Theatre
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F. Murray Abraham as Shylock at ArtsEmerson
Panel on Jews in Shakespeare includes Tina Packer
By: - Jan 11th, 2011A discussion of Jewish characters in Shakespeare's plays will be presented by ArtsEmerson on January 26. Moderated by scholar, playwright, and A.R.T. Founding Artistic Director Robert Brustein, the panelists will include renowned screen and stage actor F. Murray Abraham, Theatre for a New Audience Artistic Director Jeffrey Horowitz, and Shakespeare & Company Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer.
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Harold Bloom Talks With Brian Kulick
Feb. 7th Benefit for NY's Classic Stage
By: - Jan 11th, 2011On Monday, February 7th at 7pm, Harold Bloom, America's leading literary critic and author of the best-seller "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human," will join Classic Stage Company's Artistic Director Brian Kulick in a rare public appearance.
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Winter at the Mahaiwe
Programming for Great Barrington
By: - Jan 08th, 2011President's Day Weekend at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will feature master hip-hop dance company Rennie Harris Puremovement (February 18) and Symphony Space's political cabaret The Thalia Follies: Divided We Stumble (February 20). Other first quarter events include juggling comedians Flying Karamazov Brothers (March 5) and numerous Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD and London's National Theatre Live (NT Live) broadcasts, as well as screenings of classic movies.
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Timeline Theater Company of the Year
Wall Street Journal Selects Chicago Theatre
By: - Jan 08th, 2011We have seen O'Neill, Beckett, Mamet, the Brother/Sister plays, and Albee in Chicago this year. We agree with others who find that Chicago has beaten out Broadway as Theater Central USA.
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Colonial Theatre Rehires Simon Shaw
To Resume Programming Pittsfield Venue
By: - Jan 07th, 2011The Colonial Theatre has a full slate of performances scheduled through May, all of which will continue as originally scheduled. While Mr. Shaw may add on to the existing calendar, his primary focus is on the 2011–2012 season which will begin in June.
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Ma-Yi Theatre Company Writers Lab
Michael Lew and Rehana Mirza Co Directors
By: - Dec 30th, 2010Playwrights Michael Lew (MICROCRISIS, STOCKTON) and Rehana Mirza (BARRIERS, THE GOOD MUSLIM) take the helm as co-directors of New York's Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Writers Lab. Additionally, the six year-old Ma-Yi Writers Lab welcomes five new playwrights into the Lab: affectionately known as “labbies†they are Samantha Chanse, Mia Chung, Edgar Mendoza, Don Nguyen and Susan Soon He Stanton.
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Vineyard Theatre's New Shows
Interviewing the Audience Opens Off Broadway Feb. 10
By: - Dec 30th, 2010Starting February 3 with an opening night set for February 10, the playwright and filmmaker Zach Helm -- author of the play Good Canary directed by John Malkovich, and the films "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" which he also directed, and "Stranger than Fiction" -- will perform his new piece Interviewing theAudience at The Vineyard.
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Virginia Woolf at Chicago's Steppenwolf
Tracy Letts and Amy Morton Star To Feb 13
By: - Dec 27th, 2010Put away the nightmare of Taylor and Burton in the Virginia Woolf movie. Dysfunction is not the adjective that comes to mind in the new Chicago production. Instead we are focused on the role of illusion in relationships and encouraged to put aside O'Neill's argument for its necessary role. A rollicking production that celebrates language and keeps the audience laughing at the wit and war that is marriage.
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Arts Events for a New Year
January's Boston Highlights
By: - Dec 26th, 2010Now that we have slogged through the Holidays there is a lot of new theatre and music to enjoy. This month Huntington Theatre opens Ruined. Over in Cambridge ART focuses on visionary architect R. Buckminster Fuller. Emerson has a range of events at its Majestic and Paramount theatres. We have tips and links for information and tickets.
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Billy Elliot the Musical
Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
By: - Dec 23rd, 2010Once hard to get there are now discount tickets available for the multiple Tony award winning Billie Elliot. We took advantage of the offer for a truly wonderful Broadway Holiday treat. With the music of Sir Elton John and book by Lee Hall this is a thrilling musical adventure.
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The Music Man Struts Into the Colonial
Toots in Pittsfield January 22
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010With a matinee and evening performance The Music Man will be presented at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on January 22. The Pittsfield High School Marching Band and the Taconic High School Marching Band will join the cast of The Music Man during a scene that includes the iconic song “76 Trombones.â€
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NY's Vineyard Theatre to Honor Susan Stroman
Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane to MC
By: - Dec 22nd, 2010The Tony Award-winning stars Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will serve as Masters of Ceremonies when the Vineyard Theatre honors the five-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman at the company’s annual gala to benefit the non-profit theatre company on Monday, February 28 at 6:00pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 W. 44 St.) in Manhattan, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director of the Vineyard Theatre.
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Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Bloody Awful
By: - Dec 20th, 2010An Off Broadway hit for Public Theatre in October Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson opened on Broadway to mostly rave reviews. Especially for hunky and charismatic, pistol packing, leading man Benjamin Walker. What many critics found fresh, innovative and irreverent proved to be loud, racist and obnoxious. This underground hit may have been edgy Off Broadway but doesn't hold up to the scrutiny of prime time.
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La Bete Fabulous but Closing Jan. 9
Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway in Jerusalem
By: - Dec 20th, 2010Unfortunately, the best Broadway play of the 2010 season is closing soon on January 9. This is your last chance to see the smashingly outrageous performance of one of the greatest actors of our time. Mark Rylance is just astonishing as the vulgar, self absorbed playwright Valere. David Hyde Pierce is delicious as his rival Elomire. After a break Rylance will return to Broadway in April in Jerusalem for which he won the Olivier award in London.
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Woody Guthrie's American Music
An Arizona State Theatre Production
By: - Dec 19th, 2010Randal Mylers deft handling of Peter Glazer's unvarnished script and solid performances by an all veteran Broadway cast make for a satisfying and nostalgia evoking evening
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Shakespeare & Company Opens May 27
Complete Season Schedule
By: - Dec 17th, 2010Tony Simotes, the artistic director of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, announces and comments on the program for the 2011-2012 season. A highlight that opens the season is the series Women of Will with Tina Packer and Nigel Gore. The epic project will be presented in five segments covering the entire arc of the works of Shakespeare.
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Rebecca Northan Hilarious in Blind Date
At Ars Nova, New York, to Dec. 20
By: - Dec 16th, 2010The trope of the hilarious improvisation of Blind Date, conceived and starring the Canadian, Rebecca Northan, as Mimi, the Parisian coquette with a clown's nose, is that her co star is randomly chosen from the audience. With remarkable wit and skill the gag is sustained as a ninety minute, one act play. It proves to be a side splitting adventure.
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Barrington Stage 2011 Program
Two Musicals Guys and Dolls and The Game
By: - Dec 16th, 2010The Barrington Stage season will be launched on June 21 in Pittsfield with Guys and Dolls. There will be another Main Stage musical the period piece The Game. Barrington is the first Berkshire theatre company to announce its plans for the coming season.
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Driving Miss Daisy Extended to April 29
James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave
By: - Dec 16th, 2010One of the few hits of a troubled season on Broadway has been Driving Miss Daisy. Audiences are delighted to see two icons of theatre, James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave. But the revival of the 1989 film classic with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy proves to sentimental and terribly dated. Great performances are squandered in a mediocre, popular play.
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NYU Skirball Performing Arts Center: Hamlet
The National Theater Live in HD
By: - Dec 14th, 2010People still yearn to sit in a darkened theater with an audience -- to laugh and cry and applaud together. The marvels of technology now bring premier events from the world over to our backyards. The ticket prices are reasonable and the productions first rate.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert Broadway Bound
Toronto's Princess of Wales Theatre to Jan. 2
By: - Dec 12th, 2010Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, currently wowing audiences at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto before it moves to Broadway this spring, is a grand and gloriously eye-popping musical extravaganza with more than a dollop of sentimentality. It is also just about the gayest theatrical production cum Las Vegas nightclub act to tread the boards of mainstream theatredom. It makes La Cage aux Folles seem like a Episcopalian wake.
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TimeLine Theater Company of Chicago Bubbles
Mastering the Art of...Everything with Bravado
By: - Dec 12th, 2010Dotting the Chicago theaterscape are a myriad of small theater companies who follow the model of the famous Goodman and Steppenwolf, developing an ensemble group, working together to provide a deep base for production and performance. One of these, TimeLine, focuses on history. They have mounted the world premier of the first play they've commissioned and given a full production. To Master the Art is brilliant.
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Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy
Boston's Lyric Stage Jan. 1 to 29
By: - Nov 29th, 2010Theresa Rebeck's comedy The Understudy will be performed at Boston's Lyric Stage from January 1 to 29. The play stars Kelby. T. Aken, Laura Latreille and Christopher James Webb, and is directed by Larry Coen. It entails a screwed up attempt to stage a text by Kafka.
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Durang/Durang by Bad Habits
Cambridge Comedy Dec. 2 to 12
By: - Nov 28th, 2010Bad Habit Productions presents an evening of Christopher Durang comedies in the hilarious theatrical mash-up DURANG/DURANG December 2 through 12. Performances will take place at the Durell Theatre, located at the Cambridge YMCA at 820 Massachusetts Avenue on Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm.
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Blind Date in U.S. Premiere Off Broadway
At Ars Nova Dec.2 to 20
By: - Nov 25th, 2010Direct from a critically-acclaimed, sold-out engagement in Toronto comes the new comedy BLIND DATE with its U.S. premiere Off-Broadway. Previews beginning December 2. At the Ars Nova building (511 West 54 Street) Created by and starring Rebecca Northan, BLIND DATE is presented by Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum.
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