Theatre
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012
Oscar Wilde in Witness Protection
By: - Feb 28th, 2012Yes, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as announced today, will open its season on the Main Stage with a perennially witty The Importance of Being Earnest. But no, this comedy will not play on the current mania for all things Downton Abbey. Rather, think Sopranos. Seems some Joisey boys are on the lam in the Berkshires. It will run head to head with Blythe Danner in a new work in the smaller Nikos Stage. The fun begins on June 26.
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Dennis Lehane's Coronado in Denver
Mysterious Heartbreaks, Murder and Mayhem Lehane Style
By: - Feb 27th, 2012Dennis Lehane is a well-known Massachusetts novelist whose books are often made into movies like Mystic River. This is his first play and is based on several short stories. At the Firehouse Theater in Denver the play received its regional premier.
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Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Germinal
Remembering the Days Before Stonewall
By: - Feb 25th, 2012Gary Oldman, nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, once played Joe Orton in the great film, Prick up Your Ears. Orton's partner and murderer had suggested the title for a film Orton was writing for the Beatles, but Orton thought the title too good. No question when you hear Orton done well, as it is in Denver, you prick up your ears.
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Barrington Stage Has Its Game Face On
Musical Nominated for Five IRNE Awards
By: - Feb 24th, 2012Barrington Stage Company announces that it has received 5 Award Nominations by the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) for last summer’s production of the musical The Game.
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Kelli O'Hara Headed to Williamstown This Summer
To Star in a New Musical Far From Heaven
By: - Feb 24th, 2012Three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will star in the previously announced musical adaptation of the 2002 film Far From Heaven at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directed by Michael Grief and featuring a score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and book by Richard Greenberg, the show will run at the summer theater’s Main Stage from July 19 through 29.
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Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross in Colorado
The Edge Theater Presents a Daring Take
By: - Feb 21st, 2012Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet's best known play. To make it fresh for audiences who know the dialogue by heart and who often hear it daily in the office where it has become young business people's way of talking, is not easy. Rick Yaconis and his young company succeed, of course, with a little help from the great playwright.
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Barrington’s 10x10 is a Ten
A Winter Buffet of Theatre in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 20th, 2012With an intermission in between the program of ten, ten minute plays at Barrington Stage, for the most part, went by in a blur. It also entailed absorbing tons of information during a compressed and intense experience. It may have been like the mini bar in a hotel. If you knock back all those nips it adds up to an intoxicating orgy of theatre,
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Time Stands Still At Lyric Stage Company
Couple Wrestles With Relationships And Events
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Hailed as one of the best new plays on Broadway, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah, a photojournalist, and James, a foreign correspondent, who are picking up the pieces of their lives after a recent brush with death while fighting with their own individual humanity. With excellent acting, this production looks at intense lives in our contemporary turbulent time.
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Nottage's Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Denver: An Early Play Rings True Today
By: - Feb 19th, 2012Theater is alive and well across the country. Perhaps because people simply are not satisfied by looking at canned images all day and communicating with others in tweets and Facebook postings, legitimate theater is thriving. In nooks and crannies surrounding the Denver Arts Performing Center, small companies with special missions are filling their houses.
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Theatre Critic Peter Bergman Part Three
Covering the Berkshires and Beyond
By: - Feb 17th, 2012What I do consistently look for, and I think I said this earlier, is what each member of the company brings to the stage, and that goes for designers, actors, directors, musicians, choreographers and anyone else credited with anything for the production. I want to see the best in them and from them always. When I don't, I say so.
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Panoramic Wild Swans At American Rep Theatre
Visually Spectacular But Problematic Drama
By: - Feb 17th, 2012Based upon Jung Chang's 20th Century family memoir, A.R.T.'s presentation of Wild Swans is visually stunning but dramatically flat. The drama follows three generations of a family of strong-willed women facing the political and social problems of the Chinese Communist regime the late 1940s through the exploding urbanization after Mao's death. Needing polishing and a better ending, this drama has theatricality and epic proportions that can be built upon.
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Woyseck at Space on White in New York
Georg Buchner's Unfinished Masterpiece is Great Theater
By: - Feb 14th, 2012Buchner died at 25 but left behind an enduring legacy. Woyseck is more familiar as Alban Berg's opera, but the play is dynamite, particularly as presented by a small, young New York Company, Stasz/Pruitt.
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Moliere’s Learned Ladies at Shakespeare & Company
Hilarious Production Through March 25
By: - Feb 13th, 2012Shakespeare & Company has provided the best cure for the winter blues with a scrumptious, witty, madcap production of Moliere's Learned Ladies. Deftly directed by Tina Packer assisted by Jenna Ware they have evoked comic brilliance from a compelling cast of awesomely gifted actors. The production continues through March 25.
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Barrington Switches Arthur Miller Plays
All My Sons Replaces The Price
By: - Feb 13th, 2012Barrington Stage Company, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, has had to make a change to its 2012 Mainstage season. The previously announced production of Arthur Miller’s “The Price†has been dropped from the season. A Broadway revival is planned of the 1968 Tony-winning drama. In its place is Miller’s Tony winning “All My Sons":
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Enron at the TimeLine in Chicago To April 15
Lucy Prebble's London Hit Sizzles in the Windy City
By: - Feb 12th, 2012The sub-prime mortgage crisis was created just like Enron itself. Figuring out how to create financial instruments from 'air', by simply promoting them. A few make a ton of money. Most people suffer. This lively production in Chicago makes you wonder if we can stop the trend.
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WAM Theatre Announces 2012 Season
24hr Project, WordxWord Festival, The Old Mezzo
By: - Feb 09th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project, co-produced with MOPCO, will take place on April 13 + 14 at Shakespeare and Company in the Bernstein Theatre complex with a public performance taking place at 8pm on Saturday, April 14.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival at the Clark Feb. 27
Reading of Moliere's The Misanthrope
By: - Feb 01st, 2012Williamstown Theatre Festival announced today a reading of Richard Wilbur’s translation of Moliere’s classic French comedy The Misanthrope, to be held at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA on Monday, February 27th at 7:00 PM. Proceeds from the event will go to Higher Ground, a new organization formed in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene to address affordable housing and disaster relief issues in the Northern Berkshires.
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Annette Miller Nominated for Carbonell Award
16-Year Veteran of Shakespeare & Company
By: - Jan 31st, 2012Annette Miller was recently nominated for a prestigious Carbonell Award, which recognizes excellence in South Florida Theatre. Miller was nominated for her role as Violet Weston in the Actors’ Playhouse production of August: Osage County , the critically-acclaimed play by Tracy Letts, which was the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies
Boston's Lyric Stage February 17 to March 17
By: - Jan 30th, 2012Widely hailed as one of the best new Broadway plays, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, who are reeling after a recent brush with death while on an assignment. Will their relationship of nearly a decade be more threatened by a traditional go at domesticity than the roadside bombs of Baghdad?
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Julianne Boyd of Barrington Stage Company
Bringing Year Round Theatre and Programming To Pittsfield
By: - Jan 28th, 2012During a luncheon meeting with the media Julianne Boyd, the artistic director of Barrington Stage Company, went beyond just highlighting the coming season of productions. She conveyed the year round commitment and involvement with the Pittsfield community. It helps us to understand how in its fifteen years BSC has grown into one the nation's foremost theartical and educational organizations.
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Mark St.Germain to Premiere Dr. Ruth
A New Works Initiative for Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jan 27th, 2012The playwright Mark St.Germain has a long relationship with Julianne Boyd and BSC. He is a board member and artistic associate. Now he is the first recipient of a New Work initiative and program which, this season, will see the world premiere of Dr. Ruth.
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Barrington Stage Company Announces 2012 Season
Fiddler, Arthur Miller, Mark St. Germain Headline
By: - Jan 26th, 2012It would be difficult to match the success of the 2011 season of Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. The company set records with its productions of Guys and Doll and a riveting new work by Mark. St. Germain, Best of Enemies. But in a press conference Julianne Boyd, artistic director of BSC, stated that she doesn't want to repeat herself. Opening with a musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Arthur Miller and a farce directed by John Rando, however, looks sure to run the table on the Main Stage. With St. Germain's new Dr. Ruth among the tricks up her sleeve for Stage 2.
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Huntington Theatre To Present Our Town
December Production by David Cromer
By: - Jan 26th, 2012Huntington Theatre Company announces that its 2012-2013 Season will include MacArthur “Genius†David Cromer’s groundbreaking new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic Our Town December 7, 2012 – January 13, 2013. Cromer will direct and play the Stage Manager, a role he previously performed in Chicago and Off Broadway productions.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Springs Leaks
WTF Veteran Blythe Danner to Return This Summer
By: - Jan 19th, 2012My foxy colleague Larry Murray of Berkshire On Stage caught us napping. He scoops the return of Blythe Danner to Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Jenny Gersten Previews WTF Season
More to Follow
By: - Jan 19th, 2012A Preview Production of Far From Heaven, a new musical with a book by Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out), an original score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens) and directed by Michael Greif (Rent; WTF’s Three Sisters), will play the Main Stage from July 19 – 29, 2012; the World Premiere of Lucy Boyle’s new play The Blue Deep will play the Nikos Stage from July 11 – July 22, 2012, directed by Drama Desk Award-winner Bob Balaban (Gosford Park; WTF’s “Fridays@3â€) and featuring Tony Award-winner (and Williamstown veteran) Blythe Danner (“Meet the Parentsâ€; WTF’s The Seagull).
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