Theatre
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Fun Home in Miami
South Florida Premiere of Pulitzer Finalist
By: - Apr 23rd, 2018Fun Home is a relatable, relevant, touching and funny piece. The prize-winning musical featured the first all female writing team to win a Tony award.
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Queen of Basel in Miami Beach
World Premiere of Miss Julie Adaptation
By: - Apr 30th, 2018Queen of Basel transports Miss Julie from late 19th century Sweden to present-day Miami Beach. The Hilary Bettis play is a feminist take on August Strindberg's 1888 naturalistic tragedy. Technical elements are top notch
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Karl Marx in Soho with Bob Weick
Howard Zinn's Engaging and Apt Drama
By: - May 04th, 2018Howard Zinn’s celebrated play comes “home” to the Soho Playhouse, starring Bob Weick as Karl Marx. The theorist of communism engages in a passionate, funny and moving commentary about contemporary American politics and society. Come celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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The Cake at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Chicago's Equity Theater Produces Works by Women
By: - May 05th, 2018Bekah Brunstetter’s play shines in giving us insights on the thinking behind a baker’s refusal to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Brunstetter helps us understand the thinking on both sides; this is not a leftwing harangue.
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Anna Christie at Lyric Stage
Revival of O’Neill’s 1921 Pulitzer Winner
By: - May 06th, 2018With judicious tweaking, cuts, and color blind casting director/ adapter, Scott Edmiston, mounted a stunning producton of Anna Christie at Boston's Lyric Stage. The 1921 drama by Eugene O'Neill won a Pulitzer Prize. He would go on to earn three more Pulitzers including for a posthumous production of the autobiographical family epic A Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Buddy Holly on Stage in Chicago
February 3 the Day the Music Died
By: - May 06th, 2018Playwright Janes is an English writer and producer who works in TV, film, radio and stage. Buddy—The Buddy Holly his best-known work and ran for 14 years in London’s West End and toured in the U.K. for 17 years. Buddy has also been on Broadway, toured the U.S., Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
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Zoe Lewis’ Cabaret in Provincetown
Bootleggers Rock Monday at The Mews
By: - May 07th, 2018To our surprise, a Monday night at Provincetown's The Mews, in early May, the joint was jumping. It was packed to the gills for a fabulous night of cabaret with pianist/ singer/ raconteur Zoe Lewis and the Bootleggers. It was the absolute highllight of a pre season week on the Cape.
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Finally Forgetting Irma
New Theater Company Making Long-Awaited Debut
By: - May 07th, 2018Eight months after Hurricane Irma, Measure for Measure Theatre Company to finally mount an inaugural production. The Pulitzer-winning musical Next to Normal will mark new South Florida company's first staging.
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Assembled Identities at HERE
Cloning as a Way to Explore Individuality
By: - May 07th, 2018Assembled Identities is a new work being presented by HERE, as the important Art Center celebrates its 25th anniversary. In many ways, the play reflects the company’s core commitment to hybrid art.
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Orphic Moments by Master Voices
Anthony Roth Costanzo and Matthew Aucoin Featured
By: - May 07th, 2018Anthony Roth Costanzo is a counter tenor opera aficionados come out to hear. His voice is unusually rich for this range. He is a physical actor of great skill. The Master Voices presentation of Orphic Moments implanted a dramatic cantata Matthew Aucoin wrote for Costanzo into the opera by Gluck.
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Two Minds by Lynne Kaufman
At The Marsh in San Francisco
By: - May 08th, 2018The Marsh San Francisco is noted as the Bay Area’s premiere home for solo theatrical performance. With Two Minds it doubles the cast size and the richness of the drama.
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Top Girls at Huntington Theatre
Caryl Churchill's Vintage Masterpiece
By: - May 08th, 2018Top Girls was first produced at London’s Royal Court Theater in 1982 and is still relevant for its socio-economic and political topics, and it weighs in on women’s places at work and in society. Liesl Tommy directed the play that is considered a Masterpiece.
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Andrea Fulton's A Punk or A Gentleman
Big Subjects Treated with Humor and Feeling
By: - May 08th, 2018Theatre for the New City and the Fulton Foundation are presenting Andrea Fulton’s “A Punk or a Gentleman”. Andrea Fulton has an uncanny knack for giving us an incisive vision of difficult social issues. We are asked to reconfigure our preconceptions. Her topic, domestic violence, is not what you might expect. The victim is a man and he, like 25% of American men, is experiencing physical abuse at the hands of his wives and girlfriends.
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Next to Normal in South Florida
Pulitzer-Winning Musical in a Co-Production
By: - May 11th, 2018Measure for Measure Theatre Company and Infinite Abyss Productions mount an emotionally-potent Next to Normal. Actors and technical team vividly capture the highs and lows of a family on the brink. A heart-shattering moment toward the end will hit close to home for many people.
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Suddenly Last Summer at Raven Theatre
Enthhralling Play by Tennessee Williams
By: - May 14th, 2018The play is set in the misty garden of a mansion in New Orleans’ Garden District in late summer 1936. Violet Venable (Mary K. Nigohosian), a wealthy widow, is telling the story of her poet son Sebastian, who died under mysterious circumstances the previous summer in Spain.
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Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons
O'Neill's Long Day's Journey at BAM
By: - May 13th, 2018From the moment you enter the Harvey Theater at BAM this is an extraordinary experience. The set is by no means a glass house, but it has the effect of one. The walls are semi-transparent. Tall bookcases line the central living room in one corner. Stairs ascend. The front door of the house leads to a walkway visible from the living room. This is the 'home' that will be endlessly called to mind in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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Million Dollar Quartet Near Miami
Wildly Successful Show Returns to Actors' Playhouse
By: - May 13th, 2018Million Dollar Quartet ran for more than two months at suburban Miami's Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. The return engagement is just as electric, while proving a bit kinder to eardrums. First-rated performers prove commendable quadruple threats in the roles of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Equus in South Florida
Peter Shaffer Thriller at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - May 20th, 2018Equus proves particularly timely after school shootings. Palm Beach Dramaworks mounts powerful production. Intense staging of Peter Shaffer play features strong acting, excellent design work.
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Tony Nominated Revival of Carousel
Josh Henry Dominates as Bill Bigelow
By: - May 22nd, 2018In a controversial, but Tony nominated revival of Carousel, the verbal and physical abuse of Julie Jordan (Jessie Mueller) by leading man Billy Bigelow (Josh Henry) has been toned down but not eliminated. With the heightened awareness of the Me Too movement one has the right to question why we are seeing this on Broadway? While dated and deeply flawed, arguably, it is one of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals.
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The Originalist by John Strand at Court Theatre
Cat and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
By: - May 23rd, 2018The story told in John Strand’s play The Originalist is set in the 2012-13 term in which Scalia (Edward Gero) hires as one of his clerks a high-achieving, outspoken Harvard Law School graduate who happens to have political views directly opposed to his. Jade Wheeler plays Catherine (Cat) as ready to spar with her boss and mentor on judicial issues that came before the court as well as other political issues
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Light Shinging in Buckinghamshire at NY Theater Workshop
Ideas Would Inform Our Founding Fathers
By: - May 25th, 2018The presentation of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill at the New York Theater Workshop takes the bold step of exploring the true roots of American democratic values as they emerged in the tumultuous years bracketing the English Civil War 1642-1651.
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Victor/Victoria in Southern Florida
Live Adaptation of Popular Film at Stage Door Theater
By: - May 24th, 2018Stage Door Theater near Ft. Lauderdale mounts an elaborate production of Victor/Victoria. Lavish costumes and scenery combine with style and slapstic in an enthralling musical theater experience. Triple threats are at the top of their craft in this can't-miss production.
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Backwards from Winter by Douglas Knehans
Center for Contemporary Opera at Symphony Space
By: - May 26th, 2018Backwards from Winter had its premier as part of the New York Opera Fest. All the parts that make up opera are unified on stage to create an enormously satisfying operatic experience.
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Typhoid Mary by Mark St. Germain
Launches Barrington Season in Theatre Named for Him
By: - May 28th, 2018Wih medieval ignorance and devastating consequeneces science deniers dominate key cabinet positions in the reactionary Trump administration. Fundamentalism and misinformationm result in parents refusing to vaccinate children. These issues and concerns create uncanny relevance for the revival of Mark St. Germain's 1991 play Typhoid Mary. It launches the season for Barrington Stage Company on the stage that bears his name.
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Avenue Q in Southern Florida
Potty Mouthed Puppet Show at MNM Theatre Company
By: - May 28th, 2018A production of the raunchy Avenue Q at West Palm Beach-based MNM Theatre Company proves a winner. Puppet work and acting shine in show that parodies Sesame Street, children's programming. The seemingly lighthearted Avenue Q is intended for mature audiences.
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