Theatre
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Brecht's Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Mar 20th, 2017The play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is 105 minutes of fast-paced Brechtian dialogue and gangland-style murders. It is a brutal and not always subtle satire laced with literary and dramatic references, and performed in a highly physical way.
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Robert LePage at BAM's Harvey Theatre
Portrait of an Artist Building Stories
By: - Mar 19th, 2017What qualities would you guess are incubators of a talent like Robert LePage's? His Dad was a cab driver. He shared a room with two sisters when his grandmother moved into the already crowded apartment to die with Alzheimer's. Memory obsesses LePage. He struggles to memorize "Speak White", a radical poem which details great class divides. Yet this is LePage and you often find yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as his art takes over his pain.
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Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar
CV REP Theatre in Rancho Mirage.
By: - Mar 18th, 2017“Disgraced”, staged and insightfully directed by Joanne Gordon, at CV REP, first premiered in 2011 in Chicago, then transferred to New York’s Lincoln Center, then on to Broadway capturing a Pulitzer Prize for Akhtar. The play was the most produced play in America in 2015.
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Huck Finn Stage Adaptation in Ft. Lauderdale
Slow Burn Theatre Company Sets Mark Twain to Music
By: - Mar 17th, 2017Cast Shines in Electric Production of "Big River." Ft. Lauderdale Theater Company is Performing "Huck Finn" Stage Adaptation Through April 2. This South Florida production of "Big River" is a winning combination of strong singing and acting
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O'Neill's Ah Wilderness in Pasadena
At A Noise Within Theatre
By: - Mar 17th, 2017“Ah, Wilderness”, O’Neill’s paean to the youth he never experienced, is a sweet, nostalgic, coming of age comedy that had the good fortune to land in the capable and caring hands of director Steven Robman, and a cast of exceptional performers.
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Geoff Sobelle's The Object Lesson
Lots of Stuff at New York Theater Workshop
By: - Mar 15th, 2017The one-man-play by and starring Geoff Sobelle is about demented hoarding. Not surptrisinglty it appealed to Ed Rubin, a known packrat, who writes that "I also thought about my 82 boxes in storage and all of the hundreds of objects that inhabit every shelf, table top, and drawer in my apartment, each one harboring past memories that I have collected over the years."
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Upgrades
Jayne Atkinson Cast and Heather Raffo Gets Weissberger New Play Award
By: - Mar 15th, 2017Two-time Tony Award-nominee Jayne Atkinson and Cote de Pablo will appear in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House; Tony Award-nominee Micah Stock will appear in Jason Kim’s The Model American and Halley Feiffer’s Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow; Christopher Livingston, LeRoy McClain and Joniece Abbott-Pratt will perform in Harrison David Rivers’ Where Storms are Born; and Rebecca Henderson will perform in Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow.
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Corneille’s L’IIlusion Comique
Adapted by Tony Kushner for North Coast Rep
By: - Mar 13th, 2017In the current North Coast Repertory Theatre production Tony Kushner translates and adapts 17th century French playwright Pierre Corneille’s “L’IIlusion Comique” into a delicious and superbly acted French soufflé of a comedy/farce called “The Illusion”.
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The Book Club by Karen Zacarias
Comic Farce A Good Read at Hubbard Hall
By: - Mar 12th, 2017Kirk Jackson has succinctly directed a production of The Book Club by Karen Zacarias.
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Emperor Jones at Irish Repertory Theatre
Obi Abili Takes the Crown
By: - Mar 12th, 2017The Irish Repertory Theatre knows how to produce terrific plays with stunning actors and telling sets, costumes and lights. The Emperor Jones returns with a new Brutus Jones, Obi Abili. It is a smashing success.
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Remembering Critic Larry Murray
Founded Berkshire Theatre Awards
By: - Mar 11th, 2017After a long illness, on March 10, the widely respected publisher and editor of Berkshire on Stage and Screen, Lawrence “Larry” Murray, passed away. He organized the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association. Last November he rallied to attend the First Annual Bertkshire Theatre Awards. He presented the top award, named for him, to Jullian Boyd of Barrington Stage for community service through theatre.
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Fiddler on the Roof Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series
By: - Mar 11th, 2017West Palm Beach Dramaworks Speakers Series featured the 92-year-old lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick.
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Barrington Adds Bye Bye Birdie
Updates to Pittsfield Schedule
By: - Mar 10th, 2017Barrington Stage Company adds a reading of the musical Butterflies, Speech & Debate on the St. Germain Stage, and its annual youth production, Bye Bye Birdie, at the Pittsfield Museum.
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A Few Good Men at St. Joseph Players
Stone's Throw from Yucca Valley Marine Base
By: - Mar 09th, 2017Rebecca Havely has selected the powerful military courtroom drama “A Few Good Men”, written by Academy and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin as her directing choice for 2017. St. Joseph's Players in Yucca Valley, California, is only a stone’s throw away from one of largest Marine bases in the country.
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Anything Goes at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater
Refreshing, Energetic Rendition of a Cole Porter Classic
By: - Mar 06th, 2017Cast shines in vibrant production of "Anything Goes" at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater through April 1. It is a tasty evening of theatre in every sense.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night
Compelling at Geffen Playhouse
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.
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Crackskull Row at the Irish Repertory Theatre
All Family Blood Is the Same
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Crackskull Row is an eighty-minute tone poem composed in the lilting Irish language. It is a quartet, the characters: a women, a man, their son and an angel, who is perhaps an aborted fetus of a girl who comes to life. She arrives on the tiny set, a perfect stage for this intimate yet profoundly resonating drama, by sliding down the chimney. She lands on a blood stain which sends a son to jail for 33 years and also on the spot where the fetus was deposited.
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Annual Steinberg Awards Finalists
Juried by American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA)
By: - Mar 04th, 2017The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2016.
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Glenn Close Ignites Sunset Boulvard
Ready For Her Closeup on Broadway
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Glenn Close is the magnet that is filling the house – the musical has already been extended a month – and everything, from her glittering silver and gold lame wardrobe (Anthony Powell), makeup (Charlotte Hayward), wigs (Andrew Simonin), the set (James Noone), and even the other actors in the play who mostly fade into the background when Close is on stage, play second fiddle to her electrifying presence which at times threatens to ignite the theater.
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To Kill a Mockingbird in Ft. Myers
Adaptation of Harper Lee's Classic is Broadway Bound
By: - Mar 03rd, 2017"To Kill a Mockingbird" forces audiences to examine their prejudices. bcast mostly excels in production of Harper Lee classic at Florida Repertory Theatre.
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Rockefeller Offers Hamilton Matinees
Title 1 School Children See the Best Show in Town
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017Alexander Hamilton may have created the financial system that made building John D. Rockefeller's fortune possible. Now Rockefeller money is being used to fund tickets for Title 1 school children to attend the hottest show in town, "Hamilton."
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Revival of Zoot Suit at Mark Taper Forum
75 Years After Its Original Prduction Still Thrills
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.
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Tony Winner Fun Home in LA
National Tour Visits Ahmanson Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.
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The Night of the Iguana at ART
A Galaxy of Stars Shines on Tennessee Williams Last Classic
By: - Mar 01st, 2017On the edge of the Mexican jungle, a seedy hotel is the meeting place of several desperate characters. Directed by Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man), Williams’ feverishly poetic 1961 drama follows a hotel proprietress and the scandal-soaked Southern preacher who turns up on her veranda. A Nantucket portrait artist traveling with her ancient poet grandfather, a bus of fuming Texan college students and administrators, and a party of German vacationers collide in this drama about how far we travel to outrun the demons within. With a star-studded cast, this production may be the must-see event of the 2016-2017 theatrical season.
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Berkshires WAM 2017 Season
Collaborations with Berkshire Theatres
By: - Mar 01st, 2017The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.
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