Theatre
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Seeing Stars
Steve Budd's Personal Memoir at The Marsh Berkeley
By: - Jun 18th, 2024Most people are unaware of the dedication and sacrifices that actors make to pursue their passion. In this brief insight, we learn of the struggles of one man to put bread on the table while seeking the limelight. We also learn of mental health issues that have plagued his family.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Southeast Florida's New City Players
By: - Jun 18th, 2024Southeast Florida-based New City Players mounted a production of "The Glass Menagerie" in 2016, the company's first year. Today, eight years later, the company will stage a production of another Williams masterwork -- "A Streetcar Named Desire."
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La Jolla Playhouse Ballad of Johnny and June
Wonderful Cash Musical in San Diego
By: - Jun 17th, 2024The La Jolla Playhouse presents The Ballad of Johnny and June, a musical about the lives of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Narrated by John Carter Cash, played by Von Hughes, the play begins with John trying to decide if he wants to get married. John Carter Cash was the only child of the union of Johnny and June. As John contemplates marriage, he tells the love story of his famous parents and their challenges with fame and addiction.
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La Cage aux Folles Sizzles at Barrington Stage
Forty Plus Drag Show Gets Fresh Mascara and Falsies
By: - Jun 17th, 2024For over-the-top camp hilarity and flat out fun nothing tops the outrageous musical, La Cage aux Folles, which is getting a swing for the rafters production at Barrington Stage Company through July 6. This is likely to be a boffo summer smash with a too-brief run.
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Abe Lincoln in Stockbridge
Revival of 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner
By: - Jun 16th, 2024In producing a play that is two years older than I am director, David Auburn, has been faithful to the text but made changes, the de rigeur legerdemain that contemporizes the production. There has been gender and race switching with mixed results. Those role changes range from muddled and gratuitous to truly brilliant and inspired. It’s a long evening in three acts that lags as well as has its brilliant and inspired moments.
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Clue LIve in Stage
Comic Murder Mystery on Tour
By: - Jun 16th, 2024A national equity touring production of "Clue: Live on Stage" delights. The production is just finishing a run at Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The production will return to Florida in December at Sarasota's Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.
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Toni Stone
Playhouse on Park
By: - Jun 14th, 2024Toni Stone is a woman who loves to play baseball, and she is very good at it. She is recruited to join the barnstorming Indianapolis Clowns, who tour the region playing mainly white teams. They are expected not only to play baseball (and supposedly lose) but also to dance and sing during the fifth-inning break. It was unclear if they played in what was considered the Major League of the Negro Leagues or were more like a minor league team.
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Houston Symphony Performs Strauss' Salome
A Perfect Concert Evening
By: - Jun 13th, 2024The Houston Symphony presented Richard Strauss’ Salome. It was a perfect concert opera production. All the singers were not only off book, but costumed to perfection (or unveiled when that critical moment arrives).
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Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve
Legacy Theatre
By: - Jun 13th, 2024How would the first woman and man on earth think about the world around them? Mark Twain, in two short novellas, imagined what Adam and Eve would write in their diaries as they experienced the Garden of Eden.
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Dial M for Murder at the Alley Theatre
A Witty Thriller
By: - Jun 11th, 2024Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, in association with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, is presenting Dial M for Murder as a warmup to their annual Summer Chills programming. Based on the original play by Frederick Knott that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder, the current version has been updated by Jeffrey Hatcher.
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Being Alive - A Sondheim Celebration
TheatreWorks Bright World Premiere Revue of Sondheim Love Songs
By: - Jun 11th, 2024Now that Stephen Sondheim has passed, this poignant collection of 36 songs is the first revue to span his whole life of works, from towering anthems to obscure hidden gems. Performed by an ensemble of six as a run through followed by a dress rehearsal with little additional commentary, it lets the songs do the telling.
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Daniel's Husband
Co-production in South Florida
By: - Jun 11th, 2024Plays of Wilton and Ronnie Larsen Presents are staging an impressive co-production of "Daniel's Husband." The play premiered at South Florida's Island City Stage and became a hit Off-Broadway.
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Innocence
San Francisco Opera's Chilling Modern Masterpiece
By: - Jun 09th, 2024Kaija Saariaho's last opera leaves a lasting impression. An ominous score supports a nerve-wracking story told in two time frames. A teenage shooter in Finland murders a number of his schoolmates. Ten years on, the perpetrator's brother is marrying a bride from Romania who does not know the connection. However, the waitress at the wedding reception dinner, whose daughter was a victim, recognizes the groom.
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Skintight
Island City Stage near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Jun 06th, 2024A winning production of "Skintight" is onstage at Island City Stage in South Florida. The play is a mind exercising meditation on family, history, beauty, the nature of love, the power of attraction, our society’s obsession with youth, and how we teach our young that exterior appearances matter the most.
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American Repertory Theatre
Season Begins with Romeo and Juliet
By: - Jun 06th, 2024The A. R.T. season will begin in September with a production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and choreographed by two-time Olivier Award winner Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Jagged Little Pill; Beyoncé at the 2017 Grammy Awards and APESHIT; Madonna’s Celebration tour). This powerhouse duo reunites for the first time since their Tony Award-winning collaboration Jagged Little Pill, staging a bold new production of Shakespeare’s iconic love story.
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Trying in South Florida
Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach
By: - Jun 03rd, 2024"Trying" is a historical drama covering the last year in the life of Judge Francis Biddle, former U.S. Attorney General under FDR. The play recounts the sometimes-testy relationship between Biddle and his secretary. Palm Beach Dramaworks' production closes out the professional, nonprofit company's 2023-24 season.
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ACT-CT Production of Kinky Boots
Dragnet on Stage
By: - Jun 02nd, 2024It is a high-energy, feel-good romp about people reconciling with their past and gaining acceptance for who they are.
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Doubt, a Parable at Altarena Playhouse
A Chilling Allegory of Injury Caused by Faith
By: - Jun 02nd, 2024Middle school principal Sister Aloysius possesses unerring certitude concerning her faith. Father Flynn's appearances and actions trigger the nun's belief that he has had inappropriate contact with young boys. Her unproven allegations prove damaging.
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The Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera
A Fairy Tale About Love and Aspiration
By: - May 31st, 2024Tamino falls in love with Pamina's picture and runs the gauntlet in order to meet and marry her. His sidekick Papageno also seeks marriage but lacks the courage to confront the challenges before him. Both will succeed, but one more than the other.
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A Complicated Woman
Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre
By: - May 31st, 2024A Complicated Woman has elements that need rethinking. For one, almost the entire first act takes place in 1928; when act two begins, we are in the late 1950s-60s. The jump seems too extreme and not clearly defined.
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The Lehman Trilogy at ACT
From Immigrant Family to Wall Street Tycoons
By: - May 30th, 2024Upon Henry Lehman's immigration to the U.S., he peddles textiles in Alabama. The result of the ingenuity of Henry and later family members is one of the great investment banking firms in the country. Long after the family has exited, the firm's failure represents one of the signal episodes in the financial collapse of 2008.
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An American Soldier Perelman Performing Arts Center
Huang Ruo and David Henry Wang Join Forces Again
By: - May 30th, 2024An American Soldier, an opera by Huang Ruo and David Henry Wang, has been developing for a decade. The 2024 version is co-commissioned by PAC NYC and Boston Lyric Opera. Audiences at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan, are the beneficiaries of deep thought and a moving musical response to a seemingly uncomplicated subject: the wish of a young man, born in the USA of Asian immigrants, to be considered ‘American.’
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Cabaret at Lesher Center for the Arts
Hedonism and Persecution in Between the Wars Germany
By: - May 29th, 2024English nightclub entertainer Sally Bowles lives on the edges of society in the hedonism of Berlin during the Weimar years. Aspiring novelist Cliff Bradshaw alights from America and becomes both Sally's lover and her mark. This dark musical also explores the rise of Naziism through a young convert and the relationship of an elderly couple, one of whom is Jewish.
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Here There Are Blueberries at NY Theatre Workshop
Co-produced with Tectonic Theater Project
By: - May 29th, 2024Over and over again, in the Pulitzer-nominated play Here There are Blueberries, now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop in co-production with Tectonic Theater Project, we see photos of the commandants of the Auschwitz facility where the final solution was executed. They are comfortable, laughing together, being rewarded for work well done (gassing people) and in lounge chairs at a spa retreat on the property in Poland.
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4000 Miles in Stockbridge
Grannny and fhe Road Warrior
By: - May 19th, 2024In the middle of the night Leo arrived at his grandmother's Greenwich Village apartment. His bike trip started in Seattle. Initially his request to crash with Vera for a couple of days turns into a month. This award winning play by Amy Herzog is on stage at Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge.
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