Theatre
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Sweat by Lynn Nottage
Award Winning Play Finally Reaches Broadway
By: - Mar 28th, 2017Like her Pulitzer-Prize-winning Ruined, Lynn Nottage developed Sweat from many on-the-spot interviews with people in this predicament, whose stories and comments flesh out the drama that connects and thrusts home its meaning and impact. it’s moving intact to Studio 54 with only one cast change.
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Dry Powder at Florida's GableStage
Play Pits Employees vs. Bottom Line
By: - Mar 27th, 2017A peak into high-stakes financial world with Southeastern premiere of 'Dry Powder' in Florida . GableStage scores a hit with 'Dry Powder'
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Lovesport by Tony Padilla
Pearl McManus Theatre in Paslm Springs
By: - Mar 24th, 2017In award winner Tony Padilla's latest comedy “Lovesport”, now performing on the Pearl McManus Theatre stage at the Palm Springs Woman’s Club, Padilla takes a look at gay marriage from the point of view of one couple who took the marriage plunge and one couple that didn’t.
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Ensemble Studio Theatre Presents Spill
British Petroleum's Business as Usual
By: - Mar 24th, 2017Spill makes clear its theatrical origins in the first minutes. The wife of one of the men killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowup is being interviewed. Slowly characters appear on stage and speak in bits and pieces about the events she describes. The cacophonous chorus crescendos and then bursts into flames.
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Tech Talk Informs Washburn's 10 out of 12
Tedium of a Play Within a Play's the Thing
By: - Mar 24th, 2017At some two hours and forty five minutes Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 at Chicago's Theatre Wit is a tad too long. But the real time tedium replicates the point of this play which reveals how a play takes its final form through a technical rehearsal. Equity rules limit actors to working for twelve hours with a two hour break for dinner. If you see a lot of theatre this may be a fascinating experience. If not , those looking for an evening of casual entertainment, then caveat emptor.
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Something Rotten's On the Road
Parody of Shakespeare at Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Mar 23rd, 2017"Something Rotten!," the Broadway hit, is on tour with a stop at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
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946 by Kneehigh at St. Ann's Warehouse
Emma Rice Directs Michael Morpurgo's Tale
By: - Mar 22nd, 2017The enchantments of a Kneehigh Production directed by Emma Rice are so various, unusual and satisfying that we suggest you high tail it to Dumbo and catch the show.
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Lauren Yee Wins Francesca Primus Prize
American Theatre Critics Association Recognizes Emerging Female Playwrights
By: - Mar 20th, 2017Lauren Yee wins award for Emerging Female Playwrights. ATCA/ Primus Foundation recognizes playwright for her use of language. Yee was selected from 26 applicants by critics.
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A Special Day In Miami Beach
Miami New Drama Stages Play for Dark Times
By: - Mar 20th, 2017Actors triumphantly illustrate and perform in stage version of award-winning Italian film. Chalk up another success to South Florida's Miami New Drama company.
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Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Mar 20th, 2017The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is 105 minutes of fast-paced Brechtian dialogue and gangland-style murders. It is a brutal and not always subtle satire laced with literary and dramatic references, and performed in a highly physical way.
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Robert LePage at BAM's Harvey Theatre
Portrait of an Artist Building Stories
By: - Mar 19th, 2017What qualities would you guess are incubators of a talent like Robert LePage's? His Dad was a cab driver. He shared a room with two sisters when his grandmother moved into the already crowded apartment to die with Alzheimer's. Memory obsesses LePage. He struggles to memorize "Speak White", a radical poem which details great class divides. Yet this is LePage and you often find yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as his art takes over his pain.
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Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
CV REP Theatre in Rancho Mirage.
By: - Mar 18th, 2017“Disgraced”, staged and insightfully directed by Joanne Gordon, at CV REP, first premiered in 2011 in Chicago, then transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center, then on to Broadway capturing a Pulitzer Prize for Akhtar. The play was the most produced play in America in 2015.
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Huck Finn Stage Adaptation in Ft. Lauderdale
Slow Burn Theatre Company Sets Mark Twain to Music
By: - Mar 17th, 2017Cast Shines in Electric Production of "Big River." Ft. Lauderdale Theater Company is Performing "Huck Finn" Stage Adaptation Through April 2. This South Florida production of "Big River" is a winning combination of strong singing and acting
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O'Neill's Ah Wilderness in Pasadena
At A Noise Within Theatre
By: - Mar 17th, 2017“Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.
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Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson
Lots of Stuff at New York Theater Workshop
By: - Mar 15th, 2017The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Upgrades
Jayne Atkinson Cast and Heather Raffo Gets Weissberger New Play Award
By: - Mar 15th, 2017Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.
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Corneille’s L’IIlusion Comique
Adapted by Tony Kushner for North Coast Rep
By: - Mar 13th, 2017In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.
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The Book Club by Karen Zacarias
Comic Farce A Good Read at Hubbard Hall
By: - Mar 12th, 2017Kirk Jackson has succinctly directed a production of The Book Club by Karen Zacarias.
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Emperor Jones at Irish Repertory Theatre
Obi Abili Takes the Crown
By: - Mar 12th, 2017The Irish Repertory Theatre knows how to produce terrific plays with stunning actors and telling sets, costumes and lights. The Emperor Jones returns with a new Brutus Jones, Obi Abili. It is a smashing success.
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Remembering Critic Larry Murray
Founded Berkshire Theatre Awards
By: - Mar 11th, 2017After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.
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Fiddler on the Roof Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series
By: - Mar 11th, 2017West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series featured the 92-year-old lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick.
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Barrington Adds Bye Bye Birdie
Updates to Pittsfield Schedule
By: - Mar 10th, 2017Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.
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A Few Good Men at St. Joseph Players
Stone's Throw from Yucca Valley Marine Base
By: - Mar 09th, 2017Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.
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Anything Goes at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater
Refreshing, Energetic Rendition of a Cole Porter Classic
By: - Mar 06th, 2017Cast shines in vibrant production of "Anything Goes" at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater through April 1. It is a tasty evening of theatre in every sense.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night
Compelling at Geffen Playhouse
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.
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