Theatre
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The Indiana Repertory Theatre
Announces 2014-2015 Season
By: - Mar 27th, 2014The Indiana Repertory Theatre has announced its season for 2014/2015. The mix of shows include a Shakespearean comedy to celebrate the Bard's 450th birthday, an award-winning Broadway play, and a few hidden gems from the regional theatre circuit. To buy tickets or find out more information visit their site here.
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For Goodness Sake by Musicals Tonight!
The First Musical by George and Ira Gershwin
By: - Mar 22nd, 2014Musicals Tonight! is presenting For Goodness Sake at New York’s The Lion Theatre. A light, frothy musical it was one of the first collaborations between George and Ira Gershwin. It has not been seen in New York since its debut in 1922, although it had a successful run in England the following year. The now dated musical launched international stardom for its stars, Fred and Adele Astaire.
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The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman at Schaubühne, Berlin
Die kleinen Füchse Returns in April
By: - Mar 21st, 2014A contemporary staging of 'The LittleFoxes - Die kleinen Füchse ' by Lillian Hellman will continue a successful run in April and through the end of the Berlin theatre season, at the Schaubühne. Director, Thomas Ostermeier, and cast have presented sold out performances.
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Nikos Stage Announces Sam Shepard Play
Chris Pine and Lauren Ambrose to Co Star
By: - Mar 21st, 2014For the final slot of the program organized by Jenny Gersten for the 2014 Williamstown Theatre Festival she has played an ace. Lauren Ambrose (“Six Feet Underâ€) will make a WTF debut paired with the returning Chris Pine (Kirk in the recent “Star Trek†movies). A revival of the 1983 Sam Shepard play will be directed by Daniel Aukin. It will run on the Nikos Stage July 24 to August 3.
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Streetcar Named Desire in Indianapolis
Williams Play at Indy Fringe
By: - Mar 20th, 2014Cate Blanchett won an Oscar this year for her channeling of Blanche DuBois in the Woody Allen reshaping of the enduring Tennessee Williams classic Streetcar Named Desire. This brings renewed renewed interest in the riveting drama. It is being produced by Indy Fringe is what Melissa Hall feels is a not to be missed production.
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Tommy Tune Taps at Barrington Stage July 28
Tall Tales of Music and Dance
By: - Mar 18th, 2014Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune in Taps, Tunes, and Tall Tales performs on Monday, July 28 at 8pm at Barrington Stage in Pittsfield. Tune is a nine-time Tony Award winner for his work on Seesaw, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, Nine, My One and Only, Grand Hotel, and The Will Rogers Follies. In addition, he has been awarded eight Drama Desk Awards, three Astaire Awards and the Society of Directors and Choreographers' George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement. He was honored with The Helen Hayes Tribute in 2011. We have an interesting and hilarious interview.
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Huntington Theatre Company 2014-2015
Six Shows Plus One
By: - Mar 18th, 2014Huntington Theatre Company announces six productions of its 2014-2015 Season plus one additional title. Continuing its 32-year tradition, the Huntington will present world-class productions of new works and classics made current created by the finest local and national talent. The varied lineup includes a Tony Award-winning Broadway comedy, a thrilling new play set in Boston, a new play by a celebrated local writer that riffs on a beloved classic, a revival of a provocative comedy, a classic American drama, and a topical new play directed by Huntington Artistic Director Peter DuBois, plus the return of visionary director David Cromer (Our Town).
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The Seagull Soars at the Huntington
Chekhov's Classic Brilliantly Presented and Performed
By: - Mar 13th, 2014Celebrated Russian actress Irina Arkadina's visit to her aspiring playwright son with her successful novelist lover in tow kindles unrequited passions and petty jealousies in Anton Chekhov's late 19th Century masterpiece about love, rejection, creative frustration, missed connections, and what it means to be an artist. In this actor's play, a wonderful Kate Burton leads a glittering cast at the Huntington for Chekhov's emotionally rich classic that is directed by the gifted Maria Aitken. Set in brilliant scenery, this amazing theatrical chemistry results in a superb evening of dramatic entertainment.
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Boston's Actors’ Shakespeare Project
Announces 2014-2015 Season
By: - Mar 11th, 2014Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP), under the direction of Artistic Director Allyn Burrows and Executive Producer Sara Stackhouse, announces the slate of plays for the beginning of its second decade. The 2014 -15 subscriptions are currently on sale and single tickets will go on sale August 1, 2014.
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The Architecture of Becoming
NY's Women’s Project Theatre
By: - Mar 11th, 2014The clever, yet simple stage design allowed for the audience to believe this was the door to City Center, the inside of the theater, a subway station, several apartments and the streets. The costumes were inventive and in the case of the Grande Dame, wildly entertaining. That is how New York City would dress! The lighting gave atmosphere when needed and a sense of mystery for the ghost who was to lead us on our adventure.
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Kiss Me Kate at Barrington Stage
Creative Team Announced
By: - Mar 11th, 2014Barrington Stage Company (BSC), has announced the creative team for the company’s 20th Anniversary Season opener – Kiss Me, Kate, to be presented June 11 through July 12 on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage (30 Union Street). Joe Calarco and Lorin Latarro will direct and choreograph Kiss Me, Kate, which features music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Sam and Bella Spewack. BSC Associate Artists Darren R. Cohen will music direct and Renee Lutz returns for her 20th season opener as production stage manager.
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The Contemporary American Theater Festival
2014 Season in Shepherdstown, West Virginia
By: - Mar 10th, 2014The Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University has announced its 24th season featuring five new American plays, including three world premieres. Theater Festival Producing Director Ed Herendeen has chosen scripts from Christina Anderson, Charles Fuller (winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Thomas Gibbons, Bruce Graham, and Chisa Hutchinson.
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The Whale Brilliantly Spouts at SpeakEasy
Morbid Obesity As Metaphor For Life Choices
By: - Mar 09th, 2014Not an ordinary whale of a tale, The Whale is the story of a rather pathetic Charlie. And he wants to make up for lost time. In the wake of personal tragedy, he has gluttonously eaten to assuage his grief and become a morbidly obese couch-bound, apartment-bound sad recluse. With his health ominously failing, he makes one last desperate attempt to connect with his estranged teenage daughter. Along the way, there are ingredients of Mormonism, costly medical insurance and online higher education as well. This is an exceptionally well-acted humorous, and emotionally wrenching play.
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39 Steps at Annenberg Theatre
Hitchcock Meets Monty Python
By: - Mar 08th, 2014The terrific comedy production “The 39 Stepsâ€, brilliantly directed by Ken Parks; produced and presented by Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs, and The Norris Theatre of Palos Verdes, CA, through March 9, is often referred to as hilarious, zany, and an a inspired collision of comedy and parody at its finest. Newspaper ads often bill the show as “Hitchcock meets Monty Python†wherever it plays, and rightly so.
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Ghost the Musical in Indy
Broadway Across America Comes to Town
By: - Mar 06th, 2014The latest in a string of movies turned musicals is Ghost the Musical. A Broadway Across America show based on the 1990 film of the same name, the production follows in the footsteps of The Wedding Singer, Grease, Once, Newsies, Sister Act, Flashdance and a few notable others, fleshing out the story from the movie with musical numbers. This popular trend works well with some movies, but feels forced with others; unfortunately Ghost is one of those others.
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Christopher Durang Comedy at Mark Taper Forum
Vanya and Sonia Masha and Spike
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Christopher Durang, freely borrows characters and plot-lines from Chekhov’s plays, then cleverly remixes and reinserts them into his highly entertaining comedy tale with the result being it’s one of the best ensemble casts to tread LA theatre boards in quite awhile. At Mark Taper Forum through March 9.
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Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond
St. Joseph’s Players of Yucca Valley
By: - Feb 27th, 2014A great deal of the credit for this “family values†production of the bullet-proof On Golden Pond being as successful as it is belongs to Desert Theatre League (DTL) award winning director Rebecca Havely, whose sharp eye filled the stage with props, emotions, and action with tender loving care.
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Nikos Stage for 2014
Williamtown Theatre Festival Update
By: - Feb 27th, 2014Previously Williamstown Theatre Festival released the Main Stage schedule. Now we are informed of two plays for the smaller Nikos Stage.
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The Who & The What by Ayad Ahktar
World Premiere at La Jolla Playhouse
By: - Feb 27th, 2014In the world premiere of “The Who & The What,â€, at The La Jolla Playhouse through March 9, playwright Ayad Ahktar boldly goes where few Muslim writer’s (except for Salmon Rushdie) have gone before – to the heart of religion – to the family.
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WAM Theatre Announces 2014 Season
Focus on Women and Girls
By: - Feb 25th, 2014WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven announces highlights of the 2014 season. The Berkshire-based professional theatre company will celebrate its fifth anniversary with plays readings, special events, panel discussions, and educational programs that focus on women artists and stories of women
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Private Lives at Shakespeare & Company
Having a Laugh in the Dead of Winter
By: - Feb 23rd, 2014There isn't a lot of depth and substance to Noel Coward's classic 1930 comedy Private Lives. Under artistic director Tony Simotes the game actors of Shakespeare & Company are striving to create an upbeat hilarious production. Through March 30 theatre is alive and well in Lenox as we wait for signs of Spring.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2014 Season
Programming from Pittsfield to Stockbridge
By: - Feb 21st, 2014"For our 86th Summer Season, we are producing a full schedule of musicals, plays, and special theatrical performances for another wonderful summer in the Berkshires with a splendid cast and crew of talented artists from across the nation,†said Kate Maguire. "Six extraordinary plays: The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, Benefactors, Design for Living, A Hatful of Rain, including two world premieres: Cedars and POE and two wonderful musicals: A Little Night Musicand Seussical highlight our schedule and make for an enjoyable mix of masterful and provocative classics and contemporary works. A special week-long performance of A Lover's Talespotlighting the works of Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Ludlam and Alexandre Dumas and performances by our summer apprentices, our 86th season will be memorable and entertaining for all.â€
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Death of A Salesman Brilliant At Lyric Stage
A Stirring Tragic Story of Life Unfulfilled
By: - Feb 20th, 2014Considered one of the greatest American drama's of the 20th Century, since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as an iconic event of the American theatre. The aging, failing and delusional Willy Loman makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine. Playwright Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are both insupportably grand and pathetically insubstantial. Boston's Lyric Stage Company brilliantly portrays this epic statement of promise and loss and the American Dream unfulfilled.
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The Winter's Tale at Old Globe
First Production by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein
By: - Feb 20th, 2014San Diego's renowned Old Globe’s new Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, wanted his favorite Shakespeare play, “The Winter’s Tale†to be his first directorial production – and he wanted to present it inside, in the Globe’s venerable and famous 75 year-old theatre.
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Barrrington’s Theatrical Speed Dates
Third Annual 10 x 10 Upstreet Festival of New Plays
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Through March 2 Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield is presenting its now annual, much anticipated 10 x 10 Upstreet a lively festival of new plays. The pace is fast and furious as one theatrical thumbnail morphs into another and another. After two quick and crammed acts we departed with a head swirling marathon of impressions. There were many joyous nuggets in a mash up of intensive theatre.
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