Theatre
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2010
Nicholas Martin Announces His Final Season
By: - Mar 08th, 2010In announcing highlights of the 2010 season the departing artistic director, Nicholas Martin, states that "For my final summer at the theatre I love, I want to produce a series of the kinds of plays I love the most: American classics and new American plays." The season starts with Sondheim's "A Funny Thuing Happened on the Way to the Forum." It is the kind of music that was missing last year. Martin will direct and all star cast of Dylan Baker, Beck Ann Baker and Campbell Scott in the chestnut "Our Town." There will be new works for the Nikos Stage including a one woman play by Judy Gold.
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Venus in Fur by David Ives to March 28
Starring Nina Ariadna and Wes Bentley
By: - Mar 08th, 2010An Off Broadway Star is Born in the breakout performance by the magnificently kinky and versatile Nina Ariadna. This is a wonderfully witty play by David Ives. It has been given razor sharp direction by Walter Bobbie. Wes Bentley is rightly sniveling as the playwright that Vonda walks all over with spike heels. It hurts so good at NY's Classic Stage Company.
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God of Carnage: New Cast
Dylan Baker, Lucy Liu, Jeff Daniels, Janet McTeer
By: - Mar 07th, 2010The 2009 Tony Award winning Best Play, by Yasmina Reza has gone through yet another cast change. Jeff Daniels returns in the role for which he was nominated for a Tony. Lucy Liu adds star power to the Marquee. Yet again Dylan Baker demonstrates why he is the best actor you never heard of. Oscar nominee Janet McTeer completes the quartet of embattled parents in the most amusing and entertaining play now on Broadway.
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Paradise Lost At American Repertory Theatre
Clifford Odets' Social/Political Drama Misplaced
By: - Mar 04th, 2010It is the 1930s and the Great Depression is raging, the Gordon family of five is struggling to keep afloat. Bad things happen. Characters representing aspects of the social/political society in turmoil are unable to alter events for the better. An urban setting is the place and the time is vague. Is it the 30s or sort of our present? Does it matter? Though the acting is very good, Clifford Odets' story is a bit dated and the play is not really in focus. Nothing much good happens. "Lost" may be the best description for this drama.
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Laurie Anderson's Delusion
'62 Center Williams College
By: - Feb 27th, 2010Recently performance, multi media artist, Laurie Anderson, premiered Delusion which was comissioned for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She had partly developed the piece during a residence at Mass MoCA. She returned to the Berkshires for two solo performances at the '62 Center of Williams College.
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Berkshire Theatre Festival 2010 Season
From Macbeth to Endgame
By: - Feb 26th, 2010Berkshire Theatre Festival's 2010 season features one world premiere, two musicals, and multiple classics from the theatrical canon. Critically-acclaimed directors David Auburn, Anders Cato, Kyle Fabel, Wes Grantom, Eric Hill, John Rando, and E. Gray Simons III will be charged with bringing this season of theatre that matters to life. Among the actors appearing this year in Stockbridge are Jayne Atkinson, David Chandler, Jeremy Davidson, Richard Easton, Michel Gill, and Randy Harrison.
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Stick Fly Brilliant At Calderwood Pavilion
Class, Race and Humor Dramatically Rendered
By: - Feb 24th, 2010Continuing its 28th Season focusing upon American stories, the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Stick Fly by playwright Lydia Diamond is a brilliantly written, well-acted and elegantly staged production about an upper class African-American family. It showcases the complexity of this family with a smart, often moving and humorous portrait of contemporary life and mores. See this show now as it could easily move to Broadway.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Torments
Shakespeare & Company Through March 21
By: - Feb 12th, 2010The sexual predators Madame la Marquise de Merteuil (Elizabeth Aspenlieder) and Le Vicomte de Valmont (Josh Aaron McCabe) are involved in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Shakespeare & Company through March 21. While all is fair in love and war this drama deftly conflates those extremes.
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Becky Shaw at Huntington Theatre
Peter DuBois Directs Gina Gionfriddo Hit
By: - Feb 12th, 2010The 2009 Off Broadway hit Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Artistic director Peter DuBois brings it to Boston's Huntington Thatre from March 5 through April 4. It was named to Best of 2009 lists by the NY Times and other publications. It is a wickedly funny black comedy about a group of 30 somethings.
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The Brother - Sister Plays at Steppenwolf
Tarell Alvin McCraney Wows Chicago
By: - Feb 09th, 2010Steppenwolf, one of America's great ensemble theaters, welcomes a triple-header by Tarell Alvin McCraney. All three plays are directed by ensemble member Tina Landau.
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WTF and The Clark Present ART
Reza's Play Tweaks Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Feb 06th, 2010In the dead of winter The Clark Art Institute collaborated with its neighbor The Williamstown Theatre Festival with a reading of the hilarious Yasmina Reza play ART. This summer, when the Clark mounts Picasso Looks at Degas, they will again join forces with a reading of Steve Martin's comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
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Legacy of Light at Boston's Lyric Stage
Karen Zacarias Play Through March 13
By: - Feb 05th, 2010The Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces the fifth production of the 2009- 2010 Season: Karen Zacarias' intriguing new story of love, family and scientific discovery, Legacy of Light Directed by Lois Roach, the play runs February 12 through March 13, 2010.
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Tina Packer Stars in Women of Will
Shakespeare & Company Preview on February 28
By: - Feb 03rd, 2010By now the cat is pretty much out of the bag. It is anticipated that Tina Packer, founding director of Shakespeare & Company, will launch the season with "Women of Will." The collage of women's roles in Shakespeare has absorbed her for 15 years. There will be a sneak preview of the work in progress on February 28.
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Colonial Theater's February Heart Throbs
Romeo & Juliet To An Elvis Valentine Bash
By: - Feb 02nd, 2010Be still dear heart. February is for lovers and the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield is offering that romantic mood. Highlights include a touring production of Romeo and Juliet as well as an Elvis Valentine's Bash.
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O'Neill and Beckett by Brian Dennehy
At Chicago's Goodman Theatre to Feb. 23
By: - Feb 01st, 2010The superb actor Brian Dennehy suggested that Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape be performed together, and this was a brilliant choice. The run has been extended to February 23.
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Shakespeare & Company Back on Track
Les Liaisons Dangereuses To March 21
By: - Jan 16th, 2010Last year, for the first time, Shakespeare & Company mounted a winter production. The one woman show "Bad Dates" was a hit for Elizabeth Aspenlieder which won her Boston's Norton Award when she the took the show to Lowell. She is now in rehearsal, directed by Tina Packer, as the lead in "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" which opens January 29 and runs through March 21. We dropped by for a rehearsal and to catch up on S&Co.'s ongoing efforts to pay down a $10 million debt.
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Wonderful All My Sons at Huntington Theatre
Arthur Miller's Breakthrough Play Impressive
By: - Jan 15th, 2010It was just after WWII (1947) that Arthur Miller's All My Sons was presented on Broadway and established him as one of America's greatest playwrights. The Huntington Theatre Company's production of this play is about as good as drama gets. The acting, direction and production values are superb. This is a brilliant theatrical treat that deals with morality, family and patriotism.
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Edge Performed at Gallery 51 January 27
Marcy J. Savastano Stars as Sylvia Plath
By: - Jan 13th, 2010Edge, Method Machine's production of a play about Sylvia Plath, Wednesday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m. at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Gallery 51 at 51 Main Street, North Adams. Under the direction of David Henderson, Edge features Marcy J. Savastano in the role of Sylvia Plath, the poet and author most famous for the novel The Bell Jar.
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Yazmina Reza's Art at the Clark Art Institute
Williamstown Theatre Festival Reading Feb. 5
By: - Jan 12th, 2010The Clark and the Williamstown Theatre Festival present a staged reading of Yasmina Reza's international hit Art February 5 at 7 pm at the Clark. Hailed as "a remarkably wise, witty and intelligent comedy" by The London Times, Art is sure to tickle your funny bone and brain. Reservations are required for this free event.
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Mamet's American Buffalo at the Steppenwolf
Chicago Welcomes Back Its Homies
By: - Dec 29th, 2009While Mamet's first Chicago home was the Goodman Theater, Steppenwolf has stepped up with a wonderful new production of American Buffalo. It continues in the Windy City through February 7.
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Holiday on Broadway
Prime Time Means Price Spike
By: - Dec 21st, 2009During the prime time Holiday season the top Broadway shows appear to be recession proof. Expect to pay up to $351 for a choice seat to "Billy Elliot." But the budget conscious will find good deals at the TKTS booth in Times Square.
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Shakespeare & Company Releases Main Stage Schedule
John Douglas Thompson Returns as Richard III
By: - Dec 20th, 2009Obie winner John Douglas Thompson will return this summer to star as "Richard III" at Shakespeare & Company. Tina Packer will direct "The Taster" a new play by Joan Ackerman. And Elizabeth Aspenlieder will star in "A Winter's Tale."
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Barrington Stage Company Announces Season
Sweeney Todd Brings Blood and Guts to Pittsfield
By: - Dec 19th, 2009The Barrington Stage Company season will start on May 27 with a Stage 2 production of "The Whipping Man" and run through December with "A Christmas Story." Not for the squeamish that arch villain "Sweeney Todd" will be serving up gory meat pies to the delight of one and all starting June 17.
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Barrington Stage Receives Grant
Announces Season This Week
By: - Dec 15th, 2009The hot stove is glowing in the off season. This week Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield will announce its schedule which opens with the musical Sweeney Todd. We will learn other details. Artistic director Julianne Boyd is also announcing a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Cindy Bella at Shakespeare & Company
Perfectly Ridiculous Holiday Fun to Dec. 20
By: - Dec 12th, 2009Hilarious Holiday fun for the whole family prevails at Shakespeare & Company with an evening of farce in a concoction Cindy Bell more or less based on the classic fairy tale Cinderella. They are playing it over the top just for laughs. Lots of them.
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