Theatre
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Sondheim’s Follies on Broadway until January 22
Bernadette Peters and Phyllis Rogers Stone Star in Revival
By: - Oct 25th, 2011From 1971 Follies by Stephen Sondheim with a book by James Goldman is having a successful Broadway revival through January 22, 2012. It has been praised as an American masterpiece. As always Sondheim is demanding and rewarding for attentive audiences.
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Frank Langella Roars in Man and Boy
Revival of Terence Rattigan's 1960s Drama
By: - Oct 18th, 2011In the centennial of his birth there is a revival of interest in the plays of the formerly celebrated Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977). Because of an uncanny resemblance to the downfall of Bernard Madoff an unsuccessful play from 1963 Man and Boy is being restaged as a vehicle for another rip roaring, scorching performance by a larger than life Frank Langella.
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The Mountaintop Topples Martin Luther King
Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett Flirt on Broadway
By: - Oct 15th, 2011Veteran screen actor Samuel J. Jackson is making his Broadway debut as Dr. Martin Luther King in Katori Hall's play The Mountaintop. Jackson has been paired with Hollywood star Angela Bassett. The much anticipated show is well received and appreciated by audiences but has received mixed to negative reviews. Jackson is pitch perfect as Dr. King but Bassett as the maid/ mystery woman is all over the map.
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Playwright Katori Hall Dreams about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capturing the Man As He Was is a Tough Climb
By: - Oct 15th, 2011The surviving members of the King family have made it very difficult to portray Martin Luther King, Jr. as a human. In her play, King says that to fear is to be human. Hall richly portrays King's fears.
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Venus in Fur Finally Reaches Broadway
Nina Ariadna's Rocket Ascent to Marquee Star
By: - Oct 15th, 2011It took some time but a sure hit has finally may its way from rave reviews off Broadway to the Great White Way. Nina Arianda was a graduate student when she first appeared in Venus in Fur. What came between was a Tony nominated role in Born Yesterday. Now her name is in lights.
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Sulayman al-Bassam's The Speaker’s Progress
The Arab Spring Movements at ArtsEmerson Paramount Theatre
By: - Oct 14th, 2011Shakespeare's Twelfth Night adaptation to Arabic, the Speaker's Progress is a 90-minute theatrical performance where direction & acting are laboratories in a state of change & transformation, full of ambiguities & great fluidity. It is a prophetic text preceding the Arab Spring Movements.
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Best of Enemies Returns Through October 16
Riveting Drama at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 09th, 2011By the end of this second run the riveting new drama The Best of Enemies by Mark St. Germain will have sold some 10,000 tickets which is an all time high for a drama presented by Barrington Stage Company. Critics are unanimous that this was the best new play of the Berkshire season. Don't miss out on this too brief second chance.
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Benito Cereno Presented by the Horizon Theater Rep
Woodie King, Jr. Directs
By: - Oct 09th, 2011Woodie King, Jr. directs this marvelous Robert Lowell play at the Flea Theater in New York. King is one of America's great directors and this production is just the latest of wonderful theatrical evenings he has put on.
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War of the Worlds
Shakespeare & Company to Nov. 6
By: - Oct 08th, 2011The bad boy genius Orson Welles scared the crap out of Americans who tuned in late to his Mercury Theatre radio broadcast based on War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. In a play within a play, or broadcast within a broadcast, Shakespeare & Comnpany is re staging that legendary hoax as a spoofy comedic romp.
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Candide Highest Grossing Huntington Musical
Great Production Succeeds Brilliantly At Box Office
By: - Oct 07th, 2011Great box office returns underscore the quality and appeal of the Mary Zimmerman production of Candide at the Huntington Theatre Company. The record for a musical has garnered over $1.5 million dollars. Candide has left audiences amused, entertained and thoughtfully stimulated. Only 12 more performances left.
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Next Fall At SpeakEasy Stage Company
A Gay Relationship Wrestling With Faith and Disbelief
By: - Oct 02nd, 2011Tony Award nominee (2010) Next Fall is a relationship play about a mismatched gay couple. They are conflicted by one's conservative Christianity and the other's cynical disbelief. The drama considers fundamentalist faith versus atheism, and what constitutes love and sin in a contemporary tough world. Perhaps compelling to a gay audience, the play attempts to portray a universal authenticity. Unfortunately, it does not make the case.
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Confessions of a Serial Killer Stars John Malkovich
The Infernal Comedy at ArtsEmerson
By: - Sep 29th, 2011A two night stand is not enough to savor John Malkovich's cleverly diabolical malevolent portrayal of serial killer Jack Unterweger. Based on a true story of the Austrian killer who went on to be a literary celebrity with the publication of his autobiography, Purgatory. This is a theatrical hybrid of parts dramatic chiller, dark humor and orchestral concert. This is a strangely brilliant production. John Malkovich is well, John Malkovich--enough said.
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Eagle Hill Launches Fourth Season
Interview with Director Sean Hunley
By: - Sep 28th, 2011A sit down chat with Eagle Hill's Cultural Center director to discuss the path traveled and the road ahead.
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Laurie Anderson Premieres Delusion
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage
By: - Sep 28th, 2011At Empire's End, Laurie Anderson plays her electric violin amid ghost ships and elves. A virtual collage of beauty and hope, Anderson asks how do we begin, again?
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Brilliant Candide At Huntington Theatre Company
30th Anniversary Begins With Theatrical Electricity
By: - Sep 22nd, 2011Inaugurating its 30th anniversary season, Voltaire's satirical picaresque story with Leonard Bernstein's music has been beautifully presented by the Huntington Theatre Company. This is a full blown show of exquisite pageantry with magnificent singing, musical score, humor, staging and choreography. A true theatrical spectacle, this presentation is a don't miss event.
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Elizabeth Hess in Dust to Dust
Stage Left Studio New York
By: - Sep 21st, 2011Elizabeth Hess first came to the attention of the New York theatre world in the mid-eighties for her portrayal of actress Frances Farmer, in Sebastian Stuart’s incendiary play, The Frances Farmer Story. While the critics panned the play, and the fire department mysteriously closed it – at the time it was rumored to politically be too hot to handle – Hess’s “brave and powerful performance†was singled out by critic Clive Barnes as the evening’s saving grace.
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Big River Runs Through Boston’s Lyric Stage
Going with the Flow of an American Odyssey
By: - Sep 17th, 2011The Lyric Stage Company of Boston opens its season, September 2 through October 8, with a lively and ambitious production of the musical Big River; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, based on the novel by Mark Twain with music and lyrics by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. On Broadway the musical won seven Tony Awards and ran for 1,005 performances.
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The Mettawee Theater Company at St. John the Divine
Ralph's Lee's Puppet and Mask Designs Star
By: - Sep 12th, 2011Songs of the Ainu aborigines of northern Japan were sung, danced, and acted in the Bishop‘s garden of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The polytheist Ainu worshiped Gods by facing east. The Cathedral faces west, but the corner into which the garden is tucked welcomes all forms of worship, and particularly the worshipful appreciation of nature and its treasures.
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The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at ART
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis Sizzle
By: - Sep 02nd, 2011With three women in charge, artistic director, Diane Paulus, playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks and music director/ composer Diedre L. Murry this ART production of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess at American Repertory Theatre is more about Bess than Porgy. Audra McDonald stars in this revision of an American classic by and for women. Norm Lewis, however, more than holds his own as Porgy and Phillip Boykin as Crown must be seen and heard to be believed. Incredible. This Cambridge smash hit will swarm over Broadway for the Holidays.
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Asher Lev at Barrington Stage Company
A Hasidic Jewish Artist Violates the Second Commandment
By: - Aug 24th, 2011Since the premiere of the play Asher Lev by Adam Posner, in 2009, based on the 1971 novel by Chaim Potok , there have been some 50 regional productions. The playwright is directing the emotionally vibrant work which is drawing capacity audiences and has been extended to September 11 at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield.
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Shakespeare & Company Event September 5
17th Annual Studio Festival of Plays
By: - Aug 23rd, 2011Shakespeare & Company’s Artistic Director Tony Simotes announces the titles for its 17th annual Studio Festival of Plays—a mini-marathon of plays never before performed at the Company, running one-day only on Monday, September 5th in Founders’ Theatre. Staged readings begin at 11:00 AM, and continue through to 11:00PM. Company actors and special guest actors will present seven productions throughout the day, in the form of works-in-progress and staged readings.
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Fisching from the Curbstone
Heather Fisch at the Mahaiwe
By: - Aug 22nd, 2011Berkshire performer Heather Fisch mounted her first one-woman show at the Mahaiwe on Thursday August 18th, securing her place as one of the most interesting performers in the Berkshires. She is the moon, the sun, five kinds of woman and a fox in her one woman show.
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Miners Alley Playhouse Presents a Touch of Spring
Glowing in Golden, Colorado
By: - Aug 19th, 2011Sometimes it's a big relief to sit back and laugh at a witty production of a play that's almost pure confection, with just a dash of serious thought. Taylor, who made his name as the creator of Sabrina, provides just such an evening at the Miners Alley Playhouse.
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You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce
The Civilians in Residence at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 19th, 2011The Civilians is a multi media group based in Brooklyn. They have a unique working process identifying a topic and then undertaking research through recorded and transcribed interviews. For this all too brief and riveting performance at Williamstown Theatre Festival they explored divorce. Surprisingly, it provided a provocative and entertaining evening of theatre. Including encountering the Mom who inspired the play as a neighbor in the audience. It was intriguing to chat with her before and after the performance. Blurring, yet again, the boundary between life and art.
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Hound of the Baskervilles
Shakespeare & Co. To September 4
By: - Aug 19th, 2011The company's Artistic Director, Tony Simotes directs a smartly paced, goofily funny take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous sleuth and his not-so-brilliant sidekick in this stand out offering at Shakespeare & Company.
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