Theatre
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Harriet's Return at New Federal Theatre
Karen Jones Meadows Writes and Acts
By: - Feb 17th, 2018Harriet’s Return, written and performed by Karen Jones Meadows, is presented by the New Federal Theatre through March 4 in New York. Harriet Tubman was recently suggested to replace Alexander Hamilton on the US twenty dollar bill, but this honor has been delayed. We are left to remember, even more significantly the life of a remarkable woman.
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Toe Pick at Dixon Place
Zachary Grady Creates the Fantasy World of Tonya Harding
By: - Feb 17th, 2018Tonya Harding’s story just won’t go away. Surrounded by media frenzy that fanned the fires around OJ Simpson's trial, which occurred at about the same time, it is a big, ugly, fascinating tale. Harding’s main competitor in figure skating competition got whacked in the leg. There enough images and tales to last for a long time. Toe Pick by Zachary Grady, who also plays Tonya, creates the frenzy in video images.
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Lucia Berlin: Stories
Produced by Word for Word in San Francisco
By: - Feb 20th, 2018As stories not written with each other or the stage in mind, Lucia Berlin: Stories lacks the cohesiveness and unswerving trajectory that you would expect in a good play. But this production delivers the sharp-eyed insights of an empathetic and accomplished story teller in a well-crafted, entertaining manner.
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If I Forget in Suburban Miami
Meaty Comic Drama by Steven Levenson
By: - Feb 19th, 2018Thought-provoking themes will keep If I Forget in your mind. A relateable Steven Levenson play will make you laugh and cry at suburban Miami's GableStage.
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Philip Dawkins’ The Burn
Steppenwolf for Young Adults
By: - Feb 21st, 2018The Burn by terrific Chicago playwright Philip Dawkins. I think you'll be hearing that name again. It is a tense and smoothly choreographed play, directed by Devon de Mayo. All five characters are on stage at all times in the 90-minute production.
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Uncle Vanya
San Diego’s The Old Globe Theatre
By: - Feb 21st, 2018Check it out. , San Diego’s The Old Globe Theatre is presenting a new translation and a new way of staging Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece dramedy “Uncle Vanya”.
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Breach by Antoinette Nwandu
At Victory Gardens Theater in LIncoln, Illiinois
By: - Feb 22nd, 2018Breach: a manifesto on race in america through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate is a world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. The play’s long title might mislead you into thinking you’re going to see a different sort of play. Lisa Portes directs a solid cast of five in this funny, moving, but somewhat predictable play by Antoinette Nwandu.
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Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel
At Conn's Playhouse on Park
By: - Feb 25th, 2018In Intimate Apparel we see four women, three of whom have learned to abandon their fantasies and make choices based on the reality of the world. Each has made a “bargain” and each longs for what she has sacrificed.
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In The Body Of The World by Eve Ensler
Diane Paulus Directs New Post Vagina Monologue
By: - Feb 28th, 2018Eve Ensler is best known for The Vagina Monologues. In The Body of The World, a theatricalization of her 2013 book by the same name at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center currently running through March 25, Ensler returns to the stage with a vengeance.
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Henry V by William Shakespeare
Produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By: - Mar 02nd, 2018Oregon Shakespeare Festival has cleverly organized the productions of the three plays which involve King Henry V. Two were offered last summer – Henry IV – Part 1 and Henry IV – Part 2. In those plays, one of the main characters is Prince Harry, also known as Hal, who would become King Henry V. Despite being heir to the throne, Hal was a dissolute wastrel who consorted with Falstaff and his derelict followers.
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Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill
Produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festiva
By: - Mar 02nd, 2018In the Jane Austen catalogue, Sense and Sensibility has always played poor sister to Pride and Prejudice. Perhaps it’s a marketing issue with the latter having the more powerful packaging (i.e.: its title). At the core of this story is a searing indictment of 19th century British laws, mores, and practices that contemporary feminists should cleave to in remembrance of the bad old days.
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Steinberg/ATCA Finalists Announced
Award Honors Promising New Plays
By: - Mar 03rd, 2018A panel of critics has narrow down a list of new plays to receive the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Annual honor singles out most promising works which premiered professionally outside NYC during 2017. This year's crop of plays tackle topics from preserving Shakespeare's words to refugees fleeing wars
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This Random World by Steven Dietz
At North Coast Repertory’
By: - Mar 03rd, 2018“This Random World”, written by prolific playwright Steven Dietz, draws from the idiosyncrasies of ‘American Millennials’ and ‘Generation X’ -ers on how they process information, situations, and unexpected opportunities in our digital age.
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Karen Zacharias' Spoof of Telenovela.
Destiny of Desire at Oregon Shakespeare
By: - Mar 05th, 2018On the surface, Destiny of Desire can certainly be enjoyed as a frivolous cream puff and that alone. But the playwright is going for something more. Played in a campy style, the laughs cascade like a thundering waterfall, and the audience howls of recognition and appreciation make you think you’re in Guadalajara rather than Ashland, Oregon.
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Bamboozled by Patricia Milton
World Premiere at at Berkeley City Club
By: - Mar 05th, 2018As a producer of new theatrical works, Central Works’ undertakings are always a crapshoot, but they usually beat the odds. In resident playwright Patricia Milton’s Bamboozled, they have tossed a winning number.
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Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
At Irish Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 06th, 2018Enda Walsh has often suggested that what interests him “is about me actually getting through the day.” And indeed, the three works of Walsh’s that I did see, Once, Lazarus (2015) which he co-wrote with David Bowie, and the 22-year-old Disco Pigs, which won awards at the Dublin Fringe Festival (1996) and the Edinburgh Festival (1997), follows these same ideas.
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Gloucester Stage Company 2018
Madame Defarge Launches Season May 11
By: - Mar 08th, 2018Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director Robert Walsh and Managing Director Jeff Zinn, announce the six-play lineup for Gloucester Stage’s 39th Season of professional theater in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Penny Arcade at Joe's Pub
By: - Mar 09th, 2018For three Tuesdays at Joe's Pub at Public Theatre in New York the audience attends a rehearsal of a work in progress, The Girl Who Knew Much, by the performance artist Penny Arcade.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie Classic at Hartford Stage
By: - Mar 10th, 2018In case you don’t remember the plot, the mystery begins in Istanbul where in the mid-1920s, a number of passengers board the famed train, the Orient Express, for a trip to England. Surprisingly (it is winter) the first class carriage is full. One of the passengers is the famed Belgium detective Hercule Poirot returning to London from a vacation. The play begins with a brief scene of a little girl being abducted.
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Shakespeare and More in Cincinnati
ATCA Regional Conference in the Queen City
By: - Mar 14th, 2018Cincinnati's theaters are exploring race and other timely topics on their stages. American Theatre Critics Association takes in a diverse group of plays at recent regional conference as vibrant live theater scene is sampled by critics
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Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Monty Python Meets Sherlock Holmes at Long Wharf
By: - Mar 15th, 2018Ken Ludwig stays relatively faithful to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery novel The Hounds of the Baskervilles. Holmes is asked to help protect the newest heir (Sir Henry) to Baskerville Manor and the estate after the previous owner was found dead with a look of terror on his face. The back story includes an early evil ancestor who was killed by a large, ghostly hound dog. Sir Henry has just arrived from Canada and immediately receives a threatening letter. Ludwig has maintained the skeleton of the plot, but has turned it on its ear.
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Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies
By Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Produced by Custom Made Theatre
By: - Mar 15th, 2018Custom Made’s production of Hooded, by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, sizzles. The cast, led by Jesse Vaughn as Marquis and Tre’Vonne Bell as Tru captivates. Under Lisa Marie Rollins’ excellent direction, all the characters are well developed and their interactions are precise and true
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Dancing Lessons in South Florida
Touching Comic-drama by Mark St. Germain
By: - Mar 16th, 2018Dancing Lessons is a surprising packed, yet taut play about the capacity to change. The poignant Mark St. Germain play demonstrates the effect people seemingly with nothing in common can have on each other. This comedy-drama spreads knowledge, awareness about an autism-related disorder without lecturing or using too much jargon. The play had its world premiere at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires.
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Alarm Will Sound at Carnegie Hall
A Portrait of György Ligeti
By: - Mar 17th, 2018Alan Pierson of Alarm Will Sound invites us to a salon he conducts with Nadia Sirota. Tonight’s subject would be György Ligeti, the Hungarian composer who many people heard for the first time as they watched Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone
By Sarah Ruhl at Ross Valley Players
By: - Mar 18th, 2018Sarah Ruhl is one of the darlings of contemporary theater. Her work ricochets between grounded and fanciful, with storylines usually a little off-normal, and populated with at least some loopy characters. “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” is one that turns from realistic to fantasy at intermission.
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