Theatre
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Collected Stories at Palm Beach Dramaworks
Compelling Production of Donald Margulies Play
By: - Feb 05th, 2017A quality production of a Don Margulies play Collected Stories presented in West Palm Beach leaves You With 'Theater to Think About.' This is a riveting production of an intense play.
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Steep Theatre’s Earthquakes in London
American Premiere by Britain's Mike Bartlett
By: - Feb 02nd, 2017Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes in London is a loopy meditation on climate change, its risks and destiny. The play is performed in a chaotic way, scenes piling upon scenes, couples interrupting and exiting, music and videos starting and stopping.
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Ferdinand von Schirach's Terror
Miami Beach Company's Powerful American Premiere
By: - Jan 31st, 2017Miami New Drama presents American Premiere of "Terror" at Miami Beach's Colony Theatre.
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Our Secrets by Béla Pintér
Short Run at Baryshnikov Arts Center in Manhattan
By: - Jan 29th, 2017Sometimes the very best theatrical productions have only a few performances. Sadly, in this case a prime example of such a loss is Our Secrets, by Béla Pintér and Company. It is performed in Hungarian with English subtitles.
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Cabaret Panel at Theater Critics Conference
Cabaret Performers Tout Their Art Form
By: - Jan 29th, 2017American Theatre Critics Association members learn about Cabaret Eclectic art form is at the center of panel discussion Cabaret shares characteristics with traditional theater.
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Baby The Musical Directed by Ron Celona
At CV Repertory Theatre in Rancho Mirage
By: - Jan 28th, 2017“Baby The Musical” a musical directed by Ron Celona, boasts a cast of ten highly talented singer/actors that shine in the intimate staging space of CV REP. In addition, the production also features four, live off-stage musicians, under the first-rate musical direction of Scott Storr. In 1983 it ran for a year on Broadway.
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
At California's Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Jan 28th, 2017“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, now on stage at Palm Canyon Theatre, is creatively directed, by veteran actor/director Charles Harvey, who brings a wealth of experience that cleverly breathes life into those fifty cast members, including a nine person on-stage “kid’s choir” (perhaps ages six to ten?). It’s a visual feast for the eyes and ears.
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Complicité 's A Disappearing Number
At Chicago's Timeline Theatre
By: - Jan 28th, 2017The story of the Indian math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan—who went from being a clerk in Madras in 1913 to work with a renowned mathematician in Cambridge—is told in a series of overlapping vignettes, beautifully choreographed by director Nick Bowling. Video and other electronic projections greatly enhance the production and our understanding of the math.
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Gloria by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
At Chicago's Goodman Theatre
By: - Jan 27th, 2017Playwright Bradon Jacobs-Jenkins has won several awards, including a “genius” grant in 2015 from the MacArthur Foundation. His other plays include Appropriate, produced in 2013 at Victory Gardens, and An Octoroon. He is a resident playwright at Signature Theatre in New York. Gloria is playing at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim in Miami
By: - Jan 27th, 2017This production, the South Florida premiere of the musical, combines striking stage pictures, stark lighting by Rebecca Montero, eye-catching video projections by Greg Duffy and top-notch singing voices from a talented cast of veterans and younger thespians who nail Sondheim’s complex music. They are accompanied by a vibrant, live orchestra.
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Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky
Harlem Renaissance at Chicago's Court Theatre
By: - Jan 25th, 2017Pearl Cleage has written six plays, nine novels and several nonfiction books. Blues for an Alabama Sky was published in 1999 and premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Blues weaves in references to issues that are still troubling today, such as homophobia, racism and abortion. The Harlem Renaissance is alluded to casually with references to a “party at Langston’s” and the ideas of Marcus Garvey.
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Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison
Premiere at North Coast Rep in San Diego
By: - Jan 24th, 2017The story playwright Jordon Harrison presents in Marjorie Prime is a tale set in the not-to-distant future in which artificial intelligence is used to treat dementia and depression in the forms of “primes”- ‘humanoid’ lifelike robots that speak with patients in the form of lost loved ones and provide companionship for the lonely. Marjorie’s prime is modeled to look and talk like her dead husband Walter, at age thirty.
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Finalists for Theatre's Primus Award
Playwrights Honored by Primus Foundation and ATCA
By: - Jan 24th, 2017The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has announced the names of the seven finalists for the 2016 Francesca Primus Prize. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize, which includes a cash award of $10,000, is given annually to an emerging woman playwright.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses in San Diego
Mannered Tale of Seduction
By: - Jan 22nd, 2017“Les Liaisons Dangereuses” at San Diego Rep Theatre’s Lyceum Space stage, is the third production from the young New Fortune Theatre Company co-founded by Richard Baird and Amanda Schaar. The play centers around two ex-lovers: The Le Vicomte de Valmont (Richard Baird) and La Marquise de Merteuil (Jessica John Gercke) who scheme to ruin the reputation of an innocent young aristocrat Cecile de Volanges (Gentry Roth).
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Men on Boats at American Theater Company
Exploring America's Rivers
By: - Jan 22nd, 2017Men on Boats continues at American Theater Company Men on Boats, a regional premiere now on stage at American Theater Company, is the story of the 1869 exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers for the U.S. government. John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran who lost an arm in the war, leads a government-sanctioned expedition with nine other men and four boats.
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Ibsen Adaption At Huntington Theatre
A Doll's House that Should Not Be Played With
By: - Jan 20th, 2017Nora and Torvald Helmer are living their dream, Now happily married with children and financial security, but previously Nora risked her reputation to save her husband’s life. The consequences test the limits of their love. A new translation by Bryony Lavery of Ibsen’s powerful and groundbreaking classic about marriage, money, and equality shows that in the theatre if it aint broke, don't fix it. Trying to be contemporary and relevant takes skill not just daring.
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Eurydice by Promethean Theatre Ensemble
Sarah Ruhl’s Play Directed by Nicole Hand
By: - Jan 20th, 2017Promethean Theatre Ensemble’s new production of Eurydice, directed by Nicole Hand, is staged in modern dress with a chorus made up of three Stones.
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10 x 10 at Barrington Stage
Fun In February
By: - Jan 19th, 2017The 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to downtown Pittsfield for the sixth year and features music, theatre, dance, film, visual art, spoken word, comedy and more, including BSC’s 10X10 New Play Festival.
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The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict
Graphic Michel Leeds Play at Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Jan 17th, 2017Writer/director Michael Leeds presents an honest, funny, vivid and unapologetically shameless and bold play “The First Step: Diary of a Sex Addict.”
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NY City Opera Revives
Iconic Candide at the Rose Theater
By: - Jan 13th, 2017In the best of all possible worlds, the New York City Opera is alive and well at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center. With Harold Prince at the helm in a production he has mounted for NYCO before, an exuberant romp through Voltaire's classic shows just how live NYCO is in its new incarnation.
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Racine’s Phèdre in Chicago
Trap Door Theatre’s Punky, Funky Production
By: - Jan 12th, 2017Jean Racine was one of the three great 17th century French playwrights, along with Molière and Corneille. He is known mostly for his adaptations of Greek tragedies and wrote Phèdre (inspired by Euripides’ play) in 1677. It’s considered his masterpiece.
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The Most Happy Fella
Breathtaking at Florida's Stage Door Theatre
By: - Jan 10th, 2017Whether “The Most Happy Fella” falls more closely into the realm of musical theater or opera, the show has the necessary ingredients for success. Stage Door Theatre’s breathtaking production offers some of the strongest singing you’ll hear on a stage.
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Chekhov with Cate Blanchett
Andrew Upton Updates Untitled in Four Acts
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Cate Blanchett can do anything, but her Chekhov is unique and apt. Following a triumphant run in Uncle Vanya in 2012, Broadway welcomes her as Anna, in what is probably Chekhov's first play.
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Sandy at Sardi's
Broadway Stars at ATCA Lunch
By: - Dec 05th, 2016During the Fall meeting of American Theatre Critics Association there was the traditional lunch wih the stars at Sardi's. Our correspoindent Sandy Katz was on hand to soak up the fun and files this spirited report.
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Babel from the White Lights Festival
Cacaphony of Words, Dance and Music
By: - Oct 28th, 2016The impact of the Tower of Babel is immediately felt in the silence of the Rose Theater. Watching steel frames in the shapes of cubes and rectangles built up and toppled on stage, seeing people trapped by them and also liberated graphically, drives home our divided world and the need for human unification. These structures both divide and unite. There is hope.
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