Theatre
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'62 Center at Williams Announces Its Program
Launching Twelth Season
By: - Sep 16th, 2016The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance unveiled its twelfth season of diverse and challenging theatre and dance programming for the Williams College community and beyond.
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Fortune's Ire by Ramon Guillermo
At Miami's Storycrafter Studio
By: - Sep 17th, 2016The captivating play Fortune's Ire by Ramon Guillermo is on stage in North Miami’s intimate Storycrafter Studio space, through September 25. It is a finely acted and directed production. It begins with an interesting but seemingly harmless premise: A woman who claims to be suffering from amnesia steps into a psychologist’s office to receive help in figuring out her identity.
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Isabel Huppert is Phaedra(s) at BAM
Triple Queen Seduces at the Harvey Theater
By: - Sep 18th, 2016Phaedra is a character who has fascinated through time. Now the fascinating actress Isabel Huppert plays her. Racine best captured Phaedra's sense that neither lucidity nor sincerity is helpful in resolving emotional problems. Consciousness of failure is a noble human trait. Phaedra knows but her knowledge is useless.
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Gutenberg the Musical
Florida's Sol Theatre
By: - Sep 19th, 2016Audience members play a pivotal role in any show, but especially this one. That’s because the fate of a musical by characters Doug and Bud rests in the pocketbooks and banks of the producers.
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Circle Mirror Transformation
Annie Baker Play at Florida's Area Stage Company
By: - Sep 20th, 2016The plays by the 35-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner, Annie Baker, can be long, and with their pregnant silences, exasperating for audiences. Patience, however, is rewarded by enduring Circle Mirror Transformation which is having its regional premiere at the renowned Area Stage Company in Coral Gables, Florida.
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St. Germain at Barrington and Theatre Works
Revival in Pittsfield and New Einstein Play with Richard Dreyfuss in Hartford
By: - Sep 20th, 2016Since 2009 when Freud's Last Session opened at Barrington Stage there have been annual meetings and numerous e mails with playwright Mark St. Germain. We met recently at Dottie's for brunch to talk about current projects. In Pittsfield there is a revival of Camping with Henry and Tom. At TheatreWorks in Hartford is a production of Relativity about Albert Einstein that stars Richard Dreyfuss. He is also adapting Freud, which has had 200 plus global productions, as a screenplay. He ranks at 14 on the 2016 list of most produced American Playwrights. That does not include his global productions.
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Hamilton Hip-Hops on Broadway
Game Changing Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
By: - Nov 22nd, 2015Hamilton, the hip-hop opera by Lin-Manuel Miranda is the most refreshing, titubating, brilliant and exciting musical to grace Broadway in decades. It follows his earlier, award winning "In the Heights." Now in his mid thirties Miranda is an immense talent to be reckoned with for years to come. He is a force for change in American culture. This hit show is sure to run for years on Broadway followed by a national tour and tons of regional productions. Hamilton is the greatest invention since sliced bread.
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An Act of GOD at LA's Ahmanson Theatre
By David Javerbaum Former Writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
By: - Feb 19th, 2016When GOD, the bearer of good or bad news, makes one of his rare appearances to his earth-bound children, he wisely chooses comedy as the medium of communication. The pain of hearing the truth is mercifully muted by audience laughter in his visit to the Ahmanson Theatre’s current production.
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Willamstown Theatre Festival 2016
Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina Among Stars
By: - Feb 09th, 2016The Williamstown Theatre Festival season, running from June 28 – August 21, 2016, begins on the Main Stage with a production of Tennessee Williams’ Tony Award-winning play The Rose Tattoo (June 28 – July 17) directed by Obie Award winner Trip Cullman and featuring Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei; continues with the world premiere of Boo Killebrew’s comedy Romance Novels For Dummies (July 20– July 31), directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel; and closes with the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Wendy Wasserstein’s An American Daughter (August 3 – August 21), directed by Evan Cabnet.
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The Wedge Horse by Fault Line Theatre
At NY's IATI Theater Mainstage
By: - Feb 18th, 2016Ali Rose Dachis, Jorge Eliezer Chacon and Charlie Thurston star as three teens dealing with angst and loss in the doldrums of Long Island just after the tragedy of 9/11. Written by Nick Gandiello and directed by Aaron Rossini. "The Wedge Horse" has a limited run at IATI Theater Mainstage from January 29 – February 21.
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The Good Girl is Provocative Theatre
Award Winner by Emilie Collyer
By: - Feb 18th, 2016Melbourne Fringe Award-Winning “The Good Girl” by Emilie Collyer stars Leah Gabriel and Giacomo Baessato in a humorous but horrifying glimpse into a future with no human intimacy – just robo-sex encounters! Variation from the “program” can only create disaster! At the upstairs theatre at 59 E. 59 Theaters.
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The Flick at Steppenwolf in Chicago
Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning Script
By: - Feb 18th, 2016The Flick has a history of annoying playgoers. When the play premiered in 2013 at Playwrights Horizons, a well-regarded off-Broadway house in Manhattan, some subscribers were infuriated and threatened to cancel their subscriptions. And when I saw it at the Barrow Street Theatre in the Village last fall, a noticeable number of seats were empty after intermission. The Steppenwolf performance I attended was made up mainly of professional theatergoers, Jeff Committee members and press. No one left at intermission.
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Playwright David Ives Master of Short Form
The Metromaniacs at The Old Globe
By: - Feb 17th, 2016David Ives is a master at translation from French into English and then adapting the source material into a fresh play or a movie script. He likes to call the process: “translaptations”. Two of his “translaptations”; are two of my favorite Ives’ plays: “Venus in Fur” and “All in the Timing”.
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Gloucester Stage Company 2016
Israel Horovitz World Premiere
By: - Feb 16th, 2016The 2016 season features an Israel Horovitz world premiere, two New England premieres, the return of Academy Award-nominated actress, and Gloucester resident, Lindsay Crouse, Managing Director Jeff Zinn’s GSC directorial debut, the re-teaming of last season’s hit, Out of Sterno director Paula Plum and playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer, and the Gloucester Stage debut of Elliot Norton Award winner Benjamin Evett and Tony nominee Barbara Walsh.
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Milk Like Sugar Compelling at Huntington
Teenage Angst In A Difficult World
By: - Feb 15th, 2016Annie and her two teenage best buds want the same things: the hottest new phones, cute boys, designer bags. But when they enter into a pregnancy pact, she wonders if there might be a different path and a brighter future. Huntington Playwriting Fellow Kirsten Greenidge (Luck of the Irish) finds raw humor and grit in this provocative production, torn-from-the-headlines drama.
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Of Mice and Men in Charleston
At Threshold Repertory Theatre
By: - Feb 15th, 2016The classic depression era tale Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is being given a compelling production by Threshold Repertory Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Thomas Merton's The Glory of the Word
Coney Island of the Mind
By: - Feb 14th, 2016Thomas Merton observed that the meditation exercises in the Buddhist tradition in many ways were more refined and subtle than those of Christianity and sought to integrate them into the monastic tradition of the Church without changing the importance of Christian notions of salvation. At a moment when his drift toward Eastern thought was picking up speed he died accidentally from electrocution due to bad wiring in a Thai hotel.
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Shakespeare & Company 2016
Season from May 27 Through September 4
By: - Jan 21st, 2016Shakespeare & Company announceds its lineup for the 2016 summer season, which includes three Shakespeare plays: The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Twelfth Night, plus the Regional Premieres of Or, by Liz Duffy Adams and Lauren Gunderson’s The Taming. Additional titles include Ugly Lies the Bone by Lindsey Ferrentino, a bracing drama fresh from an acclaimed Off-Broadway production, Sotto Voce by Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz, and the return of Stephan Wolfert in Cry "Havoc!"
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2016
Winter/ Spring Schedule
By: - Dec 18th, 2015Music at The Colonial Theatre includes, legendary reggae band, The Wailers (part of the 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival); Grammy Award-winning pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, Richard Marx; Grammy Award-winning Walking In Memphis singer, Marc Cohn and “the godfather of British blues,” John Mayall.
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Tristan and Isolde at the Met Opera
A Musical and Visual Treat
By: - Mar 10th, 2026The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?
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Tiergarten, a Cabaret at Prototype
Andrew Ousley Gives Decadent and Provocative Evening
By: - Jan 19th, 2026The Prototype Festival, founded by Beth Morrison and the producers of HERE twenty years ago, has been at the forefront of new opera since its inception. This season, a cabaret evening created by another new-performance impresario, Andrew Ousley, took a special place in Prototype.
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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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A Class Act
Norman Shabel Produces His Own Play in South Florida
By: - Jun 24th, 2025A South Florida professional production of Norman Shabel's legal drama, "A Class Act" runs through this weekend. "A Class Act" is a call to conscience that we cannot afford to ignore.
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Beetlejuice the Musical
Strong Equity National Touring Production Stops in Miami
By: - May 02nd, 2025It's showtime, as the "ghost with the most" visits Miami to haunt audiences as Beetlejuice. It delivers a winning combination of whimsy, weirdness, and spookiness. An equity national touring production's stops in Miami.
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Don Giovanni Entrances in Philadelphia
Opera Philadelphia Triumphs
By: - Apr 29th, 2025Opera Philadelphia is presenting Mozart’s original version of Don Giovanni at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It’s a lively, visually striking production designed to showcase both the richness of Mozart’s score and Da Ponte’s intricate libretto.
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