced it as an audio play last year. This is the play’s theatrical world premiere.
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Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out
Broadway Revival at Helen Hayes Theater
By: - May 04th, 2022Take a star baseball player who is talented, thoughtful and charismatic and see what happens when he announces that he is gay. What is the effect on his longtime friend? the locker room? What happens later on when a red-neck rookie is called up from the minor leagues? Does this one announcement cause a championship team to struggle?
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American Buffalo by David Mamet
Nick Pepe Makes the Play Live
By: - May 04th, 2022American Buffalo, David Mamet’s great play, is running on Broadway now with a stellar cast. Lawrence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss give us Donny, Teach and Bobby, pacing the thrust stage chock full of junk like pieces of junk themselves. Bobby is a junkie. All three men have a false belief that they can alter the downward trajectory of their lives.
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Bob Fosse’s Dancin'
at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - May 08th, 2022There are stars just waiting to explode into supernovas when Bob Fosse’s Dancin' opens in New York during the 2022-2023 season, as director and musical stager Wayne Cilento (who won the Tony Award for his star turn in the original production) brings his revived and re-imagined production back to New York.
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Alice Childress at Theatre for a New Audience
Brilliant Production Highlights a Formidable Playwright
By: - May 06th, 2022Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) brings us Alice Childress’ 1962 play, Wedding Band. It is set in a South Carolina backyard and the bedroom of Julia Augustine, a Black seamstress who is loud and proud with her neighbors, and a soft and loving companion to a German baker, Herman. He is white. They are celebrating their tenth anniversary of not-being-married,. Miscegenation is banned by law.
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The Belle of Amherst
This Time in Front of a Live Audience.
By: - May 09th, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks, which co-produced 'The Belle of Amherst' last year, will remount the production in front of a live audience. Last year, the pandemic prevented audience members and performers from being in the same space. The remount will run from May 20-June 5.
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Joshua Henry at Barrington Stage Company
10th Anniversary of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
By: - May 10th, 2022Barrington Stage Company (BSC), celebrates the 10th Anniversary and Re-Opening of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center with Broadway’s Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys, Hamilton, Carousel) in an Encore Concert, Joshua Henry Up Close, on Sunday, May 29 at 8:00 p.m.
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The English Concert at Carnegie Hall
Harry Bicket Delights with Handel
By: - May 11th, 2022Long before Richard Powers wrote the mega bestseller "Overstory" celebrating man’s relationship with trees, Handel wrote one of the most beautiful arias in the history of song. The cruel King Serse (Xerxes in Plutarch) opens the opera named for him with an aria celebrating a tree’s understory, its shade. Emily D’Angelo, a glorious mezzo who has graduated from Cinderella’s Prince to a role as King this season, was masterful in her presentation of this love song to a tree. To be sure, it’s a bit weird. So too the tangled love relationships in this opera.
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X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Composer Anthony Davis
By: - May 11th, 2022The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) and Odyssey Opera, two of today’s leading innovators on the classical musical scene, present the New England premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis’s seminal opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (1986) on June 17, 2022, at the Strand Theatre, a short distance from the house where Malcolm Little lived in his teenage years in Roxbury. This sprawling, genre-bending biographical opera unfolds the astonishing life of one of the most misunderstood men in history.
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Victoria Bond's Gulliver Travels to New York
Doug Fitch Discusses His Sets
By: - May 12th, 2022On May 13, Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival and Mostly Modern Projects co-present staged scenes from Victoria Bond's puppet operetta How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct. The production features puppets created by Doug Fitch, the renowned visual artist, designer and director, and libretto by Stephen Greco, prize-winning screen-writer and novelist, complementing the music by Victoria Bond. Fitch also directs the production.
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Water by the Spoonful
A New City Players Production in South Florida
By: - May 16th, 2022Water by the Spoonful is a powerfully symbolic play about moving on from emotional pain and addiction. New City Players' strong production ended on Sunday, May 15.
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Phil Kline Coming to MASS MoCA
Bang on a Can Member is a Musical Omnivorei
By: - May 17th, 2022Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA present LOUD Weekend, a fully loaded eclectic super-mix of minimal, experimental, and electronic music over three days throughout the museum’s expansive campus. Phil Kline will be featured. With Jim Jarmsuch he will be improvising on loud guitar,
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for colored girls who have considered suicide
Ntozake's Classic Lives at the Booth Theater
By: - May 19th, 2022"for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf " is having a brilliant re-incarnation. The stage is lit only by the abstract chiaroscuro photos projected on soft screen, like the hazy landscape. A quiet light reveals Lady In Brown (Tendayi Kuumba) as this rhythmic dance poem begins. “Dark phases of womanhood , of never having been a girl..” Her movements are as powerful and sensuous as the words, with a spiritual nod to African roots.
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Monument, or Four Sisters (A Sloth Play)
By Sam Chanse, Produced by Magic Theatre
By: - May 19th, 2022I know. Your first question will be “What’s with that name?” Each of the three elements in the title reflects something of significance in the play. It wouldn’t be my choice, but at least you can say that it represents the many layered nature of the narrative.
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Puppetopia Festival at HERE
Master Puppeteer and Artist Basil Twist Presents
By: - May 21st, 2022The Dream music puppet program was inaugurated at HERE in 1998. The iconic puppet drama Symphonie Fantastique premiered that year. its creator, Basil Twist now leads the program. Puppetopia, presenting new work, returned to the stage in the spring 2022. Each of the shows represented a twist on conventional puppetry.
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The Elliot Norton Awards
Presented by Boston Theater Critics Association
By: - May 23rd, 2022The Boston Theater Critics Association's 39th Elliot Norton Awards stream live May 23 at 8 PM. Winners of over two dozen categories will be announced during the virtual ceremony. John Douglas Thompson receives the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence,
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VOLT Festival in New York
Plays by Karen Hartman at 59E59 Theaters
By: - May 23rd, 2022Karen Hartman’s work launches VOLT at 59E59 Theaters, an unprecedented festival of three simultaneous off-Broadway premieres by a single author. Denver Theater Center presented the world premiere musical Rattlesnake Kate, book by Hartman with a score by Neyla Pekarek earlier this year.
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Adapted Chekhov's The Seagull
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - May 25th, 2022Steppenwolf Theatre’s new production of Seagull—adapted, translated and directed by Yasen Peyankov—is set in a large country house in the Russian countryside. The time is indeterminate and the dialog is modernized. But it’s still Chekhov, so everyone is miserable.
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The Belle of Amherst
A Remount by Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 25th, 2022More than a year after co-producing a filmed production of "The Belle of Amherst," Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida presents the show live. The Belle of Amherst is a one-performer show about the life of Emily Dickinson. Dickinson, a world-famous poetess, lived from 1830-1886 in Amherst, Mass.
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Which Way To The Stage
Robert W. Wilson Theater Space
By: - May 25th, 2022As the lights go up, standing in front of the stage door of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, we find ourselves in the midst of an intense and rapid rat-a-tat-tat- conversation between Judy, a rather plain-looking, dressed down Judy (Sas Goldberg) and the obviously gay (he makes no bones about it), Jeff (Max Jenkins), two theater loving actors, and longtime best friends since college.
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The Drag at Provincetown Theatre
Banned on Broadway in 1927 Now a Smash
By: - May 26th, 2022Heading into Memorial Day weekend after our smashing opening of Mae West’s 1927 banned-from-Broadway The Drag, the tickets are selling quickly, and the raves are pouring in…
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Shakespeare & Company Stages An Iliad
MaConnia Chesser as The Poet.
By: - May 27th, 2022Adapted from an acclaimed translation by Robert Fagles, An Iliad refreshes Homer’s world classic and transforms the epic poem into a riveting account of the Trojan War, told in the present-time complete with nods to modern-day events.
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Hat Matter: Thoughts of a Black Mad Hatter
By Michael Wayne Turner III
By: - May 28th, 2022On a line-by-line basis, the text of “Hat Matter:…” is dramatic and compelling. Audiences will find much to cheer and reflect upon. Some tracts may seem stream of consciousness and disjointed, but overall, the language is colorful and riveting, and the thoughts are profound. “
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Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls on Broadway
Poet's Language Dances
By: - Jun 02nd, 2022Ntozake Shange began developing poems on the West Coast as a spoken word artist. She speaks to girls who are maturing into women. Black girls, yes. Yet white girls understand her too. What did words mean to Shange? Her sister Ifa Bayeza describes it best. They dance off the page with flourish and drama and beauty.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
50th Anniversary Rouring Production
By: - Jun 02nd, 2022The Olivier Award-winning 50th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar is playing in Miami. The production originated at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. At the center of the production is a very human Jesus.
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