Theatre
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Updates
Adds Blood Play and Lewis Black
By: - Apr 09th, 2013Outrageous stand-up comic Lewis Black loves the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He returns this summer July 22, with My Fair Lewis. The festival has also added another play to the Nikos stage. Blood Play will run August 7 to 18. It is Written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen. Directed and developed by Oliver Butler and made by The Debate Society. Here is the final complete schedule for the 2013 season.
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The Revisionist with Vanessa Redgrave
Jesse Eisenberg Play at Cherry Lane Theatre Through April 27
By: - Apr 09th, 2013The remarkable, 76-year-old Vanessa Redgrave is appearing, through April 27, in a sold out run of The Revisionist by Jesse Eisenberg at the venerable but intimate Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. It is a rare opportunity to see one of the great performers of our era up close and oh so personal. Be still dear heart.
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Green Day's American Idiot in Indianapolis
A Rockin' Good Time
By: - Apr 05th, 2013American Idiot, based on the Green Day album of the same name, bursts onto the stage at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis, with a flurry of lights and blasting guitars. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, this show has all three in spades.
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Barrington Stage Presents Linda Lavin July 8
Schedule for Mr. Finn's Cabaret Series
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013Featuring an eclectic mix of Broadway standards and cabaret songs, Tony and Golden Globe-winning actress Linda Lavin’s new cabaret will show you why Stephen Holden of The New York Times calls her “…a human tornado who lets nothing stand in her way…She has a jazz side, can swing and scat and even growl like Louis Armstrong, and displays a special fondness for Brazilian bossa nova.†T
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Menopause the Musical
Night Sweats at Indy's Beef and Boards
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013For a girls's night out Menopause the Musical is a no sweat, fun musical. It runs through May 12 at Indy's Beef and Boards dinner theatre. Women going through "The Change" interact compassionately while shopping at Bloomingdales.
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A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder
The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in San Diego
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013“A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder†is currently at The Old Globe’s Donald and Darlene Shiley stage in San Diego’s Balboa Park. This world premiere musical comedy conjured up by the remarkable team of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, and brilliantly directed by Darko Tresnjak, is an early Christmas gift to the city of San Diego. It's taking place at one of America’s finest Regional theatres.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
College of the Desert (COD) Production
By: - Apr 03rd, 2013In the College of the Desert (COD) production at the Pollock Theatre, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestâ€, director Tres Dean gives full rein to his talented cast to do just that which they do in spades.
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark At LyricStage Company
Witty Take on Difficulties of Race, Stardom and the American Way
By: - Mar 31st, 2013A comedy about racism, Hollywood and secrets by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage that takes an irreverent look at racial stereotypes in both Hollywood and 20th Century America. The show is a seventy-year journey through the life of Vera Stark, an African-American maid who becomes an actress, and her strange relationship with a white Hollywood star. When both women land roles in a Southern epic, the story behind the cameras leaves Vera with a surprising and controversial legacy. This is theatre of thought and difficult history.
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Shakespeare & Company Adds Programming
Dance, Music, Zany Antics and More
By: - Mar 30th, 2013Shakespeare & Company’s 36th Performance Season just keeps getting bigger and better! Artistic Director Tony Simotes is pleased to announce additional programming filled with dance, music, zany antics and more with four new additions to the already scheduled line-up.
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Going Going Gone and I Am Peter Pan
Sunday Morning at Indy Fringe Theatre
By: - Mar 30th, 2013On Sunday morning, the final day of the American Theatre Critics Association meeting in Indianapolis we encountered life on the edge of the arts. It was insightful to learn about and experience Fringe theatre in Indy and hear from fringers in Cincinnati and St. Louis. It was so absorbing that Astrid Hiemer of BFA bounded on stage and became a character in the improv piece Going Going Gone.
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The Lyons at Indy's Phoenix Theatre
Dark Comedy Stars Diane Kondrat
By: - Mar 29th, 2013The dark comedy The Lyons which had a run on Broadway has been staged at The Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. It stars veteran actor Diane Kondrat, as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family. The macabre action is set in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband visited by their two over the top children. The familial cruelty evoked is outrageously hilarious. Kondrat's Rita Lyons is a character we love to hate.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited
At Coachella Valley Repertory Company
By: - Mar 29th, 2013A few years back Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Menâ€, was turned into an Academy award-winning movie. His current allegorical play “Sunset Limitedâ€, deftly directed by Ron Celona and starring ML Berry as Black, and Don Oscar Smith as White, is a curious piece.
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Dolly Parton's 9 to 5
Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Indianapolis
By: - Mar 29th, 2013Forty years ago when Indy's Beef and Boards Dinner Theatre was founded it was a fad. With annual ticket sales of some 150.000 now it is only one of seven equity companies that remain. More low brow than high brow, none the less, its production of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 was a flat out hoot. In particular the blonde bombshell Crystal Mosser was a smash.
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Sunset Blvd at Palm Canyon Theatre
Cult Musical Starred Pamla Vale Abramson
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Pamla Vale Abramson is a wonderful Norma Desmond. She captures the spirit and the essence of the early Hollywood era through use of her marvelous eyes, hand gestures, and actor’s instincts, all the while never losing sight, of her role in bringing a bygone era back, if just for just awhile.
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Stephen Metcalfe's Strange Snow was Film Jacknife
Groves Cabin Theatre, in Morongo Valley, CA.
By: - Mar 28th, 2013Stephen Metcalfe's stage play “Strange Snow†became the basis for the 1989 movie “Jacknifeâ€, starring Robert DeNiro, Ed Harris, and Cathy Bates.The powerful and compelling drama currently dazzling audiences at the Groves Theatre, is brilliantly directed by actor/director Abe Daniels, and features a wonderful cast of three Desert Theatre League award winning actors: Donette Swain, Kurt Schauppner, and Abe Daniels.
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American Star!!! by Emmy Winners
Theater for the New City April 11 to 28
By: - Mar 27th, 2013Theater for the New City presents"American Star!!!," a new rockin', boppin' family musical by William Electric Black and Gary Schreiner, both Emmy-winners. The show whimsically examines teenagers' fascination with make-me-a-celebrity TV shows. Performances are April 11 to 28, Th-Sat at 8:00 PM and Sun at 3:00 PM. Running time is :90. Critics are invited on or after April 12.
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The Whipping Man at Indiana Repertory Theatre
Highlight of ATCA Meeting
By: - Mar 23rd, 2013Last night some forty members and guests of the American Theatre Critics Association were astonished by a riveting production of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez. The Indiana Repertory Theatre production stars the astonishing David Alan Anderson with solid support from Tyler Jacob Rollinson and Andrew C. Ahrens.
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Mountaintop at San Diego REPertory Theatre
Danielle Mone-Truitt and Larry Bates Co-Star
By: - Mar 19th, 2013San Diego REPertory Theatre’s current production of “The Mountaintopâ€, written by Katori Hall, and deftly directed by Roger Guenveur Smith, is right on the money. It’s a talky two-character exploration leading up to of the last day in the life of Martin Luther King Jr, as imagined by playwright Hall.
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Clarence Darrow Tonight at Coyote StageWorks
One Nighter Featured Brilliant Laurence Luckinbill
By: - Mar 19th, 2013Laurence Luckinbill as Clarence Darrow, brings the famous lawyer of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, up close and personal, delivering a penetrating, riveting, and insightful portrait of the man many thought they knew but didn’t.
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A Raisin In The Sun Brilliant At Huntington
Lorraine Hansberry’s Groundbreaking 1959 Classic Drama
By: - Mar 14th, 2013In a crowded apartment in Chicago’s South Side, each member of a struggling African-American family yearns for a different version of a better life. An impending large insurance payment seems to be the key. While American prejudice and racism set barriers and even roadblocks to life's journey, this is an moving portrait of resilient people whose dreams are constantly deferred. A must see theatrical event.
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Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre's King Executioner
Theater for the New City March 21 to April 7
By: - Mar 12th, 2013Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre presents "King Executioner," written and directed by Vit Horejš with musical score by Frank London (The Klezmatics). This enigmatic tale of early World War II is based on a novel by Polish magical realist Tadeusz Nowak. New York's Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave., presents the work March 21 to April 7.
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The Faux-Real Theatre Company Comes to La Mama
Oedipus Rex XX/XY
By: - Mar 09th, 2013Oedipus Rex as conceived by the Faux-Real Theater Company is true to the original, although the producers say "sort of." A play in which Son kills Dad and then marries Mom with whom he begets half brothers and sisters provides latitude. Even though Oedipus is played by an actress and Jocasta by an actor, the brew has already been mixed and turned upside down by the time the play starts. The Faux-Real troop provides a classic take with brilliant winks.
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Treat Williams a the Clark March 11
Shorts in Winter with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Mar 06th, 2013On Monday, March 11 at 7 pm, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute welcomes friends from the Williamstown Theatre Festival as they present “Shorts in Winter,†a cozy winter evening of short stories read by Festival actors.
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Sensational Clybourne Park At SpeakEasy
A Brilliantly Scripted Play About Our Past and Present
By: - Mar 06th, 2013Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play. Filled with ironic humor, it is a brilliant drama about race, real estate and the volatile values of each. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, it transcribes racist American attitudes in two acts set 50 years apart. In the late 50s, a community is up in arms over the first black family to buy a house in their white neighborhood. Fifty years later, the neighborhood has changed around the same house, as now young white couples want to buy into the now predominantly black neighborhood. The social and emotional anxieties are mirror images. The writing and acting is sensational. This is great theatre.
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Kate Burton and Nicholas Martin
Return to Huntingon for the 2013-2014 Season
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The complete 2013-2014 Season will include four plays at the Boston University Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts, three plays at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, and one play in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
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