Theatre
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Education by Brian Dykstra
At 59E59 Theaters
By: - Mar 18th, 2018Education is a bold title for a play, but this arresting new play by Brian Dykstra deserves the title. Directed with precise attention to detail and an ability to turn the emotional context on a dime, Margarett Perry captures 21st century public school high school life.
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Cyrano by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner
Adaptation of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Rostand wrote Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897 in Paris and based his leading character on a French libertine of the same name. He is credited with introducing the word “panache” into English; the word then meant a plume or feather on a helmet or headdress. Cyrano by Boho Theatre continues in Chicago at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, through April 15
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Sister Act the Musical
At the Palm Canyon Theatre
By: - Mar 19th, 2018“Sister Act” the Musical owes its theatrical existence to the movie “Sister Act”, starring Whoopy Goldberg. Popularity begets popularity. The movie was then turned into a musical written by Alan Menken and Glen Slater, from a libretto by Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, with additional book material by Douglas Carter Beane. The result is a musical Blockbuster which I believe is one of the best musicals ever produced by the Palm Canyon Theatre.
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The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?
At CV REP in Rancho Mirage California
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, debuted his highly controversial play “The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia?” on Broadway in 2002. It went on to garner a Tony Award for Best Play, A Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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You for Me for You by Mia Chung
At Chicago's Sideshow Theatre Company
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Mia Chung’s other plays include Catch as Catch Can and This Exquisite Corpse. You for Me for You premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London; its first U.S. production was in 2012 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC. Chung is a graduate of Brown University with an MFA in playwriting.
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Through the Elevated Line by Novid Parsi
Carin Silkaitis Directs a Chicago World Premiere
By: - Mar 19th, 2018Through the Elevated Line is made up of a series of sometimes-bumpy scenes, running about 2.25 hours with one intermission. The direction seems uneven too, with some characters shouting when it doesn’t seem called for. Razi is a sympathetic character despite getting into trouble both at home in Iran and in Chicago. His relationship with his sister is sweet and realistic.
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Brigadoon in Boca Raton
Lerner and Loewe's Enchanting Musical
By: - Mar 19th, 2018South Florida's Wick Theatre and Costume Museum present an enchanting Brigadoon. The regional production of Lerner and Loewe classic is magical and humorous. Despite sound and timing issues, the actors enchant in mostly strong staging.
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Beth Morrison and National Sawdust
Ten New Composers and Ten New Works
By: - Mar 20th, 2018Beth Morrison and National Sawdust host new composers and new works in a competition for the chance to expand a work next year. The Next Generation is here.
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Dido of Idaho at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Abby Rosebrock Mourns Aeneas
By: - Mar 22nd, 2018Dido's Lament is a beautiful aria. it suffuses Abby Rosebrock's new play and is not helpful. Nora, a contemporary Dido, is drowning in love, alcohol and mother-angst. Rosebrock drives her tale with often witty and amusing dialogue.
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Memphis Still Mesmerizes
Rousing Musical in South Florida
By: - Mar 26th, 2018Memphis: The Musical is a big-hearted, bold show about the power of the human spirit and music to bring about change. A thrilling and touching regional production is underway in Ft. Lauderdale. An electric cast with impressive acting and dancing skills beautifully sings the soul-stirring music of Memphis.
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Gorki - Alternative For Germany?, at Gorki Theater, Berlin
Gorki - Alternative Fuer Deutschland?
By: - Mar 27th, 2018Germany is up in arms! She is against the right wing tendencies among the population in general, and she is against the political party, AFD (Alternative For Germany), in particular. Of course, the Gorki, as an openly politically engaged theater, has lots to say on the subject.
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Meet Me in Milwaukee
Intersections Summit Addresses Social Justice
By: - Mar 27th, 2018From March 23 to 25 Milwaukee Repertorty Theatre hosted a conference Intersections Summit. It was convened to address equity, identity and inclusion through diversity and community outreach. In a letter to ATCA president, Bill Hirschman, managing director, Chad Bauman, who hosted us said in part "All in all, nearly 200 theater professionals from 80+ organizations from 30+ states attended including ATCA, TCG, funders such as the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and journalists from media outlets such as The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune. More than 50 engagement leaders presented sessions and several of which were live streamed via our Facebook page as well as Howlround."
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Prurience at the Guggenheim Museum
A Pseudo Porn Therapy Session
By: - Mar 28th, 2018Prurience. Maybe we should linger on the title of a docu-play running at the Wright Restaurant in the Guggenheim Museum. A group consisting of planted actors with written roles and an audience who have bought tickets expecting to participate in a porn addiction recovery session, are directed by the work’s creator, Christopher Green. This gentle psychodrama had a sold out run on London’s South Bend. The idea is a hoot.
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Father Comes Home from the Wars – Parts 1, 2 & 3
Pulitzer Winner Suzan-Lori Parks's Play at Yale Rep
By: - Mar 29th, 2018Suzan-Lori Parks has woven a story of a slave during the Civil War and the Greek Odyssey into a compelling story. She is well known to Connecticut theater goers. Several of her plays have been staged at Yale Rep, including the Pulitzer-prize winning Topdog/Underdog, The American Play and Venus.
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Cowboy vs. Samurai by Michael Golamco
Produced by Pear Theatre
By: - Mar 29th, 2018In Michael Golamco’s Cowboy vs. Samurai, Travis replaces Cyrano (de Bergerac), and being Asian replaces suffering from an imposing proboscis. But there is more than just the romancing to this clever play. Pear Theatre’s mounting of this production is both highly entertaining and touching. It is also full of jabbing reminders that much work is yet to be done on the discrimination front.
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The Effect by Lucy Prebble
Produced by San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Mar 30th, 2018The Effect is a penetrating look at research practice as realized through the vivid experiences of real people who may unwittingly subvert the process of unveiling truth. The veteran cast sizzles – Joe Estlack and Ayelet Firstenberg as the subjects and Susi Damilano and Robert Parsons as the researchers.
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The little Opera Company's Piramo and Tisbe
Hasse Is a Hot Composer Again
By: - Mar 26th, 2018The superb little Opera company has mounted Hasse’s Piramo and Tisbe, based on the tale told in Ovid’s Metamorphosis, Book IV. It resembles Romeo and Juliet. Two young people, who in this case live in adjoining homes in Babylon, fall in love through the wall that separates them, but are driven apart by warring parents. All does not end well. Yet in the process of telling the story, glorious music abounds.
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Yerma at the Park Avenue Armory
Billy Piper Transfixes as Yerma Today
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Yerma inspired by Frederico Garcia Lorca, written and directed by Simon Stone, is produced in a glass house poised in the middle of the Drill Hall at the Park Avenue Armory. It is a transfixing work. Billie Piper’s Olivier-winning performance is justly celebrated. All the cast members contribute to the wrenching drama.
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Until The Flood by Dael Orlandersmith
Ferguson Story Told at Milwaukee Rep
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Until The Flood can be seen at the Milwaukee Rep until April 22nd. Dael Orlandersmith wrote a performance piece in response to the Ferguson shooting and riots. How will a community like Ferguson heal?
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Petrenko Conducts Rosenkavlier at Carnegie
First-Rate Singers Honor Strauss
By: - Mar 30th, 2018Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier is his most beloved opera. Strauss fused rigorous compositional technique, catchy waltzes and superb vocal writing to a charming, sentimental libretto by his longtime collaborator Hugo von Hoffmannsthal. On Thursday night, the Bayerische Staatsoper brought this opera to the stage of Carnegie Hall under the baton of its boss Kirill Petrenko. This was the opera company's first concert performance at the New York venue in its long history.
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One House Over at Milwaukee Rep
World Première by Catherine Trieschmann
By: - Mar 31st, 2018In a world premiere, One House Over, by Catherine Trieschman, an undocumented Mexican couple are hired as live in care providers for a divorced woman and her elderly father. There are comic elements in this tragedy of living under the constant threat of deportation. Camila and Rafael have lived in the States all of their adult lives but she longs to go home to the family she has never known.
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hang by Debbie Tucker Reed
At Chicago's Remy Bumppo
By: - Mar 31st, 2018We sit through 60 minutes of ambiguity and tension—about what? When "hang" by DebbieTucker Reed finally reveals (almost reveals) its essential point in the final 25 minutes, we are caught up in the conversation among three people in a small room. It is devastating–and maddening. It is the final production in Remy Bumppo’s 21st season for which the theme is “21: Truth Be Told.”
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Shooter by Sam Graber
Katrin Hilbe Directs at TheaterLab in New York.
By: - Mar 31st, 2018Shooter, a new play by Sam Graber is on stage at TheaterLab in New York. Perhaps it takes a woman like director Katrin Hilbe to mount this for maximum effect. On the face of it, the play is about a young man who plots to take out as many school students as possible with his assault rifle.
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Kelley Faulkner in Always Patsy Cline
Juke Box Musical at Milwaukee Rep
By: - Apr 01st, 2018After two near fatal car crashes Patsy Cline confided in friends that she sensed her number was up. She drew up a will on TWA stationary and gave away personal possessions. That was not unusual as she was notably generous to family, friends and emerging women performers. A month later, at 30, she was dead in a plane crash. At Milwaukeee Rep in the two hander Always Patsy Cline we had a vivid evening of her unique and stunning music.
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Three Tall Women By Edward Albee
On Broadway with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill
By: - Apr 01st, 2018It’s only a few months before the 26th anniversary of the first American appearance of Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Three Tall Women, yet we’ve seen surprisingly few revivals. Certainly those who love Albee’s plays can rejoice at this masterful new version with the legendary actress Glenda Jackson.
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