Theatre
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Boston Expressionists Rehung at the MFA
A Major Exhibition of Hyman Bloom is Scheduled
By: - Jun 06th, 2018Until recently the Museum of Fine Arts has neglected artists of Jewish heritage known as The Boston Expressionists. There were a handful of works that were burried in storage. Major works by Hyman Bloom and Karl Zerbe were included in a gift from Saundra B. Lane and William H. Lane. The museum is planning a major exhibition and catalogue for Bloom. It is likely that there will be other projects and publications. There are no current plans for showing or collecting works by Zerbe and Jack Levine.
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Mies Julie by Yaël Farber
Adaptation of Strindberg at Victory Gardens Theater
By: - Jun 05th, 2018In Mies Julie at Victory Gardens Theater, playwright Yaël Farber translates the relationship between a privileged young woman and a servant from Midsummers Eve in Sweden to the Karoo, South Africa, on Freedom Day in 2012, the day commemorating the end of apartheid.
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An American Soldier at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang are Dynamite
By: - Jun 04th, 2018Huang Ruo in music and David Henry Hwang in words ask: What will you do to become American? What will you endure? In a seamless wrought tale of a first generation Chinese American from Chinatown, we watch the world rect to a young man's wish. It is a horrifying story whose conseuqences we have only begun to grapple with. Huang Ruo and Hwang make great opera out of the story.
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Mark Brownell’s Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman
Feminine Mystique at Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Jun 03rd, 2018Trap Door Theatre’s production of Mark Brownell’s Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman, directed by Nicole Wiesner, is a striking example of the company’s highly stylized, choreographed, madcap productions. Eleven performers are in constant motion.
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Morning After Grace by Carey Crim
Senior Moments at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018Seniors are now living longer, healthier and better lives. Add to that little blue pills and it's not just kids who are hooking up. Morning After Grace by Carey Crim explores what happens when the old lady you wake up is just that.
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Freaky Friday the Musical
Book by Bridget Carpenter, Music by Tom Kitt, Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
By: - Jun 02nd, 2018Based on Mary Rogers’ 1972 novel of the same name, Freaky Friday’s popularity is validated by the three film versions that have appeared, with each variant tweeking the storyline. This is the first stage musical effort, and award winning playwright Bridget Carpenter’s adaptation is well suited to the theater with integrated subplots and laugh lines throughout. Tom Kitt’s music is tuneful and bouncy in keeping with the musical theater pop idiom, while Brian Yorkey’s lyrics consistently drive the plot and are full of insight and humor.
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Love Never Dies Actually Should Have
Messy Sequel to Phantom of the Opera at Hartford's Bushnell
By: - Jun 01st, 2018Love Never Dies, the sequel written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Glenn Slater (lyrics) and Ben Elton (book) is based on the novel The Phantom in Manhattan. Of these, only Webber was involved in the original Phantom. It runs at the Bushnell, in Hartford, Conn. through Sunday, June 3
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Exquisita Agonía at Repertorio Español
De Nilo Cruz Weaves Magic
By: - May 30th, 2018Exquisita Agonía at Repertorio Espanol is a tour de force take on modern science mixed with the age old questions about who we are and what we leave behind when we die. Director Jose Zayas has provided a perfect rhythm to the two-act piece by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
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New Holocaust Play by Moisés Kaufman
The Album at Miami New Drama's Colony Theatre
By: - May 30th, 2018The Album focuses on little-known collection of photographs of Nazis partying near Aushwitz.A play by Moisés Kaufman, of Tectonic Theater Project fame, is in development. South Florida audiences are seeing snippets of this new play, running for four performances.
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David Henry Hwang Musical Soft Power
World Premiere at The Ahmanson Theatre in LA
By: - May 29th, 2018Playwright David Henry Hwang’s newest musical play “Soft Power”, now enjoying its world premiere on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, is an excellent example of readdressing the domination of White culture of the West to the rising prominence and influence of Asian societies along the ‘silk roads’ of the East. Hwang is a prolific American-born playwright of Chinese ethnicity.
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Still Waiting for Godot
Irish Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
By: - May 29th, 2018Druid Theatre of Galway, Ireland, has brought its radiant production of Samuel Beckett’s Godot to Chicago Shakespeare Theater for an abbreviated run. Directed by Garry Hynes, Druid’s artistic director, the play stars four renowned Irish actors. The stars are Didi and Gogo (Vladimir played by Marty Rea with Aaron Monaghan as Estragon), the two souls waiting at a country crossroads for someone named Godot.
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Shrek The Musical Near Miami
Stage Adaptation of Popular Animated Film
By: - May 29th, 2018Minimalism proves magical in Area Stage Company's production of Shrek The Musical. It's easy to buy into the world onstage despite visible and simple theatrical magic. Director's approach frames the show as a troupe of players at a modern Renaissance faire.
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Avenue Q in Southern Florida
Potty Mouthed Puppet Show at MNM Theatre Company
By: - May 28th, 2018A production of the raunchy Avenue Q at West Palm Beach-based MNM Theatre Company proves a winner. Puppet work and acting shine in show that parodies Sesame Street, children's programming. The seemingly lighthearted Avenue Q is intended for mature audiences.
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Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain
Launches Barrington Season in Theatre Named for Him
By: - May 28th, 2018Wih medieval ignorance and devastating consequeneces science deniers dominate key cabinet positions in the reactionary Trump administration. Fundamentalism and misinformationm result in parents refusing to vaccinate children. These issues and concerns create uncanny relevance for the revival of Mark St. Germain's 1991 play Typhoid Mary. It launches the season for Barrington Stage Company on the stage that bears his name.
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Backwards from Winter by Douglas Knehans
Center for Contemporary Opera at Symphony Space
By: - May 26th, 2018Backwards from Winter had its premier as part of the New York Opera Fest. All the parts that make up opera are unified on stage to create an enormously satisfying operatic experience.
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Light Shinging in Buckinghamshire at NY Theater Workshop
Ideas Would Inform Our Founding Fathers
By: - May 25th, 2018The presentation of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill at the New York Theater Workshop takes the bold step of exploring the true roots of American democratic values as they emerged in the tumultuous years bracketing the English Civil War 1642-1651.
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Victor/Victoria in Southern Florida
Live Adaptation of Popular Film at Stage Door Theater
By: - May 24th, 2018Stage Door Theater near Ft. Lauderdale mounts an elaborate production of Victor/Victoria. Lavish costumes and scenery combine with style and slapstic in an enthralling musical theater experience. Triple threats are at the top of their craft in this can't-miss production.
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The Originalist by John Strand at Court Theatre
Cat and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
By: - May 23rd, 2018The story told in John Strand’s play The Originalist is set in the 2012-13 term in which Scalia (Edward Gero) hires as one of his clerks a high-achieving, outspoken Harvard Law School graduate who happens to have political views directly opposed to his. Jade Wheeler plays Catherine (Cat) as ready to spar with her boss and mentor on judicial issues that came before the court as well as other political issues
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Tony Nominated Revival of Carousel
Josh Henry Dominates as Bill Bigelow
By: - May 22nd, 2018In a controversial, but Tony nominated revival of Carousel, the verbal and physical abuse of Julie Jordan (Jessie Mueller) by leading man Billy Bigelow (Josh Henry) has been toned down but not eliminated. With the heightened awareness of the Me Too movement one has the right to question why we are seeing this on Broadway? While dated and deeply flawed, arguably, it is one of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
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Equus in South Florida
Peter Shaffer Thriller at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 20th, 2018Equus proves particularly timely after school shootings. Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts powerful production. Intense staging of Peter Shaffer play features strong acting, excellent design work.
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Suddenly Last Summer at Raven Theatre
Enthhralling Play by Tennessee Williams
By: - May 14th, 2018The play is set in the misty garden of a mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District in late summer 1936. Violet Venable (Mary K. Nigohosian), a wealthy widow, is telling the story of her poet son Sebastian, who died under mysterious circumstances the previous summer in Spain.
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Million Dollar Quartet Near Miami
Wildly Successful Show Returns to Actors' Playhouse
By: - May 13th, 2018Million Dollar Quartet ran for more than two months at suburban Miami's Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. The return engagement is just as electric, while proving a bit kinder to eardrums. First-rated performers prove commendable quadruple threats in the roles of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons
O'Neill's Long Day's Journey at BAM
By: - May 13th, 2018From the moment you enter the Harvey Theater at BAM this is an extraordinary experience. The set is by no means a glass house, but it has the effect of one. The walls are semi-transparent. Tall bookcases line the central living room in one corner. Stairs ascend. The front door of the house leads to a walkway visible from the living room. This is the 'home' that will be endlessly called to mind in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Next to Normal in South Florida
Pulitzer-Winning Musical in a Co-Production
By: - May 11th, 2018Measure for Measure Theatre Company and Infinite Abyss Productions mount an emotionally-potent Next to Normal. Actors and technical team vividly capture the highs and lows of a family on the brink. A heart-shattering moment toward the end will hit close to home for many people.
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Top Girls at Huntington Theatre
Caryl Churchill's Vintage Masterpiece
By: - May 08th, 2018Top Girls was first produced at London’s Royal Court Theater in 1982 and is still relevant for its socio-economic and political topics, and it weighs in on women’s places at work and in society. Liesl Tommy directed the play that is considered a Masterpiece.
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