Theatre
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In Bed with Roy Cohn by Joan Beber
Hallucinating with Ronald Reagan and Others
By: - Aug 30th, 2015Imagining life's end as you enter illusion, resistance and acceptance is difficult. It is also difficult to portray. In this imaginative take on the end of controversial Roy Cohn's life, Christopher Daftsios creates a memorable, tortured figure. Directed by Katrin Hilbe to both find intimacy in crucial relationships and a froideur in others, this complex man intrigues to his last breath.
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New York International Fringe Presents Plath
Grease's Cultures Smashes Up Against Poet
By: - Aug 27th, 2015Sylvia Plath knew that her life after death by suicide would be larger than her life in life. The confluence of great gifts and great sensitivity made her life difficult. So too her German parents and then her husband, Ted Hughes. This musical portrait pictures poet Plath in 50's culture, a study of contrasts.
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Comedy of Errors at Old Globe
Crafty Selection Ends Summer Season
By: - Aug 27th, 2015“The Comedy of Errors” is a crafty selection, by Barry Edelstein, to close out the ‘summer season’ at The Old Globe. Under Director Ellis’ creative staging, the masterful production, has been moved up in time from an Elizabethan setting to the jazz-age, sexy, wide-open, ‘laissez les bon temps rouler’ lifestyle of 1920’s New Orleans (NOLA).
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Irish Repertory Theatre's The Weir
Distinctly Carved Characters Channel Ghosts in a Bar
By: - Aug 26th, 2015Season after season for twenty-eight years the Irish Repertory Theatre has produced plays which touch not only the soul of a nation, but the human soul. A culture in which everyone tells stories provides the bedrock for great story-telling literature. Plays like The Weir offer an artful slice of life and capture its poetry and pain. Playwright McPherson loves the monologue, and weaves four as individual stories into the stories of five residents of a small Irish town.
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NY Fringe 2015: Ideas Not Theories
Boston's Reynaliz Herrera Finds the Beat Everywhere
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015In nooks and crannies all over New York, talent is busting out in the 19th New York International Fringe Festival. Herrera is a percussionist who finds the beat wherever she is. In her entrancing concept of a kid in a warehouse music factory, buckets and bikes found lying on the floor offer opportunities for novel and instant sounds. They are even better than chocolate.
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Cirque de la Symphonie at Tanglewood
Three Rings for Pops
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015The circus came to town joining the Pops for perhaps the most fun and entertaining evening of summer at Tanglewood.
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John Douglas Thompson on Ira Aldridge and Audra MacDonald
Twenty Years in the Berkshires with Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 23rd, 2015With the opening of Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company behind him John Douglas Thompson had time for a leisurely breakfast in Lenox. It was the latest in a series of interviews about his classical and contemporary roles that started with Othello in 2006. This is the first of two parts of that recent dialogue
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Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight
Comedy at Chicago's Windy City Playhouse,
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight, the new sexy comedy at the Windy City Playhouse, is a comic farce with a coarse edge. Noel Coward it isn't.
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John Guare Reading Planned for P'Town Festival
More Stars Than There Are in Heaven Based on Tennessee Williams
By: - Aug 21st, 2015During the tenth annual Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, September 24 to 27, there will be a staged reading of a work by John Guare "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" adapted from a short story by Williams.
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Engagements By Lucy Teitler at Barrington Stage
Millenials Hooking Up in World Premiere
By: - Aug 20th, 2015What happens when a woman can't stand her best friend's finance but shags him anyway? It's only sex she reasons and I was drunk. That's about as deep as it gets in a millenial comedy Engagements by Lucy Teitler having a world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Lenox.
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Kafkapalooza at First Floor Theatre
Third Annual Chicago Litfest
By: - Aug 19th, 2015Eight different playwrights dramatize or "are inspired by" one of the stories of Franz Kafka, the late great Czech storyteller, who tried to keep his unpublished works from being published after his death.
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Hubbard Hall Opera Theater
Takes Verdi’s Rigoletto by Storm
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Verdi's Rigoletto is a tragic masterpiece and one of the top ten most performed operas in the world. It can exist on a grand scale, but at Hubbard Hall you will witness the human side of this production. The audience can feel the moving power that sometimes is only delivered in the most intimate of spaces as an exquisite pianissimo whisper.
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Martin Sherman's Bent Revived in LA
At Mark Taper Forum Until August 23
By: - Aug 17th, 2015When playwright Martin Sherman came upon a reference to “pink triangles” in the 1976 play “As Time Goes By”, according to program notes written by American Theatre Magazine editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt, the eureka moment for Sherman was the key element in the creation of his play “Bent”, which went on to debut in London’s West End in 1979, and then on Broadway in 1980.
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An Intervention by Mike Bartlett
Olivier Award Winner Anchors WTF's Nikos Stage Season
By: - Aug 17th, 2015Three time Oliver Award winner Mike Bartlett's An Intervention is having its American premiere anchoring the Nikos Stage programming of the Williamstown Theater Festival. The clever and verbose two hander is being staged with two rotating casts. We saw it with Josh Hamilton and Justin Long.
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John Douglas Thompson in Red Velvet at S&Co;.
Awesome First US Production of Powerful Lolita Chakrabarti Play
By: - Aug 15th, 2015John Douglas Thompson is astonishing in Lolita Chakrabarti's Red Velvet which continues until September 13 at Shakespeare & Company. It tells the true life story of Ira Aldridge the first artist of color to portray Othello on the London stage in 1833.
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John Guare's Adapted His Girl Friday
Screwball Comedy at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Aug 13th, 2015For vintage screwball comedy the John Guare rewrite of His Girl Friday, directed for Barrington Stage by Julliane Boyd, is just awesomely hilarious. It stars Christpher Innvar as the veteran editor and master manipulator Walter Burns, and the wonderful Jane Pfitsch as his ex and star reporter Hildy Johnson. This is the side splitting hit of the Berkshire season,.
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New Musical The Boy from Oz
Based on Songs and Stories of Peter Allen
By: - Aug 11th, 2015We meet Peter Allen as a dance-obsessed kid (played by Garrett Hershey) growing up in rural Australia, then forming a duo and performing in clubs. A chance meeting with Judy Garland (Nancy Hays) results in Allen opening for Garland in London and the U.S. and marrying her daughter, Liza Minnelli (Michelle Lauto).
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A Moon for the Misbegotten in Williamstown
Astonishing Production Stars Audra McDonald and Will Swenson
By: - Aug 09th, 2015This is the fourth time that Long Wharf artistic director, Gordon Edelstein, has worked with the Eugene O'Neill classic Moon for the Misbegotten. To keep it fresh he has changed the tenant farmer Hogan family from Irish immigrants to African Americans. That allowed for casting multiply Tony and Grammy winner Audra McDonald. She appears with her real life husband Will Swenson. The resultant charisma is scorching.
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Tina Packer in Mother of the Maid
S&Co;. World Premiere by Emmy Winner Joan Anderson
By: - Aug 08th, 2015Mother of the Maid, by Emmy winner Joan Anderson, features Shakespeare & Company founding artistic director Tina Packer. She and her partner, Nigel Gore, have returned to Lenox from a national tour of the critically acclaimed Women of Will. The play, directed by Matthew Penn, is having its world premiere through September 6.
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Karen Allen's Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune
Moonstruck in Stockbrdge
By: - Aug 07th, 2015In the two hander by Terrence McNally, Frankie & Johnny in the clair de lune, directed by Karen Allen, the legendary tragic lovers have been transformed into a short order cook (Darren Pettie) and waitress (Angel Desai). It's 3 AM and following what she sees as a one night stand he refuses to leave harboring delusions of love and marriage.
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Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Ken Ludwig Farce at Old Globe
By: - Aug 06th, 2015Most famous for his Tony Award-winning comedy/farce plays “Lend Me a Tenor” and “Moon Over Buffalo”, prolific playwright Ken Ludwig, once again scores with his latest inventive and zany comedy “Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.”
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Boston Midsummer Opera Does "Martha"
Once Popular Opera by Friedrich von Flotow
By: - Aug 06th, 2015"Martha" is famous for two numbers, one of which, "The Last Rose of Summer," is actually an Irish folk song. But most contemporary opera lovers have not heard the entire work. Midsummer Opera's production suggests although the work has its pleasures, it is not soon to become an opera house staple.
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Chekhov's Seagull Roasted in Chicago
Aaron Posner's Sideshow Theatre Sendup
By: - Aug 05th, 2015This play based on Chekhov is a delightful two hours of smart theater that you'll enjoy even if you haven't seen The Seagull more times than you can count. The playbill provides a brief summary of the original, "in case you forgot." Director Jonathan L. Green, who also directed Sideshow's 2014 version, creates a minimalist production that uses original and contemporary pop music and breaks the fourth wall at will to talk with the audience.
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Unknown Soldier at Williamstown Theatre Festival
World Premiere Musical by Michael Freidman and Daniel Goldstein
By: - Aug 02nd, 2015This is the 10th WTF season for Michael Friedman, and 6th for Daniel Goldstein. They have created the world premiere of a musical Unknown Soldier which is one of the bright and promising productions this summer in Williamstown. The project was initiated through a commission from former artistic director Nicholas Martin. It has been brought to fruition by Mandy Greenfield .
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The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare & Company
Hilarious Farce in a Modern Setting
By: - Aug 01st, 2015Taibi Magar, in her directorial debut at Shakespeare & Company, takes audiences on a wild ride through the city of Ephesus, where two sets of identical twins who were separated at birth, collide. What ensues is hilarious, due to the acting skills of the cast and Magar's vision of bringing a modern day spin to Shakespeare's shortest comedy. The result is 90 minutes of rollicking fun.
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