Theatre
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Don't Miss Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts
Shakespeare & Company Ends September 2
By: - Jun 23rd, 2012Parasite Drag by Mark Roberts is the mustsee play of the Berkshire Season. It runs in through September 2. Be warned however this is an X rated play with strong language and explicit sex. It is not family entertainment. For those with strong stomachs this is an unforgettable evening of great theatre.
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Twelfth Night Enchants in Boulder
Colorado Shakespeare Festival Dissects Apollo and Dionysius
By: - Jun 22nd, 2012Twelfth Night is perfect summer fare, even though it refers to the last day of Epiphany. Religion disappears into the Colorado clouds.
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Fiddler Falls Off the Roof at Barrington Stage
Brad Oscar Stumbles as Tevye
By: - Jun 22nd, 2012There are many reasons to see this wonderfully staged and choreographed production of the iconic musical Fiddler on the Roof that launches the season of Barrington Stage Company. Unfortunately, the miscast and stumbling Brad Oscar in the leading role of Tevye is not one of them.
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Casts Announced for WTF Productions
Last of the Red Hot Lovers and Far From Heaven
By: - Jun 21st, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Jenny Gersten announced today the full cast and creative teams for Last of the Red Hot Lovers, which will be presented on the Nikos Stage from July 11 through July 22 (opening July 12), and the Preview Production of Far From Heaven, which will play the Main Stage from July 19 through July 29 (opening July 21). Both shows begin rehearsals today in preparation for their runs at the Festival.
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Stars of Williamstown Theatre Festival Meet and Greet
Blythe Danner, Tyne Daly, David Hyde Pierce, Bob Balaban
By: - Jun 20th, 2012On Thursday, June 28 the Williamstown Theatre Festival launches its season with the opening night of two shows. Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" directed by David Hyde Pierce with Tyne Daly is on the Main Stage. The more intimate Nikos Stage will feature the world premiere of The Deep Blue directed by Bob Balaban with Becky Ann Baker and a return to Williamstown after a long absence of a perennial favorite, Blythe Danner. Yesterday WTF artistic director Jenny Gersten hosted a meet an greet with the directors and their stars.
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Tigers Be Still at Chicago’s Wit
Three Ring Circus for Fringe Companies
By: - Jun 20th, 2012With three stages Chicago's Theatre Wit collaborates with some forty of the Second City's 200 plus theatre companies. We attended the final weekend of the hit comedy Tigers be Still which Kim Rosenstock wrote and developed in New York at Roundabout before it moved to Wit. What a hoot.
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Buntport Theater Roasts Beef
Censorship Knocked Out in Denver
By: - Jun 19th, 2012Buntport, a company just a decade old, has produced original drama of the highest order in its brief history. They also conduct marginal discussions on subjects of no interest on the Third Tuesday of each month.
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Car Talk Joy Rides At Central Square Theatre
Entertaining And Clever Musical Based On NPR Show
By: - Jun 19th, 2012Car Talk is a new automotive musical comedy inspired by the legendary National Public Radio show. The antihero is an overweight, always-late nebbish Rusty Fenders. His life and elderly KIA are both headed for the junkyard. Attempting to salvage happiness, he crashes into his ruthless boss Beaulah Gasket, is clueless about his unrequited office romance with lovely Sheila and has an unaffordable midlife crises over a sexy fantasy car Miata C. LaChassis. Tuned up by parodies of show stopping classic songs and garage gaffaws, Rusty seeks the Wizard of Cahs to drive home. A Summer car trip must-see.
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Marvin Gaye Rocks Chicago
Jackie Taylor’s Black Ensemble Theater
By: - Jun 19th, 2012The remarkable Jackie Taylor built the new $19 million Black Ensemble Theatre. She also writes, produces and directs musicals about the immortals of soul. Currently a boffo hit "The Marvin Gaye Story: Don’t Talk About My Father Because God Is My Friend" is the coolest show of a sizzling Chicago summer. Let's get it on.
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Immediate Family by Paul Oakley Stovall
Directed by Phylicia Rashaad at Chicago's Goodman
By: - Jun 19th, 2012Conforming to Aristotle’s paradigms for drama Immediate Family by Paul Oakley Stovall the action involving an African American family gathered for a wedding occurs at a furious pace with over the top histrionics, directed at warp speed by Phylicia Rashad, all in one day.
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Eastland at Chicago’s Lookingglass
Premiere of Andrew White Musical
By: - Jun 18th, 2012On 24 July 1915 some 2,572 employees of Western Electric Company boarded The Eastland for an outing. While still docked the overcrowded, top heavy vessel sank in 20 feet of water. There were 884 deaths. Improbably, Andrew White, the artistic director of the renowned Lookinglass, has written a musical based on that tragedy. Will the production sink or swim with audiences? It was well received on opening night but needs overhaul in dry-dock.
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E. L. Doctorow's The March
World Premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Jun 13th, 2012The renowned Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago has just closed the world premiere of The March, adapted and directed by Frank Galati from the novel by E. L. Doctorow. The ambitious two and a half hour production with an enormous cast and a simple staging needs a major overhaul if it hopes to have a life beyond Chicago.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
Berkshire Actors Theatre July 1 Talkback
By: - Jun 13th, 2012A profile centered on the "two Sister James" of "Doubt" –– Clover Bell-Devaney, the actress who is playing her in Berkshire Actors Theatre's 2012 production, and Sister Peggy McEntee, the woman who inspired the role. Bell-Devaney had the chance to meet McEntee, playwright John Patrick Shanley's first grade teacher and the women he dedicated the "Doubt" film after, while preparing for her role in the play. A friendship developed between the two, and now Sister McEntee will come out to the Berkshires on July for an audience Q & A following that evening's performance of "Doubt."
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Farce at the Festival Playhouse in Colorado
Michael and Susan Parker's Witty, Fun Play
By: - Jun 11th, 2012Farce is difficult to write and to perform. Playwrights Michael and Susan Parker have perfected the contemporary farce. A delightful production of their work was mounted outside Denver.
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The Puppetmaster of Lodz Opens June 21
Launches Berkshire Theatre Group's Theatre Festival Season
By: - Jun 07th, 2012The Puppetmaster of Lodz by Gilles Ségal, translated by Sara O'Connor and directed by Brian Roff will begin Berkshire Theatre Group's Theatre Festival season at The Unicorn Theatre, 6 East St. in Stockbridge on June 21 with an official press opening on June 23.
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Kristen van Ginhoven Offers Workshops
WAM Director To Teach Actors and Directors
By: - Jun 07th, 2012Kristen van Ginhoven, WAM’s Artistic Director, will teach a workshop over the summer where she will share what she learned while recently working at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada. The workshop will be offered June 18 in Schenectady, NY at Proctor’s Theatre and July 22 at Eleven in Great Barrington, MA.
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King Lear at Shakespeare & Company
Lenox Production June 16 to September 1
By: - Jun 07th, 2012King Lear runs from June 16 through September 1 in S&Co.’s Founders’Theatre. Press Opening is on Friday, June 23 at 7:30PM. This profound and devastatingly beautiful tale of regret is directed by Rebecca Holderness who sets the stage in 1906 Russia as the monarchy is crumbling and Lear’s world descends into madness.
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Dr. Ruth All the Way at Barrington Stage
Mark St. Germain World Premiere June 19 to July 21
By: - Jun 06th, 2012Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning regional theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, is proud to present the world premiere of Dr. Ruth, All The Way by Mark St. Germain, directed by Julianne Boyd.Starring stage, film and television actress Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show), Dr. Ruth, All the Way will now run from June 19 through July 21 at St. Germain Stage(formerly Stage 2) at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield. Opening Night is Saturday, June 30 at 8pm.
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Pool (no water) at 9th Space
Mark Ravenhill Returns To New York City
By: - May 30th, 2012One thing you can definitely say about the eye and ear catching titles of British playwright Mark Ravenhill’s plays, like the language his characters speak, is that they are lean, mean, and always to the point. And sometimes, like his London hit play Shopping and Fucking (1996) which the New York Times reviewed under the title Shopping and ****ing when it opened at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1998, unprintable.
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Private Lives Sparkles At Huntington Theatre
Noel Coward's Couples Behaving Badly Still Cleverly Resonates
By: - May 30th, 2012Witty and wonderful, a comedy of bad manners, Private Lives tells the story of divorcés Amanda and Elyot who meet again by accident on their second honeymoons with their ill-suited new spouses. The two discover how quickly passionate confrontational romance can be rekindled in Noël Coward’s elegantly stylish comedy about the people who can’t be lived with or without. A period piece (1930) that seems to be somehow of our time as well. It is a wonderful do not miss theatrical treat to begin the Summer.
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Mr Finn's Cabaret Opens May 25 & 26
New Venture for Barrington Stage Company
By: - May 19th, 2012Barrington Stage Company announces the first season of performances at the brand-new 49-seat Mr. Finn’s Cabaret, located on the lower level of the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center (formerly Stage 2), 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield.
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Emerging America Festival Line-Up June 21-24
Presented by ICA, A.R.T and Huntington Theatre
By: - May 18th, 2012The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announce additional events and offerings as part of the third Emerging America— an annual festival featuring groundbreaking performance by American artists June 21 to 24.
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Casandra Speaks at Shakespeare & Company
Norman Plotkin World Premiere
By: - May 16th, 2012Artistic Director Tony Simotes and Shakespeare & Company are pleased to present the world premiere of Cassandra Speaks by Norman Plotkin. In a tour de force performance, the versatile Tod Randolph takes on the role of Dorothy Thompson.
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Avenue Q Provocative At Lyric Stage Company
Puppets And People Interact To Show Growing Up Ain't So Easy
By: - May 14th, 2012Based more than a bit on Sesame Street, Avenue Q is a fun and funny adult musical that tells the story of a recent college grad Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way down on gritty Avenue Q. Looking for his purpose in life, through a variety of characters, clever songs, jokes and situations, he eventually discovers it. The show contains bad language, puppet nudity and felt creature sex. This is not for the little ones, but teenagers will think that it is cool. It is selling out fast.
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2012 Drama Desk Awards
The Best of Broadway
By: - May 13th, 2012There is some overlap between the nominees for the Tony Awards and the list for the Drama Desk Awards. Bernadette Peters was passed over for Follies but appears here. Nina Ariadna a front runner for her role in Venus in Fur is snubbed. Chinglish, ignored by the Tonys is listed. During awards season it is interesting to compare and contrast.
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