Theatre
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Ragtime at Lincoln Center
An All Time Favorite
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025This musical, even more so than when it opened in 1998, forces us to confront some truths that we would prefer to ignore. It points out that America has not always lived up to its ideals and, in fact, has at times rejected them.
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From Epic Theater to “Oh, Mary”
Cole Escola Receives the Erwin Piscator Award
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025Honored for Oh, Mary!, a hysterical, historically inaccurate Broadway hit that reimagines Mary Todd Lincoln, the 16th president’s wife, as a perpetually tipsy, attention-starved First Lady who longs to be a cabaret singer. Performed in drag by Escola (who also wrote the play.
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Endgame at the Irish Arts Center
Druid Mounts a Magnificnet Production
By: - Nov 03rd, 2025The Druid theater is mounting Samuel Beckett’s Endgame at the Irish Arts Center in New York. The set is striking. It is curved like the inside of the two garbage cans sitting on the stage, covered by cloth at the start. Inside tthe actual cans are two stumps–a happily married couple, Negg and Nell, played here by Bosco Hogan and Marie Mullen (one of the founders of Druid).
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The Woman in Black
London Production at Center Rep
By: - Nov 16th, 2025An attorney is dispatched to the creepy marshlands of eastern England to clear up the estate of a recently deceased widow. The attorney faces resistance from the local populace, a mountain of unexpected papers to be reviewed, and worse yet, earmarks of the supernatural - furnishings moved when no human is around and appearances of an apparition.
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Liberation
Reflection on Feminism in the 70s on Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025Lizzie wants to learn more about her deceased mother who was committed to women's liberation. The scene shifts between her mother's "conscious raising" group in Ohio in the '70s and Lizzie's interviewing group members in present time.
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Reunions
Two Stories of Revisiting Set to Music Off-Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025In the first of these turn-of-the-20th-century stories, a typist in England is sent unawares on a job that happens to be for her ex-husband who is being knighted. In the other, two Spanish lovers in youth find one another in their 70s.
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Six: The Musical
Long Running Broadway Production
By: - Nov 17th, 2025In this high energy musical, the six deceased wives of Henry VIII compete to find who is the best singer among them. Verbal jabs punctuate heavy rock solos by the contestants.
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Romy & Michele: The Musical
The Movie Comes Alive Off-Broadway
By: - Nov 17th, 2025The two ditsy women who left Tucson for LA are invited to their 10th high school reunion. Wanting to appear successful, they hatch the plot that they invented Post-Its. Sounds plausible. Right?
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Madama Butterfly
One of Opera's Most Beloved by Opera San Jose
By: - Nov 18th, 2025Against social norms, the naive ingenue Cio Cio San marries the footloose U.S. Naval officer Pinkerton. On leaving, he promises to return to her before the robins nest. Some three years later, his return brings surprise and tragedy.
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Ruthless! The Musical
Must-See Production at Island City Stage
By: - Nov 19th, 2025Island City Stage's fine production of "Ruthless the Musical" is a treat to savor. The professional production of the musical spoof runs through Dec. 7. Island City Stage's intimate black box theater is located at 2304 N. Dixie Highway in Wilton Manors.
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Chorus Line at Barrington Stage Company
To Be Directed by Alan Paul
By: - Nov 20th, 2025Barrington Stage Company announce that the company’s 2026 season will feature a 50th Anniversary production of A Chorus Line, the legendary Broadway musical that won nine 1976 Tony Awards and the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. BSC’s production will be directed by Alan Paul. Additional creative team will be announced soon.
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The Monkey King
Spectacular World Premiere by San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 21st, 2025Drawing from one of the four classic novels of Chinese literature, the opera tells the story of the Monkey King who claims to be more powerful than any being on earth other than the Buddha. Nonetheless, his story begins with 500 years of imprisonment but ends with his learning the ultimate lesson in life. It is hard to imagine an opera being more stunning visually.
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Oedipus Rex on Broadway
Outstanding British Production
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Mark Strong is magnificent as Oedipus – a mixture of arrogance and moral certainty and idealism. It is a powerful combination. Yet he can be ruthless and cruel, and always needs to be right; often angry at Creon, his campaign manager and Jocasta’s brother, played by a fine David Carroll Lynch.
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'Better Late' by Larry Gelbart
Pigs Do Fly Productions in South Florida
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025Pigs Do Fly Productions' mounting of 'Better Late' by Larry Gelbart featured impressively convincing performances but scene transitions that lasted too long. The production recently ended following a three-week run.
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Shakespeare & Company Holiday Show
Austen's Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill,
By: - Dec 04th, 2025Shakespeare & Company’s traditional winter show returns this year with Sense & Sensibility by Kate Hamill, a fast-paced, staged reading wherein the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic tale come to life. This year, the Austen-inspired production coincides with her 250th birthday on December 16.
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Chess Revived on Broadway
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jeff McCarthy’s Kunstler at Barrington Stage
Launching the Season with a Message Play
By: - May 22nd, 2017The brilliant and versatile Jeff McCarthy is a perennial star for Barrington Stage Company. In the era of Trump the season opens with a message play Kunstler by award winner Jeffrey Sweet. It transfers from a sold out Off Broadway run at 59East59 Theatres. In this two hander McCarthy is paired with Erin Roche. The young black student aspires to be a lawyer but not like Kunstler who she initially admired but now despises.
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4000 Miles by Amy Herzog
Road Kill at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017As a 91-year-old card carrying member of the Communist Party the always remarkable Annette Miller provides a magnificent performance as Vera Joseph. Her lonely life as a NY widow is disrupted by the middle of the night intrusion of her grandson Leo who has traveled from Seattle by bicycle. A crash of just a couple of days stretches into a month as they clash and argue with loving disaffection. It's complicated. The play 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog launches the season for Shakespeare & Company.
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