Theatre
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Il Trovatore
One of Verdi's Most Challenging and Emotional Operas
By: - Sep 19th, 2023The title character is Manrico, a troubadour and leader of a Roma troupe. Unbeknownst to anyone but his adoptive mother, he is of noble blood and the brother of his arch enemy, Count di Luna. They contest not only in the communal and political world but for the love of a woman, Leonora.
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The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine Starr-Kidd
Theatre Lab in Boca Raton
By: - Sep 21st, 2023The Many Wondrous Realities of Jasmine Starr-Kidd is about a 12-year-old computer genius who convinces her uncle to travel back in time to repair her parents' relationship. A strong Florida Premiere production is running through Oct. 8 at Theatre Lab on Florida Atlantic University's campus in Boca Raton. The play won the 2022 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwrighting Competition at Alliance Theatre, where the world premiere production took place.
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POTUS: Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
A President's Improprieties Trigger a Zany Cavalcade of Events
By: - Sep 22nd, 2023The subtitle of the play suggests where it’s going. But if you think that it may simply be misandristic, that wouldn’t be correct. Given the crazy antics of these females who are close to the president, you could just as easily add the word dumbass in front of the word women. In any case, the result is “POTUS,” a farce that had Berkeley Rep’s opening night audience laughing with glee from start to finish. But it's not for everyone.
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Opera Philadelphia Presents 10 Days in a Madhouse
World Premiere by Rene Orth
By: - Sep 24th, 2023Rene Orth’s opera 10 Days in a Madhouse enjoyed a World Premiere at the Opera Philadelphia Festival. A tip off to where the weight lies in the opera was the stage set, immediately apparent when we enter the Wilma Theatre. The set is dominated by a Richard Serra-like sculpture. Our eyes and then our ears are fixed up where the orchestra tops the sculpture.
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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
Technology Scores Big in the Storyline and the Score
By: - Sep 26th, 2023Composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell strike gold with this focused bio that should find a place on the opera circuit. San Francisco Opera's stunning production along with superb performances make it even better. The title character is portrayed with all of his positive and negative complexity, and even operagoers who learn nothing new about Jobs will find the opera highly involving and entertaining.
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Jersey Boys
MTC in Norwalk
By: - Sep 26th, 2023Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, from struggling to find their “voice” and getting started in 1950s New Jersey to the 21st century.
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La Jolla Playhouse Goes Gonzo
Hunter Thompson Musical Premieres
By: - Sep 27th, 2023The world premiere of The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, is presented by the La Jolla Playhouse. Fifteen years in the making, the musical envisions Hunter’s life from childhood to his tragic death. The book is by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss, music and lyrics by Iconis, and choreography by Jon Rua.
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Dopplegangers at the Park Avenue Armory
Jonas Kaufman and Helmut Deutsch Double Our Pleasure
By: - Sep 28th, 2023I like to attend an event without reading the build-up. This gives me a chance to respond viscerally. Every event at the Park Avenue Armory is tasteful. Pierre Audi, the artistic director, provides this. He is unique in New York.
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Copenhagen Asks What If
Michael Frayn Play At Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Oct 02nd, 2023During the 1920s, when Niels Bohr earned a Nobel Prize in physics, he collaborated as father and son with Werner Heisenberg. In 1926, with an appointment as chair to the University of Leipzig, he became Germany's youngest full professor. In 1941, with great effort, he returned to visit Bohr in Copenhagen. What transpired between them is unknown but is the content of the remarkable play Copenhagen now on stage at Berkshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge.
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Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Opera Philadelphia
Stellar Cast, Moving Production
By: - Oct 02nd, 2023Opera Philadelphia knows how to produce opera. They recognize its multiple forms and multiple historic periods. No company in this country has spearheaded the development of new opera with such an effective program. Yet Philadelphia also continues to produce the tried and true with great style.
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English by Sanaz Toossi
Pulitzer Prize Winning Play at Barrington Stage
By: - Oct 03rd, 2023The play, English, by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toossi, was selected by freshman artistic director, Alan Paul, well before it won the Pulitzer Prize in May. Because of the original actress was unavailable she has stepped in to portray Elham. Thereby, the Barrington Stage production, directed by Knud Adams, is a double triumph. The play is complex, topical and timely while her acting proves to be utterly charming.
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XOXOLOLA
LakehouseRanchDotPng, Is Small Experimental and Absurdist
By: - Oct 05th, 2023LakehouseRanchDotPng mounted a riveting production of the daring show, XOXOLOLA. The small company in Miami focuses on experimental and absurdist works. LakehouseRanchDotPng just won a Silver Palm Award, recognizing theatrical excellence in South Florida.
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Nollywood Dreams
A Riotous Look at Making It in the Nigerian Film Industry
By: - Oct 06th, 2023Set in Lagos in the ‘90s, the story centers on a young woman who hopes to break into show business by responding to an open audition for the lead in a movie. Many universal issues arise, but with the addition of West African context and characters.
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Ivanov - An Immersive Adaptation
Classic Chekhov as Basis for Stylized, Interactive Performance
By: - Oct 09th, 2023Santa Fe based Exodus Ensemble has introduced theater that has become about as immersive as possible, short of the patrons spontaneously driving the narrative. Performed by a troupe of talented and committed actors, this new form of entertainment already has a track record of delighting those who value youth, spontaneity, innovation, audience participation, and rule breaking. Those preferring more established modes may be split on whether this kind of entertainment works for them.
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Of Mice and Men - Opera Version
Livermore Valley Opera's Compelling Production
By: - Oct 09th, 2023Composer/librettist Carlisle Floyd drew on Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck for one of his most successful operas, “Of Mice and Men.” It hews closely to the simple plotline of the novella, which is one of America’s distinguished, if controversial literary works, locally banned on various grounds, including sex, violence, racism, and euthanasia.
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The Color Purple
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 10th, 2023Ivoryton Playhouse’s production of The Color Purple running through Sunday, Oct. 15, deserves big audiences. It is an ambitious show that is very well performed. Unfortunately, some may believe it is too dark.
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Sordid Lives
A South Florida Collaboration Artbuzz Theatrics and Empire Stage
By: - Oct 12th, 2023"Sordid Lives," Del Shores' comedy drama from three decades ago, is running through Oct. 22 in Ft. Lauderdale's intimate Empire Stage. The piece is funny, timely, and entertaining. Cast members find the humanity beneath the characters' eccentricities.
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Noted Russian Director Arrives at LaMama
You've Never Seen This Eugene Onegin!
By: - Oct 11th, 2023"Eugene Onegin in his Own Words" was created by noted Russian director Dmitry Krymov and presented at LaMama in New York. Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov (born 1954, Moscow, Russia) is a Russian artist, scenographer, teacher and theater director, five times Laureate of the Golden Mask award. He left Russia for USA the day after invasion into Ukraine started. Seven of his plays were quickly banned in his country. In 2022 he started Krymov Lab NYC, his new theatrical endeavor.
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Annie on Tour
Non-equity tour plays Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 13th, 2023In a new, non-equity national tour of Annie, the titular character shines bright. Cast is comprised of performers at the top of their game. The Ft. Lauderdale run continues through Oct. 22, before the show heads to Orlando.
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The 12 at Goodspeed Opera House
A Zesty Musical
By: - Oct 13th, 2023The 12 looks at the immediate days following the crucifixion of Jesus through the eyes of his Apostles. Scared, uncertain, questioning. How do they stay safe? What should they do? What do they really believe?
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Lohengrin
A Compelling but Foreboding Realization by San Francisco Opera
By: - Oct 17th, 2023Within Wagner’s canon, "Lohengrin" represents the apotheosis of his Romantic period and the launch point for his magnum opus, the four-opera music drama, the Ring Cycle. As with much of the composer’s output, “Lohengrin” draws from Norse-Germanic mythology with strong fairy tale elements and moral-religious overtones. The libretto is considered by many to be to be his best plotted. Its breadth is breathtaking with themes of love, fidelity, trust, belief, misogyny, sacrifice, betrayal, revenge, tribalism, militarism, and more.
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Sumo at the La Jolla Playhouse
Lisa Sanaya Dring's Play on Wrestling
By: - Oct 18th, 2023Lisa Sanaya Dring’s "Sumo," playing at La Jolla Playhouse, tells the story of six sumo wrestlers living and training at an elite facility in Tokyo.
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Lizzie – a rock concert in forty whacks
Hartford Theatre Works
By: - Oct 19th, 2023Historians and biographers do not agree that Lizzie, in fact, did commit the murders. They point to her uncle as having motive and opportunity, plus the fact that her father was not well-loved in the town.
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Without You
A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical "Rent"
By: - Oct 20th, 2023Anthony Rapp revives his 2013 one-man show, supported by a five-piece rock band. He shares vignettes about the launch of the 1996 rock musical "Rent," singing songs from the musical as well as his own compositions. But his real emphasis is on the deaths of two people close to him. The creator of "Rent," Jonathan Larson died unexpectedly after the dress rehearsal to "Rent," while Rapp's loving mother suffered decline before her death from cancer.
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
First Sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" at Altarena Playhouse
By: - Oct 22nd, 2023The homely but whip smart Mary is the middle sister of five. Unmarried; without a dowry; and at risk of being dispossessed from her family home when her father dies, a suitable marital match would be welcomed. Newly title young duke, Arthur de Bourgh, is visiting for the holidays. While he and Mary share interests, he does have baggage.
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