Theatre
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Krapp's Last Tape at NYU
Stephen Rea Stars in the Skirball Production
By: - Oct 19th, 2025Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett is playing at NYU’s Skirball Theater, with the great Stephen Rea in the title role. Years ago, Rea rehearsed this play with Samuel Beckett himself and recorded Krapp’s early memories. It is those old recordings we now hear in this production—Rea, in the present, listening to the voice of his younger self.
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Hard Times: Appalachian Stories by Ron Rash
Word for Word Exquisitely Performs Three Regional Short Stories Without Alteration
By: - Oct 17th, 2025Three short stories span the period from the Great Depression through the end of the 20th century. Though they have little in common, collectively they contribute an insightful portrait of life in a region intimately known and revered by the author.
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Samson et Dalila
West Bay Opera's Fine Production
By: - Oct 14th, 2025The tale from the Bible is brought to the opera stage. The deceitful temptress Dalila seeks not love but destruction and revenge. Though she succeeds, Samson will have the last word.
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Saariaho's Passion in New York
Mannes Opera Presents La Passion de Simone
By: - Oct 14th, 2025Mannes, the most interesting and daring music school in New York, presented Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone at the Nagelberg Theater, just steps from its usual home in the Tishman Auditorium. At the Tishman, works were often presented catwalk-style, the action taking place on a narrow strip in front of the orchestra. At the Nagelberg, director Emma Griffin finally had space to mount the first fully staged chamber version of Saariaho’s oratorio.
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Shakespeare & Company Weekend of Jewish Plays
Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman
By: - Oct 12th, 2025Shakespeare & Company hosted “Celebrating Jewish Plays” from October 10 to October 12, showcasing a weekend of staged readings and a special literary event. We attended Roz and Ray by Karen Hartman. Directed by Daniela Varon it was brilliantly performed by John Douglas Thompson and Abigail Rose Solomon.
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Equity Touring Production of The Wiz
Hilarious and Energetic Production
By: - Oct 09th, 2025An equity touring production of The Wiz is playing an engagement in Miami through Sunday before heading north. The production is high-tech with an Afrofuturist flavor without sacrificing genuine emotion. The Wiz is a 1975 award-winning musical that features an all-Black cast. \
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New City Players Presents 'The 39 Steps'
Hilarious and Energetic Production in South Florida
By: - Oct 06th, 2025New City Players impresses once again with a hilarious and energetic production of 'The 39 Steps.' Under Ali Tallman's brisk, precise direction, the production whizzes by like a bullet train, but allows us to savor the comedy.
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Fall Theater Season Unfolds
New York and Connecticut
By: - Oct 05th, 2025The theater calendars are filling up in both Connecticut and New York. Looking over the planned productions for the fall, a number of them jumped out as being particularly interesting.
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Metamorphoses at Berkshire Theatre Group
Ovid Makes a Splash
By: - Oct 05th, 2025For the final production of the season Berkshire Theatre Group is hosting a pool party at the Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge. Based on Ovid, Isadora Wolfe is directing eleven actors in Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphosis. This lively and inventive production makes a splash
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Park Avenue Armory Hosts 11,000 Strings
Composer G.F. Haas Imagines Space
By: - Oct 05th, 2025Park Avenue Armory is hosting 11,000 Strings, a trsnsportting soundscaoe creaated by composer G. F. Haas. The work is a play on sounds created by the space between two notes.
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Noises Off
Metatheatrical Farce Par Excellence by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Oct 03rd, 2025A full-length play-within-a-play has a cast endure zany pratfalls. Unpreparedness, dipsomania, love triangles, antagonisms, prop misplacements, and more produce endless farce.
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All the Men Who've Frightened Me
La Jolla Playhouse Presents
By: - Oct 03rd, 2025The presentation of All the Men Who’ve Frightened Me comes to the La Jolla Playhouse via it’s DNA New Work Series. The play follows young married couple Ty (Hennesey Winkler) and Nora (Kineta Kunutu) as they move into Ty’s childhood home.
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Chorus Line Still Engaging
At Goodspeed
By: - Oct 02nd, 2025Attention to detail helps the audience immediately form attachments with the cast. Even with the first cuts, you are disappointed that a favorite or two did not make it. By the end of the show, you are upset when a favorite doesn’t make the final cut.
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The 39 Steps
New City Players' Production in South Florida
By: - Oct 01st, 2025New City Players is set to stage a professional production of the stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps." Four performances will portray a variety of characters.
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La Traviata
Avery Boettcher's Performance Highlights Livermore Valley's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 30th, 2025One of the canon's most fabled operas, the story of a frail, doomed courtesan and her star-crossed love for a man from the upper class has resonated with audiences of all ilks for over 170 years. Verdi's sumptuous score with stunning arias and ensembles is matchless.
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Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford
Riotous Laughter.
By: - Sep 30th, 2025If you are lucky enough to have tickets for Noises Off at the Legacy Theatre in Branford, prepare yourself for riotous laughter.This farce by Michael Frayn combines a behind-the-scenes look at a play (Nothing On) as well as the complicated relationships among the cast.
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Art Duty
World Premiere Production by LakeHouseRanchDotPNG
By: - Sep 29th, 2025The absurdist and experimental South Florida professional theater company, LakeHouseRanchDotPNG, is giving the absurdist play, "Art Duty" a fine world premiere production. The production runs one more weekend at Main Street Players' intimate black box space in Miami Lakes. The play reflects the zeitgeist.
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Kim's Convenience
From Stage to Five Seasons on Netflix and Back
By: - Sep 26th, 2025Korean-Canadian immigrant Appa Kim owns a mini-mart in Toronto. He faces challenges in the two areas of greatest importance to him, his family and his business. Those interests intersect as the store sustains the family; as he has no succession plan because his children aren't interested in running the business; and because he has a good offer to sell the store. But isn't it funny how conditions change?
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The Price
South Florida co-production
By: - Sep 25th, 2025New South Florida theater company Bridge Across the Pond has teamed up with Barclay Performing Arts, and The Find Your Voice Foundation to stage Arthur Miller's "The Price." The production will take place in an intimate venue in Boca Raton, Fla.
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The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant
World Premiere at Barrington Stage
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025It’s shoulder season for the arts. With deft serendipity Alan Paul, artistic director of Barrington Stage has maxed on bucolic euphoria by going local with The Weekend: A Stockbridge Story by Ben Diskant. It is being given a world premiere directed by Paul.
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Heebie Jeebies: Tales from the Midnight Campfire
Theatre Lab at FAU in Boca Raton, Fla.
By: - Sep 22nd, 2025Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University's professional resident theater company, presents the world premiere production of "Heebie Jeebies: Tales from the Midnight Campfire."
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Dead Man Walking
San Francisco Opera Reprises 21st Century's Most Successful Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2025Joseph de Rocher faces execution for the grisly murders of young lovers. Though unrepentant, he requests and receives spiritual counseling from Sister Helen Prejean. The opera based on the true story scintillates on all dimensions.
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Carbonell Awards in South Florida
Nominees Announced for 48th Annual Ceremony in November
By: - Sep 18th, 2025The Carbonell Awards, which represent the best of South Florida theater, has announced nominees for the past year. The ceremony will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Florida Atlantic University's University Theatre in Boca Raton. For the first time in a while, the ceremony will take place in Palm Beach County. The Carbonells cover Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Countiess.
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Cosi fan Tutte
Opera San Jose Charms with a Bright Version of the Mozart / da Ponte Favorite
By: - Sep 17th, 2025A small-scale grand opera, Cosi revolves around a bet that two sisters will be unfaithful to their fiances within 24 hours. To tempt the women, the men are required to dress like Albanians, with each man pursuing the other's beloved. Cosi is full of beautiful, if unmemorable music, but the comic chops of the singers are what makes the opera most appealing.
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Last of the Red Hot Robots
World Premiere by South Florida's Latiné Theater Lab
By: - Sep 16th, 2025Latiné Theater Lab has mounted its second ever production, a world premiere of a Science Fiction comedy titled Last of the Red Hot Robots. A social media influencer learns from a DNA test that she is among the 40 percent of individuals who can smell asparagus in their urine. An otherworldly being tells two zoo-goers that ants, not humans, are among Earth’s dominant species.
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