Theatre
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Zelda at the Oasis by P.H. Lin
Play Focuses on Complex Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: - Nov 28th, 2012F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were the heart and soul of the Lost Generation of the Roaring Twenties. Wildly eccentric the brilliant and witty Zelda was the muse for Scott. It is often implied that he stole her ides for his best selling novels and short stories. Both of their lives devolved in tragedy as the era for which they were signifiers passed. This new play by P.H. Lin focuses on her alone and on the prowl at the Club Oasis in New York City during the Depression years of the 1930s.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theatre 2013
Four New World Stage Presentations
By: - Nov 21st, 2012Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) announces four new World’s Stage presentations in 2013—bold theatrical events from across the globe, each in its own voice, provoking discussion on issues of international significance. On the heels of celebrating the Year of Creative Scotland with two critically acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland productions this fall, Chicago Shakespeare Theater continues to demonstrate its commitment to engage audiences in global issues.
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Sleep No More at NY's Emursive
A Unique Theatrical Experience
By: - Nov 19th, 2012Emursive Co. introduced "Sleep No More" to an American audience and/or participants if you are game. What better place to rattle and shake but in New York City. It is an import from the UK and what fun!
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The Palm Desert Stage Company Revives Mark Twain
Is He Dead Adapted by David Ives
By: - Nov 16th, 2012The Palm Desert Stage Company kicks off its third season in the Joslyn Center’s Arthur Newman Theatre with Mark Twain’s revived comedy/farce “Is He Deadâ€, adapted by Chicago-born and New York City-based author/playwright David Ives. The comedy is stylishly and briskly directed, by the valley’s reigning comedy/farce director Tres Dean. (Dean directed another Ives’ play, “All in the Timing†at College of the Desert, just last month).
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Pinter's Betrayal At Huntington Theatre Company
Layered Relationships And Deceit Express Playwright's Best Work
By: - Nov 14th, 2012With its usual crafted quality, the Huntington presents Harold Pinter's most famous and perhaps most resolved play. Here, for seven years, Emma and Jerry engage in a passionate love affair, deceiving their spouses, each other and perhaps even themselves. Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter innovatively explores the complexities of love, guilt, and duplicity in this contemporary classic.
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Mark St. Germain’s The Best of Enemies
New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse Nov. 27 – Dec. 23
By: - Nov 07th, 2012Barrington Stage Company announces that the acclaimed new play, The Best of Enemies, by Mark St. Germain (Dr. Ruth, All the Way and Freud’s Last Session), will be presented from November 27 through December 23 at New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ. For tickets call 732-246-7717 or purchase online at www.georgestplayhouse.org. Opening night is Friday, November 30 at 8pm.
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Louis Armstrong: Jazz Ambassador in New York
Jeremy Giraud Abram is Satchmo in Myla Churchill's Play
By: - Nov 05th, 2012Satchmo's part in the Little Rock Nine, his world ambassadorship, and his Time cover all zing in this terrific production, in which Jeremy Giraud Abram becomes Louis. The band, featuring Queens College’s Hot Six and aptly selected Armstrong songs are just what you want to hear as you wait for God to make up his mind about the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century.
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Chinglish at Lyric Stage of Boston
David Henry Hwang Play November 30 to December 23
By: - Nov 01st, 2012Named one of Time Magazine’s 10 best plays of 2011, Chinglish follows an American businessman as he heads to a bustling Chinese province looking to cash in on the area’s growth potential. It is a hilarious comedy of mistranslation and manners by Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang, author of M Butterfly. It comes to Lyric Stage of Boston from November 30 to December 23.
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Gayby Jenn Harris’ Qwan Song
How Randy Harrison Goes Viral
By: - Oct 30th, 2012For the brilliant young comic, Jenn Harris, the indy film, Gayby, which was screened at the recent Williamstown Film Festival may be her breakthrough. We spoke with her about the film and her work with the young company QWAN. She and Randy Harrison appeared for a one nighter with Qwan at the Colonial Theatre this past summer.
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The Wasteland Resonates in a Timeline Production
Chicago Gets Another Hit in Susan Felder's Play
By: - Oct 30th, 2012Timeline consistently delivers great theater, historical settings often provide a jumping board to bigger ideas of the human condition. But never at the sacrifice of entertainment. The playwright Susan Felder and the director William Brown succeed in suggesting a broad message without in any way burdening the specificity of the performance.
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Old Jews Telling Jokes
Oi Vey Such a Play
By: - Oct 30th, 2012Forget about Next Year in Jerusalem and get off your butt – tokhes if you are Jewish – over to the Westside Theatre to see Old Jews Telling Jokes. Whatever your persuasion, religious or otherwise, unless you are made of stone – and in that case stay home – you will leave the theatre laughing.
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Cyrano de Bergerac Returns to Broadway
A Nose Job by Douglas Hodge
By: - Oct 29th, 2012Cyrano, thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, is back on Broadway with Douglas Hodge as the nosed one. I wish I could say that their production of Cyrano – among the most romantic theatrical chestnuts and long a favorite of mine – blew me away. Alas, and sadly, no such occurrence took place.
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Collected Stories at Coachella Valley Repertory
Donald Margulies Play with Eileen T'Kaye and Erika Whalen
By: - Oct 29th, 2012Jack Lyons keeps us up to date with California Theatre. Here we writes about Eileen T’Kaye as Ruth, and Erika Whalen as Lisa, as they grapple with Donald Margulies’ basic premise in Collected Stories. First, their onstage chemistry is absolutely palpable. And as such, they produce moments of sublime craftsmanship that do not compete, but are moments that compliment one another. Their interaction recalls the classic film All About Rve.
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The Chosen At Lyric Stage Company
Spirituality Prescribed in a Secular Society
By: - Oct 27th, 2012Adapted by Chaim Potok & Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok, this drama is sometimes moving and provocative coming of age story that follows two boys from different cultural groups as their relationships with each other, their families, and their own spirituality evolve in 1940s Brooklyn. It is a story of acceptance and understanding.
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Olympia Dukakis To Return to Shakespeare & Company
Mother Courage and Her Children Slated for Next Summer
By: - Oct 24th, 2012“I’m absolutely ecstatic to have Olympia join us again for our 36th Season,†says Simotes. “Our collaboration on The Tempest proved to be a successful one both artistically and personally. It was another chapter in our rich history together, and I’m excited to continue writing that history next summer. Olympia has an infectious energy that inspires one's artistic soul. She’s a dear friend and mentor. I’m eager to explore the depths of this fascinating play with her and Apollo, and once again share her immense talent with our audiences.â€
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Rocks At SpeakEasy Stage
A Presidency With Real Rocks & Heads That Rolled
By: - Oct 21st, 2012Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson recreates the life of ‘Old Hickory' as a rock opera star. From humble roots on the Tennessee frontier to his days as our 7th Commander-in-Chief. Using an emo-rock score, the show tells the story of America’s first maverick president. He beat the British, decimated the Indians, overwhelmed the Spanish and eventually outpolled his political adversaries. This was all a function of his incredible ego and love of country. He was an American original.
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Barrington Stage Touts Boffo Season
A Million Plus in Ticket Sales
By: - Oct 18th, 2012Single ticket sales exceeded $1M for the second time in BSC’s 18-year history, even breaking last year’s total (the first time was in 2011). Total season pass sales for 2012 are 30% greater than 2011 season pass sales. St. Germain Stage passes alone increased 44% from 2011 to 2012 (after nearly doubling from 2010 to 2011) – representing an all-time record number of season passes. 2012 attendance is more than 51,000, representing a 6% increase over 2011.
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Now Or Later Timely At Calderwood Theatre
Huntington Theatre Company Presents Riveting Political Drama
By: - Oct 17th, 2012During election season, the Huntington Theatre Company has scheduled a timely play about politics when all hell broke loose. Now or Later is set on election night. A presidential candidate's son sends his father’s political team beyond crisis mode when controversial photos of him at a college party go viral over the web. They potentially spark an international incident. This smart topical drama examines inherited religion, freedom of expression and personal responsibility in a time of electionmania.
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WAM Theatre Premieres The Old Mezzo
Susan Dworkin Play Stars Eileen Schuyler
By: - Oct 15th, 2012The emerging WAM Theatre has taken on the challenge of a world premiere of The Old Mezzo by the renowned feminist writer and one of the Ms Magazine founders, Susan Dworkin. It is an ambitious but uneven collaboration between the feminists, Kristen van Ginhioven, a co founder of WAM and the Berkshire based Dworkin. The production has been staged at the Berkshire Museum through October 28.
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Rock Wilk's Broke Wide Open at 45th Street Theatre
Monodrama Brings You Home
By: - Oct 14th, 2012Rock Wilk is mesmerizing in his monodrama “Broke Wide Open.†The image of his arm pumped up in a power gesture immediately gives hope to a bleak beginning. Wilk was turned over by his birth mother to be passed, swadled, from foster home to foster home, and finally settled in a wonderful Jewish family, where he was treasured. Love or no love, he grapples with his identity as he tries to find home
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The Exit Interview by William Missouri Downs
San Diego Repertory Theatre Through October 21, 2012.
By: - Oct 14th, 2012“The Exit Interview†written by William Missouri Downs and directed by Woodhouse, is a perfect example of controversy, political theatre, and entertainment coming together in the Lyceum Space, in San Diego.
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The Lily's Revenge Flowers At A.R.T
Pushing the Boundaries of Theatrical Experience
By: - Oct 14th, 2012This is a marathon performance by many gifted performers who sing, dance and do comedy schtick. The narrative theme is a theatrically variated and vegetative allegory for love without boundaries. Featuring a 30+ person ensemble, The Lily's Revenge integrates movement, film, performance art, and music into five unique acts that shatter cultural expectations and social norms. A sparkling theatrical experience that embraces the conflict of tradition and stability, love and fulfillment as well as transvestite flower girls and sexual mores.
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By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at LA's Geffen Playhouse
Play by Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage
By: - Oct 14th, 2012Since her breakthrough play “Intimate Apparel†in 2003 (seen at the Mark Taper Forum in 2004), and her Pulitzer Prize winning drama “Ruined†in 2009, playwright Lynn Nottage now makes a 180-degree turn in subject matter with an interesting and provocative serio-comedy entitled “By the Way, Meet Vera Starkâ€. It just opened at the prestigious Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
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Under My Skin at Pasadena Playhouse
Gender Bender by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser
By: - Oct 14th, 2012Eve Ensler, playwright and author of the popular play “The Vagina Monologuesâ€, had better watch out if she wants to retain her “favorite playwright status†with females around the globe. The Hollywood husband and wife writing team of Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, have written an extremely funny and tightly crafted, gender-bending, comedy entitled “Under My Skinâ€, currently rocking the house at the venerable Pasadena Playhouse. And it’s closing the gap fast.
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November at LA's Mark Taper Forum
David Mamet's Election Farce Stars Ed Begley Jr.
By: - Oct 10th, 2012In “November†David Mamet delivers his hilarious, over-the-top commentary on fictitious American President Charles Smith, as he and his staff prepare for his reelection campaign. The one that no one wants to even think about, let alone work on. Ed Begley, Jr. stars in a hilarious Mark Taper Forum production in Los Angeles.
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