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  • Falstaff

    A Great Production of Verdi's Exquisite Comic Opera

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 12th, 2023

    Frothy delights like “Falstaff” present particular challenges. Comic timing, enthusiastic affect, and vocal versatility must be heightened. Opera San Jose’s production excels in every dimension. Performers sing with joy and act with charm. All of the artistic elements strike the right note, resulting in a production that glitters.

  • Gloucester Stage Presents Annisquam

    A Dark Psychological Night of Theater

    By: Charles Giuliano - Feb 13th, 2023

    For Rockport psychologist and playwright, Lawrence Hennessy, art imitates life in his new play Annisquam. Is the playwright moonlighting as a shrink or the other way around? Tickets for the three performances are available at Gloucester Stage.

  • Havel's Audience at LaMama

    Czech Marionette Theater Adds Puppets to Wild Brew

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 14th, 2023

    Vaclav Havel’s Audience circulated widely in a sanitized form during the Soviet occupation of his country after the Second World War. During the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968, Havel provided a narrative of the invasion on Radio Free Czechoslovakia and was banned from his work in the theater. To survive, he took a job in the Kraknos brewery in Trufnov. This is the setting of Audience.

  • New York Festival of Song Celebrates Steven Blier

    Anniversary Presents Stellar Singers

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 13th, 2023

    New York Festival of Song Presents  Amor: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Steven Blier's Professional Debut at Kaufman Music Center on February 15, 2023

  • The Science of Leaving Omaha

    World Premiere at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 12th, 2023

    "The Science of Leaving Omaha" is a layered play about the power of words and the desire to matter and be acknowledged. The play's world premiere production is running through Feb. 19 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida. Carter W. Lewis, a playwright who has won several national playwrighting awards, penned the play.

  • Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre

    Bill Irwin and John Douglas Thompson Star in Beckett

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 10th, 2023

    Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is enjoying a must-see run at the Irish Repertory Theatre.  Starring Bill Irwin, the clown and Beckett aficionado, as Clov and John Douglas Thompson as Hamm, here uncharacteristically for Thompson, the “insider.” He is bound to a wheelchair, blind and dependent on painkillers, yet the clear force of the moment. Clov lurches around him. 

  • La Cage Aux Folles, Komische Oper, Berlin

    An Over The Top Production

    By: Angelika Jansen - Feb 08th, 2023

    What a performance of La Cage Aux Folles at the Komische Oper, Berlin!! This musical with music by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein has seen many international interpretations since it opened in 1983 at the Palace Theatre in New York.

  • The Peabody Essex Museum

    Significant Donation by James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes

    By: PEM - Feb 07th, 2023

     The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) announces that longtime museum supporters James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes have made a significant donation to enhance PEM’s 120,000-square-foot Collection Center in Rowley, Massachusetts.

  • & Juliet (and Juliet) on Broadway

    Stephen Sondheim Theatre

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 07th, 2023

    The new Broadway musical – already seen in London and Toronto — & Juliet (and Juliet) has a clever concept, that grows on you. I like the play now more than I did while I was in the theater. The clever idea behind  & Juliet is what saves it from being preachy and predictable.

  • Adriana G. Prat: Topographical Visions

    Hall Space

    By: Hall Space - Feb 10th, 2023

    HallSpace presents paintings by Adriana G. Prat, an academically-trained scientist with a Ph.D. in Biophysics. Adriana’s curiosity for the natural world stemmed in her country of birth, Argentina. In Topographical Visions, Prat shares her awareness of the environmental crisis.

  • Berkshire Opera Announces Season

    Exciting Prospects

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 07th, 2023

    The "innovative, clever and thoroughly professional" BERKSHIRE OPERA FESTIVAL (BOF) announces its 2023 season in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA, and for the first time in New York City. The only company of its kind in the Berkshire region, BOF produces opera at the highest level under the vision of esteemed co-founders Brian Garman (Artistic Director) and Jonathon Loy (Director of Production). The festival has "destination" status. Others write: "No longer need we confine our opera-going to HD films—now we have the highest quality productions and performers in our own backyard." 

  • Everest: An Immersive Experience (Opera)

    Innovative Format for a Compelling Work from Opera Parallèle

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 07th, 2023

    For all of human history and eons before, Mount Everest has stood as steady as a rock – literally. In its eight years, the opera “Everest: An Immersive Experience” has had three very different realizations, even though under the baton of Nicole Paiement for each version. The genesis of the opera’s narrative is a real-life tragedy about three members on an Everest expedition in 1996, two of whom never came back.

  • Opera Philadelphia Mounts Credos

    Margaret Bonds and Carl Orff in One Performane

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 06th, 2023

    In one smashing performance, Opera Philadelphia presented two Credos, statements of belief by composers who lived and worked at about the same time, in strikingly different circumstances. Carl Orff survived the Nazi regime in Germany by not protesting. Margaret Bonds grew up in a thriving Chicago art community.

  • Amore, at Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

    Lighter Fare for Valentine's Day

    By: Angelika Jansen - Feb 06th, 2023

    Valentines Day is drawing near and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany, seems to bow to this occasion with its new production 'Amore' under the direction of Aram Tafreshian.

  • Indecent by Paula Vogel

    West Hartford’s Playhouse on Park

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 06th, 2023

    The play interweaves three elements – the life and works of the Yiddish author Sholem Asch, the history of productions of his play The God of Vengeance, and the stories of the people involved in a Broadway production of the show in the 1920s. It may sound confusing, but it isn’t.

  • Christine Quintana's Espejos:Clean

    Hartford Stage Company

    By: Karen Isaacs - Feb 04th, 2023

    The playwright Christine Quintana makes an interesting point about communication in the program of Hartford Stage’s production of Espejos:Clean. She says, “Every interaction we have with one another is an act of translation.”

  • Irish Repertory Theatre Mounts The Smuggler

    One Man in a Smashing Play

    By: Susan Hall - Feb 04th, 2023

    No small theatrical space is better used than the Irish Repertory Theatre's W. Scott Lucas Studio. The stage fills the room, inviting the audience in. Selections are always apt. Ronan Noone’s  The Smuggler is no exception.

  • Paradise Blue

    Urban Renewal and Human Destruction in 1950s Detroit.

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 04th, 2023

    Dominique Morisseau has written a sometimes funny but always tense noirish drama which Director Dawn Monique Williams plumbs for all its nuance. The actors find the essence of each character and deliver a gripping entertainment.

  • Cashed Out

    World Premiere About Life on the Reservation and Addiction

    By: Victor Cordell - Feb 03rd, 2023

    “Cashed Out” takes place on the Gila River Reservation in southern Arizona, home to the Pima tribe, traditionally noted for their finely woven baskets – tightly twined bowls with crisp angular patterns.  While the compelling narrative gives interesting insights into the culture of the native people, universal themes abound – the power of love in family and friendship; internal struggle and external conflict; forgiveness and redemption.  The production is striking and highly appealing.

  • Rotterdam

    At Island City Stage Near Ft. Lauderdale

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 04th, 2023

    "Rotterdam" is an emotionally-rich play receiving a strong production at Island City Stage. The production runs through Feb. 19 at the company in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. "Rotterdam" opens Island City Stage's 2022-23 season.

  • Last Night in Inwood

    A World Premiere Production by Theatre Lab

    By: Aaron Krause - Feb 03rd, 2023

    Theatre Lab in Boca Raton is producing a fine world premiere of "Last Night in Inwood" byu Alix Sobler. The production runs through Feb. 12. Theatre Lab, Florida Atlantic University's resident professional theater company, is dedicated solely to new work.

  • Barrington Stage Company 2023 Season

    Two Musical Revivals, Two World Premieres, and Two Modern Classics

    By: BSC - Jan 31st, 2023

    Barrington Stage Company (BSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Alan Paul, will produce a 2023 season that will feature two major musical revivals, two world premiere plays, and two modern classic play revivals.

  • Dear Evan Hansen

    A Teenager's Conundrum

    By: Victor Cordell - Jan 29th, 2023

    Anyone who says they never got caught telling a fib is probably telling a fib.  But what is worse is covering the tracks of the first lie with another, and then another, until the wheels finally come off.  Often, the result is loss of respect from others, compounded by loss of self-respect.  If there is a road back, it is an arduous one.

  • Rhiannon Giddens at Carnegie Hall

    Calling Us Home

    By: Susan Hall - Jan 30th, 2023

    Rhiannon Giddens talks often of being comfortable in the crossroads of her art. The new configuration of Zankel Hall in Carnegie looks like a crossroads. The audience comes from every direction to focus on the world being presented. The stage is a hybrid space where different music from different times can exist side by side.

  • Realist Painter Alfred Leslie at 95

    Boston Connections at the MFA and BU

    By: Charles Giuliano - Jan 28th, 2023

    The realist painter Alfred Leslie had a major impact on the Boston Art World. In 1976 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. He also commuted to teach at the Boston University School of Fine Arts.

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