Theatre
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War Stories from Opera Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art Provides Dramatic Setting
By: - Sep 18th, 2017Inaugurating your season with a festival is setting the entertainment bar a notch higher. One after another as this festival week unfolds, dramas of high intensity, great variety set in unusual locations proceed to both jar and move. It is a mind-blowing experience.
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How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
At Custom Made Theatre in San Francisco
By: - Sep 16th, 2017This production that delves into molestation is a worthy realization of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning and otherwise highly decorated play, How I Learned to Drive. The story of Li’l Bit unfolds in a non-linear, but clearly demarcated fashion, from the character’s eleventh year until she is 35.
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Neil Simon Comedy at North Coast Rep Theatre
By: - Sep 15th, 2017North Coast Repertory Theatre (NCRT) artistic director David Ellenstein’s selection of “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers”, is a definite winner in kicking off its 36th season. It’s one of Simon’s best comedies. Deftly directed by Christopher Williams, the four person cast takes to this play like ducks to water.
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The Violin at 59E59 Theaters
World Premier of Dan McCormick's Play
By: - Sep 15th, 2017Playwright Dan McCormick has taken a Stradivarius left in a cab and told the story of a changing neighborhood in the East Village and values that do not endure. A thank you concert won’t cut the mustard as thanks in this section of town. What will?
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Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte
Produced by Opera San Jose
By: - Sep 13th, 2017Opera San Jose opened its 34th season with a handsome production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s popular opera buffa, Cosi Fan Tutte. A winsome cast of strong singers with fine acting chops yields a highly entertaining outcome.
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Deirdre of the Sorrows at City Lit Theatre
Irish Drama by John Millington Synge
By: - Sep 13th, 2017John Millington Synge, who is best known for his plays Playboy of the Western World and Riders to the Sea, left an unfinished draft of Deirdre of the Sorrows when he died in 1909. The play was finished by William Butler Yeats and Synge’s fiancée, Molly Allgood.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Barstow Performing Arts Center
By: - Sep 12th, 2017There are several versions of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” that have been performed. Each production company gets to select the version that suits their audiences the best. Director Havely has chosen the “meta-mix” version for Theatre 29. Audiences will be seeing an all-singing and dancing production. No written dialogue. Director Havely is fortunate in that her cast – all twenty-three singer/dancer/performers – are committed, dedicated, and eager to strut their stuff in this format.
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Rashomon by Philip Kan Gotanda
Ubuntu Theater Project in Oakland
By: - Sep 04th, 2017Philip Kam Gotanda’s version of Rashomon serves the original well in its shape and dramatic intensity. Director Michael Socrates Moran has engineered a minimalist look and feel that serves the script well. Ubuntu’s clerestory-like, almost-in-the-round theater, with its wooden framing around the stage, gives the appearance of a primitive cage for blood sports.
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Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose
One Man Play by Ed Dixon at Barrington Stage
By: - Sep 04th, 2017There was a brief run, just six performances, of Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose, written and performed by Ed Dixon at Barrington Stage Company. Himself a distinguished character actor, this is a drama about drama, in the telling of a father/ son mentoring relationship with the renowned British born character actor George Rose.
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Noni Stapleton at 59E59 Theater
Turn de Force One Woman Quartet
By: - Sep 01st, 2017Noni Stapleton is a mesmerizing artist. Her writing gifts launch the characterization of a quartet of characters at 59E59 Theaters. Stapleton plays three humans and a charming, and then not so charming cow. You can't take your eyes off her.
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Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue
Chicago's Strawdog Theatre
By: - Aug 31st, 2017Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue is not a treatise on meat-grilling. It’s a satire that roasts our attitudes about race, class and money. It’s a funny, biting family story with a twisty, turny plot that never stops surprising you.
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Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Douglas Morrisson Theatre
By: - Aug 30th, 2017The play is set in 1941 and to an extent is time-bound. Older patrons and history buffs might better understand some references to Judith Anderson, 'Hellzapoppin', and Teddy Roosevelt's life. More so, a running gag in the script suggests that the menacing Jonathan looks a lot like Boris Karloff. The original Broadway production had a distinct advantage on this point as Karloff was cast as Jonathan.
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The Sunshine Boys in The Sunshine State
Neil Simon Comedy at Margate's Stage Door Theater
By: - Aug 28th, 2017Neil Simon's one-liners are a refreshing change-of-pace to unsettling plays in the era of Trump. Actors nail comic timing in Broward Stage Door Theater's production of The Sunshine Boys. Director and cast don't forget the pathos in the Neil Simon's play
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
Israel Horovitz Play at Gloucester Stage
By: - Aug 28th, 2017Forty years ago playwright Israel Horovitz was a founder of Gloucester stage which has produced many of his 70 plus plays. Many have Gloucester settings but the latest Out of the Mouths of Babes is a part of a Parisian trilogy with one more to go. It was produced last summer at Cherry Lane in Manhattan. It is having its New England premiere in Gloucester and debuts in London this fall.
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Dell'Arte's Calisto and Cunning Vixen
Two Worlds Mix and Match in Opera
By: - Aug 26th, 2017Separated by almost three hundred the years, the full productions of Dell’Arte’s annual festival both looked at how two worlds mix and match in Calisto and The Cunning Vixen. Both productions were at once delightful and moving.
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Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble Untamed
Impeccable Opera Produced with Verve
By: - Aug 25th, 2017Opera is a form comprised of many elements. Seldom are all of them addressed successfully. Dell'Arte Opera Ensemble succeeds in producing intriguing and complex theater with attention to every detail. How do they do it, opera after opera, concert after concert?
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Shorts Gone Wild in South Florida
Annual Short Play Festival at times a hoot
By: - Aug 22nd, 2017Audiences choose the order of the plays in annual "Shorts" festival. Actors bring comic energy to roles in production of popular theatrical event. Relevance not hard to spot in largely-escapist shows
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Robin Hood the Musical by Kem Ludwig
World Premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre
By: - Aug 21st, 2017San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre has the honor of mounting the World Premiere of Ken Ludwig’s newest comedy/farce “Robin Hood”, deftly directed by longtime stage and TV veteran Jessica Stone.
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Ivan Fischer's Don Giovanni
Mozart at his Most Sublime
By: - Aug 20th, 2017Ivan Fischer, the great Hungarian conductor, returns to Mozart's original version of Don Giovanni. Putting on a production from the Don's point of view, everything is a body. Furniture, peasants, chorus all are wearing white body suits and often strike arresting poses. This concept invites us to listen more closely to the terrific Budapest Festival Orchestra and the singers.
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Sophie Treadwell's 1928 Machinal
Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center,
By: - Aug 19th, 2017Machinal, a new production of a neglected 1928 play by Sophie Treadwell at the Greenhouse Theater Center, is stunning in its balletic staging and the nuanced performance of Heather Crisler, playing the Young Woman.
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Hamlet in San Diego
Lowell Davies Outdoor Festival Theatre
By: - Aug 16th, 2017“Hamlet” once again graces the Lowell Davies Outdoor Festival stage as part of the Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival. The ‘melancholy Dane’ and his travails is crisply directed by the Old Globe’s Erna Finci Viterbi artistic director Barry Edelstein, who caps off another winning season of plays and musicals selected and produced under his stewardship.
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Company by Stephen Sondheim
Stunning Revival at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 15th, 2017This season Julianne Boyd has taken another crack at Sondheim's Company and critics appear to be unanimous that a sensational production is on the short list of her best work. She is noted for loving musicals and this one is a corker.
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Broken Box Mime Theater in Bennington
Brooklyn Based Ensemble on Tap
By: - Aug 15th, 2017Award-wining ensemble, Broken Box Mime Theater will host an Open Studio Share at the Bennington Center for the Arts on Sunday, August 27 at the conclusion of a week-long residency
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True West Explodes in Ft. Lauderdale
Late Sam Shepherd's Play in Florida
By: - Aug 14th, 2017New City Players presents a blazing production of True West. The Sam Shepherd play sizzles in sunny, suffocating South Florida Expect plenty of fireworks in powerfully acted production.
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Actually at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Maat the Ancient Egyptian Feather of Truth
By: - Aug 14th, 2017At the end of a night of binge drinking the Princetown freshmen Tom (Joshua Boone) and Amber (Alexandre Socha) hook up. In the clear night of morning was she raped?. They were so drunk that neither can recall details. It is up to a review panel of faculty to hear both sides and decide on appropriate action. It is a poignant and timely issue as lives are in the balance on college campuses all over America.
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