Theatre
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Karen Allen Directs Moonchildren
Michael Weller Play at Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 03rd, 2011Karen Allen who runs Karen Allen Fiber Arts in Great Barrington has been busy in the Berkshires. Recently the film "White Irish Drinkers" which she directed and stars in was screened during The Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF). She has directed the Michael Weller play "Moonchildren" which remains at Berkshire Theatre Festival through July 16. It's a win win for Allen and Berkshire audiences.
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Three Hotels at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Room Service
By: - Jul 01st, 2011Three Hotels by Robin Baitz, which opens the Main Stage season for Williamstown Theatre Festival is a small thing in a really big package. A superb production with magnificent sets has pumped up a slight evening of three monologues by two actors in three acts without intermission. While taking on the mega issues of corporate greed and the genocide of African babies one emerges with ambivalence toward a couple who sold their souls and suffered the consequences.
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Jessica Hecht Discusses Blanche DuBois
Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 30th, 2011In her eighth season with Williamstown Theatre Festival Jessica Hecht has taken on one of the most challenging roles of her career. We discussed a life in theatre as well as an interpretation of Streetcar Named Desire that is based entirely on a careful reading of the script. It is quite different from the audience's perceptions based on the classic film with Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh.
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Jessica Hecht’s Poignant Blanche DuBois
A Streetcar Named Desire at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jun 24th, 2011In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Tennessee Williams's 1947 American classic, Jessica Hecht as Blanche, and Sam Rockwell, as Stanley, offer fresh and very different interpretations than the paradigms for the roles set by Elia Kazan's great 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando. This reinterpretation of an American standard gives an unique twist to the experimental Nikos Stage under new artistic director Jenny Gersten.
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Guys and Dolls Sizzles at Barrington Stage
Red Hot Launch for Main Stage Pittsfield Season
By: - Jun 20th, 2011In 1950, as a little shaver, Mom took me to the original Broadway production of the then five time Tony winning musical Guys and Dolls. Now, decades later, be still dear heart, the production at Barrington Stage evokes a thrilling rush of childhood memories. I was enchanted then and just as ecstatic now. This is the smash hit and sure sell out that launches a fabulous new Berkshire season.
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It's Official Colonial and Berkshire Theatre Festival Merge
Randy Harrison Opens at the Colonial in Tommy
By: - Jun 15th, 2011Nearly seven months after two of Berkshire County’s preeminent producing and performing theaters said that they intended to join forces, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer Kate Maguire announced that both have merged into one organization: Colonial Theatre/Berkshire Theatre Festival Merger Corporation.
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Wiilliamstown Theatre Festival Opens June 22
Streetcar Named Desire Stars Jessica Hecht
By: - Jun 11th, 2011Williamstown Theatre Festival has released the full cast and creative team for Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, which will open the Nikos Stage productions for the 2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) and will run June 22, 2011 through July 3, 2011, opening June 23, 2011 at 7:30pm.
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Tina Packer and Nigel Gore in Women of Will
At Shakespeare & Company Will is the Way
By: - Jun 03rd, 2011Having passed the reins as artistic director of Shakespeare & Company to Tony Simotes, founder Tina Packer is free to focus on her craft. Last season there was a workshop of her life work Women of Will: The Complete Journey. Now the cycle of five acts has been refined and tightened as a cycle of performances in marathon this weekend and then spread out individually over the season. It is an epic achievement that has attracted national and global critical attention.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Unanticipated Challenge
When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
By: - May 31st, 2011This week the Williamstown Theatre Festival will start to build the first of seven sets. There is the opening of Streetcar Named Desire on the Nikos Stage opening on June 22. That's just three weeks from now. With tech rehearsals on June 21 and 22 which means the set has to be installed on the 18th and 19th. That's the norm for WTF. But right now a crew of 15 is frantically building the set shops to build the sets. On February 11 the roof collapsed at the Delftree Mill which housed the former props and set workshops.
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The Importance of Being Earnest at New York's Roundabout
Brian Bedford Directs and Stars Live in HD
By: - May 30th, 2011As fluffy and frolicky as The Importance of Being Earnest is, and for all the laughs and pleasure it delivers, this straight up version of the Wilde play leaves you also wondering what was being contained.
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Front Page at the Timeline In Chicago
Rahm Emanuel Understands the Play Perfectly
By: - May 28th, 2011Tennessee Williams wrote that Front Page took the corset off American theater. The wit and humor of the play is still fresh today in the city of its setting. And elsewhere. A Chicago pol runs our country now. See on stage what President Obama learned at the machine's knee.
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American Repertory Theater
Wins Five 2011 Elliot Norton Awards
By: - May 24th, 2011A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus received Outstanding Director for her productions of Johnny Baseball, Prometheus Bound, and HAIR, which also received the award for Best Visiting Production. Thomas Derrah received the Outstanding Actor award for his performance in the one-man show R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, that ran January 15 through February 5 at the Loeb Drama Center.
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Zero Hour with Jim Brochu Extended to June 10
Boffo Bonanza for Barrington Stage Season Opener
By: - May 22nd, 2011Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield has jump started the Berkshire season with a smash hit. Bravo. On every level Jim Brochu is just immense in the one man show he has written and stars in Zero Hour. For ninety riveting minutes he channels the immense and complex comic genius and notorious SOB the fabulous Zero Mostel. This show is selling out fast on Barrington's intimate Stage Two.
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Charles Lindberg in Ludwig Live
Seven Hills Inn Cabaret in Lenox
By: - May 17th, 2011“Ludwig Live!†is an irreverent song-filled cabaret about composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Produced by Holson Productions, the show stars Charles Lindberg as Beethoven, Katherine Pecevich, and Robin Gerson Wong. It will run June 30 through August 30.
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Brilliant Drowsy Chaperone At Speakeasy
Hilarious Musical Comedy with Incredible Cast
By: - May 14th, 2011A winner of five 2006 Tony Awards, this show is a brilliant combination of mayhem, mix-ups and a gay (in the old sense of the word) wedding. It is a loving embrace of traditional and at times hokey broadway extravagances by a die-hard musical fan who plays his favorite cast album, a 1928 obscure musical "The Drowsy Chaperone." The show seamlessly and magically slips back and forth between the harshness of real life and the fantasy of the theatrical moment. This is a must-see show that is filled with surprises, delight and joy. Did I say that the Speakeasy cast is brilliantly talented? Run and get tickets. It does not get more entertaining than this.
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Tina Packer in Women of Will to July 10
Tina Packer Launches S&Co Season in Lenox
By: - May 12th, 2011Shakespeare & Company presents Women of Will, The Complete Journey: Parts I-V, the masterful summation of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer ’s 40-odd years spent investigating all things Shakespeare, presented in a five-part series. Performances will run from May 27 through July 10
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Provincetown Theatre Company’s Playwrights’ Festival
It Begins With The Words!
By: - May 12th, 2011This weekend the Provincetown Theatre Company lifts the curtain for the Spring version of their semiannual Playwrights’ Festival, now in its 15th year. The festival strives to foster the development of new works by established and emerging playwrights.
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Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Busby Berkeley Meets Las Vegas on Broadway
By: - May 11th, 2011Adapted from the 1994 movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Priscilla has been making the rounds since it first opened in Sydney, Australia in 2006. From there it moved to New Zealand in 2008, and then on to the West End of London in 2009, where it is still playing. The current Priscilla comes direct from Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre.
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The Seagull at Main Street Stage
Hail and Farewell
By: - May 08th, 2011As one expects from community theatre this production of Anton Chekov's "The Seagull" at Main Street Stage in North Adams is rough and uneven. Much of the experience is more endured than enjoyed. But as is appropriate of the genre there were truly stunning and inspired performances by emerging actors. It was thrilling to see the work of young artists destined for stunning careers. After 12 years, for now, Main Street Stage will go dark following this production with some $100,000 to be raised to find its new home.
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Susurrus by David Leddy
ArtsEmerson in Boston Public Garden
By: - May 05th, 2011In Susurrus, which doesn’t happen in a traditional theatre, audiences follow a map around Boston’s Public Garden as they listen to the piece, adapted especially for Boston, on MP3 player and headphones. Headphones and MP3 player are supplied. Running time is 1 hour 20 minutes (though it can be paused). Journeys take place between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
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Tony Nominations
The Best of Broadway.
By: - May 04th, 2011Nominations for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing Best Play
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Drama Desk Award Nominations
Broadway 2010-2011
By: - Apr 29th, 2011The Book of Mormon, a musical, leads with 12 nominations. Followed by the revival Anything Goes with 10 and Merchant of Venice with seven.
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Huntington Theatre Given $10 Million
Largest Donation in Company's History
By: - Apr 28th, 2011The Huntington Theatre Company announced that the company has received an endowment gift of $10 million from the Calderwood Charitable Foundation. It is the largest single gift in Huntington history, instantly doubling the size of the Huntington’s endowment. The gift is among the largest gifts to a theatre company in U.S. history and to any arts organization in Boston.
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Outer Critics Circle
2010-2011 Award Nominations
By: - Apr 26th, 2011It is now awards season for New York Theatre. Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announces its nominees for the 2010-11 season in 23 categories. Sister Act leads with nine nominations followed by eight for Anything Goes. Spider Man which has been in previews for months and is yet to open is conspicuously absent from the nominations.
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Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts in Denver
Bruce K. Sevy Directs Letts' Dark Comedy
By: - Apr 25th, 2011Tracy Letts brilliantly captures the fading world of the donut shop as he welcomes a new employee Uptown. Both almost lose everything as they spar with each other..
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