Theatre
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The My Way Residential
Geraldine Aron World Premiere at Irish Theatre
By: - May 24th, 2017Geraldine Aron was born in Galway and lived for 20 years in South Africa and other African countries; she now lives in London. She dedicated this play to Pumla Lolwana and her children Lindani, Andile and Sesanda, whose tragic story inspired Byron’s story. The Irish Theatre of Chicago staged Aron’s hit play, My Brilliant Divorce, in 2015.
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It Shoulda Been You
Direct From Broadway to Florida's Actors Playhouse
By: - May 22nd, 2017It Shoulda Been You offers a fun, frantic wedding experience at Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre. The music all has been called "Broadway's Most Uproarious Family Affair." A stellar South Florida cast performs farce with flair.
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Archduke at Mark Taper Forum
World Premiere of Rajiv Joseph Play
By: - May 19th, 2017Cleveland-born playwright Rajiv Joseph, had a breakthrough with “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” It premiered at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA. in 2009. “Bengal Tiger”, then performed at the Mark Taper Forum (MTF) in 2010, before moving to Broadway; becoming a Pulitzer Prize finalist. “Guards at the Taj” following in 2016, again premiering at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; establishing him as a major American playwright. “Archduke”, his current dark, comedy, had its world premiere at MTF in Los Angeles.
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Iphigenia in Splott at 59E59 Theaters
Sophie Melville Electrifies
By: - May 18th, 2017The tale comes direct from Aulis and Euripides. Gary Owen has updated the sacrificial woman to the 21st Century, where in Wales, like many other places around the world, women are still being asked to make superhuman sacrifices. Sophie Melville's tour de force performance is superb.
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Maury Yeston's Nine the Musical
Show Based on Fellini Film in Florida
By: - May 15th, 2017Nine was performed impeccably by the cast in a South Florida production of the musical based on Fellini film triumphs at Broward Stage Door Theatre. The staging of Nine takes us into the mind of a frustrated filmmaker
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The King and I on National Tour
Award-Winning Production Visits Miami
By: - May 10th, 2017Lincoln Center Theater's The King and I is a richly-emotional experience. Performers shine in an equity national tour of popular musical about Anna and the King of Siam The perrenial musical proves relevant decades after its Broadway premiere.
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Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau
Chicago's Timeline Theatre
By: - May 10th, 2017Paradise Blue is the third play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit cycle, which was inspired by August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle. The other two plays are Detroit ’67, produced in 2013 by Northlight Theatre, which has scheduled the third play, Skeleton Crew, to open in January 2018. Timeline staged Morisseau’s Sunset Baby (set in New York) in 2016.
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Desert Rose Theatre's Clark Gable Slept Here
Michael McKeever's Hollywood Satire
By: - May 09th, 2017The Desert Rose Theatre, of Cathedral City, the only theatrical venue serving the LBGTQ community, is presenting a slick, snappy, and outrageously funny production written by Michael McKeever, that bills itself as a dark comedy spoof/satire entitled “Clark Gable Slept Here”, a Hollywood Fable directed by Resident Director and theatre co-Founder Jim Strait.
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Lauren Yee's Hookman in Chicago
Existential Slasher Comedy at Steep Theatre
By: - May 08th, 2017Playwright Lauren Yee calls her play Hookman an “existential slasher comedy.” And Steep Theatre’s new production takes her up on that with creative staging, solid performances, especially by the three female leads—and plenty of blood. Hookman is smartly directed by Vanessa Stalling
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Outer Critics Circle
2016-2017 Award Winners
By: - May 08th, 2017Surprise surprise! Bette Midler won for Hello Dolly. Will such wonders ever cease?
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Dianne Wiest as Winnie in Happy Days
Theatre for a New Audience Presents a Yale Rep Production
By: - May 07th, 2017Happy Days is here again, if not in the Democratic party, perhaps alive and well in Brooklyn. Dianne Wiest plays Samuel Beckett's iconic role with a marvel of tonal and emotional variety. The Theatre for a New Audience Production is mesmerizing.
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Harry Houdini in Miami
Show About Escape Artist at Arsht Center
By: - May 06th, 2017Fusion of magic, mystery, music and storytelling make Death & Harry Houdini captivating. Artists shine in play with music about famed escape artist. Disappear into the world of Harry Houdini in play at South Florida venue.
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Angel and Echoes at 59E59
Henry Naylor's Exploration of Women Warriors
By: - May 03rd, 2017Henry Naylor is known as a comic writer for the British shows Spitting Image, Headcases, Dead Ringers and Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression. In the last three years, he has written three plays about the conflicts in the Middle East that focus on women.
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A Length of Rope at The Muse
Brooklyn's Home for Circus and Immersive Events
By: - May 02nd, 2017The Muse is a special place in Brooklyn. Angela Buccini founded the space for artists to develop projects and then present them. A Length of Rope features Ariel Schmidtke joined by Strangely, & Above and Beyond Dance on May 5 at 8pm.
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2017 Tony Award Nominations
Shakespeare & Company's John Douglas Thompson
By: - May 02nd, 2017The classical actor John Douglas Thompson, known to Berkshire audiences for his many roles at Shakespeare & Company, is among the nominees for a 2017 Tony Award. He was inspired to pursue a career in theatre by attending an August Wilson play at Yale Rep. This season he played a supporting role in Wilson's play Jitney having its long delayed Broadway debut. He has also been nominated for a Drama Desk award.
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Other Than Honorable by Jamie Pachino
Geva Theatre Rochester, NY
By: - May 02nd, 2017In “Other Than Honorable” [the term for a military discharge that perhaps won’t penalize the recipient, as a “Dishonorable” one does], the central character is a former Army officer who resigned her commission “under sealed terms.” She is persuaded to defend a young female soldier who stabbed her Master Sergeant after he raped her.
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Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida
Timeless Love Story in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - May 01st, 2017Depth of feeling makes Aida soar as South Florida company ends season with the Elton John, Tim Rice musical. Its production of Aida is passion-infused.
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The Roundabout by J. B. Priestley
Witty Words Make You Yearn for the Classes Again
By: - Apr 30th, 2017British plays are presented off-Broadway at the 59E59 Theatres. Currently running is an early JB Priestley play The Roundabout. Wit abounds, as does touching good humor. For a moment we imagine change in British society, but we whirl back to the status quo through lines that often sound like Oscar Wilde.
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Sex With Strangers by Laura Eason
Production in Rochester, New York
By: - Apr 30th, 2017Sex With Strangers is a sexy, pleasant, entertaining play with pretentions that Laura Eason’s dialogue doesn’t quite live up to. This play has been making the rounds. Developed through Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s New Play Initiative, its world premiere was at Steppenwolf in Chicago, and its New York premiere was at Second Stage Theater New York in 2014.
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Advice Columnist Ann Landers
At California's Coyote StageWorks
By: - Apr 30th, 2017“Ann Landers” was the pen name of Eppie Lederer, who wrote an advice column for one of Chicago’s leading newspapers. Ironically, her twin sister Pauline Lederer, wrote her advice column “Dear Abby” for the Chicago Herald American newspaper. The sisters were close but when it came to their columns, each were tigress’ defending their turf.
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Cabaret Star Jerome Elliott
Shines at the Purple Room in Palm Springs
By: - Apr 30th, 2017“Crawling Back to Broadway”, is a nicely written, well-crafted revue, of songs and patter, by Elliott, and a musical set list that includes inter-action with the audience, thanks to the cool and easy style of musical director Charlie Creasy.
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Babes in Toyland by MasterVoices
Kelli O'Hara and Bill Irwin Headline Superb Cast
By: - Apr 29th, 2017Babes in Toyland debuted over a century ago. It has been reprised in many film and TV versions. Now we have it as it started out, as one of the first American musical comedies, a genre in which this country specializes. MasterVoices concocted a delicious concert version at Carnegie Hall.
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War Paint on Broadway's Dueling Divas
Veterans Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole Star
By: - Apr 28th, 2017As wonderful as soprano Christine Ebersole cum Elizabeth Arden is – and the lady does have a couple of sensational show stoppers - it is the in-your-face belter Patti LuPone’s Helena Rubinstein who commands the most on stage attention in this show, as Rubinstein did in her every day life with her exotic wardrobe and jewelry, her thick European accent, and fast-flying zingers. “There are no ugly women, only lazy ones,” is one of her more famous quotes.
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Not About Nightingales
Early Tennessee Williams Script
By: - Apr 28th, 2017Not About Nightingales, an early Tennessee Williams script, is a Depression-era tragedy with many elements that foretell Williams’ genius as a playwright. Even though considered a lost work, it helped Williams get started on his illustrious playwriting career. The play was one of a batch of plays sent to a Group Theatre competition in December 1938.
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2016-17 Drama Desk Awards
Hello Dolly Earns Most Nominations
By: - Apr 28th, 2017The Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! tops the list with 10 nominations, while original Broadway musicals Anastasia and Come From Away follow close behind with nine nominations apiece. Lauded off-Broadway shows include the revival of Eugene O'Neill'sThe Hairy Ape, with eight nods, Atlantic Theater Company's production of The Band's Visit, with seven, and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, also with seven.
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