Theatre
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New Home for Sarasota Players
Reaching Its Centennial
By: - Feb 09th, 2026As it prepares to open a new home in Payne Park Auditorium later this year, the Sarasota Players is putting a renewed focus on the shows it stages and reconnecting with the community that has helped it near a centennial celebration.
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The Cherry Orchard
Marin Theatre's Take on Chekhov's Classic
By: - Feb 05th, 2026The aristocratic Liubov returns from Paris as she can't keep up with mortgage payments on her estate. The rich parvenu Lopkhin, whose family had worked the estate, has a viable plan to save Liubov and her brother financially, but it would involve destroying her beloved cherry orchard. Sometimes nostalgia gets in the way of sound thinking.
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The Hello Girls
Ross Valley Players' Homage to Brave Young Women in WW I
By: - Feb 02nd, 2026Building on true events and characters, the musical tells of the contributions made by a particular class of women in World War I. For vital battlefield communications in France, General Pershing needed personnel with both telephone operator and French language skills. The answer was ultimately over 200 staff members recruited from the U.S. They were all women. They were The Hello Girls.
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The Cottage
Hartford Stage
By: - Feb 02nd, 2026Admittedly, many in the audience laughed heartily at the antics of the characters. You may also. But if you were expecting sophistication, you will be disappointed.
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Heartbeat Opera Gives Us Manon
Opera Lives in New York
By: - Feb 02nd, 2026Heartbeat Opera is offering a striking new Manon, cut and shaped into a taut hundred minutes, restoring much of the original wit and allowing it to sharpen—rather than soften—the opera’s tragic ending. This one-act chamber adaptation features a new English translation by Jacob Ashworth and Rory Pelsue. Directed by Pelsue with meticulous attention to detail and an unerring sense of pace. Conducted by the inimitable Dan Schlosberg, the production is terrific from start to finish
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Woodie King, Jr. of New Federal Theatre
King's Death Announced
By: - Jan 31st, 2026Woodie King, Jr., founder of New Federal Theatre and a prolific producer and director who dedicated more than five decades to providing opportunities for minorities and women in the performing arts, died January 29 at Weill Cornell Medical Center of complications from emergency heart surgery. He was 88.
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Barrington Stage Update
Four PLays Added
By: - Jan 28th, 2026Barrington Stage Company announces four titles for the theater’s 2026 season, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classics, one of the greatest theatrical farces ever written, and a world premiere play. More productions, concerts, and cabarets will be announced soon.
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What the Constitution Means to Me
A Tour de Force on a Topic of Great Import
By: - Jan 26th, 2026In an autobiographical context, Heidi Schreck analyzes aspects of our Constitution, particularly those that resonate in our current conflictual times. She also contemplates whether it is better to continue amending the existing document or scrap it and start all over again. Jefferson advocated the latter every 20 years.
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Hershey Felder: The Piano & Me
The King of Composer Bios Tells His Own Story
By: - Jan 25th, 2026Hershey Felder's career has been dominated by his creation of one-man plays in which he portrays a composer and performs the composer's works on piano. After Felder's constructing eight well received musical biographies, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents his autobiography set in the same format, with the artist performing works of his own preference and those which were important in his professional development.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
An Innovative Adaptation of a Classic at ACT
By: - Jan 23rd, 2026Having lost the family plantation in Mississippi, Blanche DuBois arrives on the doorstep of her sister Stella and husband Stanley in a working class neighborhood of New Orleans. Sparks fly between the fragile Blanche and the rough Stanley from the outset. No good is likely to come from this punishing relationship.
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Marjorie Prime
New York's Helen Hayes Theatre
By: - Jan 23rd, 2026What struck me after seeing the incredibly acted production of Marjorie Prime at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City was that these two plays (Your Name Means Dream was the other) use AI to provide companionship to elderly people.
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The Little Foxes
Island City Stage
By: - Jan 22nd, 2026Island City Stage's strong production of "The Little Foxes," by Lillian Hellman is riveting. The production finds the humanity in the story while steering clear of excess melodrama.
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Tiergarten, a Cabaret at Prototype
Andrew Ousley Gives Decadent and Provocative Evening
By: - Jan 19th, 2026The Prototype Festival, founded by Beth Morrison and the producers of HERE twenty years ago, has been at the forefront of new opera since its inception. This season, a cabaret evening created by another new-performance impresario, Andrew Ousley, took a special place in Prototype.
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10 x 10 At Barrington Stage
Winter Theatre Quickies
By: - Jan 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.
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Tina Packer's Epic Women of Will
Five Three Hour Performances
By: - Jan 10th, 2026During a remarkable career one of the greatest accomplishments of Tina Packer was her epic series the five part Women of Will. She started writing the extracted texts while a fellow at The Bunting Institute. After she retired as artistic director of Shakespeare & Company she was able to focus on the project. She performed with male partners from the Company at various stages of development. I saw the series performed with Nigel Gore.
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Tina Packer Co Founder of Shakespeare & Company
September 29, 1938- January 9, 2026
By: - Jan 10th, 2026Tina co-founded Shakespeare & Company in 1978 along with a cadre of theater artists, served as its Artistic Director until 2009, and continued to direct, teach, and advocate for the Company until her passing. Her indelible creativity will be carried forward by countless artists, students, colleagues, admirers, and friends, and her influence on the world of Shakespeare will be enduring.
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Irving Berlin White Christmas
At Goodspeed
By: - Dec 19th, 2025The highlight is the dancing. An early number, “The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing,” sets up the expectations with a ballroom number by Phil and Judy. Act two opens with a perhaps over long but spectacular tap number, “I Love a Piano.” It stopped the show.
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Revisiting Les Miserables
Broward Center in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 18th, 2025The equity national touring production of "Les Miserables" has returned yet again to South Florida. The musical, especially the number "Bring Him Home" feels especially relevant at the end of 2025. This production doesn't present the 'Les Miserables' that previous generations experienced.
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Hedda Gabler at Yale Rep
Production Leaves Us Floundering
By: - Dec 15th, 2025Gailus as Hedda gives a performance that emphasizes her manipulative nature so much so that a friend of mine asked if she was a sociopath. The performance doesn’t reveal enough of her depression, despair, and sense of being trapped.
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All Is Calm
Must See at Playhouse on Park
By: - Dec 13th, 2025Must see theatre at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford.
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Art
In the Eye of the Beholder
By: - Dec 11th, 2025In any long-term relationship, patterns of behavior, control, dominance, and power are fixed. But when one person begins to change the unwritten contract, it causes ripples. The other person often retaliates or fights back to reestablish the status quo.
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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Upcoming production by New City Players in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 10th, 2025The Ft. Lauderdale area's New City Players will present its holiday show at a different location this year. 'It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play' by Joe Landry will take place at General Provision Downtown, 300 S.W. 1st Ave., Suite 155, Fort Lauderdale.
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A Christmas Carol in South Florida
The Wick Theatre and Museum Club
By: - Dec 09th, 2025The Wick Theatre and Museum Club in Boca Raton, Fla. presents a heartwarming and invigorating production of 'A Christmas Carol.' The production features a large, talented cast that disappears into their characters.
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Stomp
30th Anniversary Tour of Percussion Extravaganza
By: - Dec 08th, 2025For 90 minutes, a cast of eight produces sounds from a slew of props. The additions of rhythm and combinations of sounds produce an orchestration of beats. Together with choreographed movement, the result is a unique and energetic show.
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Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare
Imaginative Production by Thinking Cap Theatre in South Florida
By: - Dec 08th, 2025Thinking Cap Theatre in South Florida presents the rarely staged William Shakespeare play, Cymbeline. This unwieldly play is a mashup of genres and styles. Scholars refer to Cymbeline as Shakespeare's "Kitchen Sink" play.
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