Theatre
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Berkshire Theatre Group Auditions
Casting for Oliver Starts May 14
By: - Apr 25th, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group seeks child and adult actors, musicians, backstage crew, technical support, usher staff and parent volunteers to participate in its upcoming community production of the musical Oliver!, book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart, based on Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. The production will be directed by Travis G. Daly.
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Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
Reloading for a Tony Run
By: - Apr 24th, 2012Other Desert Cities opened Off Broadway to rave reviews and awards. It opened on Broadway in November and was scheduled to end in early January. While numbers are off there are cast changes and retooling for the upcoming Tony nominations which should breathe new life in a production which is scheduled to transfer to LA in the fall.
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Jeff Goldblum Stars in Seminar
Recasting Smashing's Therese Rebeck's Broadway Hit
By: - Apr 20th, 2012This has been a breakout season for Theresa Rebeck one of the most highly regarded playwrights of her generation. Her TV series Smash has been exactly that. Now confirmed for another season with Rebeck in a less that pivotal role. That leaves more time for theatre like the current Broadway hit Seminar. There has been a cast change with the lead handed from Alan Rickman to Jeff Goldblum. Its second coming is simply fabulous.
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Barrington Stage Acquires Lt. John L. Truden V.F.W. Post
Renamed Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
By: - Apr 20th, 2012Barrington Stage Company was founded in 1995. In 2005, with seed money from the city, the company moved from rented facilities in Sheffield to a permanent home in Pittsfield. Three years later it transformed rented space in the nearby V.F.W. Post as a Second Stage. Now that building has been gifted and Renamed Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center. With no additional debt beyond renovation BSC has now completed its Pittsfield campus.
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SpeakEasy 2011-2012 Schedule
Broadway Hits Boston Bound
By: - Apr 19th, 2012The explosive family drama OTHER DESERT CITIES, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play CLYBOURNE PARK, and the Tony Award-winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS are among the five acclaimed shows that SpeakEasy Stage will present in its 2012-2013 Season, the company’s Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault announced today.
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Huntington Theatre 2011-2012 Season
Southie Themed Good People Opens September 14
By: - Apr 19th, 2012Subscribing is the only way to guarantee tickets to MacArthur "Genius" David Cromer's groundbreaking and critically acclaimed new production of Our Town. Our Town is not part of any subscription series, but Huntington subscribers have exclusive access and are first in line to purchase tickets to this extraordinary theatrical event. We expect this limited engagement to sell out! Subscribe today and buy your Our Town tickets now while they are still available.
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Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
There Goes the Neighborhood
By: - Apr 18th, 2012Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris arrives on Broadway with a distinguished provenance. Since opening Off Broadway in 2010 the drama/ comedy has earned the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is likely that the edgy play about racial changes in a Chicago neighborhood will be nominated for multiple Tony Awards.
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Bard's 448th Birthday Bash
Shakespeare & Company April 22
By: - Apr 17th, 2012On Sunday, April 22 at 2pm (please note this date has changed from the brochure), Shakespeare & Company will hold its annual celebration of William Shakespeare's birthday with the Will 448 Birthday Bash! Audiences can enjoy a special matinee performance of its touring production of Macbeth, which features some of the Company’s most promising rising stars, followed by a fun party that will include a raffle, treats, and complimentary toast! The show begins at 2pm with the party following the performance.
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Berkshire Playwrights Lab Announces 2012 Season
June 9 Gala: Mamet Play with Jay Thomas and Treat Williams
By: - Apr 17th, 2012Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present the Berkshire Playwrights Lab 5th Season Gala Celebration on June 9 and staged readings of new plays on July 11, July 23, August 8, and August 22 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, Mass.). In addition to a new short piece by David Mamet and performances by actors Jay Thomas, Treat Williams, and other plays and actors TBA, the Gala will include the premiere of Food for Thought, a short film.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Adds Shows
David Byrne Musical at Mass MoCA and Bradley Cooper in Elephant Man
By: - Apr 17th, 2012The final details have been completed for the 2012 season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Elephant Man starring uber hunk Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson has been slated for the Nikos Stage. In partnership with Mass Moca and ambitious musical by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim will be workshopped at the Hunter Center.
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ICA Announces Summer 2012 Programs
Performance, Events and Talks
By: - Apr 10th, 2012The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents performing arts programming at its Boston Harbor location for Summer 2012. Programming includes perennial summer favorites Talking Taste, Harborwalk Sounds, and DJs on the Harbor, plus dance performances and the return of Experiment, bringing 50 writers, dancers, actors, and performers to the museum for an immersive theatrical experience.
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Brilliant The Luck of the Irish At Huntington
A Compelling Boston Story Extended to May 6
By: - Apr 10th, 2012This is the World Premiere of a play about the tricky process of breaking the rules of segregated house ownership by means of a ghost or straw buyer . When an upwardly mobile African-American family wanted to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood of 1950s Boston, they often paid a struggling Irish family to act as their front. Fifty years later, the Irish family asks for "their" house back. Moving back and forth across the two eras, this intimate new play explores the complex impact of racial integration in Boston, the notion of benevolent fraud and the universal longing for property, house and home. Do not miss this wonderfully crafted play!
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The Temperamentals At Lyric Stage Company
A Clever Story of 50s Pioneering Gay Rights
By: - Apr 05th, 2012This hit off-Broadway play tells the story of two men, the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee and fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, as they fall in love while forming the first gay-rights organization in the pre-Stonewall United States. "Temperamental" was a necessary code word in the early 1950s for Gay or Queer. Few were out in the open and there was an underlying danger (societal, political and legal) of being honestly homosexual.
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Huntington Theatre Company Honors Michael Maso
EventHosted by Joanna Gleason Raised $739,000
By: - Apr 04th, 2012The Huntington Theatre Company raised $730,000 in support of its education and community programs at last night’s Spotlight Spectacular gala honoring 30-year managing director Michael Maso with its highest honor, the Wimberly Award. Tony Award-winning Broadway star Joanna Gleason (Sons of the Prophet, Into the Woods, “The West Wingâ€) hosted the event at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel that was attended by 430 guests.
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Berkshire Actors Theatre's 2012 Summer Season
Features Two John Patrick Shanley Plays
By: - Apr 02nd, 2012Heading into the 2012 Summer Season, the Berkshire's newest theatre company, Berkshire Actors Theatre will stage productions of two John Patrick Shanley plays. With Shanley on board as a creative consultant, and an exciting cast list of local actors lined up, BAT is looking to further solidify itself in the local theatre scene. BAT also just released a dynamic promo video for its season.
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American Theatre Critics Association Honors Yusseff El Guindi
Ken LaZebnik and A. Rey Pamatmat Also Honored
By: - Apr 01st, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association has named Yussef El Guindi’s Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, winner of the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for 2012. The Steinberg/ATCA recognizes the best American scripts that premiered professionally the previous year outside New York City.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
Schedule of Summer Program
By: - Mar 29th, 2012Highlights include comedic evenings with the Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music (July 14) and Freddie Roman's Friars Club Comedy Festival (July 15), performances by legendary modern dance troupes MOMIX (July 6 and 7) and Paul Taylor Dance Company (July 26, 27, and 28), musical concerts by Tony winner Faith Prince (July 21), Kennedy Center Honors recipient Barbara Cook and Grammy nominee John Pizzarelli (August 4), and by Grammy Award winners Judy Collins and Jimmy Webb (August 26)
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Barrington Stage Company Calendar
Performances and Events Day by Day Through October
By: - Mar 27th, 2012The season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield kicks off on May 23 and stretches through October. This is a cheat sheet to mark your calendar. Here is a day by day break down of the entire theatre season.
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Ain Gordon at Mass MoCA April 28
Not What Happened
By: - Mar 26th, 2012After a weeklong residency, writer, director, and actor Ain Gordon will present his new contemporary theatre piece Not What Happened on Saturday, April 28, at 8 PM in MASS MoCA'S Hunter Center, as part of MASS MoCA's series of work-in-progress showings. Gordon's work, which The New York Times calls "smart" and characterized by "genuine emotion", investigates the notion of place as it relates to forgotten histories.
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Ethan Lipton's No Place to Go
Joe's Pub at New York's Public Theater
By: - Mar 24th, 2012Currently drawing crowds at Joe’s Pub in NY's Public Theatrer due to good reviews, word of mouth, and what appears to be a cult following is Ethan Lipton’s and his 3 piece orchestra’s (saxophone, guitar, and bass) musical journey No Place To Go. Lipton brings to mind the plaintive lyrics of Leonard Cohen, as well as Pete Seeger.
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Rinde Eckert Creates Melville's Great Whale
A Classic Opera out of Pittsfield into New York
By: - Mar 22nd, 2012Rinde Eckert is an extraordinary artist, a writer, composer, singer, actor. Just name his talent. A testament to the creative process, and to the tentative triumph of love over hate.
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The Lyons Previews Start April 5
Transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre
By: - Mar 21st, 2012Nicky Silver's play THE LYONS -- a critical and popular success when it debuted last fall at Vineyard Theatre -- transfers to Broadway's Cort Theatre (138 W. 48 St.) with its entire original cast intact, including the Tony Award-winning stars Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa, along with Michael Esper, Kate Jennings Grant, Brenda Pressley and Gregory Wooddell. The Vineyard Theatre production of THE LYONS will be presented on Broadway by producer Kathleen K. Johnson. Mark Brokaw directs.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Legacy of Blues Women of the 1920s
By: - Mar 20th, 2012The formidable August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom isn't really about the legendary blues woman of the 1920s and her music. The erastz recording session is a trope for Wilson's views of social and cultural issues of the 1920s in a cycle of ten plays representing ten decades. All of which have been produced by the Huntington Theatre Company.
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Next to Normal at SpeakEasy Extended to April 22
2010 Pulitizer Prize Drama in Boston Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2012In 2010, the deep and dark musical Next to Normal, with music by Tom Kitt, book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. While a stunning work of literature, it would seem to be a hard sell for audiences for whom the notion of musical implies a light and easy, tuneful evening of song and dance. The stunning and galvanic production at SpeakEasy Stage Company brilliantly and inventively directed by Paul Diagneault with prodigious music direction by Nicholas James Connell was anything but that.
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
First Play Brilliantly Completes Huntington's Cycle
By: - Mar 17th, 2012With wonderful performances, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of the 10 play Cycle by playwright August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of the 20th Century African-American experience. Set in Chicago in the 1920s, it is an ambitious discourse about race, art, God and religion along with exploitation of black recording artists. This fact based drama is brilliantly performed and produced-- a must see.
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