Theatre
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The Bard Turns 446 April 23
Caesar Cuts the Cake at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Apr 15th, 2010On April 23 Shakespeare & Company will host a birthday bash for William Shakespeare. The Bard will not attend. The evening will commence with a performance of Julius Caesar. A party will follow with cake and music. All for just $15 and $10 for students. What fun.
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Boston's May Theatre Highlights
Some Truly Brilliant Suggestions
By: - Apr 14th, 2010Welcoming our newest correspondent Barbara Brilliant. She will provide us with her selections of monthly theatre in Boston. We are invited to join her in celebrating the 125th season of the Boston Pops.
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Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway
Colonial Theatre on May 1
By: - Apr 12th, 2010Neil Berg�s widely acclaimed 100 Years of Broadway, a musical revue of Broadway�s most celebrated shows features a dazzling cast of five Broadway stars accompanied by an all-star New York band is coming to The Colonial Theatre on May 1st for one performance at 8PM. The Colonial Theatre production, along with musical director and pianist Neil Berg, will feature Rita Harvey (Christine Daee, Phantom of the Opera), Craig Schulman (Jean Valjean, Les Mis�rables), Carter Calvert (Grizabella, CATS), Danny Zolli (Jesus, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Robert DuSold (Harry Bright, Mamma Mia!)
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Colonial Theatre's 2010-2011 Season
Something for Everyone in Pittsfield
By: - Apr 01st, 2010At a members' event and press conference today it took an hour just to read through the list of events from Broadway, Comedy, Cabaret, Rock, Children & Family events planned for the 2009-2010 season of the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. There is something for everyone and more than ever for year round Berkshire entertainment. Cut and paste this complete list of bookings.
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Shakespeare & Company Sets Record
Sold 50,446 Tickets During Its Season
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Shakespeare & Company issued 50,446 tickets this season, surging past its previous record by some three thousand patron visits. (The figure does not include the approximately 800 people who attended S&Co.'s annual July 4th Celebration and Reading of the Declaration of Independence, an un-ticketed event.) The box office revenue totaled $1.13 million, fewer than three thousand dollars short of S&Co.'s record, set during the 2008-2009 season.
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WAM Theatre Presents a WAM Welcome
Barrington Stage Company April 9-11
By: - Mar 24th, 2010Barrington Stage Company, in Pittsfield, Ma. will present A WAM welcome a benefit for Women for Women International on April 9-11. This evening of three diverse theatrical selections celebrates live theatre pieces created by women.
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Barrington Stage in Pittsfield's Big Read
April 16 & 17 The Things They Carried: A Staged Reading
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010The Things They Carried: A Staged Reading is part of the 2010 Big Read in the City of Pittsfield . Three readings will be presented, including two public performances on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 at 7 p.m. at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street , Pittsfield . In addition to the Friday and Saturday public performances, a matinee reading will be presented on Thursday, April 15 at 12:30 p.m. for invited local schools and Vietnam veterans.
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane at Publick Theatre
Joe Orton's Artful Lodger's Wicked Ménage à trois
By: - Mar 17th, 2010Joe Orton's playful Entertaining Mr. Sloane has plenty of laughs, sex and stereotypes, but underpinning it is a long Pinter-esque shadow of fear and violence which could (and does) explode at any time. In the meantime, Mr. Sloane happily beds both his landlady, and her brother. He thinks he is manipulating them, but soon discovers he is the one being played.
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The Adding Machine at Boston's Speakeasy Stage
An Ensemble Musical Equates to a Total Treat
By: - Mar 16th, 2010Based on the 1923 Edgar Rice play by the same name, The Adding Machine follows Mr. Zero through the worst day of his life as he confronts being replaced by new technology. The updated plot sticks to its roots, and we find all the conflicts of the roaring twenties are the same ones we face almost a century later. Speakeasy's New England Premiere boasts a glorious cast, music that never fails to advance the plot, and a surprising amount of spectacle.
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Red by John Logan
Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne in Rothko Drama
By: - Mar 14th, 2010The London hit Red by John Logan, starring Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko, and Eddie Redmayne as his assistant Ken originated at the tiny Donmar Warehouse. It has been restaged at the Golden Theatre. It is one of the best new plays on Broadway this season.
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Shaw's Candida at Irish Repertory Theatre
Hit Show Extended to April 28
By: - Mar 11th, 2010The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York has mounted a charming and faithful production of Candida by George Bernard Shaw. For modern taste this version of The Good Wife is perhaps a bit too straight and chaste. Candida bends but never breaks to the romantic assault of the smitten poet Edward. She stands by her man in this case the prigish Reverend James Morell. This is a delightful production of what may indeed be a dated period piece. It is on view through April 18.
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Clever Becky Shaw at Huntington Theatre Co.
A Funny Blind Date and a Family From Hell
By: - Mar 10th, 2010Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright to watch. Her Becky Shaw at the Huntington Theatre Company is clever, sassy, funny and full of sizzle. Each of her characters is a complex layered individual who interact sometimes like oil and water, but have an affection, even a love for each other that is very hard to dissect and equally hard to define. This is a play about contemporary folkways and mores with humor. These personal exchanges, histories and connections are often uncomfortable to watch and perhaps even more uncomfortable to think about. However, laughter heals all.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2010
Nicholas Martin Announces His Final Season
By: - Mar 08th, 2010In announcing highlights of the 2010 season the departing artistic director, Nicholas Martin, states that "For my final summer at the theatre I love, I want to produce a series of the kinds of plays I love the most: American classics and new American plays." The season starts with Sondheim's "A Funny Thuing Happened on the Way to the Forum." It is the kind of music that was missing last year. Martin will direct and all star cast of Dylan Baker, Beck Ann Baker and Campbell Scott in the chestnut "Our Town." There will be new works for the Nikos Stage including a one woman play by Judy Gold.
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Venus in Fur by David Ives to March 28
Starring Nina Ariadna and Wes Bentley
By: - Mar 08th, 2010An Off Broadway Star is Born in the breakout performance by the magnificently kinky and versatile Nina Ariadna. This is a wonderfully witty play by David Ives. It has been given razor sharp direction by Walter Bobbie. Wes Bentley is rightly sniveling as the playwright that Vonda walks all over with spike heels. It hurts so good at NY's Classic Stage Company.
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God of Carnage: New Cast
Dylan Baker, Lucy Liu, Jeff Daniels, Janet McTeer
By: - Mar 07th, 2010The 2009 Tony Award winning Best Play, by Yasmina Reza has gone through yet another cast change. Jeff Daniels returns in the role for which he was nominated for a Tony. Lucy Liu adds star power to the Marquee. Yet again Dylan Baker demonstrates why he is the best actor you never heard of. Oscar nominee Janet McTeer completes the quartet of embattled parents in the most amusing and entertaining play now on Broadway.
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Paradise Lost At American Repertory Theatre
Clifford Odets' Social/Political Drama Misplaced
By: - Mar 04th, 2010It is the 1930s and the Great Depression is raging, the Gordon family of five is struggling to keep afloat. Bad things happen. Characters representing aspects of the social/political society in turmoil are unable to alter events for the better. An urban setting is the place and the time is vague. Is it the 30s or sort of our present? Does it matter? Though the acting is very good, Clifford Odets' story is a bit dated and the play is not really in focus. Nothing much good happens. "Lost" may be the best description for this drama.
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Laurie Anderson's Delusion
'62 Center Williams College
By: - Feb 27th, 2010Recently performance, multi media artist, Laurie Anderson, premiered Delusion which was comissioned for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She had partly developed the piece during a residence at Mass MoCA. She returned to the Berkshires for two solo performances at the '62 Center of Williams College.
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Berkshire Theatre Festival 2010 Season
From Macbeth to Endgame
By: - Feb 26th, 2010Berkshire Theatre Festival's 2010 season features one world premiere, two musicals, and multiple classics from the theatrical canon. Critically-acclaimed directors David Auburn, Anders Cato, Kyle Fabel, Wes Grantom, Eric Hill, John Rando, and E. Gray Simons III will be charged with bringing this season of theatre that matters to life. Among the actors appearing this year in Stockbridge are Jayne Atkinson, David Chandler, Jeremy Davidson, Richard Easton, Michel Gill, and Randy Harrison.
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Stick Fly Brilliant At Calderwood Pavilion
Class, Race and Humor Dramatically Rendered
By: - Feb 24th, 2010Continuing its 28th Season focusing upon American stories, the Huntington Theatre Company's production of Stick Fly by playwright Lydia Diamond is a brilliantly written, well-acted and elegantly staged production about an upper class African-American family. It showcases the complexity of this family with a smart, often moving and humorous portrait of contemporary life and mores. See this show now as it could easily move to Broadway.
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses Torments
Shakespeare & Company Through March 21
By: - Feb 12th, 2010The sexual predators Madame la Marquise de Merteuil (Elizabeth Aspenlieder) and Le Vicomte de Valmont (Josh Aaron McCabe) are involved in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Shakespeare & Company through March 21. While all is fair in love and war this drama deftly conflates those extremes.
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Becky Shaw at Huntington Theatre
Peter DuBois Directs Gina Gionfriddo Hit
By: - Feb 12th, 2010The 2009 Off Broadway hit Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Artistic director Peter DuBois brings it to Boston's Huntington Thatre from March 5 through April 4. It was named to Best of 2009 lists by the NY Times and other publications. It is a wickedly funny black comedy about a group of 30 somethings.
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The Brother - Sister Plays at Steppenwolf
Tarell Alvin McCraney Wows Chicago
By: - Feb 09th, 2010Steppenwolf, one of America's great ensemble theaters, welcomes a triple-header by Tarell Alvin McCraney. All three plays are directed by ensemble member Tina Landau.
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WTF and The Clark Present ART
Reza's Play Tweaks Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Feb 06th, 2010In the dead of winter The Clark Art Institute collaborated with its neighbor The Williamstown Theatre Festival with a reading of the hilarious Yasmina Reza play ART. This summer, when the Clark mounts Picasso Looks at Degas, they will again join forces with a reading of Steve Martin's comedy Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
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Legacy of Light at Boston's Lyric Stage
Karen Zacarias Play Through March 13
By: - Feb 05th, 2010The Lyric Stage Company of Boston announces the fifth production of the 2009- 2010 Season: Karen Zacarias' intriguing new story of love, family and scientific discovery, Legacy of Light Directed by Lois Roach, the play runs February 12 through March 13, 2010.
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Tina Packer Stars in Women of Will
Shakespeare & Company Preview on February 28
By: - Feb 03rd, 2010By now the cat is pretty much out of the bag. It is anticipated that Tina Packer, founding director of Shakespeare & Company, will launch the season with "Women of Will." The collage of women's roles in Shakespeare has absorbed her for 15 years. There will be a sneak preview of the work in progress on February 28.
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