Theatre
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War of the Roses at EclecticPond
Shakespeare in Indianapolis
By: - May 29th, 2014In a city that rarely sees a production of Shakespeare without an easily recognizable name, the EclecticPond Theatre Company (ETC) has become a welcome respite. The group, which was founded in 2010, has embraced some of the Bard’s lesser-known works, with productions like “The Comedy of Errors†and “Shakespeare Wrote What? and “10x10.†Now, about to close its third season, ETC decided to tackle something big.
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If/Then Stars the Amazing Idina Menzel
Lightweight Musical by Team that Created Next to Normal
By: - May 27th, 2014Were it not for the star power of Idina Menzel "If/Then" an underwhelming Broadway musical would never have made it past previews. It is actually selling well by the team that created "The Normal Heart" which is currently a special for HBO. In addition to the bankable Menzel keep an eye on the fabulous LaChanze in a galvanic supporting role.
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BenDeLaCreme in Terminally Delightful
Camp Following Off Broadway
By: - May 27th, 2014With much fanfare, whistles, hollers, shouts from the audience, and a rousing musical introduction, the larger than life, black-haired and fully made up LaCreme, wearing a glistening blue sequined gown with a sash that read Miss Congeniality, took to the stage.
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Audra McDonald Evokes Jazz Legend Billie Holiday
By: - May 26th, 2014There is an uncomfortable duality about Audra McDonald's performance of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. The script presents an over the top, improbable take on the sordid life of jazz legend Billie Holiday. But when she sings the result is so real and authentic that it feels like a documentary. While the play is a cliche ridden jumble of a truly sad life the music is simply magnificent.
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The Realistic Joneses by Will Eno
Beckett in Suburbia
By: - May 26th, 2014Set in suburbia near the mountains The Realistic Jones revolves around the Jones couple John and Pony barging in on their new neighbors the Jones couple Bob and Jennifer. What starts as nonsensical small talk soon devolves into nasty barbs and sparing males with distraught, perplexed, suffering wives. There is dark humor in this critically acclaimed existential play which soon after its high energy opening scenes stops making sense.
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'Die letzten Zeugen' - Berliner Festspiele 2014
Thoughts about Theatertreffen, May 2-18
By: - May 18th, 2014The 2014 Theatertreffen included pure theatre productions, as well as performances, installations, podium discussions and the docu-drama 'Die letzten Zeugen' (The Last Witnesses) of six Jewish concentration camp survivors. The venerable Burgtheater, Vienna, presented the drama to standing room audiences.
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The Tempest Is Magical At A.R.T.
A Brilliant Reshaping of Shakespeare's Storm-Swept Saga
By: - May 17th, 2014Prospero is a brilliant sorcerer in this like no other production of The Tempest. Magic and dreams intertwine. The magic was created by Teller (the silent one of illusionists Penn & Teller). When a gaggle of shipwrecked aristocrats wash up on the shores of Prospero’s mysterious island, they find themselves immersed in a world of revenge, trickery and amazement. Accompanied by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan's Dust Bowl balladry, beautifully staged, Teller’s magic, and Pilobolus's movement, this Shakespearean homage wonderfully animates spirits, monsters and myths. This is theatre as spectacle and spectacular theatre.
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Julianne Boyd on 20 Years of Barrington Stage
A Commitment to Serious Theatre in the Berkshires
By: - May 17th, 2014Exhausted from an allnighter of becoming a grandmother for the fourth time Julianne Boyd was as high octane as usual. She has an all consuming, combustive approach for building and sustaining Barrington Stage Company though its first twenty years. That growth and success has come from a commitment to a balanced program pf popular musicals and risk taking productions of dramas that address serious social and political themes.
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company
Celebrating Twenty Years in the Berkshires
By: - May 15th, 2014Arriving at Dottie's in Pittsfield for breakfast with Julianne Boyd, artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, several individuals notified me that she was running late. She had been up all night texting with family and friends about the birth of her fourth granddaughter. Eventually she arrived both exhausted and energized to discuss the upcoming 20th season of the company.
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Hope and Gravity at City Theatre
A Freefalling Drama in Pittsburgh.
By: - May 14th, 2014Hope and Gravity (currently at City Theater, in an excellent production directed by Tracy Brigden), interweaves the stories of nine characters whose lives intersect with an inexplicable and tragic elevator accident.
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Candida and Blithe Spirit in Pittsburgh
Exploring Similarities of Classics
By: - May 14th, 2014The productions of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida (at the Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (at PICT Classic Theatre) have a good deal in common: both plays are twentieth-century British comedies that dig humor out of marital relations and shine some light (more brightly in the Shaw, less so in the Coward) on male chauvinism, and both productions faithfully reproduce the period and style of the playwright and his era.
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Barrington Stage's New Associate Artists
Pat McCorkle, Scott Pinkney, Brian Prather, Charlie Siedenburg
By: - May 14th, 2014Barrington Stage Company announces four new Associate Artists, all of whom are working at Barrington Stage in 2014 – casting director Pat McCorkle, lighting designer Scott Pinkney, scenic designer Brian Prather, and press director Charlie Siedenburg.
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Into the Woods A Terrific Trip At Lyric Stage
Sondheim's Musical Walk On the Fairy Tale Wild Side
By: - May 13th, 2014A Stephen Sondheim sonata to the childhood bedtime stories with adult twists, Into the Woods at the LyricStage Company is a nearly picture perfect illustration of somewhat fractured melodious fairy tales. With an outstanding cast, there is glorious score, sprinkled humor, very human disappointment and scary supernatural presented in wonderful music, movement and words. This may be one of Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos best productions. It is a wonderful last show to celebrate the Lyric's 40th Anniversary year.
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Carrie, The Musical Rages At SpeakEasy
Tormented High School Girl Wins Violent Retribution
By: - May 13th, 2014Kids can be cruel. Hell, people can be cruel. Carrie White has always been an outsider. Constantly bullied and tormented at school and tyrannized by a fanatical religious mother, she begins to have hope that things will change when unexpectedly she is asked to the senior prom. But severe cruelty by her classmates is unleashed, and Carrie's terrifying and horrific power is her revenge.
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Of Mice and Men at Hubbard Hall
A Steinbeck Masterpiece
By: - May 13th, 2014The Theater Company at Hubbard Hall makes a good attempt at bringing life into the hardluck story of friendship between two migrant farm workers in this classic human parable.
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Emmy Winner Marg Helgenberger at Barrington Stage
Dialogue with Director Christopher Innvar
By: - May 10th, 2014In 2011 Marg Helgenberger left the hit TV show CSI after twelve seasons. The show continues with top ratings but she departed to pursue other options including live theater. She has taken a dramatic pay cut to star in Sharr White's The Other Place which opens soon at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. She and director Christopher Innvar met with the media to discuss the most challenging role of her career.
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Juno at the Timeline Theatre, Chicago
O'Casey to Stein to Blitzstein, A Compelling Musical
By: - May 09th, 2014Joseph Stein had been overwhelmed by the power of Juno and the Paycock, and thought its language and story “bursting with humor and wit and drama" would be perfect for a musical. He went to visit O'Casey with a tape of My Fair Lady in hand. O’Casey had nothing to play My Fair Lady on, but was jealous of GBShaw’s financial success, so he signed for the exclusive musicalizing of his play. He told a friend that he did not expect Don Giovanni or Boris Godunov, but knew it could be made be a seed pearl of loveliness. Faithful to the play, Stein and Blitzstein created a piece of great power. Timeline has captured it essence.
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Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Harry Judge Stars Through June 15
By: - May 07th, 2014William Shakespeare’s epic Henry V is directed by celebrated British director Christopher Luscombe in his Chicago debut. In a rousing finale to the 2014 season, the play that inaugurated Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 1986 on the rooftop of Lincoln Park’s Red Lion Pub comes to the Courtyard Theater for the first time. Henry V will be performed in CST’s Courtyard Theater through June 15, 2014.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Acts
Busy Summer at the Colonial in Pittsfield
By: - May 04th, 2014Berkshire Theatre Group announces Peter Schickele, Irish Rovers, and Classic Albums Live Performs Abbey Road for the summer season line up at the Colonial Theatre.
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Daniel Beaty in The Tallest Tree in the Forest
Mark Taper Forum Evokes Paul Robeson
By: - May 03rd, 2014At Rutgers University Paul Robeson was a star football player. He perused a career as a singer "Old Man River" in Show Boat and actor O'Neill's The Emperor Jones. His leftist activism led him to visit and embrace the Soviet Union. In The Tallest Tree in the Forest the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles is paying tribute to him with a riveting one man show starring Daniel Beaty through May 25.
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A Game's Afoot at Indiana Repertory Theatre
Matthew Brumlow Stars Through May 18
By: - May 01st, 2014Part farce and part whodunit, The Game’s Afoot is a playful mystery that pokes fun at actors and theatre critics alike. Matthew Brumlow plays the real life actor William Gillette who made Sherlock Holmes famous on the stage.
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Nicholas Martin at 75
Former Artistic Director of Williamstown and Huntington
By: - May 01st, 2014In 2013 Nicholas Martin was nominated for a Tony as best director. While known on Broadway he is remembered for serving as artistic director of Huntington Theatre Company in Boston followed by three years in that capacity with Williamstown Theatre Festival. His term was shortened by a stroke as he continued to work following a full schedule on both coasts. For the extended theatre family that loved him Nicky was a warm and supportive father figure.
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Water by the Spoonful at Old Globe
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Quiara Alegria Hudes
By: - Apr 29th, 2014As back-story for “Water by the Spoonfulâ€, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Quiara Alegria Hudes, the character of Ortiz is a bright, but haunted, young Puerto Rican returning Iraq war veteran who has been attempting to put his fractured Philadelphia home life back together. It runs on the Old Globe's White Stage in San Diego, California through May 11.
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NY's Signature Theatre Wins Tony
2014 Regional Theatre Award
By: - Apr 29th, 2014The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that it will present the 2014 Regional Theatre Award to New York’s Signature Theatre. Each year, the Tony Awards Administration Committee presents a Tony Award to a regional theatre on the recommendation of the American Theatre Critics Association. This is the first time that a New York company has won the regional award which normally recognizes nation theatre.
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2014 Tony Award Nominees
Hugh Jackman Hosts on June 8
By: - Apr 29th, 2014Jonathan Groff and Lucy Liu announced the nominations for the 68th annual Tony Awards at the Paramount Hotel’s Diamond Horseshoe April 29, with Tony host Hugh Jackman also popping up to remind theater fans to watch the telecast live on CBS on June 8.
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