Theatre
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This One’s for the Girls by Dorothy Marcic
St. Luke’s Theatre Off Broadway
By: - Nov 21st, 2017Dorothy Marcic’s This One’s for the Girls evidences the changes in a nostalgic journey through selections from the music catalogue of pop songs performed by women since 1900.
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Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine
Performed by Opera San José
By: - Nov 21st, 2017La Rondine is an outlier in the Puccini canon. If we dismiss his failed first full-length opera Edgar from consideration,
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The Minutes by Tracy Letts
World Premiere at Steppenwolf
By: - Nov 21st, 2017The playwright T racy Letts,, who can be depended upon for complexity, turns a small town city council meeting into a modern morality play. The Minutes is having i ts world Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre.
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HIR near Ft. Lauderdale
Taylor Mac's Outrageous Play at Island City Stage
By: - Nov 20th, 2017Ft. Lauderdale area theater company scores a triumph with its season-opening production of the wacky play HIR. The production is marked by first-rate acting HIR is a meaty play, with suggestions of absurd realism and Greek Tragedy.
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Hannigan and de Leeuw at Park Avenue Armory
Eric Satie's Death of Socrates Performed
By: - Nov 19th, 2017The lights in the corridor outside the Veterans Room in the Park Avenue Armory, dimmed to black and down the hallway proceeded the featured artist, Barbara Hannigan, bearing a candle.
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Love Never Dies in Florida
National Tour of Phantom Sequel
By: - Nov 18th, 2017Memorable music seduces in Love Never Dies. A fine cast is up to the task of singing with flair Andrew Lloyd Webber's soaring songs. The book is not a strong point
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National Sawdust 5 Boroughs Music Fest
New York's Composers a Riot of Song
By: - Nov 17th, 2017In one fell swoop, Jesse Bloomberg, the artistic director for the 5 Boroughs Music Festival, brings together a sampling of composers who are tucked into the nooks and crannies of our city. Assigning them the subject of the city unleashes their spirited take on New York. Songs ranged from poetic evocation to the tiny drama about a struggling barista which was inspired by Monteverdi.
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Alyson Cambridge Sings at The Crypt
William Bolcom's Song Cycle on Sally Hemings
By: - Nov 16th, 2017Composer William Bolcom and librettist Sanda Seaton have drawn a complex and moving picture of Sally Heings in an 18 song cycle. Soprano Alyson Cambridge is Sally and her performances evokes the slave/mistress of Thomas Jefferson.
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The Band's Visit on Broadway
Popular Musical at the Ethel Barrymore
By: - Nov 11th, 2017The Band's Visit restores faith in the goodness of humanity. The new musical adaptation features tender, heartfelt songs. Show is well acted and sung by a talented cast
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Freight with J. Alphonse Nicholson
New Federal and Castillo Theatres Triumphant Team Up
By: - Nov 11th, 2017Howard L. Craft has crafted a superb play in Freight: The Five Incarnations of Abel Green. What was it like to be a young black man in America throughout the 20th century and on into our own? Minstrel, preacher, panther, sub-prime mortgage salesman, Abel Green has tried them all. J. Alphonse Nicholson makes his efforts palpably moving.
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ATCA at Sardi’s
Lunch with Broadway Stars
By: - Nov 10th, 2017A highlight of the American Theatre Critics Association’s New York conference is a now traditional lunch at Sardi’s with stars of current Broadway shows. Cast members of seven shows were represented.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert, (the musical).
Smashing at Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Nov 10th, 2017Musicals are the specialty of the Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) where they are sensationally produced and performed. PCT is now in its twenty-first year of providing quality entertainment to the Coachella Valley, presenting thirteen productions a year that include comedies, dramas, and special events as well as their signature musicals.
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Dominick Argento at Carnegie Hall
New York City Opera Gives Composer a Birthday Bash
By: - Nov 10th, 2017Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Dominick Argento, celebrated his 90th birthday at Carnegie Hall. New York City Opera in its wonderful new incarnation mounted two of the composer's one act monologues in dramatic productions.
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Our Chicago Correspondent Visited New York
Focusing on Off Broadway
By: - Nov 09th, 2017Our correspondant, Nancy Bishop, in NY for the ATCA conference regrets that " I’m a huge Bruce Springsteen fan—I’ve seen him in concert dozens of times, but I thought the tickets to his Springsteen on Broadway show were too expensive. I was able to buy tickets for these off-Broadway plays and pay for dinner as well for the price of one Springsteen ticket." She offers an overview of affordable shows that will be up through the Holidays.
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The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald
Tragedies Told with Marionettes
By: - Nov 09th, 2017A human actor shines in a show about Lee Harvey Oswald featuring marionettes.Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre revisits tragedies in The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald The production's rather tedious at times, lacking dramatic punch
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Broadway's The Play That Goes Wrong
Play-within-a-play on The Great White Way
By: - Nov 09th, 2017Prepare for belly laughs during The Play That Goes Wrong, now on Broadway. Impeccable comic timing is key to delivering abundant laughs. The unexpected is common in this play-within-a-murder-mystery-farce
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A Bronx Tale on Broadway
Musical Adaptation of Gritty Film
By: - Nov 09th, 2017A stylish, relatable musical adaptation of A Bronx Tale is now on Broadway. A tough and tender tale makes us consider our role models
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Band Visits ATCA
From Sardi’s to Broadway
By: - Nov 08th, 2017During last year's NY conference of American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) there was a panel on the development of the musical, then in previews, of what went on to be the Tony winning musical Dear Evan Hansen. Predicting that lightning will stike twice the team for The Band's Visit discussed the transitions from film, to Off Broadway, and now a production at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The smart money is on running the table during the awards season.
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In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
By Chicago's Sarah Ruhl
By: - Nov 08th, 2017It’s a woman’s play, about an era when women’s physical and emotional needs and desires were not only misunderstood, but completely ignored. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play is a charming and titillating look at life in the bad old 19th century. In the playwright's home town it is currently on stage at Chicago's Timeline Theatre.
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King of Stage, a Documentary
Woodie King Jr. Speaks in Juney Smith's Film
By: - Nov 07th, 2017The silhouette profile of Woodie King, Jr. which often shows up in the new documentary in which his life spins out., makes him look like Alfred Hitchcock. In King of Stage by filmmaker Juney Smith, we come to see that he is at least as good a picker of stories as the mystery master.
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ATCA Sondheim Panel
Five Actors Discuss Their Iconic Roles
By: - Nov 07th, 2017The New York conference of American Theatre Critics Association ended on Sunday morning with a Stephen Sondheim panel at the nightclub Don't Tell Mama. Moderated by the critic Rick Pender, the actors Len Cariou, Harvey Evans, Pamela Myers, Kurt Peterson and Teri Ralston recalled originating now iconic roles. On every level ATCA saved the best for last,
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1966 Play by Prolific but Unknown Alice Childress
Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White
By: - Nov 07th, 2017Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White is a powerful drama of black-white relations in 1918 South Carolina, soulfully directed by Cecile Keenan at the Artistic Home. The 1966 play, written by Alice Childress, a prolific if little-known African-American playwright, has passion and relevance for a modern audience.
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Venus in Fur Sizzles
CV REP Theatre in Rancho Mirage, CA
By: - Nov 07th, 2017The on-stage chemistry between Angela Sauer and Patrick Zeller is literally palpable. Their performances fully engage the audience who become fascinated by the push and pull of playwrightDavid Ives’ characters. References to the origin of the title “Venus in Fur” also enliven the audiences’ fascination with the story.
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Berkshire Theatre Awards 2017
Founded in Memory of the Critic Larry Murray
By: - Nov 06th, 2017In his final months theatre critic, Larry Murray, founded Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. In its first annual presenttation of awards "The Berkies" he rallied to enjoy the occasion and to present the first award in his name, for service to the community. We were packed into Mr. Finn's Cabaret last year but last night the event occured before a capacity, attentive audience in the Mark St. Germain Stage of the Pittsfield company. Many more regional companies were nominated and participated in the awards evening. Next year three more companies will be eligible.
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Beckett Trilogy at White Light Festival
Conor Lovett Compels as Molloy, Malone and The Unnamable
By: - Nov 06th, 2017Judy Hagerty Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Ireland has worked for more than two decades to bring the novels of Samuel Beckett to the stage. They are magnificently delivered by Conor Lovett. The Beckett Trilogy, which includes Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable, has its New York premiere in White Light Festival.
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