Theatre
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American Repertory Theatre
2011/ 2012 Season
By: - Apr 25th, 2011There will be something old and something new, times two, in the 2011/ 2012 season of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. Artistic Director Diane Paulus remarked: "Our 2011/12 Season features projects that combine music and storytelling to explore our collective heritage and unique histories. The year will include musical theater inspired by Americana, jazz, folk, and indie-rock, as well as plays with humor and grand expressions of humanity. This will be a season of extraordinary tales, glorious music, creative invention, and community created through shared experience."
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Nottage's Ruined at the Denver Arts Center
A Brilliant Production Features Kim Staunton
By: - Apr 24th, 2011Nottage does not preach or offer easy answers in her 'witness' play about the ferocious abuse of women while wars over the precious minerals of the Congo are waged. "Ruined" is stunning theater driven by passion. More of our coverage of theatre in Denver.
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Shakespeare & Company Birthday Bash
Saturday April 23 Bard Turns 447
By: - Apr 18th, 2011On Saturday, April 23 William Shakespeare turns 447. Shakespeare & Company in Lenox is planning a birthday bash. The fun begins at 1 pm with a performance of Hamlet at 7 pm. There will be cake and a toast following the evening performance. That's a lot of family fun with special ticket prices.
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Premiere of Sons of the Prophet At Calderwood
Too Much Story With Too Little Plot Resolution
By: - Apr 17th, 2011With clever quips and interesting ideas, playwright Steven Karam's new play has a talented cast and high production values. Unfortunately it is an overly complicated story that seems to along with its various threads unravel at the end. Dealing with among other things-- hyphenated Americans, gay sons, deteriorating old age, cult of sport and crazy middle age women, Karam has created a play with individual parts greater than the sum of its whole. Too bad.
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Zero Hour Opens at Barrington Stage May 18
Jim Brochu Channels Zero Mostel
By: - Apr 15th, 2011Barrington Stage Company presents Zero Hour Jim Brochu’s acclaimed play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel. Zero Hour kicks off the season from May 18 through June 5, 2011 at BSC Stage 2, 36 Linden Street, Pittsfield, MA. | .
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Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellowships
Applications Accepted Through May 18
By: - Apr 15th, 2011Huntington Theatre Company is now accepting applications for the 2011-2013 cohort of Huntington Playwriting Fellows (HPFs). Huntington Playwriting Fellows have a home at the Huntington with two-year residencies.
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Snow White at the Mount
Co Produced with the Colonial and Berkshire Theatre Festival
By: - Apr 15th, 2011This summer, in partnership with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Colonial Theatre, The Mount--the historic estate of Edith Wharton--is introducing family friendly outdoor theatre. Nightly performances of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will run from July 20 through July 30.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Flip Flop
Season Opener a Switcheroo
By: - Apr 13th, 2011A Broadway bound production of You Can't Take It With You was initially announced to open the first season with Jenny Gersten as artistic director of the renowned Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recently WTF revealed Plan B. Now it appears that Robin Baitz’s two-person drama Three Hotels will be the leadoff. That is a cast and production cost reduction from 15 actors to two. We link to Larry Murry who has the full story for Berkshire On Stage.
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Robin Williams Roars on Broadway
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo By Ragiv Joseph
By: - Mar 31st, 2011Better late than never, amazingly, Robin Williams is starring in his first Broadway play. With droll irony he is purring and pawing his way through Ragiv Joseph's acclaimed Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Williams on stage, bantering with the audience as the ghost of a slaughtered tiger is just sublime. But that proves to be only about a third of the play which lags when he is not around.
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Frances McDormand in Good People
Southie Shines on Broadway
By: - Mar 30th, 2011After enduring the tough winter months there were signs of life on Broadway. There were droves of tourists on line for half price tickets in Times Square. Mostly tourists want those splashy musicals. But you jump the queue for a drama. There were no deals, however, for the mostly sold out run of Good People. We paid full freight for a lousy seat at the back of the house. But it was worth every penny to enjoy a fabulous performance by Frances McDormand.
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TFANA’s Grisaille Macbeth
Arin Arbus Directs John Douglas Thompson and Annika Boras
By: - Mar 29th, 2011Under the skillful direction, Arin Arbus, Theatre for a New Audience is presenting a version of Macbeth notable for its naturalism, clarity, passion and compelling humanity. A superb cast is electrified by the galvanic, sexually charged performances of John Douglas Thompson and his leading Lady Macbeth, Annika Boras. This is a compelling new paradigm for the perennial Scottish Play. Prepare to be amazed.
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Peter Brook's Beckett At ArtsEmerson
Master Director of the Intense Minimal at The Paramount
By: - Mar 23rd, 2011A rare event is taking place at ArtsEmerson's Paramount Theatre. Their World on Stage is currently presenting legendary theatre director Peter Brook in his first work in Boston in 40 years. The first program is by Samuel Beckett. Called Fragments, it is a group of four short pieces. The other is The Grand Inquisitor (based upon the Brothers Karamazov). Brook is known for his unique spare interpretation of theatre. He is a minimalist who conjures up great intensity both intellectual and visceral.
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God of Carnage at Chicago's Goodman
A Perfect Production of Yasmina Reza's Play
By: - Mar 22nd, 2011Things get so violent on stage during this superb production that you wonder if the actors will show up for the next performance. The show has been extended through April 17, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, but demand is understandably high for this wonderful production.
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Ethan Frome at the Lookingglass Theater Chicago
The Berkshires Travel West
By: - Mar 21st, 2011The newspaper is called The Eagle and the town names sound like Stockbridge, Pittsfield and Lee. Edith Wharton set her only story about poor people in the Berkshires. That she so well understood their world is one of the miracles of Ethan Frome. At the :Lookingglass Theater in Chicago through April 17.
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Amy Brenneman at A.R.T.
New Play May 24 to 29
By: - Mar 18th, 2011The American Repertory Theater welcomes actress Amy Brenneman back onto the Loeb Stage, with her autobiographical show Mouth Wide Open, created with longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck.  The limited run is presented May 24 through 29. Soulful, transcendent, laugh-out-loud funny, Amy Brenneman (Private Practice, Judging Amy, Heat) returns to her theatrical roots in this exuberant theater piece drawn from her own life experience that juxtaposes a hunger for the spiritual with the externalized pressures of celebrity
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Educating Rita At Huntington Theatre
Delightful Comedy of Class and Enlightenment
By: - Mar 17th, 2011In Educating Rita, Rita, a brash, young working class hairdresser with a developing free spirit, is hungry to improve her life. When she enrolls at the local free university, she discovers a passion for literature and turns her boozy and burnt-out professor’s life upside down and reinvents herself in this delightful Olivier award-winning comedy. The two person play is a spirited romp of self-discovery explored in language, accent and English literature.
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Lottery for Broadway's Bengal Tiger
Robin Williams Show in Previews
By: - Mar 16th, 201121 orchestra seats for $27 will be available by lottery for every performance of BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.). The show stars comedian Robin Williams.
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I'm Not a Feminist, But....:
WAM Theatre in Pittsfield March 14
By: - Mar 14th, 2011As part of the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, WAM Theatre presents a one-night only showing of the Russell Sage Creative and Performing Arts Production of 'I'm not a Feminist, but....'. This ensemble presentation, written by Russell Sage college women working with director Leigh Strimbeck, looks at the topic of feminism in the lives of young people today using humor, irreverence, dance, song, and serious real-life monologues. The event takes place on Monday March 14, 2011 at 7 p.m.
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Les 7 doigts de la main
Return to ArtsEmeson by Popular demand
By: - Mar 14th, 2011Due to the overwhelming demand generated by their short January visit to Boston, ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage is pleased to announce the return of the French Canadian contemporary circus company Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers) performing PSY (pronounced P.S.Y.) for a two week summer run.
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Mahaiwe Spring Program
Ricky Skaggs to Paul Taylor Dance
By: - Mar 11th, 2011Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington will present an eclectic array of April and May programming, including some of the world's top bluegrass, reggae, stand-up comedy, modern dance, flamenco, opera, theater, and movies.
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Colonial Theatre Updates
Performances Added to 2011 Season
By: - Mar 10th, 2011The Colonial Theatre's live music additions include the underground hip-hop icon Talib Kweli on July 22, Jersey Shore rock legends Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes on August 25, the unique Celtic sounds of the Tartan Terrors on October 21 and the return of the popular community production Romance, Soul & Rock N’ Roll on October 28 and 29. The family programming will begin with the Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats on June 11 and The Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical on December 4.
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Broke-Ology at Lyric Stage
Nathan Louis Jackson Play March 25 – April 23, 2011
By: - Mar 09th, 2011The Nathan Louis Jackson play Broke-Ology will be presented at Boston's Lyric Stage March 25 – April 23, 2011. The play about the issues of an African American family had it premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. That production moved to a successful run off Broadway. Now it is being restaged in Boston.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival's Nikos Stage
Something Old Something New
By: - Mar 07th, 2011The Williamstown Theatre Festival will open on June 22 on the Nikos Stage and close on August 28 on the Main Stage. For her first season as artistic director Jenny Gersten has programmed three Main Stage productions with five on the smaller Nikos Stage. In a new tactic the Nikos Stage will combine perennial favorites A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House with three new plays.
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Anthony Rapp Reads The Skin of Our Teeth
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company March 14
By: - Mar 07th, 2011Commonwealth Shakespeare Company prsents The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder. Anthony Rapp directs this American classic, which won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The free performance is Monday, March 14 at 7pm at the Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts
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John Douglas Thompson in Macbeth
Theatre for a New Audience Production March 20 to April 20
By: - Mar 07th, 2011This week the Theatre for a New Audience production of Macbeth, starring John Douglas Thompson, is in tech rehearsal with the first preview on Saturday, March 12. For this much anticipated production Thompson is again directed by Arin Arbus. Two years ago their Othello earned him an OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards. Annika Boras partners with Thompson as Lady Macbeth in one of the strongest and most compelling roles in the canon.
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