Theatre
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Ruth Draper’s Monologues at LA’s Geffen Playhouse
Annette Bening Stars in Rarely Produced Vignettes
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The Geffen Theatre of Los Angles is currently staging “Ruth Draper’s Monologues" with Annette Bening as Star and director. It’s a brilliant and mesmerizing tour de force performance. Bening’s keen actor/director eye selected four of Draper’s most famous pieces: “A Class in Greek Poiseâ€; “A Debutante at a Danceâ€; “Doctors and Dietsâ€; and the famous, â€The Italian Lessonâ€.
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Spun at Indy's Phoenix Theatre
By: - Apr 27th, 2014Molly and Jesse, are siblings brought together for the first time in eight years by their father’s death in the musical Spun, onstage now at the Phoenix Theatre. The original show, created by Bloomington native Emily Goodson and Jeremy Schonfeld, pairs a relatable story with rock music in a distinctive, raw style. Unlike some musicals, the show has a sense of humor about itself.
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The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards
2014 List of Nominations
By: - Apr 27th, 2014The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Laura Benanti, will take place on Sunday, June 1, 2014, at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall in Manhattan. TheaterMania.com will present the awards ceremony. Gretchen Shugart is Managing Executive Producer of the Drama Desk Awards. Joey Parnes Productions will produce and manage the show. The President of Drama Desk is Isa Goldberg and Randie Levine Miller is Director of Special Events.
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A Darwinian Love Story at the Lookingglass Theater
Sara Gmitter's World Premier: In the Garden
By: - Apr 27th, 2014In the Garden is a provocative, engaging production that will leave you asking why when you think about the Higgs Boson at the cyclotron in Cern and also embracing more tightly those you love. While some find the current discussion about religion’s role in society antediluvian, this play offers a civil solution: respect, empathy and gentle debate, something we have long forgotten in this country. It suggests a small space where both sides can comfortably exist.
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Diane Paulus Named To The TIME 100
One of the 100 Most Influential People In the World
By: - Apr 24th, 2014Diane Paulus, the American Repertory Theatre Artistic Director, received another major accolade as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Since joining the ART, she has added vibrancy and excitement to theatre both in Boston, nationally and worldwide.
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Humana Festival Another Opinion
Report by California Correspondent
By: - Apr 24th, 2014The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) attended the recent Humana Theatre Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. We have posted coverage by Charles Giuliano. Now our California correspondent and ATCA member, Jack Lyons, contributes his take on the renowned festival.
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2013-14 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Nominations for New York Theatre
By: - Apr 22nd, 2014Celebrating its 64th season of bestowing awards of excellence in the field of theater, the Outer Critics Circle is an association with members affiliated with more than ninety newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television stations, and theatre publications in America and abroad. The winners of the following categories will be announced on Monday, May 12th and the annual awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 22nd (4PM) at the legendary Sardi’s Restaurant.
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The Shape She Makes Work of Art At Oberon
A Spectacular Fusion of Movement and Dialogue
By: - Apr 19th, 2014Brilliantly conceived and performed by an ensemble of ten, this production is a fusion of movement and words in the world premiere of this theatrical hybrid. It explores the emotional and continual impact of childhood experiences on our adult lives. Here Quincy, a precocious 11-year old, seeks to understand what she’s inherited from her absent father and neglectful mother. It is a poignant dance of affecting drama. Superbly, it is like nothing else you have seen.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival News
Casting and Special Event Added
By: - Apr 19th, 2014Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced casting for their Main Stage productions, along with a several special events for their 2014 Summer Season. On the Main Stage: Festival veterans including Nate Corddry, Holley Fain, Christopher Fitzgerald and Nancy Opel join the cast of June Moon, directed by Jessica Stone (July 2- 13); Justin Long returns to Williamstown, joining Renee Fleming in the World Premiere of Living on Love (July 16 - 26), and theater veterans Judy Kuhn, Howard McGillin, festival favorite Roger Rees, and more join Chita Rivera in the John Doyle-directed production of The Visit, with choreography by Graciela Daniele (July 31 - August 17).
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Anything Goes at Beef and Boards
Noel Coward Back Home in Indiana
By: - Apr 17th, 2014Anything Goes has been entertaining crowds for 80 years and is on stage now at Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre. The show contains a selection of charming well-known songs, like “It’s De-Lovely†and “I Get a Kick Out of You,†by Indiana’s ownNoel Coward.
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RED at San Diego Repertory Theatre
Riveting Drama About Artist Mark Rothko
By: - Apr 17th, 2014The hovering clouds of color by Mark Rothko are among the most absorbing and spiritual paintings of the Abstract Expressionist artists of the New York School. The Tony Award winning play Red, having a San Diego production, focuses on the emotional intensity of the artist in crisis. There is a compelling interaction with his assistant in a riveting drama of their give and take. John Vickery and Jason Maddy are powerful in their roles.
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Reinventing I Remember Mama Off Broadway
A Brilliant Concept, a Brilliant Cast, an Astonishing Experience
By: - Apr 17th, 2014The Transport Group Theatre’s New York production of I Remember Mama, the season’s truly “must see†and “run don’t walk†– it will be treading the boards at the Gym at Judson through April 20, and hopefully extended – granted all of my above wishes, judging from welling tears, breaths held, and the audible hosannas heard as they exited the theatre.
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Broadway Across America in Indianapolis
2014-2015 Season Announced
By: - Apr 16th, 2014Broadway Across America announces the 2014/15 Indianapolis program. Season tickets are now on sale.
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George Grant's Grounded
One Woman Play at Pittsburgh's City Theatre
By: - Apr 16th, 2014George Brant’s new one-woman play Grounded, is, on one level, the story of a fighter pilot whose job has changed drastically. The Pilot (Kelly McAndrew), tells us she was born to be “in the blue†at the controls of an F16 fighter jet, dropping bombs on unseen targets and accelerating away before the shells explode. It runs at City Theatre in Pittsburgh through May 4..
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Pantagleize by Michel de Ghelerode in Pittsburgh
A Smart Adaption by Jay Ball of 1929 Play
By: - Apr 14th, 2014Pantagleize – Jay Ball’s smart adaptation of Michel de Ghelderode’s 1929 play of the same name – is a deeply cynical, outrageously comic, and highly provocative play about challenges and contradictions of democratic revolutions. The world premiere of the adaption runs in Pittsburgh at Quantum Theatre through April 27.
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Humana Festival Wrapup
Brownsville Song, Partners, The Grown Up
By: - Apr 14th, 2014From Wednesday through Sunday while attending the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays we were flat out. It's a part of the Festival Syndrome absorbing and sorting out a sensory overload of information. Some plays are etched into the subconscious indelibly while others evaporate like the burned off morning fog. With an intense regimen of plays to see there were fleeting impressions of historic Louisville, Kentucky.
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The Christians by Lucas Hnath
Humana Festival Hit Now in NY at Playwrights Horizon
By: - Apr 12th, 2014The Christians by Lucas Hnath was the most successful and provocative new play of the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. There is now a well received New York production. We are reposting the original review.
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Andrew Dawson at Mass MoCA
Space Panorama May 3
By: - Apr 12th, 2014Amid his residency developing The Russian Doctor, director and choreographer Andrew Dawson presents an otherworldly family affair on Saturday, May 3, at 11:30am, in MASS MoCA's Club B-10. Space Panorama is a hypnotic solo recreation of the Apollo 11 moon landing - using only Dawson's hands!
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Steel Hammer Galvanic at Humana Festival
Based on Music by Julia Wolfe Directed by Anne Bogart
By: - Apr 12th, 2014At two hours with no intermission Steel Hammer the avant-garde deconstruction of the traditional ballad John Henry was physically and emotionally demanding on the performers as well as the audience. The company was co founded in 1992 by the Japanese master Tadashi Suzuki and Columbia University professor and director Anne Bogart. After the first five years Suzuki ceased participation but the company continues to follow the Suzuki method which entails cult like discipline and dedication.
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Becoming Cuba Shines At Huntington's Calderwood
Love and War Imbedded In Dark Modern History
By: - Apr 11th, 2014Set in 1897 Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American War, vivacious widow Adela runs a pharmacy, seemingly indifferent to the mounting conflict around her. But when the rebellion literally comes to her home to Havana, she has to choose between her country and her family. With some wonderful performances, this is powerful drama by Playwright-in-Residence Melinda Lopez and directed eloquently by Huntington Associate Producer M. Bevin O’Gara.
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Lauren Gunderson Wins for I and You
Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award
By: - Apr 06th, 2014Last night at the 38th Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky San Francisco based playwright Lauren Gunderson was honored for her play “I and You." Coinciding with the prestigious Humana Festival it was the annual conference meeting of the American Theatre Critics which juries the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award.
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Rich Girl Loaded At Lyric Stage Company
An Equation of the Heart: Wealth Does Not Equal Happiness
By: - Mar 31st, 2014Add a rich girl, her richer mother, and a starving handsome artist boyfriend together, and what could possibly go wrong? When sheltered Claudine meets actor/director Henry, she falls head over heels for him. But her mother, a tough-talking, cynical celebrity financial guru, tries to crush her daughter's desires and ego. Is Henry everything her daughter deserves or is he only after her money? Rich Girl is a contemporary take on the classic play and film The Heiress. It is a clever comedy about a young woman and her relationships with a man, her mother, money and becoming who she really is.
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King Lear at Theater for A New Audience
Michael Pennington Is a Nuanced Lear
By: - Mar 30th, 2014Directo Arin Arbus and Set Designer Riccardo Hernandez collaborated recently on a brilliant production of La Traviata at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. They do it again in Brooklyn at the new home of the Theater for A New Audience.
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Playwright Terrence McNally’s Early Years.
CV REP of Rancho Mirage Four-Play Retrospective
By: - Mar 29th, 2014CV REP of Rancho Mirage, California, one of the best Equity Theatre companies in the Coachella Valley, brings down the curtain on the final play of their highly successful 2013-2014 season of a four-play retrospective of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s early years. The preceding three shows: “Master Classâ€, “The Story of My Lifeâ€, “A Perfect Ganesh†were all first-rate, top tier productions. It ends with “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.â€
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Marg Helgenberger to Star at Barrington Stage
Premiere of Sharr White’s The Other Place
By: - Mar 27th, 2014Barrington Stage Company (BSC), announces Emmy Award-winner and Golden Globe nominee Marg Helgenberger will star in the Berkshire premiere of Sharr White’s The Other Place, kicking off BSC’s 20th Anniversary Season, from May 21 through June 14 on the St. Germain Stage, directed by BSC Associate Artist Christopher Innvar.
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