Theatre
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Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor
A New Opera Initiative
By: - Jul 24th, 2018Nicholas McGegan and his San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra performed Handel's Atalanta at Caramoor. The pastoral opera was written to commemorate the marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and son of King George II to a German princess. This is Handel the craftsman at his best, with enchanting melodies, cascades of inventive orchestration and vocal fireworks.
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Sunday in the Park with George
Sondheim at San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Jul 29th, 2018James Lapine’s book of Sunday in the Park with George focuses on change, not just change in art, but in life. Stephen Sondheim is noted as perhaps the most intellectual among composers of musicals
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Seared by Theresa Rebeck
Hilarious Foodie Spoof at Williamtown Theater Festival
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Seared by Therese Rebeck is her third play to permiere at Williamston Theater Festival. Set in a 16 seat boutidue Brooklyn restaurant Seared is a hillarious sendup of trendy foodie fanatacism.
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The Big Bang In Suburban Miami
Musical-Comedy Send-up at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Jul 30th, 2018The Big Bang is presented as a backer's audition for a musical behemoth that's destined to be a sure-fire flop. This musical-within-a-musical returns by popular demand for the third time at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre in Coral Gables. Two actors, accompanied by a talented musician on the keyboard, deftly play multiple roles in a whirlwind theatrical experience. The Big Bang is one of Actors' Playhouse' most loved shows in its 30-year history,
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El Coronel No at Repertorio Español
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Adaptation Delightful
By: - Jul 29th, 2018Repertorio Español, the superb repertory company in Manhattan, is presenting El Coronel No based on a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez adapted by Jorge Ali Triana and Veronica Triana. It is a Spanish version of Waiting for Godot. It is also a delicious take on insanity – for forty years, the Colonel has expected a letter each Friday acknowledging his pension. For forty years it has not come.
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The Demon at Bard's Summerscape
Anton Rubenstein Re-Introduced in America
By: - Jul 31st, 2018Leon Botstein is presenting Anton Rubenstein’s The Demon at Bard’s Summerscape. Annually, he offers meritorious works, long buried or ignored by opera companies. He makes the case now for Rubenstein.
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Marcus Gardley's The House That Will Not Stand
New York Theatre Workshop Thrills
By: - Jul 30th, 2018The House That Will Not Stand, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz at the New York Theater Workshop, is a lyrical journey through the last days of French Louisiana. Playwright, Marcus Gardley, gives us a lush and evocative script filled with humor, bite and innuendo. New Orleans Creole society developed the custom of Placage, which under French [and Spanish] law allowed a quasi- legal position for inter-racial unions and a legal status for the children. Families of mixed racial heritage held important social and financial positions. It is within this context that Gardley's drama unfolds.
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The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh
Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company
By: - Aug 02nd, 2018The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh with stutter steps, in a single 90 minute act, morphs from a side show curiosity to harrowing social justice theatre. It is a world premiere co production of Barrington Stage and Ma-Yi Theatre Company. It moves this fall from Pittifield to a run Off Broadway.
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Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson
Oregon Shakespeare Company
By: - Aug 04th, 2018Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will tells with comedic embellishment the true story of the publishing of Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, commonly known as the First Folio. Oregon Shakespeare Festival gives a fine rendering of the amusing play, appropriately at its outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre venue.
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Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle
World Premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Aug 05th, 2018In Manahatta, playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle has written an illuminating, provocative, disquieting, and totally entertaining play that depicts the early days of the white man’s arrival on Manhattan in concert with high finance and Lanape life in the 21st century.
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The Petrified Forest By Robert Sherwood
!935 Gangster Play Revived by Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Aug 05th, 2018During the 1930s in media, movies and popular culture gangasters and bank robbers were regarded as Robin Hood folk heroes. That's a theme of this revival of Robert Sherwood's depression era drama The Petrified Forest. It is being given an entertaining production by Berkshire Theatre Group.
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I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Revised Script of Popular Musical In South Florida
By: - Aug 06th, 2018West Palm Beach's MNM Theatre Company mounts an I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change for the 21st Century. The production's additions include a focus on technology in dating and updated cultural references. A vigorous quartet of performers prove multi-threats with their strong singing and acting.
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The Only Opera by Claude Debussy
At West Edge Opera
By: - Aug 07th, 2018Claude Debussy’s only opera, the tragic Pelléas & Mélisande, is considered one of the most important 20th century operas and a highlight of French music. West Edge Opera has produced an absorbing realization with strong performances and simple but striking visuals in its home for this season, the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, California.
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Teatro Nuovo's Bel Canto at SUNY Purchase
Thunderbolts Out of the Blue
By: - Aug 07th, 2018Will Crutchfield’s Bel Canto operas were always a highlight of the Caramoor season. He has now moved to the Performing Arts Center at Purchase, which offers more space, closer to New York. His inaugural program unfolding over 10 days, offered a master class and smaller concerts interspersed with the semi-staged productions of three operas.
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Hand to God at TheatreWorks
Rude, Raunchy, and Riotously Funny
By: - Aug 08th, 2018The promotional material says that “you’ve been warned – This play is rated R for rude, raunchy, and riotously funny!” Certainly it is both of the first two; how funny you find it will depend on your sense of humor and your view about religious jokes
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Mata Hari at West Edge Opera
By Matt Marks and Paul Peers
By: - Aug 08th, 2018Opera permits some amount of spoken dialogue, often resulting in a reclassification of the piece, as opera buffa or operetta. Here, the title character, Mata Hari, is a spoken role. Unfortunately, supertitles are not provided for the spoken word, and many details of the story are unnecessarily lost to audience members who can’t hear all of the dialogue clearly.
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The Way the Mountain Moved
By Idris Goodwin at Oregon Shakespeare Festiva
By: - Aug 08th, 2018he Way the Mountain Moved is situated in Utah, a crossroads of the west and the state in which the eastbound and westbound building of track would meet in 1869. Leland Stanford would drive the golden spike of completion at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory in 1869.
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The Member of the Wedding
Williamstown Revises Carson McCullers Play
By: - Aug 10th, 2018It took five years for Carson McCullers to write the novel The Member of the Wedding published in 1946. She adapted it for stage with a January 5, 1950 Broadway opening and 501 performances. It was produced by Young Vic in London in 2007. It has been revised by Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Bridget Kibbey at The Angel's Share
A Unison Green-Wood Concert in Brooklyn
By: - Aug 09th, 2018Andrew Ousley continues to present top musical talent in unusual but intriguing settings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. On a dark and stormy night, an audience of new music appreciators were captivated by the prospect of whiskey in a cemetery followed by a walk through beautiful grounds and an ineffably beautiful concert in the Catacombs of the land marked Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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Constellations Collide In South Florida
New City Players Closes Season with Nick Payne Play
By: - Aug 10th, 2018Ft. Lauderdale's New City Players concludes season with a mixed-bag production of Constellations.Actors are convincingly sweet, touching and argumentative in play about the multiverse and quantum mechanics. Skillful lighting and sound effects help make New City Players' production riveting.
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Cabaret Artist Sydney Weisman Back Stage
Who Put the Chutzpah in Broadway?
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Cabaret artist Sydney Weisman provides a wonderful musical journey well worth listening to with songs written by the Royalty of Broadway: The Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, Frank Loesser, Kurt Weill, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a host of other iconic musical giants of Broadway’s music.
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Barefoot in the Park
Neil Simon at San Diego's Old Globe
By: - Aug 11th, 2018The author of some 60 plays, screenplays, and three novels over the years, Simon, at 91-years of age, still takes pen to paper (probably a yellow-lined legal pad). San Diego’s renowned Old Globe Theatre is currently staging one of Simons’ earlier, highly successful and blisteringly funny romantic comedy plays “Barefoot in the Park”; seamlessly and smartly directed by Jessica Stone.
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The Fabulous Lipitones in Pittsfield
By John Markus and Mark St. Germain
By: - Aug 11th, 2018Whitney Center for the Arts presents the Berkshire Premiere of The Fabulous Lipitones by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, a fully staged Musical, directed by Monica Bliss and Musical Director Jeff Hunt with Choreographer Ruslan Sprague, August 10-19th.
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Dangerous House by Jen Silverman
Powerful World Premiere at WTF
By: - Aug 12th, 2018Anchoring the season of Nikos Stage at Williamstown Theatre Festival is Dangerous House a riveting social justice drama. It took years and multiple drafts for Jen Silverman to polish a harrowing play set during the World Cup in South Africa. It focuses on the systemic rape and murder of lesbians. There was indiffernce to these crimes in the black community on the part of government and the police.
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The Originalist at 59E59 Theaters
Una Lagrima Furtiva Hits Home
By: - Aug 12th, 2018Antonin Scalia is the subject of The Originalist, a powerful play by John Strand and directed by Molly Smith. It is presented by Middle Finger Productions in association with the Arena Stage and running at 59E59 Theaters. Edward Gero brings Scalia to life.
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