Theatre
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Villa America at Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Lost Generation's Flophouse
By: - Jul 15th, 2007The new play "Villa America" by the young British playwright, Crispin Whittell, was intended to enhance the exhibition of the neighboring Williams College Art Museum but has fallen short of expectations.
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Writer/ Director Crispin Whittell Discusses Villa America
Play Based on Sara and Gerald Murphy Premieres at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 11th, 2007Inspired by the Williams College exhibition and biography by Amanda Vaill Crispin Whittell has written a play "Villa America" based on the life of the Lost Generation's Gerald and Sara Murphy and their fabulous friends which opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival tomorrow night.
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Dissonance at Williamstown Theatre Festival
A String Quartet Comes Unstrung
By: - Jul 08th, 2007The new play, Dissonance, by Damian Lanigan for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, brilliantly reveals the demise of the Bradley String Quartet.
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The Front Page is Good News
Williamstown Theatre Festival Revives Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur Classic
By: - Jul 06th, 2007The Main Stage season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival was launched last night with "The Front Page" the vintage comedy of a news room vigil of a 1920s Chicago hanging.
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West Side Story at Barrington Stage Company
Sharks and Jets Rumble in Pittsfield
By: - Jul 03rd, 2007This is the fiftieth anniversary of West Side Story. The classic Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim musical is presented in a flawless and galvanic production by Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires.
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B.D. Wong "Breaks a Leg"
Injured on Opening Night of Williamstown Theatre Festival Season
By: - Jun 19th, 2007In this one man play by Tom Cone, directed by Roger Reese, something went terribly wrong for the actor, B.D. Wong, on the opening night of "Herringbone" which launched the summer season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Imago Theatre's Frogz
Silent Treatment at Emerson Majestic
By: - Jun 01st, 2007An evening of frogs, bugs, gators and wildly inventive animations by Imago Theatre at Boston's Emerson Majestic for just six nights.
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Victor Garber Stars in Present Laughter
Noel Coward Play Directed at Huntington Theatre by Nicholas Martin
By: - May 24th, 2007In the 1939 play Present Laughter Noel Coward is said to have projected a lot about himself and views of the theatre. Victor Garber, a character in the long running TV show "Alias" is glib and deft in portraying a fading matinee idol about to embark on a grueling six months tour of Africa. This is the final production of the 25th season of the Huntington Theatre.
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Harold Pinter's No Man's Land at ART
Against Interpretation: It is what it is more or less
By: - May 17th, 2007The Harold Pinter play "No Man's Land" ends the season for the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. It is played straight no chaser by director David Wheeler after a season of Oliver Twisted.
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Victor Garber, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Pamela Gray Meet the Press
Sit down with Actors in Huntington Theatre's Present Laughter
By: - May 10th, 2007Taking a break from rehearsals for the Noel Coward play "Present Laughter" which opens at Huntington Theatre Company on May 18, the actors Victor Garber, Brooks Ashmanskas and Pamela Gray met with the media.
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Where Elephants Weep, a Cambodian Opera
Lowell High School presents hybrid opera
By: - May 02nd, 2007The first known Cambodian opera, Where Elephants Weep is a hybrid of musical genres that bridges generations and cultures, decades after Pol Pot all but devastated Cambodia.
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Jay Scheib's This Place is a Desert
ICA Hosts World Premiere
By: - Mar 28th, 2007Filmed and projected onto four screens through live-feeds over the staged actions below. Their production's hybrid form followed dysfunction.
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A Superb Revival of R. C. Sherriff's World War I Classic Journey's End
A Twentieth-Century Triumph of Death
By: - Mar 20th, 2007British director David Grindley and a mostly American cast do justice to R. C. Sherriff's classic World War I play.
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Lisa Kron's Well at Huntington Theatre Company
All's Not Quite Well but Ends Well, Kindah
By: - Mar 15th, 2007A play within a play. Kindah. Lisa Kron stretches a standup routine into a "comedy" about ilness. The chronic incapacitation of her huge and earthy mother and her own struggle with allergies as a college student.
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Oliver Twisted by American Repertory Theatre
Neil Bartlett's Boffo Dickens Adaption
By: - Feb 22nd, 2007The American Repertory Theatre production of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett, is everything one long for in a delightful and insightful evening of theatre. What fun.
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Sun Sets on Britannicus
American Repertory Theatre Deconstructs Racine's Drama
By: - Jan 26th, 2007In the final production for the American Repertory Theatre by departing artistic director, Robert Woodruff, the intrigues of the Bush presidency are foreshadowed by the treachery of Ancient Rome via the 17th century drama of Jean Racine.
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Huntington Theatre's The Cherry Orchard
TV�s Dr. Ellis Grey, Kate Burton, Stars in Chekhov's Masterpiece
By: - Jan 11th, 2007Tv's Dr. Ellis Grey, mother of Dr. Merideth in the hit "Grey's Anatomy" is starring in the Huntington Theatre production of the classic Chekhov play "The Cherry Orchard."
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Wings of Desire at A.R.T.
More Angels in America
By: - Nov 30th, 2006The 1987 film "Wings of Desire" set in post war Berlin by German director Wim Wenders has been reconfigured for the stage in a production by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
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Rabbit Hole at Huntington Theatre
The Eat Me Drink Me of Grief
By: - Nov 10th, 2006Following a successful run on Broadway with five Tony nominations "Rabbit Hole" opens to strong reviews at Boston's Huntington Theatre.
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Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck Has World Premiere at the Huntington
Sisters Fight Over Inheritance of Rare Stamps
By: - Oct 19th, 2006The play Mauritius by Pulitizer Prize nominated playwright Theresa Rebeck is having a world premiere through the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston.
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Rauschenberg Based Play Opens ART Season
Pop Art On Stage in Cambridge
By: - Sep 24th, 2006The Pop art of Robert Raushenberg inspired the play written by Charles L. Mee and directed by Anne Bogart that opens the season of the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
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Huntington Theatre Opens 25th Season with Final August Wilson Play
By: - Sep 15th, 2006Working with his own experiences in Pittsburgh the black playwright August Wilson wrote ten plays each set in a decade of the 20th century.
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Double Double a Hit in Williamstown
Roger Rees Directs His Own Play
By: - Aug 30th, 2006A smart and snappy play co written with Roger Rees and Rick Elice and directed by Rees "Double Double" is a hit than ended the second season for Rees as artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Comedy by Cusi Cram Premieres at Nikos Stage
Mestizo Culture Explored by Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Aug 25th, 2006Lucy and the Conquest, / by Cusi Cram / World Premiere / Directed by Suzanne Agins / The Williamstown Theater Festival / Nikos Stage / Williamstown, MA / July 12-23, 2006.
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Barrington Stage Company: Break a Leg
Karl Eigsti Discusses Set Designs for Pittsfield Theatre
By: - Aug 16th, 2006Theatre designer Karl Eigsti discusses his three projects in the Berkshires this summer including the sets for the first production of the rewely renovated Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield
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