Theatre
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New York Sojourn II & III
Two Great Nights at the Theatre and Two Great Museums
By: - Feb 17th, 2014Visiting new York City means seeing great theatre. Mark Favermann and his companion Lisa saw Pinter's No Man's Land with Sirs Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart and the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder with the versatile Jefferson Mays. These shows are two of the 2013-14 Broadway season highlights in the Big Apple. And NYC also means visiting great museums. Two that were visited were MoMA and the Morgan Library.
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The How and The Why by Sarah Treem
No Answers, Only Questions at Chicago's Timeline
By: - Feb 15th, 2014Sarah Treem contributed to Netflix's brilliant House of Cards and works also on HBO series. But she comes from a live theatre background. This is made clear in her intoxicating new play.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Indy
Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre to Feb. 22
By: - Feb 13th, 2014There are no secrets in a beauty parlor where women and their beauticians dish the dirt. Steel Magnolias is best know for the Academy Award winning 1989 film. It was a stage play before that. In a lively and absorbing production it is being staged in Indianapolis at the Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre through February 22. If your favorite emotion is, in Truvy’s words, “laughter through tears,†you’ll be right at home.
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Witness Uganda Compelling Entertainment
A Musical Journey of Personal Discovery
By: - Feb 13th, 2014When Griffin, a young New York City actor, volunteers for a project in Uganda, he finds himself on a journey that will change his life forever. Inspired by a true story, this rousing new musical is energetically staged by Tony Award-winning director and A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The show exposes the challenges confronted by idealistic American aid workers and the complex realities of trying to change the world while changing themselves more. A great entertainment perhaps destined for a long run on Broadway.
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Reading of St. Germain Play at MCLA
Dancing Lessons and Q&A on March 8
By: - Feb 13th, 2014Mark St. Germain is developing a two person play Dancing Lessons to premiere this summer at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. It entails a brilliant professor with Aspberger's a form of Autism. He seeks dancing lessons from a resident in his New York apartment building leading to a poignant and humorous relationship. There will be a Q&A following a reading at MCLA on March 8.
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Beautiful—The Carole King Musical
From Brooklyn to Broadway
By: - Feb 08th, 2014Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, currently at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway, is another prime example where song and dance, beautifully delivered by a talented cast and crew, trumps the storyline. Carole King attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, the same one that I attended. Carole Klein as she was known in those years belonged to Gamma Phi the same sorority as my sister Annette.
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Kurt Vonnegut at Indiana Repertory Theatre
Three Romantic Vignettes
By: - Feb 07th, 2014The author Kurt Vonnegut is remembered as a home town artist in Indianapolis. He is being celebrated with three plays based on romantic short stories at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Rollicking songs and tender ballads add a great tone to the production. “Who Am I This Time" runs until Sunday, February 23.
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Invasion of Privacy at Dezart Performs
Larry Parr's Comedy/ Drama in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Invasion of Privacy†director Judith Chapman asks the audience in her program remarks to take a step back in time to the 1940’s. That was a time when a woman lawyer was a novelty in the South, and man’s moonshine was nobody’s business, and that an “invasion of privacy†lawsuit was something of a brand new issue, which eventually, became a popular reason for going to court.
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Bethany at Old Globe in San Diego
Laura Marks Play Through February 23
By: - Feb 06th, 2014“Bethanyâ€, written by playwright Laura Marks and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, is a dark, tragic-comedy that chronicles the efforts of a young single mother who has been caught up in the economic roller coaster of the housing and financial market bubbles of 2009.
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Satchmo at the Waldorf Opens Off -Broadway Feb 15
John Douglas Thompson Stars in Terry Teachout Play
By: - Feb 05th, 2014For the first time Shakespeare & Company in partnership with Long Wharf is sending a production to New York. Satchmo at the Waldorf, starring John Douglas Thompson, a member of the S&Co theatrical family, appears as Louis Armstrong in the first play written by Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
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Barrington Stage's On the Town Broadway Bound
Julianne Boyd Discusses the Impact for Her Company and the Berkshires
By: - Feb 05th, 2014During a recent press conference artistic director Julianne Boyd announced the 20th season for Pittsfield's Barrington Stage. She confirmed that last summer's hit musical On the Town is transferring to Broadway. This is a part of a trend for regional theaters to develop shows for New York. We asked Boyd about the impact and implications for the Berkshires and her company.
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In Andrews Brothers The Andrews Sisters a No Show
Switchup at Coyote StageWorks in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 04th, 2014Coyote StageWorks, of Palm Springs is taking everyone to a small island in the Pacific where three “4F†USO stagehands prepare for the arrival of the Andrews sisters, who are scheduled to perform their USO show for the troops that night. In “The Andrews Brothersâ€, created and written by Roger Bean, it seems the famous Andrews Sisters are a no-show for the troops tonight.
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Robert Falls Directs Luna Gale
The Material Triumphs in Rebecca Gilman's New Play
By: - Feb 03rd, 2014Luna Gale by Rebecca Gilman is mounted at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago with its usual style and punch. Todd Rosenthal’s set perfectly captures the multiple settings of human dramas which unfold in this Human Service case. A mother’s home, her child’s, an emergency room and social services office and lunch room open on a turntable and are separated also by the brilliant lighting of Robert Wierzel.
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Julianne Boyd Discusses Barrington’s Season
From High Drama to Three Musicals
By: - Feb 03rd, 2014Now in its 20th year Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass has earned a reputation as one of the nation's finest regional theatre companies. During a recent press conference artistic director, Julianne Boyd, discussed the upcoming season.
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Bill W. and Dr. Bob at the Soho Playhouse
An AA Meeting On Stage
By: - Jan 31st, 2014AA is well established now, but when it was formed almost a century ago, it teetered and tottered into the formation of meetings and the writing of the Big Book. Some movements start with a few passionate advocates. AA was a bit different, because the founders were both alcoholics. They could find no way to stop drinking.
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Williamstown Upstages Barrington Stage Company
Same Day Season Announcements
By: - Jan 31st, 2014Yesterday there was a late afternoon media scramble when a Barrington Stage Company press conference announcing the 2014 season was followed within minutes by an unanticipated release by Williamstown Theatre Festival. It's taken some sorting but we now have an unusually early and clear picture of the summer season. We have a fairly complete clip and save rundown. Berkshire Theatre Group has yet to announce and WTF will soon post its program of the Nikos Stage.
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Death of a Salesman
Boston's Lyric Stage Feb. 14 to March 15
By: - Jan 30th, 2014A masterpiece of American Theatre, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman will be performed by Boston's The Lyric Stage from February 14 through March 15. The production with be directed by company founder Spiro Veloudos. Ken Baltin with appear in the lead role as Willy Loman accompanied by Paula Plum as his wife Linda.
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Women's Theater Project Presents Row After Row
Jessica Dickey's New Play is Re-enacting
By: - Jan 30th, 2014Row After Row is by the gifted young playwright Jessica Dickey. Her eye for the dramatic moment is clear from the very first image, a Civil War soldier barking orders from a hill, surrounded by the sounds of battle and warriors’ cries.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Main Stage 2014
Divas Renée Fleming and Chita Rivera to Star
By: - Jan 30th, 2014For her fourth and final program at Williamstown Theatre Festival outgoing artistic director Jenny Gersten has played her aces. Actually, make that Queens. Renowned opera soprano Renée Fleming will play, guess what, an opera diva in Living on Love. Broadway favorite Chita Rivera will appear in The Visit with book by Terrence McNally; music by John Kander; and lyrics by Fred Ebb. Jessica Stone who directed during Gersten's debut WTF season returns to helm a revival of June Moon by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman.
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Dr. Dubois and Miss Ovington at New Federal Theatre
Chalfant and Simonson Star in Clare Coss Play
By: - Jan 29th, 2014The New Federal Theatre founded and directed by Woodie King, Jr. and thriving in a new alliance with the Casilllo Theatre on West 42nd Street in Manhattan, has produced an engaging and deeply moving play, Dr. Dubois and Miss Ovington. The playwright Clare Coss says it is within our power to create a just and sane world. She may be on a mission, but her new play is not at all didactic. Multi-leveled, it is the story of the founding of the NAACP, of Crisis magazine and two of the civil rights’ movements early leaders.thing over 255 chars will be deleted.
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Kevin Burke's The Caveman in Indy
Broadway's Longest Running Solo Show
By: - Jan 28th, 2014The production opens on what looks like Fred Flintstone’s living room, complete with caveman drawings on the walls. What follows is a string of observational comedy that most couples can relate to. Kevin Burke pokes fun at both sexes but never makes it feel like an attack.
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10×10 New Play Festival
Barrington Stage Feb. 13 to March 2
By: - Jan 27th, 2014Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces casting and the creative team for its 10×10 New Play Festival, with performances February 13 through March 2, as part of the 2014 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally
Coachella Valley Repertory Theater in Rancho Mirage
By: - Jan 27th, 2014In the CV REP Theatre production of “A Perfect Ganeshâ€, written by Terrence McNally and deftly directed by theatre artistic director Ron Celona, the search by westerners for answers, is what peaked the curiosity of playwright McNally.
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And Then They Came for Me
Indiana Repertory Theatre
By: - Jan 27th, 2014In James Still’s play “And Then They Came for Me," he explores the lives of two children who survived he holocaust, despite all odds.
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Shakespeare & Company 2014
Programming Schedule for Summer Season
By: - Jan 23rd, 2014Shakespeare & Company has planned a celebratory season packed with Shakespeare, modern works, premieres and special events in honor of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. Tickets for the 2014 Performance Season go on sale in Mid-February. For specific date and info please check online at: www.shakespeare.org or by calling the Box Office at (413) 637-3353, or in person at 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA.
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