Theatre
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Shakespeare & Company Restructures Debt
Tony Simotes Stabalizes Finances
By: - May 25th, 2010Some months ago we asked former artistic director, Tina Packer, if Shakespeare & Company is out of the woods? She was guarderdly sanguine. Now the new artistic director, Tony Simotes, has managed to pay down a high interest short term loan, settle a construction law suit and restructure the debt. The prospects look far better comining into a full season.
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Shakespeare & Company Opens May 21
Road Production of Julius Caesar Comes Home
By: - May 20th, 2010Shakespeare & Company kicks off its 2010-2011 season May 21 with Shakespeare’s most well known Roman play Julius Caesar , a production fresh off the road after performing to over 50 schools and theatres throughout New England , New York and New Jersey .
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Broadway Bound Lombardi for the Mahaiwe
Great Barrington Previews July 22-28
By: - May 20th, 2010Producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser announced that LOMBARDI, a new American play from Academy Award-winning playwright Eric Simonson, directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail, will preview at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass. July 22-28, before moving to the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway this fall (previews begin September 23, opening night is October 21). Starring Dan Lauria and Judith Light, LOMBARDI is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss.
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WAM at Barrington Stage
$1000 to Women for Women International
By: - May 14th, 2010WAM Theatre recently presented its inaugural event, ‘A WAM Welcome’ at the Barrington Stage Company Second Space. The evening of three diverse theatrical selections celebrated live theatre pieces created by women. WAM Theatre was able to donate $1000 to Women for Women International, whom WAM Theatre chose as their first beneficiary.
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Huntington Theatre's 2010 Season
Features 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - May 11th, 2010The Huntington Theatre Company’s 29th Season will include two world premieres directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, an American classic, two Shakespeare plays in repertory, a three-play festival from a breakout writer, and the 2009 winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Screwtape Letters on Broadway
C.S. Lewis's Advice from the Devil Enthralls
By: - May 10th, 2010C.S. Lewis is the much beloved author of “The Narnia Chronicles†and also wrote commentary on his Christian search for a spiritual life. Among academics, he is best known as a literary critic of 16th and 17th century English works. None of his heavy duty credentials get in the way of a lively and provocative rendition of his "Screwtape Letters" put together by Max McLean and Jeffrey Fiske.
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2010 Tony Awards June 13
Broadcast Sunday at 8 PM on CBS
By: - May 07th, 2010The 2010 Tony Awards will be held June 13 at 8 on CBS. While Fela tops the list of Tony Award nominations we found the musical to be problematic. Our critics covered a number of the nominated shows including Fela, Red, Sondheim on Sondheim, Lend Me a Tenor, Million Dollar Quarter, and Race. You may check out our reviews through BFA search. We have a list of all of the nominations.
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Clarke Peters Stars in The Whipping Man
Opens at Pittsfield's Barrington Stage May 26
By: - May 07th, 2010Barrington Stage Company presents the New England premiere of Matthew Lopez’s drama, The Whipping Man. The post-Civil War-set play about a Jewish Confederate soldier and his former slaves, who share his faith, will feature Clarke Peters (HBO’s Treme and The Wire), LeRoy McClain and Nick Westrate. Christopher Innvar directs the Barrington Stage production at Stage 2. Performances dates are May 26â€"June 13.
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Lend Me A Tenor on Broadway
Ken Ludwig's Play Tony Award Nominated
By: - May 05th, 2010Attention all opera impresarios. Here are the answers to all your problems. If not the answers, no problem facing you will ever seem insurmountable again. Stanley Tucci directs a razor sharp revival of Lend Me A Tenor with a mega watt cast. If you sit in the first five rows, be prepared to receive cherries and roses and so on.
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Jenny Gersten to Williamstown Theatre Festival
Takes Over as Artistic Director
By: - May 05th, 2010After three years Nicholas Martin will step down as the artistic director of the Williamstown Theater Festival. An alumna of WTF, Jenny Gersten will take over next season. With Martin's program in place this timely appointment will allow for an orderly transition.
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Kate Moira Ryan's Bass for Picasso
NY's Theater Breaking Through Barriers to May 23
By: - May 01st, 2010Theater Breaking Through Barriers, the Off-Broadway company known for its productions that integrate able-bodied actors with artists with disabilities, presents the world premiere of Kate Moira Ryan's Bass for Picasso -- a new play about five New Yorkers, including a physically disabled food writer, whose secrets are exposed during a memorable dinner party at Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre 410 West 42nd Street though May 23. Ike Schambelan directs.
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Sondheim on Sondheim at Studio 54
Barbara Cook Nominated for a Tony Award
By: - Apr 23rd, 2010Celebrating the 8oth Birthday of God, AKA Stephen Sondheim, there are many productions for audiences to chose from. The biography and review, with Sondheim appearing in video clips, Sondheim on Sondheim, has opened on Broadway. It features a lively cast headlining Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams and Tom Wopat. In the Berkshires productions of Sweeney Todd will open at Barrington Stage Company while A Funny Thng Happened on the Way to the Forum will be presented at Williamstown Theatre Company. The dueling musicals open on Fourth of July weekend.
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Million Dollar Quartet at Nederlander Theater
Great Balls Are Afire!
By: - Apr 20th, 2010Elvis lives. And so do Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis. A seminal moment in rock and roll history is captured in four great impersonations -- both visual and musical. You don't have to remember those days to have a fabulous evening.
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The Bard Turns 446 April 23
Caesar Cuts the Cake at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Apr 15th, 2010On April 23 Shakespeare & Company will host a birthday bash for William Shakespeare. The Bard will not attend. The evening will commence with a performance of Julius Caesar. A party will follow with cake and music. All for just $15 and $10 for students. What fun.
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Boston's May Theatre Highlights
Some Truly Brilliant Suggestions
By: - Apr 14th, 2010Welcoming our newest correspondent Barbara Brilliant. She will provide us with her selections of monthly theatre in Boston. We are invited to join her in celebrating the 125th season of the Boston Pops.
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Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway
Colonial Theatre on May 1
By: - Apr 12th, 2010Neil Berg�s widely acclaimed 100 Years of Broadway, a musical revue of Broadway�s most celebrated shows features a dazzling cast of five Broadway stars accompanied by an all-star New York band is coming to The Colonial Theatre on May 1st for one performance at 8PM. The Colonial Theatre production, along with musical director and pianist Neil Berg, will feature Rita Harvey (Christine Daee, Phantom of the Opera), Craig Schulman (Jean Valjean, Les Mis�rables), Carter Calvert (Grizabella, CATS), Danny Zolli (Jesus, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Robert DuSold (Harry Bright, Mamma Mia!)
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Colonial Theatre's 2010-2011 Season
Something for Everyone in Pittsfield
By: - Apr 01st, 2010At a members' event and press conference today it took an hour just to read through the list of events from Broadway, Comedy, Cabaret, Rock, Children & Family events planned for the 2009-2010 season of the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. There is something for everyone and more than ever for year round Berkshire entertainment. Cut and paste this complete list of bookings.
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Shakespeare & Company Sets Record
Sold 50,446 Tickets During Its Season
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Shakespeare & Company issued 50,446 tickets this season, surging past its previous record by some three thousand patron visits. (The figure does not include the approximately 800 people who attended S&Co.'s annual July 4th Celebration and Reading of the Declaration of Independence, an un-ticketed event.) The box office revenue totaled $1.13 million, fewer than three thousand dollars short of S&Co.'s record, set during the 2008-2009 season.
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WAM Theatre Presents a WAM Welcome
Barrington Stage Company April 9-11
By: - Mar 24th, 2010Barrington Stage Company, in Pittsfield, Ma. will present A WAM welcome a benefit for Women for Women International on April 9-11. This evening of three diverse theatrical selections celebrates live theatre pieces created by women.
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Barrington Stage in Pittsfield's Big Read
April 16 & 17 The Things They Carried: A Staged Reading
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010The Things They Carried: A Staged Reading is part of the 2010 Big Read in the City of Pittsfield . Three readings will be presented, including two public performances on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street , Pittsfield . In addition to the Friday and Saturday public performances, a matinee reading will be presented on Thursday, April 15 at 12:30 p.m. for invited local schools and Vietnam veterans.
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane at Publick Theatre
Joe Orton's Artful Lodger's Wicked Ménage à trois
By: - Mar 17th, 2010Joe Orton's playful Entertaining Mr. Sloane has plenty of laughs, sex and stereotypes, but underpinning it is a long Pinter-esque shadow of fear and violence which could (and does) explode at any time. In the meantime, Mr. Sloane happily beds both his landlady, and her brother. He thinks he is manipulating them, but soon discovers he is the one being played.
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The Adding Machine at Boston's Speakeasy Stage
An Ensemble Musical Equates to a Total Treat
By: - Mar 16th, 2010Based on the 1923 Edgar Rice play by the same name, The Adding Machine follows Mr. Zero through the worst day of his life as he confronts being replaced by new technology. The updated plot sticks to its roots, and we find all the conflicts of the roaring twenties are the same ones we face almost a century later. Speakeasy's New England Premiere boasts a glorious cast, music that never fails to advance the plot, and a surprising amount of spectacle.
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Red by John Logan
Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne in Rothko Drama
By: - Mar 14th, 2010The London hit Red by John Logan, starring Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko, and Eddie Redmayne as his assistant Ken originated at the tiny Donmar Warehouse. It has been restaged at the Golden Theatre. It is one of the best new plays on Broadway this season.
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Shaw's Candida at Irish Repertory Theatre
Hit Show Extended to April 28
By: - Mar 11th, 2010The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York has mounted a charming and faithful production of Candida by George Bernard Shaw. For modern taste this version of The Good Wife is perhaps a bit too straight and chaste. Candida bends but never breaks to the romantic assault of the smitten poet Edward. She stands by her man in this case the prigish Reverend James Morell. This is a delightful production of what may indeed be a dated period piece. It is on view through April 18.
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Clever Becky Shaw at Huntington Theatre Co.
A Funny Blind Date and a Family From Hell
By: - Mar 10th, 2010Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright to watch. Her Becky Shaw at the Huntington Theatre Company is clever, sassy, funny and full of sizzle. Each of her characters is a complex layered individual who interact sometimes like oil and water, but have an affection, even a love for each other that is very hard to dissect and equally hard to define. This is a play about contemporary folkways and mores with humor. These personal exchanges, histories and connections are often uncomfortable to watch and perhaps even more uncomfortable to think about. However, laughter heals all.
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