Theatre
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Seize the King at La Jolla Playhouse
World Premiere by Will Power Reconfigures Richard 111
By: - Sep 04th, 2018Young award-winning Playwright Will Power (he’s 37), has made a bold decision to roll the dice of ‘reinterpretation’ with his brassy new play “Seize the King”, directed by Jaime Castaneda, now on stage of the La Jolla Playhouses’ Potiker Theatre.
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2018 Theatre Season in Connecticut
Hamilton on Tour
By: - Sep 07th, 2018Connecticut is blessed with an abundance of fine professional theaters – from the major regional companies (Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed, TheaterWorks, Westport Playhouse) to more locally oriented theaters (Ivoryton Playhouse, Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, Connecticut Repertory Theater at UConn, Sharon Playhouse, Seven Angels in Waterbury, MTC in Norwalk and ACT-CT in Ridgefield). Plus there are the major presenting house that bring in national tours – the Bushnell in Hartford, Shubert in New Haven and the Palace in Waterbury.
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La Cage Aux Folles
At South Florida Company's New Venue
By: - Sep 08th, 2018La Cage Aux Folles marks first show at Stage Door Theatre's brand new venue in South Florida. Popular Broward County company makes a triumphant debut at its new facility. Theater company imbues Jerry Herman, Harvey Fierstein classic with glamor, humanity and heart
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Detroit ’67 by Dominique Morisseau
Produced by Aurora Theatre
By: - Sep 09th, 2018Dominique Morisseau’s scintillating Detroit ’67 encapsulates that tragic time through a lens that never leaves the basement of a black ghetto home over several days that July. Set near the corner of 12th Street and Clairmount, this intersection would become the epicenter of death and destruction in Detroit.
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Separate and Equal at 59E59th Street
Things Get Bad Before They Get Better
By: - Sep 10th, 2018Birmingham passed an Ordinance in May of 1951 which prohibited blacks and whites from playing games together, among other injunctions. Boys will be boys. Often in the South they are allowed to play together until they reach puberty. An empty lot with two baskets was too tempting for six boys, three black and three white, to resist. The consequences are tragic.
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The Naturalists, A World Premier
Intimately Understanding Terrorism
By: - Sep 11th, 2018The Pond is an adventuresome young producing group whose mission is to seek out bold playwrights from Ireland and the UK and give American audiences a chance to know them. Playwright Jaki McCarrick deserves wide exposure. Terrorist acts are more familiar to the Irish than Americans, Yet the impact of these events on the families of terrorists is new territory and a fascinating one in The Naturalists.
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Dostoyeksky’s Crime and Punishment
At Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre
By: - Sep 12th, 2018Dostoyeksky’s Crime and Punishment is a thriller, a slow-paced intellectualized thriller. If you haven’t read the novel since college days, Chris Hannan’s 2013 adaptation—on stage at Shattered Globe Theatre—will sneak up on you.
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Chicago on Stage
Four Short Reviews
By: - Sep 13th, 2018Chicago critics Nancy Bishop and Matthew Nerber team up to cover four plays with brief reviews. This is one approach to focus on the wealth and diversity of productions in the Windy City.
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Pretty Woman the Movie as Musical
Hooker as Hoofer with a Heart of Gold
By: - Sep 13th, 2018The producers of Pretty Woman probably thought they had a sure fire hit. After all, the 1990 movie made Julia Roberts a major star and Richard Gere more of a star. It combines familiar elements: the hooker with a heart of gold, a Cinderella story, and the redemption of a man consumed by greed (think Scrooge).
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Schoenberg in Hollywood at Boston Lyric Opera
Tod Machover World Premiere
By: - Sep 14th, 2018From November 14-18, Boston Lyric Opera will bring Arnold Schoenberg back east with the world-premiere production of Tod Machover’s “Schoenberg in Hollywood.” Machover has been hailed for his compositions and also for creating new technologies that allow the boundaries of music to be taken beyond even the atonal heights Schoenberg attained.
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Now & Then
World Premiere Musical at Wilton Theater Factory
By: - Sep 15th, 2018A New musical has its touching moments, but is hampered by cliches, sentimentality. The world premiere of Now & Then runs through Sept. 30 at the newly-named Wilton Theater Factory near Ft. Lauderdale. A strong, versatile cast performs in Now & Then's first-ever production in South Florida.
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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Edward Albee Play at Chicago's Interrobang Theatre Project
By: - Sep 15th, 2018The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is certainly a problem play, in the classic sense in which characters debate critical social issues in a realistic context. Think Ibsen, “kitchen sink drama” and the socialist plays of the 1920s and ‘30s. Albee also makes many references to classical tragedy, literature and Greek mythology throughout The Goat.
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Agnes Howls at 59E59th
Lesser America Presents a Play Centered on Autism
By: - Sep 15th, 2018Hurricane Agnes is raging outside the small living space of a group of friends in their early 20s. The play focuses on Charlie, who has been diagnosed at the upper end of autism. We see him struggle to become just like everyone else, or getting as close to more conventional people as possible. His perspective is surprising and dramatic.
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HIR By Taylor Mac
Transitional Theatre at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 16th, 2018HIR by Taylor Mac, at Shakespeare & Company, demonstrates that we are now well beyond LGBT. The new acronym is LGBTTSQQIAAF. For Maxine who is transitioning to Max the correct pronoun is hir passing through ze. The playrwight answers to the pronoun judy. The play which took 17 years to create is described as Mac's most biographical.
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Echo and Narcissus Updated by Satellite Collective
Kevin Draper Re-Imagines an Ancient Myth
By: - Sep 15th, 2018Satellite Collective is an adventurous group of artists from every medium who combine dance, art, music and theater into a unified work. Echo and Narcissus is a full-length collaborative event at BAM Fisher.
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Soundstage by Rob Roth at HERE
Loneliness of Out-Sized Personality
By: - Sep 17th, 2018Soundstage by Rob Roth is playing at HERE through September 29. Using all the facilities that the grand HERE space affords, the production is first rate. Although the author and lead actor Rob Roth identifies this as a queer vision, the piece resonates more widely.
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The Abduction from the Seraglio
Opera San Jose
By: - Sep 19th, 2018On opera’s dramatic measuring rod, any production of Abduction would fall on the comedic rather than the tragic end, but Opera San José pushes the comic meter to the point that opera detractors might even appreciate it as a stage comedy with music.
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The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona
World Premiere at Geffen Playhouse
By: - Sep 19th, 2018Under the aegis of new artistic director Matt Shakman, The Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, premieres playwright Jose Rivera’s mystical new work “The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona,” directed by acclaimed, award-winning director Jo Bonney,
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The New Group Presents The True
Edie Falco Stars as a Star Political Operative
By: - Sep 20th, 2018The True by Sharr White premiers at The Pershing Square Signature Center. Edie Falco headlines the show. She is a tough talking Albany political figure in 1977, the year that Danny O’Connell, for over half a century the head of the Albany Democratic machine, died.
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NAT by Verlon Brown at Theater for a New City
Directed by Rome Neal at Theater for a New City
By: - Sep 21st, 2018Remembering the Unforgettable Nat King Cole. New to the professional stage, Actor/Writer Verlon Brown brings the life of an extraordinary man to Theater for the New City, under the seasoned direction of Rome Neal.
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Glass/Handel at Opera Philadelphia
Barnes Museum Hosts Anthony Roth Costanzo
By: - Sep 25th, 2018Anthony Roth Costanzo has a manly strength and a feminine range, giving surreal power to the voice. Costanzo not only sports this range but is committed to bringing its beauty to an audience unfamiliar with the pleasures of classical music. His alliance with Opera Philadelphia and headline position at the second annual O 18 Festival in Philadelphia is represented in a program at the Barnes Museum.
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Debra Jo Rupp Romps in The Cake
Geffen Playhouse Bakes Hilarous Comedy
By: - Sep 25th, 2018The Barrington Stage Company production of The Cake has gone West young man to LA's Geffen Playhouse. Now another coast shares the delicious comedy of Debra Jo Rupp. This is a run don't walk production.
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Bess Wohl’s Make Believe
World Premiere at Hartford Stage
By: - Sep 25th, 2018Make Believe has potential but it isn’t ready for prime time. When people start taking peeks at their watches during a 90 minute play, it’s a clear sign that something isn’t working.
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Pirandello's Naked
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre,
By: - Sep 26th, 2018Pirandello is best known for his 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author, but he wrote a huge volume of novels and short stories, as well as 20 major plays. Trap Door’s production of Naked is engrossing and sometimes confusing, but Martinovich’s direction is smooth.
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Shaw's Arms and the Man
Chicago's City Lit Theater
By: - Sep 26th, 2018City Lit Theater’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play, Arms and the Man, takes full advantage of its broad humor. Perhaps Shaw’s most frothy script, director Brian Pastor directs it with panache, although he sometimes lets his cast drift into silliness.
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