Theatre
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Lysistrata at LaMama E.T.C.
Theodora Skipitares Shows Women How to Strike
By: - Feb 08th, 2011A rousing production of Lysistrata arrives at LaMama. Women of all ages as well as brave and brilliant men will enjoy this production enormously. Theodora Skipitares has often combined original texts with material she unearths.
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Invasion a Play by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The Play Company NY Opens Feb. 21
By: - Feb 08th, 2011Invasion a play by the Swedish playwright and novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri that has enjoyed great success in numerous European productions -- will receive its U.S. premiere presented Off-Broadway by The Play Company and directed by Erica Schmidt, opening Monday, February 21 at Walkerspace (46 Walker Street) in Tribeca.
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Robin Williams To Make Broadway Debut
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
By: - Feb 04th, 2011A finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo begins previews on March 11 prior to its official opening night March 31. The play is directed by two-time Tony nominee Moisés Kaufman. The Oscar, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor Robin Williams will make his Broadway acting debut in play.
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Richard Skipper is “Carol Channing†In Concert
Hello Dolly It's So Nice to Have You Back
By: - Feb 01st, 2011Richard Skipper, the multi-award winning, triple threat actor, singer, and dancer – the guy does everything - has been channeling the “real†Carol Channing in plays and concerts all over the world for some 25 years. If he wasn’t such good friends with the 90 year old Channing who occasionally flies around the country with her husband to attend ‘Skipper playing Channing’ soirees – well, one would think he was a stalker
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Suffolk Announces Modern Theatre’s Inaugural Season
Featuring Performance, Cinema, and Conversation
By: - Jan 31st, 2011An ambitious program has been scheduled for Suffolk University's inaugural season for The Modern Theatre. Focused upon a variety of film, literary, performance and conversation, this will include prominent filmmakers, writers and theatre people.
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WAM Theatre Spring Berkshire Events
How To Be A Lesbian in 10 Days or Less
By: - Jan 31st, 2011WAM Theatre announces Spring 2011 events including a 24 hour theatre project across state lines, an ensemble presentation exploring feminism in the lives of young women today and a festival of solo works written and performed by women to benefit the training of at least one community midwife at Edna’s Hospital in Somaliland.
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Shakespeare's Jew at ArtsEmerson
A Panel Discussion with F. Murray Abraham
By: - Jan 27th, 2011Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham joined Robert Brustein, founding director of A.R.T., Jeffrey Horowitz, artistic director of Theatre for a New Audience and Tina Packer of Shakespeare and Company, to talk about Shylock, considered the most famous and infamous Jewish character in dramatic literature. They discussed the perception of Jews in Shakespeare’s England, the many sides of Shylock’s character, and his various portrayals ranging from comic buffoon to villain to tragic hero. Abraham appeared in anticipation of his starring role as Shylock in ArtsEmerson’s presentation of The Merchant of Venice, opening March 29, 2011. The distinguished panel was enhanced by a knowledgeable and thoughtful audience participation adding depth and breath to the discourse. It was an entertaining and thought-provoking experience.
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Modern Theatre at Suffolk University
Schedule of Winter/ Spring Events
By: - Jan 21st, 2011For its inaugural season The Modern Theatre of Suffolk University is offering a diverse schedule of films, performances and lectures. Many of these events are free and open to the general public.
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Buckminster Fuller At American Rep Theatre
Thomas Derrah in Tour De Force Performance
By: - Jan 20th, 2011He was a writer, a philosopher, an architect, an inventor, a philosopher, a mathematician, a futurist, an environmentalist. R. Buckminster Fuller was an American original. This ravishing one man show at the American Repertory Theatre explores the man in a dazzling multimedia performance. The title role is amazingly embodied by A.R.T. veteran actor Thomas Derrah. Inventor of the geodesic dome, Bucky Fuller was a true visionary, and this play provides an expansive look at his life, his concepts, and his beliefs. This wonderful production takes the audience on a Spaceship Earth ride of ideas, emotions, and critical paths. Run, don't walk to see it.
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Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y
Barrington Stage Simulcasts
By: - Jan 19th, 2011Barrington Stage Company (BSC) and Knesset Israel (KI) continue the “Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y†Simulcasts at Barrington Stage with seven programs for winter/spring 2011. The popular satellite broadcast series brings lectures, interviews and readings from nationally and internationally recognized political figures, entertainers, newsmakers and authors to communities across the U.S. and Canada.
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Lysistrata at NY's La Mama
Theodora Skipitares Production Opens Feb.6
By: - Jan 12th, 2011The world-premiere adaptation of LYSISTRATA by the renowned puppet artist, writer and director Theodora Skipitares – which mixes Aristophanes’ ancient comic tale about a group of Greek women who withhold sex from their husbands and lovers with video and newsreel footage of actual modern-day international sex strikes – is being presented by La MaMa ETC in association with Skysaver Productions, with an opening set for Sunday, February 6 at the Ellen Stewart Theatre (66 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan.
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Lord of the Flies to Bug Barrington Stage
Christopher Innvar to Direct Fall Production
By: - Jan 12th, 2011A long term acting associate of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Christopher Innvar, received rave reviews last year for directing The Whipping Man. He will direct again during the fall season with a production of William Golding's classic novel Lord of the Flies.
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F. Murray Abraham as Shylock at ArtsEmerson
Panel on Jews in Shakespeare includes Tina Packer
By: - Jan 11th, 2011A discussion of Jewish characters in Shakespeare's plays will be presented by ArtsEmerson on January 26. Moderated by scholar, playwright, and A.R.T. Founding Artistic Director Robert Brustein, the panelists will include renowned screen and stage actor F. Murray Abraham, Theatre for a New Audience Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz, and Shakespeare & Company Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer.
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Harold Bloom Talks With Brian Kulick
Feb. 7th Benefit for NY's Classic Stage
By: - Jan 11th, 2011On Monday, February 7th at 7pm, Harold Bloom, America's leading literary critic and author of the best-seller "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human," will join Classic Stage Company's Artistic Director Brian Kulick in a rare public appearance.
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Winter at the Mahaiwe
Programming for Great Barrington
By: - Jan 08th, 2011President's Day Weekend at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will feature master hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement (February 18) and Symphony Space's political cabaret The Thalia Follies: Divided We Stumble (February 20). Other first quarter events include juggling comedians Flying Karamazov Brothers (March 5) and numerous Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD and London's National Theatre Live (NT Live) broadcasts, as well as screenings of classic movies.
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Timeline Theater Company of the Year
Wall Street Journal Selects Chicago Theatre
By: - Jan 08th, 2011We have seen O'Neill, Beckett, Mamet, the Brother/Sister plays, and Albee in Chicago this year. We agree with others who find that Chicago has beaten out Broadway as Theater Central USA.
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Colonial Theatre Rehires Simon Shaw
To Resume Programming Pittsfield Venue
By: - Jan 07th, 2011The Colonial Theatre has a full slate of performances scheduled through May, all of which will continue as originally scheduled. While Mr. Shaw may add on to the existing calendar, his primary focus is on the 2011–2012 season which will begin in June.
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Ma-Yi Theatre Company Writers Lab
Michael Lew and Rehana Mirza Co Directors
By: - Dec 30th, 2010Playwrights Michael Lew (MICROCRISIS, STOCKTON) and Rehana Mirza (BARRIERS, THE GOOD MUSLIM) take the helm as co-directors of New York's Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Writers Lab. Additionally, the six year-old Ma-Yi Writers Lab welcomes five new playwrights into the Lab: affectionately known as “labbies†they are Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Edgar Mendoza, Don Nguyen and Susan Soon He Stanton.
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Vineyard Theatre's New Shows
Interviewing the Audience Opens Off Broadway Feb. 10
By: - Dec 30th, 2010Starting February 3 with an opening night set for February 10, the playwright and filmmaker Zach Helm -- author of the play Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, and the films "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" which he also directed, and "Stranger than Fiction" -- will perform his new piece Interviewing theAudience at The Vineyard.
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Virginia Woolf at Chicago's Steppenwolf
Tracy Letts and Amy Morton Star To Feb 13
By: - Dec 27th, 2010Put away the nightmare of Taylor and Burton in the Virginia Woolf movie. Dysfunction is not the adjective that comes to mind in the new Chicago production. Instead we are focused on the role of illusion in relationships and encouraged to put aside O'Neill's argument for its necessary role. A rollicking production that celebrates language and keeps the audience laughing at the wit and war that is marriage.
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Arts Events for a New Year
January's Boston Highlights
By: - Dec 26th, 2010Now that we have slogged through the Holidays there is a lot of new theatre and music to enjoy. This month Huntington Theatre opens Ruined. Over in Cambridge ART focuses on visionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller. Emerson has a range of events at its Majestic and Paramount theatres. We have tips and links for information and tickets.
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Billy Elliot the Musical
Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
By: - Dec 23rd, 2010Once hard to get there are now discount tickets available for the multiple Tony award winning Billie Elliot. We took advantage of the offer for a truly wonderful Broadway Holiday treat. With the music of Sir Elton John and book by Lee Hall this is a thrilling musical adventure.
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The Music Man Struts Into the Colonial
Toots in Pittsfield January 22
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010With a matinee and evening performance The Music Man will be presented at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on January 22. The Pittsfield High School Marching Band and the Taconic High School Marching Band will join the cast of The Music Man during a scene that includes the iconic song “76 Trombones.â€
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NY's Vineyard Theatre to Honor Susan Stroman
Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane to MC
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010The Tony Award-winning stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will serve as Masters of Ceremonies when the Vineyard Theatre honors the five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman at the company’s annual gala to benefit the non-profit theatre company on Monday, February 28 at 6:00pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 W. 44 St.) in Manhattan, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of the Vineyard Theatre.
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Bloody Awful
By: - Dec 20th, 2010An Off Broadway hit for Public Theatre in October Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opened on Broadway to mostly rave reviews. Especially for hunky and charismatic, pistol packing, leading man Benjamin Walker. What many critics found fresh, innovative and irreverent proved to be loud, racist and obnoxious. This underground hit may have been edgy Off Broadway but doesn't hold up to the scrutiny of prime time.
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