Theatre
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The Handmaid's Tale
San Francisco Opera's Powerful Look at Socio-political Dystopia
By: - Sep 19th, 2024Handmaids act as birthing surrogates in the dystopian land of Gilead, the successor to the United States after a coup by Christian fundamentalists. Like others, Offred was captured trying to escape the country and has been detailed as a handmaid. She now fears exile to the "colonies" or execution for not following the strict Ten Commandments based rules of Gilead. Poul Ruders's music is as chilling as the original story from Margaret Atwood.
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The Magic Flute at Opera San Jose
A Compelling Rendering of Mozart's Masterpiece
By: - Sep 16th, 2024Tamino falls in love with the daughter of the Queen of Night, Pamina, from her picture. To win her hand, he must conquer three trials to become an initiate into a religious order. This classic receives a sterling production from cast, creatives, and conductor, 19-year-old wonderkind Alma Deutscher.
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Maggie at Goodspeed
New Musical Launches Fall Season
By: - Sep 16th, 2024Maggie is a heartfelt musical that should appeal to a wide range of audiences. It is the antithesis in many ways of what some would expect of a Goodspeed musical – there is not a tap dance or big dance number in sight.
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Hell's Kitchen Musical on Broadway
Aiicia Keys Tells Her Story
By: - Sep 14th, 2024Alicia Key has created herself as “Ali” in the musical Hell’s Kitchen now playing on Broadway. Keys grew up in the Manhattan Plaza complex, a few blocks from Times Square. Built during one of New York’s deep downturns, the building was supposed to be an upper middle class apartment house. Discounted apartments did rent. It became one of New York’s most desirable residences for artists. It formed the artist Keys.
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Un Ballo in Maschera
San Franciso Opera's Outstanding Production
By: - Sep 13th, 2024In this opera drawn from history, Sweden's Gustavus III loves Amelia, the wife of his friend and ally Renato. When the husband finds out, he joins assassin conspirators from the disaffected nobility. This Verdi masterpiece, replete with dramatic music, is given the finest treatment by accomplished principals and creative staging designers.
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The Prom
Musical About Sexual Discrimination in High School
By: - Sep 10th, 2024Four New York theater performers hope to attract attention for what they purport to be the selfless act of inducing an Indiana high school to reverse the cancellation of its prom because a lesbian student planned to attend with a girlfriend as her date. Based on a true story, the visitors encounter unexpected headwinds. Despite notes of pathos and bitterness, a joyous tone prevails, and the play ends on a hopeful note.
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Three Tall Persian Women By Awni Abdi-Bahri
World Premiere at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 09th, 2024Three Tall Persian Women by Awni Abdi-Bahri, an emerging playwright, is having its world premiere at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Three generations of women gather to celebrate the anniversary of the passing of the husband of Nasrin. Her daughter Goinar, a recent MFA graduate, has flown in from New York. Things are not going well when Shayan, a most eligible bachelor, arrives with flowers. All hell breaks out when they drink magic mushroom tea.
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Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks' Musical at Sonoma Arts Live
By: - Sep 08th, 2024Dr. Frederick Frankenstein returns to Transylvania and hopes to improve on his grandfather's flawed creation - "The Monster." He succeeds in producing a new and improved monster but must deal with many zany characters and complications along the way.
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Little Island Presents Marriage of FIgaro
Anthony Roth Costanzo is Gender Fluid
By: - Sep 07th, 2024The major event at New York’s Little Island this summer is an abbreviated version of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro with all seven roles sung by premier countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. It will be performed through September 22. Zack Winokur produces.
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Winter Season at '62 Center in Williamstown
Performance Programming at William College
By: - Sep 06th, 2024Kicking off our visiting artist series, the CenterSeries, is Vuyani Dance Theatre performing Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro on Thursday, September 26th. Physically charged and visually striking,?the work?is choreographed by South African native and internationally-known choreographer Gregory Vuyani Maqoma.?Cion?draws inspiration from author Zakes Mda’s novel, Cion?, and Ravel’s Boléro. It is, in?Maqoma’s?words, “a lament, a requiem required to awaken a part of us, the connection to the departed souls.”
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Human Error
Town Hall's Humorous Look at IVF, Medical Error, and Politics of Division
By: - Sep 01st, 2024When a liberal couple learns that their embryo stored at a laboratory has been mistakenly implanted in a conservative Christian wife, the two couples meet to try to resolve the catastrophe. The story follows the bumps along the way for the following nine months, finding a highly entertaining balance between humor and conflict.
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4 Guys Named Named José...and Una Mujer Named Maria
A Latin American Jukebox Musical at 6th Street Playhouse
By: - Sep 01st, 2024Four young men from different Latin American heritages meet in Omaha, Nebraska. When joined by a young woman, Maria, song breaks out. The plot is superficial, but the song and dance will arouse feelings of nostalgia for those familiar with the music of the region.
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Die, Mommie, Die!
A Hilarious Comedy Classic in South Florida
By: - Aug 28th, 2024Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale is presenting a deft comedic production of the hilarious parody, Die, Mommie, Die! Prolific and talented playwright Charles Busch penned the play. Busch has fun with Greek tragedy and 1960s melodramatic films known as Grande Dame Guignol Cinema.
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The NIght Alive
Dark Comic Drama of Life on the Fringe in Dublin
By: - Aug 25th, 2024Tommy and Doc exist on the outside fringe of Irish society. When Tommy saves streetwalker Aimee from a beating by her ex-boyfriend and takes her in to recover from her injuries, new problems follow. Playwright Conor McPherson explores the survivalist lives of Dublin's underbelly, full of challenge but with occasional redemption.
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Der Rosenkavalier
Santa Fe Opera's Delightful Strauss/von Hofmannsthal Comic Opera
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Impoverished Baron Ochs wishes to marry Sophie, from a nouveau riche family. Through Ochs' cousin The Marschallin, young noble Octavian agrees to present the customary silver rose to the intended bride. But alignments of romance and convenience shift in this thoughtful comedy that is Strauss's most endearing work.
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Staged Reading of St, Germain Play
The Magdalene in Pittsfield
By: - Aug 17th, 2024Barrington Stage Company will present a staged reading of The Magdalene, a new play by Associate Artist Mark St. Germain, on Sunday September 1 at 3:00pm at the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
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The Elixir of Love
Donizetti's Frothy Comedy at Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 15th, 2024Poor Nemorino loves rich Adina. We know how those stories go. Nemorino is aided by a placebo. Snake oil salesman Dulcamara has sold him a potion to make him irresistible to Adina. In the end, the hero inherits a fortune, which makes him irresistible to every girl on the planet.
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The Righteous
Outstanding World Premiere Commission from Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 14th, 2024David's life is traced from caring high school friend to pastor committed to good works to politician whose goal is to satisfy constituents rather than his soul and the people closest to him. Along the way, he compromises his own morality and ultimately questions the path he has taken. Many issues of evangelical Christianity and the 1980s surface in this compelling new opera.
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Derecho at the La Jolla PLayhouse
Timely Take on Identity
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Derecho is the latest work mounted by the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. A derecho is a widespread, long-lived wind storm associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms. The play, Derecho, follows two second-generation Latina half-sisters Eugenia and Mercedes, played by Ashley Alvarez and Caro Guzman, respectively.
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The Master and Margarita at the 86th Street Theater
Moscow Ambience Is Wonderful
By: - Aug 10th, 2024Alexei Burago has directed Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita at Theatre 86 in New York. Jean Claude Van Italie did this stage adaptation, which follows the novel closely.
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Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione
Soars at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 10th, 2024For a first attempt, however, Frangione is a promising playwright with a great gift for dialogue. On every level this was a delightful performance. The director, Braha, evoked the best from two superbly trained classical actors, Burrows and May, seen here in vernacular form.
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A Shonda in South Florida
World Premiere at The Foundry
By: - Aug 10th, 2024The world premiere production of a musical adaptation of Wendy Graf's play "A Shonda" is underway in South Florida The winning production runs through Sept. 1 at The Foundry in Wilton Manors, near Ft. Lauderdale. This is a visceral production in the intimate Foundry space.
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Pipe Dream at Unicorn Theatre
Rarely Produced Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical
By: - Aug 08th, 2024Pipe Dream is an obscure, rarely produced musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on novels by John Steinbeck. Berkshire Theatre Group is making a strong and risky case for why we should take another look at a musical with a flawed book but richly compelling music.
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The Prom
At Sharon Playhouse
By: - Aug 08th, 2024The Prom is not a great musical, but it is an entertaining show that goes way above what is sometimes created.
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N/A by Mario Correa at Mitzi Newhouse Theater
Past, Present and Future of US poitics
By: - Aug 07th, 2024Mario Correa’s play N/A is thoroughly entertaining. The two-hander is at the Mitzi Newhouse in New York through September 1. Holland Taylor and Ana Villafane star. Diane Paulus directs.
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