Theatre
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La Bete Fabulous but Closing Jan. 9
Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway in Jerusalem
By: - Dec 20th, 2010Unfortunately, the best Broadway play of the 2010 season is closing soon on January 9. This is your last chance to see the smashingly outrageous performance of one of the greatest actors of our time. Mark Rylance is just astonishing as the vulgar, self absorbed playwright Valere. David Hyde Pierce is delicious as his rival Elomire. After a break Rylance will return to Broadway in April in Jerusalem for which he won the Olivier award in London.
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Woody Guthrie's American Music
An Arizona State Theatre Production
By: - Dec 19th, 2010Randal Mylers deft handling of Peter Glazer's unvarnished script and solid performances by an all veteran Broadway cast make for a satisfying and nostalgia evoking evening
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Shakespeare & Company Opens May 27
Complete Season Schedule
By: - Dec 17th, 2010Tony Simotes, the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, announces and comments on the program for the 2011-2012 season. A highlight that opens the season is the series Women of Will with Tina Packer and Nigel Gore. The epic project will be presented in five segments covering the entire arc of the works of Shakespeare.
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Rebecca Northan Hilarious in Blind Date
At Ars Nova, New York, to Dec. 20
By: - Dec 16th, 2010The trope of the hilarious improvisation of Blind Date, conceived and starring the Canadian, Rebecca Northan, as Mimi, the Parisian coquette with a clown's nose, is that her co star is randomly chosen from the audience. With remarkable wit and skill the gag is sustained as a ninety minute, one act play. It proves to be a side splitting adventure.
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Barrington Stage 2011 Program
Two Musicals Guys and Dolls and The Game
By: - Dec 16th, 2010The Barrington Stage season will be launched on June 21 in Pittsfield with Guys and Dolls. There will be another Main Stage musical the period piece The Game. Barrington is the first Berkshire theatre company to announce its plans for the coming season.
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Driving Miss Daisy Extended to April 29
James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave
By: - Dec 16th, 2010One of the few hits of a troubled season on Broadway has been Driving Miss Daisy. Audiences are delighted to see two icons of theatre, James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave. But the revival of the 1989 film classic with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy proves to sentimental and terribly dated. Great performances are squandered in a mediocre, popular play.
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NYU Skirball Performing Arts Center: Hamlet
The National Theater Live in HD
By: - Dec 14th, 2010People still yearn to sit in a darkened theater with an audience -- to laugh and cry and applaud together. The marvels of technology now bring premier events from the world over to our backyards. The ticket prices are reasonable and the productions first rate.
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TimeLine Theater Company of Chicago Bubbles
Mastering the Art of...Everything with Bravado
By: - Dec 12th, 2010Dotting the Chicago theaterscape are a myriad of small theater companies who follow the model of the famous Goodman and Steppenwolf, developing an ensemble group, working together to provide a deep base for production and performance. One of these, TimeLine, focuses on history. They have mounted the world premier of the first play they've commissioned and given a full production. To Master the Art is brilliant.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert Broadway Bound
Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre to Jan. 2
By: - Dec 12th, 2010Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, currently wowing audiences at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto before it moves to Broadway this spring, is a grand and gloriously eye-popping musical extravaganza with more than a dollop of sentimentality. It is also just about the gayest theatrical production cum Las Vegas nightclub act to tread the boards of mainstream theatredom. It makes La Cage aux Folles seem like a Episcopalian wake.
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Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy
Boston's Lyric Stage Jan. 1 to 29
By: - Nov 29th, 2010Theresa Rebeck's comedy The Understudy will be performed at Boston's Lyric Stage from January 1 to 29. The play stars Kelby. T. Aken, Laura Latreille and Christopher James Webb, and is directed by Larry Coen. It entails a screwed up attempt to stage a text by Kafka.
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Durang/Durang by Bad Habits
Cambridge Comedy Dec. 2 to 12
By: - Nov 28th, 2010Bad Habit Productions presents an evening of Christopher Durang comedies in the hilarious theatrical mash-up DURANG/DURANG December 2 through 12. Performances will take place at the Durell Theatre, located at the Cambridge YMCA at 820 Massachusetts Avenue on Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm.
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Blind Date in U.S. Premiere Off Broadway
At Ars Nova Dec.2 to 20
By: - Nov 25th, 2010Direct from a critically-acclaimed, sold-out engagement in Toronto comes the new comedy BLIND DATE with its U.S. premiere Off-Broadway. Previews beginning December 2. At the Ars Nova building (511 West 54 Street) Created by and starring Rebecca Northan, BLIND DATE is presented by Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum.
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Colonial Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Festival Merge
Kiss Me Kate
By: - Nov 20th, 2010During a community meeting, and ersatz press conference, the boards of the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the Colonial Theatre, in a bold and surprising move, signed a memorandum of understanding that, over the next year, will merge the arts organzations into a new holding company. Kate Maguire will take over as CEO and Artistic Director of the two organizations. During the event Kate lit up the house with charm, charisma and chuztpah. It was a heck of a show.
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Vengeance Is The Lord's At Huntington Theatre Company
World Premiere of Bob Glaudini's Family Drama
By: - Nov 20th, 2010The Horvath family is not like many other American families. Its business is crime. Though this new play is supposed to be about the moral questions surrounding justice, in this case the parole release of the murderer of a Horvath daughter, the dilemma here is not about morality but storytelling. Though the play cloaked in some jokes, tough love, disfunctional relationships and foul-mouthed conversation, the whole is worse then the sum of some really awful parts including the dialogue, the actors performances and the narrative. A long an often uncomfortable evening was had by all.
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Benfactors at NY's The Spoon Theatre
Michael Frayn Play To Nov. 20
By: - Nov 17th, 2010Our New York correspondent, Ed Rubin, states that Retro Productions is among the best of Off Off Broadway. He urges readers to see Benefactors, by Michael Frayn, at The Spoon Theatre through November 20. He says that "Benefactors truly is one of the best acted, best directed plays that I’ve seen this season. Sadly, it will be closing this Saturday."
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Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y
Barrington Stage Series Launched Nov. 29
By: - Nov 11th, 2010To kick off the “Live from NY’s 92nd Street Y†series, Barrington Stage Company is excited to host “Steve Martin with Deborah Solomon†on Monday, November 29 at 8pm.
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Guys and Dolls at Barrington Stage Company
Musical Opens Pittsfield Season June 22
By: - Nov 09th, 2010Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, will present the musicals Guys and Dolls and a new production of The Game as part of its summer 2011 Mainstage Season.
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ART to Stage Porgy and Bess
Suzan-Lori Parks to Re-imagine Gershwin Opera
By: - Nov 05th, 2010The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announced today that Artistic Director Diane Paulus, Pulitzer prize-winning writer Suzan-Lori Parks, and two-time Obie winner Diedre Murray have been chosen by the Gershwin Trusts and the Heyward Trust to re-imagine the Gershwins’ seminal American opera Porgy and Bess.
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Antony and Cleopatra at Hartford Stage
Kate Mulgrew and John Douglas Thompson
By: - Nov 02nd, 2010Kate Mulgrew returns to Hartford Stage in an ambitious and powerful production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. The great actress has a sublime co star in John Douglas Thompson as her lover the Roman general Marc Antony. This production demonstrates why Cleopatra is regarded as one of the finest roles in the canon.
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A Christmas Carol at Berkshire Theatre Festival
Fifth Annual Production Dec. 11 to 30
By: - Oct 29th, 2010Eric Hill will reprise his role as Ebenezer Scrooge while E. Gray Simons III will return as Jacob Marley, the now deceased partner of Scrooge. The pair will also co-direct again this season. Joining these two will be four of Berkshire Theatre Festival’s Artists-in-Residence; two graduate students from BTF’s partner academic institution: Brandeis University; and many members of the Berkshire county area, including the wife and twin sons of James Taylor: Caroline (Kim), Henry, and Rufus.
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Boston's November Highlights
From Chorus Line to Lou Gossettt, Jr.
By: - Oct 28th, 2010Our Boston entertainment correspondent, Barbara Brilliant, has tips, links and ticket prices for a range of theatre events. This is a clip and save template for what's going on in November.
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Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play
WAM Theatre in Pittsfield Nov. 12 to 21
By: - Oct 27th, 2010WAM Theatre returns with Tony nominated Sarah Ruhl's 'Bold, Outward, Sassy, Sexy and Unashamed' contemporary farce, 'Melancholy Play'. This production will run from November 12-21, 2010 at the NEW STAGE Performing Arts Center in Pittsfield, Mass.
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Trio by Mario Fratti
Theatre for the New City, NY, to Oct. 24
By: - Oct 18th, 2010What many people do not know, having been blindsided by the limelight of "Nine" has brought to the playwright, is that Mario Fratti has written some 80 plays which have been performed around the world in 19 languages in over 600 theatres.
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The Blue Flower at American Repertory Theatre
Musical Opens in Cambridge Dec. 1
By: - Oct 13th, 2010The American Repertory Theatre opens the musical The Blue Flower by Jim and Ruth Bauer at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square, Cambriidge. Under the direction of Will Pomerantz it brings to life the German artists of the end of World War I that emerged from devastation and chaos to form the movements of Expressionism and Dada that morphed into Surrealism. The production opens on December 1 with previews and runs through January 8.
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On the Verge at Main Street Stage
North Adams Production Oct. 14 to 30
By: - Oct 13th, 2010Main Street Stage in North Adams presewnts On the Verge, by Eric Overmyer. The play previews Thursday, Friday and Saturday October 14, 15 and 16th at 8 p.m. There will also be a free matinee for members of North County senior citizen centers on Sunday October 17th.
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