Theatre
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Beth Morrison Champions Contemporary Composers
Prototype Festival Launched for 11th Season
By: - Jan 15th, 2024Beth Morrison is an important leader in the development of new opera with new alliances and venues. She is a force that the future of classical music depends on. The Prototype Festival she created is now in its 11th season in New York.
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2023 Theatre Favorites
New York and Connecticut
By: - Jan 09th, 2024I don’t do a ten-best list; instead, I like to recall some of my favorite shows of the past year.
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The Prisoners
Plays of Wilton in South Florida
By: - Jan 03rd, 2024The Prisoners, a riveting play, entertains and shines a necessary light on unhealthy obsessions. While four performances remain, one of them is sold out. The theater is located in the Ft. Lauderdale suburb of Wilton Manors.
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A Sherlock Carol by Mark Shanahan
Westport Country Playhouse
By: - Dec 21st, 2023Recipe for a delightful evening: Take one part A Christmas Carol and one part Sherlock Holmes. Blend well, then let a talented team of actors serve to it you. A Sherlock Carol by Mark Shanahan does just that and it is a delight. It’s getting a brief run at Westport Country Playhouse through Saturday, Dec. 23. I wish it were longer.
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10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival
Returns to Barrington Stage
By: - Dec 18th, 2023The 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival is a winter arts festival located in Pittsfield’s Upstreet Cultural District in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, organized by the City of Pittsfield and Barrington Stage Company. Presenting short new plays during the dead of winter.
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The English Concert at Carnegie Hall
Watching a Female Leader Triumph
By: - Dec 17th, 2023The English Concert led by Harry Bickett performs an annual Baroque opera, semi-staged at Carnegie Hall. These performances are highly anticipated, for good reason. This year's was no exception.
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The Messenger
National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere in Florida
By: - Dec 16th, 2023Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in South Florida is the first stop for "The Messenger" in the National New Play Netwwork Rolling World Premiere Program. A cast of four excels in PBD's production, which runs through Dec. 24. Ultimately, "The Messenger" is about the need to speak out or take action in the face of hatred and violence.
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Two for the Holidays
Favorites Are Back
By: - Dec 15th, 2023Not only is A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas back at Hartford Stage, but it is better than ever. It’s been missing due to the pandemic and its aftermath.
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Shakespeare & Company News
Four for Next Summer
By: - Dec 14th, 2023Shakespeare & Company announces the first four titles of the 2024 season, including a World Premiere and a musical exploration of Shakespeare’s language and music. In addition to titles yet to be announced, Shakespeare & Company's 47th Season includes:
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Dreamgirls at Goodspeed
Musical Inspired by The Supremes
By: - Dec 14th, 2023Dreamgirls features a predictable show biz story about the career of a successful entertainer, in this case, a girl singing group, first called the Dreamettes. It is also the story of a ruthless young man (Curtis) who will control, lie, manipulate, and cheat to achieve his aims. When he hurts or destroys someone, his response “It’s business.”
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Victoria Bond's Illuminations
Byzantine Chants at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
By: - Dec 11th, 2023Victoria Bond is a composer who has experimented with many styles. Over the years she has worked with Dr. Paul Barnes, a pianist and Greek Orthodox chanter, developing Illuminations on Byzantine Chant. Barnes had hoped to capture the wide emotional range and spiritual message of Orthodox Christianity, Bond is captivated by this mystical world.
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Einstein at Princeton
Opera Seen Through Domestic Prism
By: - Dec 08th, 2023In a compact manner, the libretto demonstrates the idealism of Einstein contrasted with the pragmatism of the women around him, while the story line covers political and social commentary; God and existence; the enormity of the creation of the atomic bomb; and more. Light touches and excerpts from other composers brighten the proceedings.
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The Salvagers by Harrison David Rivers
Yale Rep
By: - Dec 07th, 2023The Salvagers takes place in a Chicago winter, as a father and son (Boseman Salvage Senior and Junior) must break down the barriers between them, explore the secrets that have created these, and start to find peace with each other and romance in their lives.
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Opera at the Lyric in Chicago
Daughter of the Regiment, Perfect. Jenufa, Not So
By: - Dec 06th, 2023In the lobby of the Lyric Opera House in Chicago, you hear griping about management. Yet it is hard to imagine what people are talking about when you watch and hear the fall production of Gaetano Donizetti’s "Daughter of the Regiment. " A perfect production.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
A Lighthearted Look at the Obsessiveness of Middle School Geeks
By: - Dec 04th, 2023We meet a diverse group of young teens bound by a common skill – spelling - and a common goal – winning. Spelling excellence is a grinding and lonely pursuit. All who compete in this Bee are nerds, but each in their own way, and each is motivated by a different set of circumstances. The audience will recall kids they’ve known and enjoy a light-hearted and entertaining look at growing up.
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Dragon Lady
Enrapturing Tales About a Philippine Family Unlike Yours
By: - Nov 30th, 2023Who would have thought that a solo performance about a family on the seedy edge of society as told by one of its descendants would captivate a theater audience? Sara Porkalob writes, tells, and sings stories of surviving entertainingly and with consummate magnetism and conviction.
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The Berlin Diaries
Rolling World Premiere at South Florida's Theatre Lab
By: - Nov 29th, 2023As part of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere program, The Berlin Diaries is experiencing its stage debut as an impressive fully-staged production at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton. "The Berlin Diaries," by Andrea Stolowitz, is not just another Holocaust play. Instead, it has an unorthodox structure and seems almost like a detective story.
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Barrington Stage Anounces 2024 Programming
La Cage aux Folles and Next to Normal
By: - Nov 29th, 2023BSC will produce the Tony Award-winning musical La Cage aux Folles, and the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal, which will be directed by Alan Paul, in a co-production with Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD.
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Rhiannon Giidens Broadends the Silk Road
In San Diego The Trancontinental Railroad arrive
By: - Nov 28th, 2023The Transcontinental Railroad connected the Eastern and Western United States the same way that the Silk Road of Asia connected the Orient to Europe. Upon completion of the railroad, goods that would take six months to travel by boat around the Horn from the West to East Coast now were transported across the country in days. Most importantly, ideas and culture were transported. This crisscrossing changed the United States and made it the superpower it is today.
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Classy Revival by Classic Stage Company.
By: - Nov 27th, 2023You can see why this show had a respectable run on Broadway in 1962; you can also understand why it didn’t run longer.
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Holiday Theatre in Connecticut
A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story of Christmas
By: - Nov 26th, 2023More versions of A Christmas Carol are throughout the area. The Downtown Cabaret Theater in Bridgeport has a child-oriented, musical version through Sunday, Dec. 30. Remember you sit at tables and can bring or purchase food. Stony Creek’s Legacy Theatre returns with a musical version through Sunday, Dec. 10. Another musical, Christmas Carol is at New Haven’s Shubert Theater on Friday, Dec. 22, and Saturday, Dec. 23.
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Guys and Dolls
World of Damon Runyon, Music and Lyrics of Frank Loesser
By: - Nov 25th, 2023The musical gives a peek into the marginalized world of gamblers and performers around Broadway during the Depression. While running floating craps games as a profession, Nathan Detroit has eluded marriage to nightclub singer, Adelaide, for 14 years. Out-of-towner Sky Masterson is an occasional participant in Nathan's games. Needing $1,000, Nathan bets the bet-on-anything Sky that he can't induce a certain woman to go to Havana (Cuba!) with him for dinner. That woman happens to be Sarah, a uniformed member of the Times Square Save-a-Soul Mission, so Nathan feels comfortable with his bet. Well.....
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The Elixir of Love
Donizetti's Frothy Comedy at San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 21st, 2023Poor Nemorino is in love with his employer, Adina, but she has other things in mind. Along comes Dr. Dulcamara, an itinerant snake oil salesman, who has just the love potion that will make Nemorino irresistible to Adina. Of course, it's really red wine. Frivolity ensues and all live happily ever after.
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Babbitt at La Jolla
Matthew Broderick in a Star Turn
By: - Nov 18th, 2023The La Jolla Playhouse adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's classic novel Babbitt tells the story of George F. Babbitt, played by Matthew Broderick. Set in a sleek modern library, the ensemble cast, scattered around the library reading the novel, tells Babbitt’s story. It is. a smash hit.
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Omar
Giddens and Abels' Pulitzer Prize Winning Opera
By: - Nov 17th, 2023In this fact-based story, a Muslim scholar is captured and enslaved in South Carolina. After various travails, he is purchased by a relatively humane master who encourages his writing and religious thinking, even while arguing that he prays to a false God, believing the Muslim Allah to be different from the Christian God.
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