Theatre
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Nikos Stage for 2014
Williamtown Theatre Festival Update
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Previously Williamstown Theatre Festival released the Main Stage schedule. Now we are informed of two plays for the smaller Nikos Stage.
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The Who & The What by Ayad Ahktar
World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Feb 27th, 2014In the world premiere of “The Who & The What,â€, at The La Jolla Playhouse through March 9, playwright Ayad Ahktar boldly goes where few Muslim writer’s (except for Salmon Rushdie) have gone before – to the heart of religion – to the family.
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Christopher Durang Comedy at Mark Taper Forum
Vanya and Sonia Masha and Spike
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Christopher Durang, freely borrows characters and plot-lines from Chekhov’s plays, then cleverly remixes and reinserts them into his highly entertaining comedy tale with the result being it’s one of the best ensemble casts to tread LA theatre boards in quite awhile. At Mark Taper Forum through March 9.
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Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond
St. Joseph’s Players of Yucca Valley
By: - Feb 27th, 2014A great deal of the credit for this “family values†production of the bullet-proof On Golden Pond being as successful as it is belongs to Desert Theatre League (DTL) award winning director Rebecca Havely, whose sharp eye filled the stage with props, emotions, and action with tender loving care.
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WAM Theatre Announces 2014 Season
Focus on Women and Girls
By: - Feb 25th, 2014WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven announces highlights of the 2014 season. The Berkshire-based professional theatre company will celebrate its fifth anniversary with plays readings, special events, panel discussions, and educational programs that focus on women artists and stories of women
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Private Lives at Shakespeare & Company
Having a Laugh in the Dead of Winter
By: - Feb 23rd, 2014There isn't a lot of depth and substance to Noel Coward's classic 1930 comedy Private Lives. Under artistic director Tony Simotes the game actors of Shakespeare & Company are striving to create an upbeat hilarious production. Through March 30 theatre is alive and well in Lenox as we wait for signs of Spring.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2014 Season
Programming from Pittsfield to Stockbridge
By: - Feb 21st, 2014"For our 86th Summer Season, we are producing a full schedule of musicals, plays, and special theatrical performances for another wonderful summer in the Berkshires with a splendid cast and crew of talented artists from across the nation,†said Kate Maguire. "Six extraordinary plays: The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, Benefactors, Design for Living, A Hatful of Rain, including two world premieres: Cedars and POE and two wonderful musicals: A Little Night Musicand Seussical highlight our schedule and make for an enjoyable mix of masterful and provocative classics and contemporary works. A special week-long performance of A Lover's Talespotlighting the works of Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Ludlam and Alexandre Dumas and performances by our summer apprentices, our 86th season will be memorable and entertaining for all.â€
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Death of A Salesman Brilliant At Lyric Stage
A Stirring Tragic Story of Life Unfulfilled
By: - Feb 20th, 2014Considered one of the greatest American drama's of the 20th Century, since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as an iconic event of the American theatre. The aging, failing and delusional Willy Loman makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine. Playwright Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are both insupportably grand and pathetically insubstantial. Boston's Lyric Stage Company brilliantly portrays this epic statement of promise and loss and the American Dream unfulfilled.
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The Winter's Tale at Old Globe
First Production by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein
By: - Feb 20th, 2014San Diego's renowned Old Globe’s new Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, wanted his favorite Shakespeare play, “The Winter’s Tale†to be his first directorial production – and he wanted to present it inside, in the Globe’s venerable and famous 75 year-old theatre.
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Barrrington’s Theatrical Speed Dates
Third Annual 10 x 10 Upstreet Festival of New Plays
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Through March 2 Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is presenting its now annual, much anticipated 10 x 10 Upstreet a lively festival of new plays. The pace is fast and furious as one theatrical thumbnail morphs into another and another. After two quick and crammed acts we departed with a head swirling marathon of impressions. There were many joyous nuggets in a mash up of intensive theatre.
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New York Sojourn II & III
Two Great Nights at the Theatre and Two Great Museums
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Visiting new York City means seeing great theatre. Mark Favermann and his companion Lisa saw Pinter's No Man's Land with Sirs Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart and the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with the versatile Jefferson Mays. These shows are two of the 2013-14 Broadway season highlights in the Big Apple. And NYC also means visiting great museums. Two that were visited were MoMA and the Morgan Library.
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The How and The Why by Sarah Treem
No Answers, Only Questions at Chicago's Timeline
By: - Feb 15th, 2014Sarah Treem contributed to Netflix's brilliant House of Cards and works also on HBO series. But she comes from a live theatre background. This is made clear in her intoxicating new play.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Indy
Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre to Feb. 22
By: - Feb 13th, 2014There are no secrets in a beauty parlor where women and their beauticians dish the dirt. Steel Magnolias is best know for the Academy Award winning 1989 film. It was a stage play before that. In a lively and absorbing production it is being staged in Indianapolis at the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre through February 22. If your favorite emotion is, in Truvy’s words, “laughter through tears,†you’ll be right at home.
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Witness Uganda Compelling Entertainment
A Musical Journey of Personal Discovery
By: - Feb 13th, 2014When Griffin, a young New York City actor, volunteers for a project in Uganda, he finds himself on a journey that will change his life forever. Inspired by a true story, this rousing new musical is energetically staged by Tony Award-winning director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The show exposes the challenges confronted by idealistic American aid workers and the complex realities of trying to change the world while changing themselves more. A great entertainment perhaps destined for a long run on Broadway.
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Reading of St. Germain Play at MCLA
Dancing Lessons and Q&A on March 8
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Mark St. Germain is developing a two person play Dancing Lessons to premiere this summer at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It entails a brilliant professor with Aspberger's a form of Autism. He seeks dancing lessons from a resident in his New York apartment building leading to a poignant and humorous relationship. There will be a Q&A following a reading at MCLA on March 8.
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Beautiful—The Carole King Musical
From Brooklyn to Broadway
By: - Feb 08th, 2014Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, currently at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, is another prime example where song and dance, beautifully delivered by a talented cast and crew, trumps the storyline. Carole King attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the same one that I attended. Carole Klein as she was known in those years belonged to Gamma Phi the same sorority as my sister Annette.
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Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana Repertory Theatre
Three Romantic Vignettes
By: - Feb 07th, 2014The author Kurt Vonnegut is remembered as a home town artist in Indianapolis. He is being celebrated with three plays based on romantic short stories at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Rollicking songs and tender ballads add a great tone to the production. “Who Am I This Time" runs until Sunday, February 23.
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Bethany at Old Globe in San Diego
Laura Marks Play Through February 23
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Bethanyâ€, written by playwright Laura Marks and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, is a dark, tragic-comedy that chronicles the efforts of a young single mother who has been caught up in the economic roller coaster of the housing and financial market bubbles of 2009.
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Invasion of Privacy at Dezart Performs
Larry Parr's Comedy/ Drama in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Invasion of Privacy†director Judith Chapman asks the audience in her program remarks to take a step back in time to the 1940’s. That was a time when a woman lawyer was a novelty in the South, and man’s moonshine was nobody’s business, and that an “invasion of privacy†lawsuit was something of a brand new issue, which eventually, became a popular reason for going to court.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf Opens Off -Broadway Feb 15
John Douglas Thompson Stars in Terry Teachout Play
By: - Feb 05th, 2014For the first time Shakespeare & Company in partnership with Long Wharf is sending a production to New York. Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, a member of the S&Co theatrical family, appears as Louis Armstrong in the first play written by Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
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Barrington Stage's On the Town Broadway Bound
Julianne Boyd Discusses the Impact for Her Company and the Berkshires
By: - Feb 05th, 2014During a recent press conference artistic director Julianne Boyd announced the 20th season for Pittsfield's Barrington Stage. She confirmed that last summer's hit musical On the Town is transferring to Broadway. This is a part of a trend for regional theaters to develop shows for New York. We asked Boyd about the impact and implications for the Berkshires and her company.
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In Andrews Brothers The Andrews Sisters a No Show
Switchup at Coyote StageWorks in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 04th, 2014Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs is taking everyone to a small island in the Pacific where three “4F†USO stagehands prepare for the arrival of the Andrews sisters, who are scheduled to perform their USO show for the troops that night. In “The Andrews Brothersâ€, created and written by Roger Bean, it seems the famous Andrews Sisters are a no-show for the troops tonight.
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Robert Falls Directs Luna Gale
The Material Triumphs in Rebecca Gilman's New Play
By: - Feb 03rd, 2014Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman is mounted at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago with its usual style and punch. Todd Rosenthal’s set perfectly captures the multiple settings of human dramas which unfold in this Human Service case. A mother’s home, her child’s, an emergency room and social services office and lunch room open on a turntable and are separated also by the brilliant lighting of Robert Wierzel.
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Julianne Boyd Discusses Barrington’s Season
From High Drama to Three Musicals
By: - Feb 03rd, 2014Now in its 20th year Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass has earned a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional theatre companies. During a recent press conference artistic director, Julianne Boyd, discussed the upcoming season.
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Bill W. and Dr. Bob at the Soho Playhouse
An AA Meeting On Stage
By: - Jan 31st, 2014AA is well established now, but when it was formed almost a century ago, it teetered and tottered into the formation of meetings and the writing of the Big Book. Some movements start with a few passionate advocates. AA was a bit different, because the founders were both alcoholics. They could find no way to stop drinking.
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