Theatre
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A Streetcar Named Desire
New City Players near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jul 23rd, 2024New City Players' current professional production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" sizzles. The production runs through Aug. 4 in Island City Stage's blackbox theater. The company uses space and budget limitations to the production's advantage.
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The Great American Mousical
The Legacy Theatre
By: - Jul 24th, 2024The plot is simple; a Broadway theater is about to be demolished while in the basement, a company of mice rehearses their own “musical.”
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Boeing Boeing at Barrington Stage
Comedy Takes Flight
By: - Jul 25th, 2024Now retired Julianne Boyd returns to Barrington Stage Company to direct the comedy/ farce Boeing Boeing. She has selected a dream team of BSC frequent flyers, Christopher Innvar as the scheming bachelor, Bernard, the nubile Mark H. Dold a visiting long lost friend Robert, and Debra Jo Rupp, a comedic national treasure as Bernard’s maid, Berthe.
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Pamela Palmer by David Ives
World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 27th, 2024The highlight of a scaled back Williamstowm Theatre Festival season was the world premiere Pamela Palmer by the renowned playwright David Ives. With a noir approach he would have us accept the improbable. His tale of class struggle is set in the mansion of the unhappy housewife who has hired a detective.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo's Masterpiece Works Well as a Stage Musical
By: - Jul 29th, 2024The deformed hunchback Quasimodo has suffered a life of abuse and isolation as the cathedral bell ringer. When he has the chance to interact with other people, he endures scorn from many, but the beautiful Roma girl Esméralda is kind. Quasimodo's cruel guardian Frollo, the Deacon of the Cathedral, who despises the Roma but is smitten by Esméralda, intercedes with unhappy consequences.
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The Prom
At Playhouse on Park
By: - Jul 30th, 2024The Prom is worthwhile seeing because of the fine performances and choreography.
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The Islanders by Carey Crim
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 01st, 2024Carey Crim has written a slow, intricate two-hander that takes patience to absorb us into the incremental pace of the Island. Director Reggie Life and a superb cast (Michelle Mountain and "ranney") have meticulously involved us in their struggle for meaning and endurance.
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Mark St Germain Explores Forgiveness
World Premiere for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2024Inspired by a newspaper article, Forgiveness is set in Minnesota where prisoners are allowed to plead their case in front of the Governor, in a bid to be returned to society. In this interactive production, audiences help determine who is worthy of forgiveness.
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Bulrusher - The Opera
World Premiere Pulitzer Finalist Play by West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 05th, 2024A black female foundling with a gift for telepathy is becoming a woman. Her world of isolation in a white, northern California town is pierced by the arrival of another young black woman from Alabama. Multiple conflicts ensue among the diverse characters. The lush music appeals and performances are first rate.
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Legend of the Ring
West Edge Opera Produces Wagner's Condensed Ring Cycle for a Third Time
By: - Aug 06th, 2024In four operas and over 15 hours of running time, Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle spins historic Germanic legends embellished by the composer's own fancy. David Seaman edited the compendium into a 3 1/2hour condensation. The flavor of Wagner's rich romantic music is retained, but while the general plotline is honored, it is jumpy and loses some continuity. Nonetheless, this piece gives a strong flavor of the highly respected yet controversial body of work.
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N/A by Mario Correa at Mitzi Newhouse Theater
Past, Present and Future of US poitics
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Mario Correa’s play N/A is thoroughly entertaining. The two-hander is at the Mitzi Newhouse in New York through September 1. Holland Taylor and Ana Villafane star. Diane Paulus directs.
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The Prom
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The Prom is not a great musical, but it is an entertaining show that goes way above what is sometimes created.
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A Shonda in South Florida
World Premiere at The Foundry
By: - Aug 10th, 2024The world premiere production of a musical adaptation of Wendy Graf's play "A Shonda" is underway in South Florida The winning production runs through Sept. 1 at The Foundry in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. This is a visceral production in the intimate Foundry space.
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Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione
Soars at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 10th, 2024For a first attempt, however, Frangione is a promising playwright with a great gift for dialogue. On every level this was a delightful performance. The director, Braha, evoked the best from two superbly trained classical actors, Burrows and May, seen here in vernacular form.
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Derecho at the La Jolla PLayhouse
Timely Take on Identity
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Derecho is the latest work mounted by the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. The play, Derecho, follows two second-generation Latina half-sisters Eugenia and Mercedes, played by Ashley Alvarez and Caro Guzman, respectively.
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The Master and Margarita at the 86th Street Theater
Moscow Ambience Is Wonderful
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Alexei Burago has directed Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita at Theatre 86 in New York. Jean Claude Van Italie did this stage adaptation, which follows the novel closely.
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The Righteous
Outstanding World Premiere Commission from Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 14th, 2024David's life is traced from caring high school friend to pastor committed to good works to politician whose goal is to satisfy constituents rather than his soul and the people closest to him. Along the way, he compromises his own morality and ultimately questions the path he has taken. Many issues of evangelical Christianity and the 1980s surface in this compelling new opera.
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The Elixir of Love
Donizetti's Frothy Comedy at Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 15th, 2024Poor Nemorino loves rich Adina. We know how those stories go. Nemorino is aided by a placebo. Snake oil salesman Dulcamara has sold him a potion to make him irresistible to Adina. In the end, the hero inherits a fortune, which makes him irresistible to every girl on the planet.
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Staged Reading of St, Germain Play
The Magdalene in Pittsfield
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Barrington Stage Company will present a staged reading of The Magdalene, a new play by Associate Artist Mark St. Germain, on Sunday September 1 at 3:00pm at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
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Der Rosenkavalier
Santa Fe Opera's Delightful Strauss/von Hofmannsthal Comic Opera
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Impoverished Baron Ochs wishes to marry Sophie, from a nouveau riche family. Through Ochs' cousin The Marschallin, young noble Octavian agrees to present the customary silver rose to the intended bride. But alignments of romance and convenience shift in this thoughtful comedy that is Strauss's most endearing work.
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The NIght Alive
Dark Comic Drama of Life on the Fringe in Dublin
By: - Aug 25th, 2024Tommy and Doc exist on the outside fringe of Irish society. When Tommy saves streetwalker Aimee from a beating by her ex-boyfriend and takes her in to recover from her injuries, new problems follow. Playwright Conor McPherson explores the survivalist lives of Dublin's underbelly, full of challenge but with occasional redemption.
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Die, Mommie, Die!
A Hilarious Comedy Classic in South Florida
By: - Aug 28th, 2024Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale is presenting a deft comedic production of the hilarious parody, Die, Mommie, Die! Prolific and talented playwright Charles Busch penned the play. Busch has fun with Greek tragedy and 1960s melodramatic films known as Grande Dame Guignol Cinema.
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Human Error
Town Hall's Humorous Look at IVF, Medical Error, and Politics of Division
By: - Sep 01st, 2024When a liberal couple learns that their embryo stored at a laboratory has been mistakenly implanted in a conservative Christian wife, the two couples meet to try to resolve the catastrophe. The story follows the bumps along the way for the following nine months, finding a highly entertaining balance between humor and conflict.
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4 Guys Named Named José...and Una Mujer Named Maria
A Latin American Jukebox Musical at 6th Street Playhouse
By: - Sep 01st, 2024Four young men from different Latin American heritages meet in Omaha, Nebraska. When joined by a young woman, Maria, song breaks out. The plot is superficial, but the song and dance will arouse feelings of nostalgia for those familiar with the music of the region.
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Winter Season at '62 Center in Williamstown
Performance Programming at William College
By: - Sep 06th, 2024Kicking off our visiting artist series, the CenterSeries, is Vuyani Dance Theatre performing Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro on Thursday, September 26th. Physically charged and visually striking,?the work?is choreographed by South African native and internationally-known choreographer Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.?Cion?draws inspiration from author Zakes Mda’s novel, Cion?, and Ravel’s Boléro. It is, in?Maqoma’s?words, “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
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