Theatre
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The Price by Arthur Miller
Gripping at Mark Taper Forum on LA
By: - Mar 07th, 2015“The Priceâ€, masterfully directed by Garry Hynes, and magnificently performed by an inspired quartet of some of the theatre’s finest journeyman actors, makes for a riveting evening of thought-provoking and insightful explorations of Miller’s most mature work of barter and life assessment.The cast includes: Kate Burton, John Bedford Lloyd, Alan Mandell, and Sam Robards performing on the stage of the Mark Taper Forum; with everyone at the top of their games.
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Rick Dildine Quits S&Co.
Rebounds Back to St. Louis
By: - Mar 05th, 2015In a terse press release yet another artistic director, Rick Dildine, has hastily departed Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. At the end of the 2014 season the much liked and respected Tony Simote left without elaboration. Simotes, who followed the long tenure of founding artistic director, Tina Packer, was on the job for five years. In mid February Dildine met the media to present the program for 2015. Just a month later he's gonzo.
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WAM Theatre
2015 Berkshire Season
By: - Mar 04th, 2015In March, WAM Theatre will be a beneficiary of Jayne Atkinson’s special event, Can You Hear Me Baby? Stories of Sex, Love and OMG Birth!, which is concluding this year’s Berkshire Festival of Women Writers. Adapted from true stories that come from the hearts of mothers and fathers, this event brings together birth stories and original music to dramatize the joy, challenges, personal courage, and profundity of birth. Can You Hear Me Baby? takes the stage at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA on March 27 at 7pm and March 28 at 2 and 7 pm. Proceeds will benefit the National Perinatal Association, Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, and WAM Theatre.
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The Twenty-seventh Man by Nathan Englander
Old Globe Theatre Directed by Barry Edelstein
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015The Old Globe production of “The Twenty-seventh Man†written by novelist and first-time playwright Nathan Englander, has the very good fortune to be directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. Edelstein’s easy manner belies the intellectual rigor he applies to all of the productions he directs.
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The Night Alive by Conor McPherson
Irish Play at Geffen Playhouse in LA
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s latest play “The Night Aliveâ€, is having its West Coast Premiere at The Geffen Playhouse, directed by Randall Arney. McPherson is famed for infusing elements of the supernatural and its subject matter into his plays. In his award-winning 2008 play “The Seafarerâ€, a poker game becomes the allegorical battleground of a Faustian bargain between the protagonist and the devilishly clever antagonist.
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Hound of the Baskervilles
Indiana Repertory Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Sherlock Holmes is a perennial favorite at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the latest in a line of successful adaptations of the infamous detective to hit their stage. This production runs through March 15.
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For the Tree to Drop
PICT Classic Theatre Pittsburgh
By: - Mar 02nd, 2015Lissa Brennan’s new play For the Tree to Drop builds an existentialist drama that explores the webs of power in which antebellum slaves (and their owners) were caught.The play is being presented at PICT Classic Theatre in Pittsburgh.
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Kirsten Flagstad, a Monodrama
Scandinavia House Presents the Woman Behind the Voice
By: - Mar 01st, 2015Calling Kirsten Flagstad the voice of the century is an understatement. The Norwegian soprano had a voice for the ages. Even in rachtety recordings of her performances, the big, beautiful clean sound is revealed. In a monodrama developed and directed by Einer Bjorge, a deeper picture of the famed singer is revealed by actress Nina Bendiksen.
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Woodie King Jr. Revives Dutchman
Amiri Baraka's First Play Hits Home
By: - Feb 27th, 2015Woodie King Jr. was an usher in the Cherry Lane Theatre when the then Leroi Jones' Dutchman was first produced. Sets for the second one acter, The Toilet, were designed by Larry Rivers, and everyone went to a warehouse to claim them when Rivers made a name for himself. Estimated to be worth $1,000,000, they have never been found. But the play Dutchman lives. King makes very clear its connection to the Wagner opera, as the overture and excerpts are played as prelude. Incidents in Ferguson and New York keep the issue of racial violence very present.
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An Octoroon at Theatre for a New Audience
Crooked Talk Straight to the Jugular
By: - Feb 26th, 2015Soho Rep inaugurated An Octoroon in 2013 and it won over critics and audiences as well as winning two Obies. Now it is reprised at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Committed to updating historic pieces for present day audiences at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, this play hits its mark.
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Youngblood at the Ensemble Theatre
Chiara Atik's Five Shades of Sex
By: - Feb 21st, 2015The play is called 5 Times in One Night and imagine what you will. But you won't guess until you watch, so don't read this review. It is a spoiler. Yet in the hands of director RJ Tolan and actors Dylan Dawson and Darcy Fowler, a rare balance between a non-invasive peak into intimate moments and non-porno sexuality is beautifully mounted.
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Intimate Apparel Beautifully Tailored At Lyric
Early 20th Century Historical Drama Exquisitely Crafted
By: - Feb 21st, 2015From the author of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Intimate Apparel is a superb evocative portrait of Esther, an independent but lonely African American seamstress in early 20th-century New York. She earns her living sewing exquisite lingerie for wealthy white socialites uptown and whores downtown. After receiving a letter from a stranger who is laboring on the Panama Canal, she begins a long-distance courtship with him. Of course, he is not all that he initially seems. Disillusioned but unbroken, Esther reluctantly returns to her sewing to refashion her dreams. This is a wonderful Lyric Stage Company production.
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Application Pending at Westside Theatre
Christina Bianco Playing 43 characters in 75 minutes
By: - Feb 19th, 2015With an internal switch the diminutive and totally amazing Christina Bianco is an astonishing quick change artist. In Application Pending she blows away the audience with a dazzling array of some 43 characters in a jam packed 75 minutes. Her one person show is a life changing experience Off Broadway through April 19.
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Humana Festival in Louisville
39th Year of Presenting New Plays
By: - Feb 18th, 2015Actors Theatre of Louisville's Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein announce the lineup for the 39th Humana Festival of New American Plays. A highlight of the cultural calendar for theatergoers, playwrights and industry professionals across the country, the Humana Festival runs March 4 through April 12, 2015.
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Shakespeare & Company 2015 Season
First with Rick Dildine as Executive Director
By: - Feb 16th, 2015Shakespeare & Company presents its lineup for the 2015 summer season, which includes three Shakespeare plays, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors and Hamlet, plus the Regional Premiere of Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti, and the World Premiere of Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid, starring Tina Packer. In addition, the summer season includes The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza, and opens with the provocative new play by Sarah Treem, The How and the Why. The summer season was announced today by Rick Dildine, his first as Shakespeare & Company’s new Executive Director.
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Dorset Theatre Festival
2015 Season in Vermont
By: - Feb 15th, 2015Dorset Theatre Festival Artistic Director, Dina Janis states that “When I went about looking for the right plays for us to present this summer, my one criteria was to find plays that were moving, that make people care. These plays all have that quality, and whether funny, sad, or thought-provoking, people will walk out of the Playhouse this summer inspired and moved by what they have seen.â€
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John Douglas Thompson in The Iceman Cometh
Discusses Roles in Plays by Eugene O'Neill
By: - Feb 13th, 2015The Robert Falls directed Goodman Theatre production of The Iceman Cometh has transferred from Chicago to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. John Douglas Thompson revives his role as the down of his luck former high roller Joe Mott. A couple of summers ago we discussed African American characters, including his portrayal in The Emperor Jones, in plays by Eugene O'Neill. Thompson returns this summer to Shakespeare & Company where he is well known to Berkshire audiences.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Announces 2015 Season
Bells Are Ringing at Colonial and Lots More
By: - Feb 12th, 2015Berkshire Theatre Group announces 2015 Summer Season Musical, the 10th Annual Community Theatre Production, The Fitzpatrick Main Stage productions and a medley of lively acts scheduled to perform at The Colonial Theatre and The Unicorn Theatre. BTG will be announcing a second round of programming, including The Unicorn Theatre's Summer Season, in the next several weeks.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015
Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon
By: - Feb 10th, 2015The stars return to Williamstown Theatre Festival this summer for the first season of artistic director Mandy Greenfield. These include newcomers Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald , Cynthia Nixon as well as the return of Jessica Hecht. The festival runs from June 30 – August 23, 2015.
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The Cripple of Inishmaan
Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis to March 1
By: - Feb 10th, 2015There’s a cruelty in small towns. Everyone knows everyone else’s business. They’ve all grown up together, so there’s a comfort level that tends to ignore privacy. No one flinches in calling someone a degrading nickname or referring to an embarrassing moment in their past, because it’s all common knowledge.
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Constellations: The Emperor’s New Clothes
On Broadway Through March 15
By: - Feb 07th, 2015Though there is no accounting for taste - as they say, that’s what makes horse races - one can conjecture as to why so many of the critics, major and minor, from the New York Times, to the Hollywood Reporter to Time Out, have filed rave reviews. We beg to differ.
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David Alan Anderson as The Giver
The Indiana Repertory Theatre to February 21
By: - Jan 30th, 2015“The Giver†tells the story of a perfect world, where no one needs to make decisions because you know exactly what you are supposed to do every day. What seems innocent and friendly at first takes on a sinister atmosphere as we learn more about the rules of their world. Each chime heightens the tension as Jonas begins to question the world around him.
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The Second Girl At Huntington Theatre
Moving Irish-American Drama At Calderwood
By: - Jan 30th, 2015Set in August of 1912 with Eugene O'Neill's classic Long Day's Journey into Night as a backdrop, The Second Girl is set in the downstairs world of the Tyrone family kitchen. Two Irish immigrant servant girls and the American-born chauffeur search for identity love and success in their world beset by circumstances and human mistakes. It is the world premiere by Huntington Playwriting Fellow Ronan Noone and directed by actor/director Campbell Scott.
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CV Rep Production Focuses on Age and Wisdom
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First Hundred Years,
By: - Jan 30th, 2015The play by Emily Mann presents a tender oral history life story of the real-life Delaney sisters of Raleigh, North Carolina, who share their observations, experiences, anecdotes and memories of two lives fully lived in the time of Jim Crow law in the South; who then moved to the North, settling in New York City first in a vibrant Harlem and then into the white suburb of Mount Vernon. It’s a remarkable journey and story of sisters who never married and reached 100 plus.
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Winners by Maggie Bofill
Stripped Bare Survivors of the Great Recession
By: - Jan 23rd, 2015Ensemble Studio Theatre and Radio Drama Network have teamed together to produce a play about now. It is delivered with grace and humor in a superbly acted depiction of life after the Great Recession.
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