Theatre
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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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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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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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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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Berkshire Actor’s Theatre 2012 Season
Auditions for Doubt Slated for March 17
By: - Mar 10th, 2012The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley, both performed at Berkshire Museum. The season will open June 21 with Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. Opening one week later will be a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone, which will be performed in repertory with Doubt: A Parable.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2012
Season Program
By: - Mar 08th, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group announces programming for Summer 2012. BTG’s Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.
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Tony Award Winning Musical Avenue Q
1000th Perofrmance at New World Stages March 14
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The Tony Award winning musical AVENUE Q -- which played a triumphant 6-year run on Broadway before moving to New World Stages over two years ago -- will celebrate its 1000th performance at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) on Wednesday, March 14. On that date, AVENUE Q will reach a combined total number of 3, 534 performances -- 2,534 on Broadway and 1000 at New World Stages -- placing the show in the company of such beloved, long-running musicals from the past as 42ND STREET (3,486), GREASE (3,388) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (3,242).
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Barrington Stage Adds Four Associate Artists
Darren R. Cohen, Mark H. Dold, Debra Jo Rupp, and Renee Lutz.
By: - Mar 07th, 2012Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces four new Associate Artists. Formed in 2010, the Associate Artists Program’s inaugural honorees were composer/lyricist William Finn, actor/director Christopher Innvar and playwright Mark St. Germain. This year’s new Associate Artists are music director Darren R. Cohen, actors Mark H. Dold and Debra Jo Rupp, and production stage manager Renee Lutz.
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Obama 44 by Mario Fratti Off Broadway
La MaMa World-Premiere March 29
By: - Mar 06th, 2012La MaMa will present the world-premiere of Mario Fratti's newest play, OBAMA 44, with performances starting March 29, 2012 prior to an official press opening April 1 at La MaMa (74 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Directed by Wayne Maugans, the cast of OBAMA 44 includes Rob Sedgwick, Julia Motyka, Dennis Ostermaier, Thomas Poarch and Richard Ugino.
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24Hour Project by WAM Theatre and MOPCO
April 14 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Mar 06th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project brings together playwrights, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians and actors from both the Berkshires and the Capital Region armed with the common task of mounting 5 new short works by female playwrights; all written, rehearsed and performed in 24 Hours.
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Calixto Bieito Brings Camino Real to Chicago
A Provocative Williams at the Goodman Theater
By: - Mar 06th, 2012What was Williams thinking and feeling is the first question a director like Calixto Bieito asks. And he is not afraid to go where the answers lead him. A sad and yet exhilarating production of Camino Real at the Goodman.
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Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg
NY's Barefoot Theatre Company April 20 to May 20
By: - Mar 01st, 2012Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world-premiere of Rivka Beekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Friday, April 27 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.
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Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project
Patricia Buckley's Evolution March 13 to 24
By: - Feb 29th, 2012Cherry Lane Theatre's award-winning MENTOR PROJECT will continue its 13th season with a production of EVOLUTION, written and performed by Patricia Buckley, directed Michele Chivu and mentored Jean-Claude van Itallie with performances scheduled March 13 through March 24 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street in Manhattan), where the 2012 MENTOR PROJECT is in residence through April 14.
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