Theatre
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Neil Simon's Broadway Bound
Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida
By: - Mar 27th, 2026Pembroke Pines Theatre of the Performing Arts in South Florida has mounted a touching and funny professional production of Neil Simon's hit, "Broadway Bound."
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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Pulitzer Winner at Venice's Stage II
By: - Mar 24th, 2026Years before the #MeToo movement empowered women and began toppling men in power, Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for exploring the subjects of sexual abuse, pedophilia, incest and grooming in her beautifully and sensitively written play “How I Learned to Drive.”
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August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean
A Long Wharf Production
By: - Mar 24th, 2026By the time Gem was written, Wilson had established some themes and techniques that are present in almost all the plays: characters have long soliloquies reminiscent of jazz riffs; supernatural elements or characters with mystical gifts are prevalent. The focus is mainly on African American men. In addition, the settings often revolve around real events.
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World Premiere about High School Girls and Music
By: - Mar 20th, 2026Four high schoolers meet in a summer music program for girls in Berkeley, California. Despite differences in performance preference, classical vs. improv, as well as life styles, the four find an ability to mesh their skills and form friendships.
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Death of a Salesman
Hartford Stage
By: - Mar 19th, 2026Those who have never seen this classic play will probably come away from the Hartford Stage production moved and certainly understanding why it has endured. But they may not truly appreciate how great a play it is.
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Primary Trust
The Effect of Disruption on Routine
By: - Mar 15th, 2026His whole adult life, Kenneth's world has been comprised of working at an independent bookstore and drinking Mai Tais during happy hour at a local tiki bar in upstate New York. When the bookstore is to close, his life is thrown into disarray, but sometimes disruption leads to opportunity. This Pulitzer Prize winning play investigates loneliness and the ability of connectedness to lead to a better life.
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Arms and the Man
G. B. Shaw's Classic Comedy
By: - Mar 13th, 2026During the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a Swiss mercenary fighting for Serbia sneaks into the home of a Bulgarian military leader and establishes a relationship with his daughter. Shaw's anti-war tract also skewers issues of social class and traditional notions of honor.
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Asolo Luminary Award
Tony-winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
By: - Mar 13th, 2026Since they first met at a musical theater workshop in 1982, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have become two of the most important contributors to musical theater. They won Tony Awards in 1998 for their score to “Ragtime,” were nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globes Awards for the animated film “Anastasia” and have enjoyed success with such shows as “Seussical,” “Once On This Island” and the Broadway version of “Anastasia.”
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Hell's Kitchen
Equity Touring Production in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Mar 12th, 2026Hell's Kitchen is an inspiring and invigorating Broadway musical inspired by musical artist Alicia Keys' youth. The jukebox musical features songs composed by Keys.
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre
Promises Greatest Season on Earth
By: - Mar 10th, 2026Boasting in the promotional style of P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers, Asolo Repertory Theatre promises “The Greatest Season on Earth” for 2026-27 with two world premieres, including one about Sarasota’s rich circus history.
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Spirit And The Dust, Deutsches Theater, Berlin
Playwright: Noah Haidle, Director: Anna Bergmann
By: - Mar 08th, 2026This is how the Deutsches Theater in Berlin announced Noah Haidle's most recent play, 'Spirit And The Dust,' which was produced as a World Premiere: "Noah Haidle, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose works have been performed on Broadway, in the US, and worldwide, has created a great play about what we call life: about friendship, late love, and deep pain. After The Homemaker and Birthday Candle at the Deutsches Theater, director Anna Bergmann is staging a world premiere by Noah Haidle for the third time."
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The Counter by Meghan Kennedy
TheatreWorks Hartford
By: - Mar 03rd, 2026Kennedy has written some almost poetic lines. She displays a deep understanding of how bruised people persuade themselves of their own reality. The issues she brings up about love, death, caring and more are done subtlety and in character. No preaching or hitting the audience over the head with a “moral.”
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A New Sound for Sarasota Opera
Under New General Director Richard Russell
By: - Mar 02nd, 2026Audiences should not expect drastic changes, but subtle shifts, like introducing Gilbert and Sullivan for the first time. “I have many guilty pleasures in my life. One of them is ice cream and one of them is Gilbert and Sullivan,” Russell said in the announcement.
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A Case for the Existence of God
New City Players in Wilton Manors
By: - Feb 26th, 2026New City Players has mounted a moving professional production of Samuel D. Hunter's tense but hopeful drama, "A Case for the Existence of God." Hunter's tense yet hopeful drama feels healing in today's divisive world.
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The Recipe at La Jolla Playhouse
The Magic of Julia Child
By: - Feb 23rd, 2026Julia Child was one of America’s most beloved chefs. Her cooking show, The French Chef, which aired originally on PBS can still be found on the internet. Who was Juia Child? How did she come to be this exalted personality?
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My Fair Lady
The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Feb 19th, 2026The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton presents an engaging, yet imperfect professional production of "My Fair Lady" through Sunday. The 1950's musical's basis is George Bernard Shaw's 191 witty and satiric play, Pygmalion.
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Frozen Enchants Little Girls
Adults Not So Much
By: - Feb 18th, 2026Problems begin with the work itself. Frozen does not feature the best music or lyrics. Many of the songs are ho-hum. The story makes the plot of The Little Mermaid or Beauty and the Beast Pulitzer Prize eligible. The music and lyrics don’t elevate the story.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage
Brightening Winter Gloom
By: - Feb 16th, 2026With a cast of Barrington Stage Company favorites, BSC presents 10 fast-paced plays full of drama, comedy, wit, and irreverence, in its annual 10x10 New Play Festival, the cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Upstreet Winter Arts Festival. Now in its fifteenth year, 10x10 will run for five weeks, from February 12 through March 15, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center in Downtown Pittsfield. Get tickets now as this usually sells out.
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Salome
West Bay Offers Solid Production of Strass's Classic
By: - Feb 16th, 2026In a psychopathic rage, Herod's adopted daughter, Salome, calls for the beheading of John the Baptist. Tense music underscores the tense drama.
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Driving Miss Daisy
Collaboration between Palm Beach Dramaworks in Florida and Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts.
By: - Feb 15th, 2026Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in South Florida and Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in the Berkshires are staging the classic play "Driving Miss Daisy." The triumphant production continues through March 1 at PBD and runs May 27-June 21 at BSC. "Driving Miss Daisy" tackles timely themes and opens our hearts to people different from us.
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M. Butterfly
The Story of an Unbelievable Relationship
By: - Feb 14th, 2026In this fictionalized true story, a French diplomat has a 20-year relationship with a singer of Chinese opera. Despite carnal encounters, the Frenchman claims never having known that the modest and delicate creature was a man. David Henry Hwang's story and themes are interlaced with those of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.
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A Case for the Existence of God
New City Players in Wilton Manors
By: - Feb 13th, 2026New City Players is preparing to present its professional production of "A Case for the Existence of God" by Samuel D. Hunter. The production will run from Feb. 20-March 8 in Island City Stage's intimate black box space in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. The play spotlights two struggling men who connect.
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Programming Joy
Cultural Strategy in an Age of Exhaustion
By: - Feb 12th, 2026I keep returning to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance. Few global artists have been as scrutinized and politicized as he has. His communities remain persistently endangered, and his homeland exists within the long, uneasy tensions of American territorial power. By every expectation of protest performance, that stage could have been a site of fury, a reckoning, an indictment, a civic interrogation broadcast to the largest audience on earth.
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The Mountaintop
Oakland Theater Project's Powerful Fantasy About Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: - Feb 09th, 2026Katori Hall's fantasy of MLK speculates his last night before his assassination. He asks a maid who delivers coffee to him in his motel room to keep him company. He finds that this is no working-class simpleton, but a challenge to his assumptions in more ways than one.
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