Theatre
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A.R.T. New Managing Director Billy Russo
Will Partner with A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University has announced today that William Russo will join the institution as its new Managing Director, effective this July. Russo, who currently serves as the Managing Director of New York Theatre Workshop, will partner with A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus to manage the $13 million non-profit theater.
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Clybourne Park at Phoenix Theatre
Indianapolis Production of Ubiquitous Play
By: - Apr 22nd, 2013It seems the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning drama Clybourne Park is being produced in ever city, town and village in America. Our Indy correspondent, Melissa Hall, reviews the staging at Phoenix Theatre which runs through May 5.
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Making Books Sing Creates Fear and Joy
Wanda's Monster is Not So Terrible
By: - Apr 21st, 2013Monsters have always intrigued. They have come multithreaded and multifooted. They have combined lion, snake and goat. But over time they have come to look more and more like us, just larger and hairier.
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God of Carnage at Provincetown Theater
Boys Will Be Boys
By: - Apr 20th, 2013Now in its tenth year the Provincetown Theater has launched the 2013 season with a production of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage. The gloves come off and tulips fly in the directorial debut of Brian Carlson. With a few caveats this is a hilarious evening of over the top mayhem.
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Provincetown Theater 2013
Schedule for Season Through December 22
By: - Apr 20th, 2013The Provincetown Theater underwent extensive renovation this past winter. It has just launched its 10th season which runs through December 22. After God of Carnage through April 28 is the World Premiere of a brand new musical by Zoë Lewis "ACROSS THE POND" through June 9. Then Pornocchio, The Provincetown International Film Festival, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Payomet Festival of Family Theater & Circus Arts for Children, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch, Mildred Fierce, and other delights.
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Joan Rivers at the Colonial Theatre
Stand Up on May 10
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Legendary comedian, Joan Rivers, will perform her world renowned stand up at The Colonial Theatre on May 10 at 8pm with opener Brad Zimmerman. Audience members are invited to walk the red carpet before the show and stay after to see Tom Judson sing and play the piano in The Garage.
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Roadkill Chicago Shakespeare Theatre
Part of World’s Stage Series May 11 to 26
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Roadkill comes to Chicago Shakespeare Theatre in the midst of a state-wide public awareness campaign aimed at shifting law enforcement's attention to sex traffickers and people who buy sex, while proposing a network of support for survivors of the sex trade.
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Steven Pasquale In Bridges of Madison Country
Updates for Williamstown Theatre festival
By: - Apr 18th, 2013Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten has announced that Festival veteran Steven Pasquale will play ‘Robert Kincaid’ in this summer’s World Premiere of The Bridges of Madison County. As previously announced, the new musical, which runs on the Main Stage from August 1 – 18, 2013, features a book by Marsha Norman, music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, and direction by Bartlett Sher.
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Ragtime at LA's The Kentwood Players
Community Theatre Now in 63rd Year
By: - Apr 17th, 2013The musical Ragtime is brilliantly directed by Susan Goldman Weisbarth, and, thanks to her musical director and creative cohort Bill Wolfe, this impressive production just soars with 43 voices and performers on Kentwood’s somewhat undersized stage (the theatre seats 115 patrons). But oh what magic doth appear when good source material, creative talent and inspired direction abound.
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Collapse by Women's Project Theater
Allison Moore, a Gifted Young Playwright
By: - Apr 17th, 2013The Women’s Project Theater can be counted on for a thoroughly engaging evening of theater. They do this by tackling the most disturbing and important issues of our time with a novel flair and often high humor. Only at the end of Collapse do we realize that we have been at the heart of our world today, a world in which the center has trouble holding as we keep turning in the widening gyre.
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American Buffalo at LA's Geffen Playhouse
Machine Gun Stacatto of Classic Mamet Play
By: - Apr 17th, 2013Enough cannot be said of the splendid ensemble cast of “American Buffaloâ€. They grab Mamet’s absurd black comedy story and elevate it to a gritty, but engrossing evening of theatre. In Randall Arney’s production after one peels away all of the f-bombs, we are left with a gritty study of three American men who are unable to understand their role in a society, which views them as losers and permanent bottom-feeders.
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Beowulf Disarming At A.R.T.
Grendel, His Mom and King Hrothgar Sing At Oberon
By: - Apr 17th, 2013Transforming the Oberon into a cabaret/21st century mead hall, this very lyrical if not poetic version of the retelling of the Old English epic poem uses song, silliness and a great band to tell a story that we all mostly skimmed when we were assigned it in school. Grendel, his mother and Beowulf sing, dance, strut and fight their way through a poem that has been told for at least 1000 years. Using raw and rowdy songplay and featuring original music that combines Weimar cabaret, 40’s jazz harmony, punk, electronica and Romantic Lieder, the instrumentation and voices are marvelous. It isn't your English teacher's version of the epic.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Indianapolis
Ends The Indiana Repertory Theatre Season
By: - Apr 16th, 2013.The Indiana Repertory Theatre is closing its season with the classic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Young lovers’ blossoming relationships run amiss when they cross paths with a forest full of fairies led by the warring King and Queen of the fairies, regally played by Ryan Artzberger and Jennifer Johansen.
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Tribes by Nina Raines
New Comedy/Drama at LA's Mark Taper Forum
By: - Apr 16th, 2013The new Nina Raines comedy/ drama raises some interesting communication issues concerning the Deaf community. “Tribesâ€, currently onstage at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, is insightfully directed by David Cromer and brings into much sharper focus the issue and the debate of how one copes within a family of hearing parents along with hearing and non-hearing siblings.
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Barrington Stage Company 2013
An Abundance of Riches
By: - Apr 16th, 2013Here is the complete and final rundown, at least for now, of shows, cabaret, benefits and events for the 2013 season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass. The fun begins on May 22 and winds down on October 13.
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Women of Will, The Complete Journey
Tina Packer's Brilliant NY Take on Shakespeare's Women
By: - Apr 15th, 2013Tina Packer’s The Complete Journey through the Women of Will starts with “Warrior Women, from Violence to Negotiation." These martial women, driven by revenge, women who Shakespeare seems to hold out from himself and from us. The traveling production is staged at New York's The Gym at Judson through June.
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Berkshire Theatre Group Adds Shows
Peter Pan, Just So Stories and Hunter Bell,
By: - Apr 15th, 2013Berkshire Theatre Group announces three additions to its 85th summer season: the 8th Annual Children's Theatre Production, Peter Pan, at The Colonial Theatre, Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling, at The Neil Ellenoff Stage and a special writers workshop with Hunter Bell, of the Tony nominated show, [title of show]
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Operation Epsilon At Central Sq Theater
Science, Responsibility, Pride and Guilt Collide
By: - Apr 14th, 2013At the close of WWII, the Allies captured Germany’s top ten nuclear scientists and kept them at a lavish English estate, Farm Hall. They were under surveillance to learn what they knew about the American nuclear program and to gauge how close the Nazis were to making an atomic bomb. Playwright Alan Brody brilliantly sheds light on the ethical complexity of pursuing scientific discovery at the risk of fostering catastrophic consequences. Mixing in the notions of individual hubris and personal or collective responsibility, this is a serious and revealing drama that wrestle's with conscience and culpability. With a fine ensemble cast, it is an engrossing major theatrical event.
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ArtsEmerson Announces 2013-2014 Program
Fourth Season Starts September 17
By: - Apr 12th, 2013ArtsEmerson announces the first half of its fourth theatre season, beginning in the fall of 2013. This announcement covers productions into January of 2014, with more winter/spring productions to be announced later. Tickets for these productions go on sale to ArtsEmerson members on April 12, and to the general public on May 3.
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Last Goodbye Says Hello to San Diego
Workshopped at Williamstown Theater Festival
By: - Apr 12th, 2013During the 2010 season a musical that conflated Romeo and Juliet with the music of the gifted Jeff Buckley, who died tragically young, The Last Goodbye was workshopped at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now it is slated to open the season for The Old Globe in San Diego. There are plans to move on from there. At WTF we interviewed the creative team and Buckely's Mom, Mary Guibert.
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American Repertory Theatre Launches Musical
Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews
By: - Apr 12th, 2013The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University will present the world premiere of the musical Witness Uganda, created by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, and directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus. The production will begin performances at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge in February of 2014.
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31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards
Chita Rivera Cited for Lifetime Achievement
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) announces its nominations for the 31st Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The awards, which recognize excellence in Greater Boston theater, will be presented on Monday, May 13, at 7 p.m. at the Paramount Mainstage, 559 Washington Street, Boston.
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A Doll's House at The Old Globe
Ibsen Drama in San Diego Through April 21
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Old Globe production of “A Doll’s House†that opened at the Sheryl and Harvey White theatre on March 23rd is intelligently, sensitively, and seamlessly directed by Kirsten Brandt who brings a wealth of Ibsen directing credits to the production.
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Indiana Repertory Theatre
Announces 2013/2014 Season
By: - Apr 11th, 2013The Indiana Repertory Theatre will launch its season with Arthur Miller's The Crucible. This will be followed by eight productions for a full and diverse program.
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M Brilliant At Huntington's Calderwood Pavilion
Creative Take On Fritz Lang's Film Noir Classic
By: - Apr 10th, 2013Wonderfully conceived and stylistically creative, the world premiere of Ryan Landry's "M" is a unique theatrical event. Light and shadow, comedy and drama and silliness and seriousness are blended together in a surrealistic and at times totally quite poignant adaptation of uberdirector Fritz Lang's masterpiece "M." We are compelled to watch with both amused wonder and horror as Landry brings his unique imagination to a new adaptation of this dark film noir 1931 classic. This is theatre of the absurd with a point. It is a gothic visual and verbal journey that is dreamlike but unconditionally entertaining.
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