Theatre
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Bernadette Peters at Barrington Stage
Tony Winner Perfoms One Nighter
By: - May 17th, 2024As part of its 30th Anniversary Celebration, Barrington Stage Company announces Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters in Concert on Tuesday, August 27 at 8:00 p.m. on the Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street).
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The Far Country at Yale Rep
Play by Lloyd Suh About Chinese Immigration
By: - May 16th, 2024The most touching moment in the play is when the detainees talk about writing poetry on the walls. The poetry is periodically covered over; but years after Angel Island closes, the putty and paint covering the poetry begins to chip away, and the heartbroken lines of poetry reappear.
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ATCA Announces Awards
Steinberg New Play Award and Osborn Award
By: - May 14th, 2024Playwright Lloyd Suh won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for his piece, "The Heart Sellers." Jennifer Vosters received the 2024 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for her play, "Songs Without Words." ATCA presents the honors annually.
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Barrington Stage Set for Summer
Kicks Off with La Cage aux Folles
By: - May 14th, 2024With a book by Harvey Fierstein (Broadway: Kinky Boots, Torch Song Trilogy) and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Broadway: Hello, Dolly!, Mame), La Cage aux Folles is based on the play by Jean Poirot that also inspired the 1978 French film of the same name and its American remake, The Birdcage, starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
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Peter Pan
Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center
By: - May 10th, 2024A new, inclusive touring production of "Peter Pan" that does away with stereotypes of Native Americans and women is decked in Miami. History-making Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse and director Lonny Price's new version retains the show's charm, energy, and enchanting quality.
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American Soldier Comes to PAC in New York
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Unite in Splendid Opera
By: - May 09th, 2024Huang Ruo’s opera, An American Soldier, opens May 12 at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan. This flexible theater is built for chamber opera, often the form new operas take.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
At Goodspeed
By: - May 06th, 2024Goodspeed has turned into The Music Hall Royale, circa 1895, for a thoroughly enjoyable production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. All that is needed is some good British ale.
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Madame Butterfly at Opera Philadelphia
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By: - May 01st, 2024Opera Philadelphia is bringing us Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini with a twist one imagines the composer would have liked. The title role of Cio-Cio-San is a two-hander, performed both by soprano Karen Chia-Ling Ho and a puppet created by Hua Hua Zhang. In Anthony Minghella’s production, the puppet is Cio-Cio-San’s son. Now she is the exterior, public version of Butterfly, the one Lieutenant Pinkerton falls for and seduces and abandons. The director Ethan Heard and designer Yuki Izumihara came up with this notion.
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Lost in Translation: Heidi Schreck's Uncle Vanya
Lacks Emotional Punch at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater
By: - Apr 30th, 2024Whereas Chekhov's 1897 masterpiece balanced humor and pathos, this modernized rendition prioritizes laughs over hard-hitting emotion. Schreck’s interpretation charms audiences with its humor....up to a point. Her Vanya, the titular ‘hero,’ may be amusing, but he lacks heroic dimension.
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Family Tree
Word Premiere co-production in South Florida
By: - Apr 29th, 2024Ronnie Larsen Presents and Plays of Wilton presents the world premiere production of "Family Tree" by Erin K. Considine. "Family Tree" is a moving and funny play with layers.
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Something Rotten
Hillbarn Theatre's Riotous Romp
By: - Apr 28th, 2024In the 1590s, wannabe playwrights Nick and Nigel Bottom fail to compete with theatrical powerhouse Will Shakespeare. Nick consults with soothsayer Nostradamus who tells him that musicals are the coming thing. The outcome is the world's first musical "Omelet." Hmmm.
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All My Sons by Arthur Miller
At Hartford Stage
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Marsha Mason, who stars in this production, feels All My Sons, an early play by Miller, one of his best. I agree. And this production proves it.
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Lempicka Bombs on Broadway
An interesting Artist but Muddled Production
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Lempicka was dud when it workshopped in 2018 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Now. with a thud, it has landed on Broadway
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A Strange Loop
ACT-SF's Outstanding Production Of A Daring Musical
By: - Apr 26th, 2024Usher is an overly introspective wannabe playwright who obsesses over his weight, color, and sexual orientation. In this audacious musical, the central character is surrounded by his thoughts. That is, the other characters are designated as Thought 1 through Thought 6. His internal conflicts and clashes with his parents prompt existential questions that may never be answered.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo to Head Opera Philadelphia
Cutting Edge Company Makes the Best Choice
By: - Apr 25th, 2024The Opera Philadelphia Board of Directors has unanimously approved the appointment of Anthony Roth Costanzo as General Director and President effective June 1, 2024. A grammy-winning countertenor and creative producer who ”exists to transform opera” Costanzo will shape the future of a company known as “a hotbed of operatic innovation”, overseeing fundraising and business strategies, audience development, community initiatives, and artistic planning.
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Patriots by Peter Morgan on Broadway
Putin and the Oligarchs Explored
By: - Apr 24th, 2024Patriots is a compelling drama, written by Peter Morgan, who is not only a talented dramatist. He is a man who can grasp the politics of any situation he undertakes to put on stage. This production is a plain set (Miriam Buther) decorated by shifting lights (Jack Knowles) and composed sound (Adam Cork). You can’t take either mind or ears off it. Rupert Goold directs.
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Forever Plaid
42nd Street Moon's Take On This Revue of Male Pop Quartets
By: - Apr 23rd, 2024This oft revived piece celebrates the smooth sound and close vocal harmonies of male ensembles in the pop era. An unsuccessful pop foursome returns from the dead for one last concert. Along with many songs for multiple voices, the guys sing solos to strut their stuff and pull off comic gags to add to the fun.
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Constellations by Nick Payne
Playing at the Chain Theatre in New York
By: - Apr 23rd, 2024Constellations by Nick Payne debuted on the West End in London and also on Broadway. Now it has a production at the Chain Theatre off-Broadway. An innovative new theatre group, The Company We Keep, is mounting the play. The engaging work exists in parallel universes and becomes, as the producers suggest, an immersive experience, suggesting the myriad ways in which each of our life experiences might expand.
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Florencia en el Amazonas
Magical Realism Receives Exquisite Treatment By Opera San Jose
By: - Apr 22nd, 2024This 1996 work was a breakthrough for Spanish language operas. Florencia, an opera singer, is returning to Manaus in the Amazon by boat and to great anticipation. In addition to performing there, she hopes to find her lost lover, a butterfly hunter, who disappeared into the jungle 20 years previous. Traveling incognito, she finds a passenger who has been collecting information for her biography and, unbeknownst to her, a spirit person who bridges the worlds of reality and magic.
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Tiergarten, a New York Carbaret
Carnegie Hall on the Lower East Side
By: - Apr 21st, 2024Tiergarten, a cabaret, opened for three nights in the Grand Hall of St Mary’s Church on the lower East Side of Manhattan. A participant in Carnegie Hall’s deep gaze at the music of the Weimar Republic, hot impresario Andrew Ousley gathered together a group of top-notch performers and a talented design crew to create an ageless event. When the doors close, a mad spirit is unleashed in Willkommen.
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Sanctuary City,
TheaterWorks Hartford
By: - Apr 18th, 2024Sanctuary City, the play at TheaterWorks Hartforddeals with the consequences for the children, often very young, they brought with them, These children have no connection to their country of origin since their parents could never visit and return; the US is the only country they know.
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Lempicka: The Bi-Sexual Baroness with a Brush
At New York’s Longacre Theater
By: - Apr 17th, 2024While the authors tell us that the play is “inspired” by the artist’s personal and political life, unfortunately, all of the “real-life” characters are so hastily established and sketchily drawn, that what we’re left with is a lack of realism and emotional vulnerability. All the characters in this play are like wooden sticks, there is no depth to any of them.
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Tiger Style!
Walking Challenging Line Between Being Chinese And American
By: - Apr 16th, 2024Raised by Chinese-American tiger parents, adult siblings Albert and Jennifer are stereotypically accomplished and conflict avoiding. But when Albert is passed over for a promotion that goes to a less competent European-American, he reaches wit's end. Neither sibling speaks any Chinese, but they feel that they will be better received in China than at home in the U.S. What could go wrong? What doesn't in this broad but provocative farce?
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Macbeth, an undoing, at Theatre for a New Audience
Zinnie Harris Reacts to Shakespeare
By: - Apr 12th, 2024Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA) is producing Macbeth (an undoing) at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. The Royal Lyceum’s production of Macbeth (an undoing) at TFANA is a promising start to a reciprocal partnership, The Shakespeare Exchange, between Royal Lyceum and Theatre for a New Audience.
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Doubt a Parable
Revival on Broadway
By: - Apr 11th, 2024Though John Patrick Shanley’s play opened in 2004, he wisely set it in 1964. The Catholic church was in turmoil, but not for the priest abuse scandals that were roiling the church in 2004. The turmoil was caused by changes implemented by Pope John Paul the XXIII and Vatican Two, including the dropping of the Latin mass, proclamations on religious tolerance, and a philosophy that the church needed to be more involved with the community.
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