Theatre
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I Love You You're Pefect Now Change
Charleston's New Midtown Cabaret Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2016I Love You, You're Pefect, Now Change was originally an intimate Off Broadway musical revue about late 20th century romance.It is being given a lively and enjoyable production in Charleston's comfortable new Midtown Cabaret Theatre.
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William Inge’s A Loss of Roses
Rarely Produced Play at Chicago's Raven Theatre
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016William Inge, author of a string of successful plays in the 1950s, was known for his depictions of midwestern small-town life in Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic; Bus Stop; and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. He had a special sensitivity about solitary female characters such as the spinster schoolteacher in Picnic, the waitress in Bus Stop, and the housewife in Come Back, Little Sheba. Helen and Lila in A Loss of Roses are perceptively drawn characters in this repertory.
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Premiere of Now You See It
Farce at North Coast Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 03rd, 2016Alison Minick, Kern McFadden, David McBean, John Greenleaf, and Ruff Yeager are a winning ensemble cast who know their way around a classic farce when they are in one. It’s a delightful production that will tickle everyone’s funny bone.
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Anna Fitzgerald's Reverse Cascade
Puppetry Flies at The Tank
By: - Mar 04th, 2016The draw of puppetry may be the space that is left for an audience member's imagination. In a delicate figure of a circus performer and athlete who is losing control of her body to MS. The story of Judy FInelli is movingly and engaging told by Anna Fitzgerald's troop. Ellen Cherry on the electric cello adds a touching dimension.
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Jonathan Norton's Mississippi Goddam
Wins ATCA's 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces that Jonathan Norton has won its 2016 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award for an emerging playwright. The award will be presented at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville on April 9.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Court Theatre Production in Chicago
By: - Mar 30th, 2016If Eugene O’Neill is the master of dysfunctional family plays, then Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the masterpiece of the genre. Recognized as one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, the play won the Tony for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1957. Currently it is being produced by Court Theatre in Chicago through April 10.
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The Submission by Jeff Talbot
South Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Apr 25th, 2016Jeff Talbott explores the race issue from an angle not often explored in the theater: infighting among minority groups as to which has been subject to more discrimination, hate and suffering. Forget about racial harmony between white and black people for a moment; if members of minority groups can’t get along and stand with each other in solidarity against hate and bias, how will the race issue ever go away, Talbott challenges us to consider.
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The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham
Dezart Performs in Palm Springs
By: - Apr 28th, 2016“The Outgoing Tide”, insightfully written by Bruce Graham and intelligently directed by Dezart Performs co-founder Michael Shaw, is blessed with a cast of three seasoned professional actors who have graced your movie and television screens over the years and who know their way around a poignant, relevant, and deeply emotional play when they find themselves in one.
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4000 Miles at CV Repertory Theatre
Nation's Most Produced Play in 2014
By: - Apr 29th, 2016CV Repertory Theatre founding artistic director Ron Celona was taken with playwright Amy Herzog’s dramedy “4000 Miles” the minute he read it. “… it offered humor, heart, and thought-provoking topics that most of us can relate to in life.” he says. Celona felt it would be a good fit for his Rancho Mirage audiences and a great way to end CV REP’s 2015/2016 season. He was right on all accounts.
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Bridges of Madison County in Palm Beach
Touring Equity Production
By: - May 01st, 2016In a musical adaptation, especially of a story as popular as “Bridges,” one desires to judge immediately whether the music and lyrics enhance the romantic tale. In this case it mostly does, deepening mood and enhancing characters’ feelings and emotions. This musical premiered at Williamstown Theatre Festival before a Broadway run. This touring production was reviewed at Raymond F. Kravis Center For the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Richard Bean's Toast Delightful Theater
Celebrating Brits Off Broadway 2016
By: - May 01st, 2016Toast comes with its most recent British cast. Set in a bread factory around 1972, this is a guy world and a factory world. In the US both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are reminding us of the value of this kind of work.
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The Hammer Trinity a Marathon Production in Miami
Epic by Nathan Allen and Chris Mathews
By: - May 03rd, 2016August: Osage County was long at three and a half hours. But Nathan Allen in partnership with Chris Matthews test the endurance of audiences with The Hammer Trinity in a single day with two meal breaks. It takes endurance to hang in for nine and a half hours but proves to be worth the time and patience for a production that is evocative and richly inventive. Those who hang in to the finish are proud to sport stickers that proclaim "I Got Hammered."
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Hamilton Tops Tony Nominations
Boffo Season on Broadway
By: - May 03rd, 2016As anticipated Hamilton threatens to run the table in 2016 Tony Awards. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom both of Hamilon are running head to head for top honor as leading man in a musical. In the Best Play Revival category it's a coin toss between two Arthur Miller plays both directed by Ivo Van Hove who is nominated once for both plays. But a production of Eugene O'Neill's epic Long Day's Journey Into Night is in the running. There will be lot of politicking for the honors between now and June.
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Dayporch at Threshold Repertory Theatre
The Actors' Theatre of South Carolina
By: - May 06th, 2016The Actors' Theatre of South Carolina presented The Dayporch at Threshold Repertory Theatre in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. This delightful Southern-style dark comedy could only have been written by a Southern belle who lived among Southerners.
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Guare's The House of Blue Leaves
Chicago's Raven Theatre
By: - May 07th, 2016The House of Blue Leaves has sweet, poignant and tragic moments, but it’s mostly two-and-a-quarter hours of retro nonsense, reminding us or showing us what the world was like 50 years ago.
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The Realistic Jonses by Will Eno
Ft. Lauderdale’s Thinking Cap Theatre
By: - May 10th, 2016Part of the appeal of Will Eno’s play is the variety of emotions it elicits and how sympathetically he’s written “The Realistic Joneses". Eno also doesn’t offer any easy answers. But in the end, you’ll leave the theater feeling you’re not alone in harboring questions about your existence and fears about the fragility of life and the uncertainty surrounding it. Thinking Cap Theatre is “committed to presenting high-quality, thought-provoking theatre to South Florida theatre audiences.”
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Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Road Company at Florida's Broward Center for the Performing Arts
By: - May 12th, 2016If the audience at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Au-Rene Theater was any indication, people pull for King not just because of her music. They want to see her succeed in this bio-musical. She comes across as an ambitious, yet humble, talented, yet insecure underdog.
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Lorraine Hansberry's Last Play at Chicago's Goodman
By: - May 12th, 2016The play, first produced in 1964 with a three-month Broadway run, is a time-warp visit to 1960s Greenwich Village. Lorraine Hansberry was concerned with the political issues and activism of the day, issues that still resonate: Political corruption, racism, homophobia, poverty and privilege.
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Lend Me a Tenor in Charleston
Ken Ludwig Tony Winning Play by The Footlight Players
By: - May 17th, 2016The Tony winning comedy Lend Me a Tenor by Ken Ludwig is being given a lively revival by The Footlight Players in Charleston. The first act takes a lot of exposition with long monologues. Having established the characters and plot lines the second act proved to be a fun packed roller coaster trip.
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Votes the Musical Re-visited
New Production Suggests the Clinton Dynamic
By: - Apr 23rd, 2016Lisa Wright-Matthews and Wayne Miller as ersatz Clintons give us the first couple past and future?
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Elektra is Galvanic
Murder and Revenge without Intermission at the MET
By: - Apr 23rd, 2016A remarkable non-stop performance by Nina Stemme – who never leaves the stage in this 110-minute production – sets the tone for a magnificent interpretation of Strauss’ devastating opera.
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Brian Dennehy Special Guest for P'Town Gala
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival
By: - Mar 30th, 2016The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival (TWP Fest) announces that the multi-award-winning actor Brian Dennehy, recognized for his interpretation of many of Eugene O’Neill’s complex characters, will be the guest of honor at their annual dinner. The gala is to support this fall’s 11th festival, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams: Beyond Success with performances from theaters around the world throughout the charming seaside town from Sept 22 – 25, 2016. The Gala will take place on June 4.
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles
By: - Apr 08th, 2016One can’t help but enjoy the sparkling and inventive on-stage musical comedy machinations of ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ in one of the Ahmanson’s slickest and audience-pleasing productions this season. The musical runs in LA through May 1.
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Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo
Chicago's Remy Bumppo
By: - Apr 09th, 2016Remy Bumppo’s new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo is the powerful story of the famous mathematician whose findings about the structure of the universe defy church teachings. His story is supremely relevant today because it poses crucial issues such as science vs. religion and government control of expression.
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Six Characters in Search of a Puppeteer
At La Mama Theodora Skipitares Creates Families Thru Eons
By: - Apr 09th, 2016No classic drama remains unexplored by the gifted puppeteer Theodora Skipitares. Now at La Mama, she presents Six Characters in Search of More than an Author. Or Actor for that matter. An intriguing take on Pinocchio, Oedipus, Rhoda (the Bad Seed), and the Louds, America's first reality family. Margaret Mead is a surprising tour guide.
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