Theatre
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Tribes by Nina Raines
New Comedy/Drama at LA's Mark Taper Forum
By: - Apr 16th, 2013The new Nina Raines comedy/ drama raises some interesting communication issues concerning the Deaf community. “Tribesâ€, currently onstage at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, is insightfully directed by David Cromer and brings into much sharper focus the issue and the debate of how one copes within a family of hearing parents along with hearing and non-hearing siblings.
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Barrington Stage Company 2013
An Abundance of Riches
By: - Apr 16th, 2013Here is the complete and final rundown, at least for now, of shows, cabaret, benefits and events for the 2013 season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. The fun begins on May 22 and winds down on October 13.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Shows
Peter Pan, Just So Stories and Hunter Bell,
By: - Apr 15th, 2013Berkshire Theatre Group announces three additions to its 85th summer season: the 8th Annual Children's Theatre Production, Peter Pan, at The Colonial Theatre, Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling, at The Neil Ellenoff Stage and a special writers workshop with Hunter Bell, of the Tony nominated show, [title of show]
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Women of Will, The Complete Journey
Tina Packer's Brilliant NY Take on Shakespeare's Women
By: - Apr 15th, 2013Tina Packer’s The Complete Journey through the Women of Will starts with “Warrior Women, from Violence to Negotiation." These martial women, driven by revenge, women who Shakespeare seems to hold out from himself and from us. The traveling production is staged at New York's The Gym at Judson through June.
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Operation Epsilon At Central Sq Theater
Science, Responsibility, Pride and Guilt Collide
By: - Apr 14th, 2013At the close of WWII, the Allies captured Germany’s top ten nuclear scientists and kept them at a lavish English estate, Farm Hall. They were under surveillance to learn what they knew about the American nuclear program and to gauge how close the Nazis were to making an atomic bomb. Playwright Alan Brody brilliantly sheds light on the ethical complexity of pursuing scientific discovery at the risk of fostering catastrophic consequences. Mixing in the notions of individual hubris and personal or collective responsibility, this is a serious and revealing drama that wrestle's with conscience and culpability. With a fine ensemble cast, it is an engrossing major theatrical event.
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ArtsEmerson Announces 2013-2014 Program
Fourth Season Starts September 17
By: - Apr 12th, 2013ArtsEmerson announces the first half of its fourth theatre season, beginning in the fall of 2013. This announcement covers productions into January of 2014, with more winter/spring productions to be announced later. Tickets for these productions go on sale to ArtsEmerson members on April 12, and to the general public on May 3.
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Last Goodbye Says Hello to San Diego
Workshopped at Williamstown Theater Festival
By: - Apr 12th, 2013During the 2010 season a musical that conflated Romeo and Juliet with the music of the gifted Jeff Buckley, who died tragically young, The Last Goodbye was workshopped at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now it is slated to open the season for The Old Globe in San Diego. There are plans to move on from there. At WTF we interviewed the creative team and Buckely's Mom, Mary Guibert.
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American Repertory Theatre Launches Musical
Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews
By: - Apr 12th, 2013The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will present the world premiere of the musical Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, and directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The production will begin performances at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge in February of 2014.
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31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards
Chita Rivera Cited for Lifetime Achievement
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) announces its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be presented on Monday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Mainstage, 559 Washington Street, Boston.
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A Doll's House at The Old Globe
Ibsen Drama in San Diego Through April 21
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Old Globe production of “A Doll’s House†that opened at the Sheryl and Harvey White theatre on March 23rd is intelligently, sensitively, and seamlessly directed by Kirsten Brandt who brings a wealth of Ibsen directing credits to the production.
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Indiana Repertory Theatre
Announces 2013/2014 Season
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Indiana Repertory Theatre will launch its season with Arthur Miller's The Crucible. This will be followed by eight productions for a full and diverse program.
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M Brilliant At Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion
Creative Take On Fritz Lang's Film Noir Classic
By: - Apr 10th, 2013Wonderfully conceived and stylistically creative, the world premiere of Ryan Landry's "M" is a unique theatrical event. Light and shadow, comedy and drama and silliness and seriousness are blended together in a surrealistic and at times totally quite poignant adaptation of uberdirector Fritz Lang's masterpiece "M." We are compelled to watch with both amused wonder and horror as Landry brings his unique imagination to a new adaptation of this dark film noir 1931 classic. This is theatre of the absurd with a point. It is a gothic visual and verbal journey that is dreamlike but unconditionally entertaining.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Updates
Adds Blood Play and Lewis Black
By: - Apr 09th, 2013Outrageous stand-up comic Lewis Black loves the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He returns this summer July 22, with My Fair Lewis. The festival has also added another play to the Nikos stage. Blood Play will run August 7 to 18. It is Written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen. Directed and developed by Oliver Butler and made by The Debate Society. Here is the final complete schedule for the 2013 season.
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The Revisionist with Vanessa Redgrave
Jesse Eisenberg Play at Cherry Lane Theatre Through April 27
By: - Apr 09th, 2013The remarkable, 76-year-old Vanessa Redgrave is appearing, through April 27, in a sold out run of The Revisionist by Jesse Eisenberg at the venerable but intimate Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. It is a rare opportunity to see one of the great performers of our era up close and oh so personal. Be still dear heart.
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Green Day's American Idiot in Indianapolis
A Rockin' Good Time
By: - Apr 05th, 2013American Idiot, based on the Green Day album of the same name, bursts onto the stage at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis, with a flurry of lights and blasting guitars. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, this show has all three in spades.
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Menopause the Musical
Night Sweats at Indy's Beef and Boards
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013For a girls's night out Menopause the Musical is a no sweat, fun musical. It runs through May 12 at Indy's Beef and Boards dinner theatre. Women going through "The Change" interact compassionately while shopping at Bloomingdales.
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A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder
The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in San Diego
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013“A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder†is currently at The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley stage in San Diego’s Balboa Park. This world premiere musical comedy conjured up by the remarkable team of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, and brilliantly directed by Darko Tresnjak, is an early Christmas gift to the city of San Diego. It's taking place at one of America’s finest Regional theatres.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
College of the Desert (COD) Production
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013In the College of the Desert (COD) production at the Pollock Theatre, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestâ€, director Tres Dean gives full rein to his talented cast to do just that which they do in spades.
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Barrington Stage Presents Linda Lavin July 8
Schedule for Mr. Finn's Cabaret Series
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013Featuring an eclectic mix of Broadway standards and cabaret songs, Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress Linda Lavin’s new cabaret will show you why Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls her “…a human tornado who lets nothing stand in her way…She has a jazz side, can swing and scat and even growl like Louis Armstrong, and displays a special fondness for Brazilian bossa nova.†T
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark At LyricStage Company
Witty Take on Difficulties of Race, Stardom and the American Way
By: - Mar 31st, 2013A comedy about racism, Hollywood and secrets by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage that takes an irreverent look at racial stereotypes in both Hollywood and 20th Century America. The show is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, an African-American maid who becomes an actress, and her strange relationship with a white Hollywood star. When both women land roles in a Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy. This is theatre of thought and difficult history.
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Going Going Gone and I Am Peter Pan
Sunday Morning at Indy Fringe Theatre
By: - Mar 30th, 2013On Sunday morning, the final day of the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we encountered life on the edge of the arts. It was insightful to learn about and experience Fringe theatre in Indy and hear from fringers in Cincinnati and St. Louis. It was so absorbing that Astrid Hiemer of BFA bounded on stage and became a character in the improv piece Going Going Gone.
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Shakespeare & Company Adds Programming
Dance, Music, Zany Antics and More
By: - Mar 30th, 2013Shakespeare & Company’s 36th Performance Season just keeps getting bigger and better! Artistic Director Tony Simotes is pleased to announce additional programming filled with dance, music, zany antics and more with four new additions to the already scheduled line-up.
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The Lyons at Indy's Phoenix Theatre
Dark Comedy Stars Diane Kondrat
By: - Mar 29th, 2013The dark comedy The Lyons which had a run on Broadway has been staged at The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It stars veteran actor Diane Kondrat, as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family. The macabre action is set in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband visited by their two over the top children. The familial cruelty evoked is outrageously hilarious. Kondrat's Rita Lyons is a character we love to hate.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited
At Coachella Valley Repertory Company
By: - Mar 29th, 2013A few years back Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Menâ€, was turned into an Academy award-winning movie. His current allegorical play “Sunset Limitedâ€, deftly directed by Ron Celona and starring ML Berry as Black, and Don Oscar Smith as White, is a curious piece.
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Dolly Parton's 9 to 5
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Indianapolis
By: - Mar 29th, 2013Forty years ago when Indy's Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre was founded it was a fad. With annual ticket sales of some 150.000 now it is only one of seven equity companies that remain. More low brow than high brow, none the less, its production of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 was a flat out hoot. In particular the blonde bombshell Crystal Mosser was a smash.
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