Theatre
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The Petrified Forest By Robert Sherwood
!935 Gangster Play Revived by Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 05th, 2018During the 1930s in media, movies and popular culture gangasters and bank robbers were regarded as Robin Hood folk heroes. That's a theme of this revival of Robert Sherwood's depression era drama The Petrified Forest. It is being given an entertaining production by Berkshire Theatre Group.
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Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle
World Premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Aug 05th, 2018In Manahatta, playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle has written an illuminating, provocative, disquieting, and totally entertaining play that depicts the early days of the white man’s arrival on Manhattan in concert with high finance and Lanape life in the 21st century.
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Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson
Oregon Shakespeare Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2018Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will tells with comedic embellishment the true story of the publishing of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, commonly known as the First Folio. Oregon Shakespeare Festival gives a fine rendering of the amusing play, appropriately at its outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre venue.
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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh
Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company
By: - Aug 02nd, 2018The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh with stutter steps, in a single 90 minute act, morphs from a side show curiosity to harrowing social justice theatre. It is a world premiere co production of Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. It moves this fall from Pittifield to a run Off Broadway.
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The Demon at Bard's Summerscape
Anton Rubenstein Re-Introduced in America
By: - Jul 31st, 2018Leon Botstein is presenting Anton Rubenstein’s The Demon at Bard’s Summerscape. Annually, he offers meritorious works, long buried or ignored by opera companies. He makes the case now for Rubenstein.
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Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand
New York Theatre Workshop Thrills
By: - Jul 30th, 2018The House That Will Not Stand, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz at the New York Theater Workshop, is a lyrical journey through the last days of French Louisiana. Playwright, Marcus Gardley, gives us a lush and evocative script filled with humor, bite and innuendo. New Orleans Creole society developed the custom of Placage, which under French [and Spanish] law allowed a quasi- legal position for inter-racial unions and a legal status for the children. Families of mixed racial heritage held important social and financial positions. It is within this context that Gardley's drama unfolds.
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The Big Bang In Suburban Miami
Musical-Comedy Send-up at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Jul 30th, 2018The Big Bang is presented as a backer's audition for a musical behemoth that's destined to be a sure-fire flop. This musical-within-a-musical returns by popular demand for the third time at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Two actors, accompanied by a talented musician on the keyboard, deftly play multiple roles in a whirlwind theatrical experience. The Big Bang is one of Actors' Playhouse' most loved shows in its 30-year history,
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El Coronel No at Repertorio Español
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Adaptation Delightful
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Repertorio Español, the superb repertory company in Manhattan, is presenting El Coronel No based on a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez adapted by Jorge Ali Triana and Veronica Triana. It is a Spanish version of Waiting for Godot. It is also a delicious take on insanity – for forty years, the Colonel has expected a letter each Friday acknowledging his pension. For forty years it has not come.
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Seared by Theresa Rebeck
Hilarious Foodie Spoof at Williamtown Theater Festival
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Seared by Therese Rebeck is her third play to permiere at Williamston Theater Festival. Set in a 16 seat boutidue Brooklyn restaurant Seared is a hillarious sendup of trendy foodie fanatacism.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim at San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2018James Lapine’s book of Sunday in the Park with George focuses on change, not just change in art, but in life. Stephen Sondheim is noted as perhaps the most intellectual among composers of musicals
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Lempicka an Art Deco Musical at Williamstown
World Premiere by Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould
By: - Jul 26th, 2018Fleeing the Russian Revolution Tamara Lempicka (born Maria Gorska, 16 May 1898-18 March 1980) settled in Paris. Initially the couple with an infant girl survived selling the last of family jewlery. Her husband, Tadeusz Lempicki, a lawyer and aristocrat at first refused to get a job. She took up painting society portraits as a means of supporting their daughter. During the 1920s she was a leading exponent of the Art Deco style. It fell out of fashion during the depression and war years. Williamstown Theatre Festival has a world premiere musical about her life and career.
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Pericles Is Rarely Performed
At Marin Shakespeare Company
By: - Jul 24th, 2018The storyline of Pericles is the odyssey of the title character. It shares devices with other Shakespeare comedies, such as Twelfth Night’s shipwreck separation of characters then thought dead. But in the clever opening challenge, opera lovers will find what may have been the inspiration that ultimately led to Puccini’s Turandot.
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White by James Ijames
By Berkeley's Shotgun Players
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Based on a real life incident, the informal push for diversity or inclusion in the arts motivates James Ijames’s (pronounced I’ms) complex, provocative, and entertaining play White.
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Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor
A New Opera Initiative
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Nicholas McGegan and his San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor. The pastoral opera was written to commemorate the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King George II to a German princess. This is Handel the craftsman at his best, with enchanting melodies, cascades of inventive orchestration and vocal fireworks.
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Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
Comic Drama near Miami
By: - Jul 23rd, 2018Five Women Wearing the Same Dress speaks to today's male-dominated society, while also producing laughs.The Alan Ball comic drama runs through Aug. 12 at Miami Lakes' Main Street Players venue. Despite some flaws, the company turns in a solid production of a play that unites a group of women.
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Creditors by August Strindberg
Mid-summer Dark Comedy at S&Co.
By: - Jul 23rd, 2018The Swedish realist/ naturalist playwright, August Strindberg (1849-1912) published Creditors in 1889. Some 129 years later it is the first play by the Swedish modernist to be produced by Shakespere & Company. Since it is a must see play of the Berkshire season you wonder what took them so long?
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Ninagawa's Macbeth at Mostly Mozart
Lincoln Center Farewell to Japanese Classic
By: - Jul 22nd, 2018Ninagawa’s Macbeth packs a wallop at the Koch Theater. Presented as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, Shakespeare in Japanese sits well in the highly dramatic Gabriel Fauré Requiem, and other music of the classical West.
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Annual ATCA Conference in Wisconsin
Critics gather at American Players Theatre
By: - Jul 21st, 2018American Players Theatre is nestled amid the beauty of southwest Wisconsin's countryside. The American Theatre Critics Association gathers in hills of rural Wisconsin for theatergoing and discussion. This year's APT line-up features strong acting, design work. American Players Theatre focuses on the classics.
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Ivo van Hove's The Damned
Hatred as Source of All Evil at Park Avenue Armory
By: - Jul 21st, 2018The Damned by Ivo van Hove, based on the screenplay of Luchino Visconti, tears through the Park Avenue Armory. The stage is in four parts, if you don’t include a scene which goes out onto the Park Avenue where a shocked dog walker sees the mad Sophie von Essenbeck running wildly in search of her son.
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American Players Theatre 2018
Productions in Spring Green, Wisconsin
By: - Jul 20th, 2018Performances of American Players Theatre (APT). More coverage of the ATCA conference in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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American Players Theatre
ATCA Conference at Spring Green, Wisconsin
By: - Jul 19th, 2018American Players Theatre (APT), a highly respected outdoor repertory company, hosted the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) to several top-flight theatrical performances and well-organized extracurricular activities during ATCA’s annual conference at Spring Green, Wisconsin, in July, 2018.
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On A Clear Day at Irish Repertory Theatre
Charlotte Moore Keeps Lerner Alive!
By: - Jul 19th, 2018On a Clear Day You Can See is running at the Irish Repertory Theater. Charlotte Moore adapts and directs this musical in an intimate production. The story has been pared down and shaped to display the lush score of Burton Lane. The cast has been reduced to 11 and the chamber orchestra four instrumentalists multi-tasking on cello, harp, flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, violin and viola. The result is delightful theater.
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Spring Green Wisconsin
Conference for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jul 19th, 2018Spring Green is an arts center in nearby south central Wisconsin that’s easily accessible to Chicagoans interested in theater and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. In a long weekend, you can see classic theater at the American Players Theatre (APT) on a hilltop in Spring Green and tour Taliesin, the home, studio and school built, rebuilt and rebuilt again by Frank Lloyd Wright, his apprentices and family.
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A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydou
Farce at Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2018As in typical French farce fashion there are misunderstandings, sexual innuendo, doors which lead to near collisions and misidentifications. The play is set in the late 1800s during what is called “La Belle Epoque.” It involves upper middle class people; infidelity or the appearance of it plays a major role.
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Queens by Martyna Majok
At La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Jul 19th, 2018With the current production “Queens”, the La Jolla Playhouse mounts a powerful drama about the plight of both legal and illegal immigrants, and their desperate drive to remain in the United States, in order to make a better life for themselves and their separated families, some of whom remain back in the countries they fled.
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