Theatre
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Becky Nurse of Salem at Lincoln Center
Sarah Ruhl Tackles Witchery
By: - Dec 20th, 2022Women have often been called witches and other words that rhyme. What insights can we glean today about the trials held in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts? Playwright Sarah Ruhl tackles the question.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Premiering at Goodspeed
By: - Dec 20th, 2022As a world premiere, this is a work in progress. Changes are being made. When I saw it, one song had been moved, and a reprise was eliminated.
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Beetlejuice
SF Broadway's Gleefully Ghoulish Ghost Story
By: - Dec 17th, 2022Ghosts. Dancing skeletons. A giant toothy snake from Hell, like Saturday Night Live’s land shark on steroids. “The Handbook for the Recently Deceased.” When the title character mirthfully tells the audience that this is a play about death, he’s not kidding. Fortunately, it’s all in good fun, and there is plenty of it in this delightfully camp musical adaptation of the highly successful 1988 comedy-horror film.
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Cabaret to Open Barington Stage Season
Directd by Alan Paul
By: - Dec 13th, 2022“I am always amazed at how Cabaret manages to speak to our time, making it one of the most remarkable and resilient works of American musical theatre,” commented Alan Paul. “As the US experiences a rise in acts of virulent anti-Semitism, it seemed an appropriate time for our audiences to revisit this enduring classic. It’s also an opportunity in my first season to celebrate one of the shows that helped establish the legacy of this theatre company.”
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The Brightest Thing in the World at Yale Rep
A Work in Progress
By: - Dec 13th, 2022Leah Nanko Winkler writes in a cinematic style – the play opens with a series of brief scenes (fewer than five lines), which sets up the meeting and subsequent developing relationship between Steph and Lane at the Revival Coffeeshop. It is the usual Rom-Com mixture of unsaid things, clues that aren’t picked up, and fears.
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Hand Shadow Puppetry by Steven Wendt
HERE Presents Phil Soltanoff, Director
By: - Dec 12th, 2022This and That delights. The production also raises questions: Can a serious effort be delivered with casual aplomb? Great beauty? Mystery? From a messy theater? In the hands of Philip Soltanoff and Steven Wendt, the answer is a resounding Yes.
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Death of a Salesman on Broadway
Starring Wendell PIerce
By: - Dec 10th, 2022Death of a Salesman, starring Wendell Pierce, is getting an interesting, if not always successful, revival at the Hudson Theater on W. 44th Street. The revival produced by the Young Vic Theatre originated in London last spring to acclaim.
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Metropolitan Opera Website Down
Never Underestimate Putin and Netrebko
By: - Dec 09th, 2022The Metropolitan Opera website is down for the third day in a row. Griner freed. Met Opera now captive?
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Little Shop of Horrors
TheatreWorks' Bubbly Chinatown Adaptation
By: - Dec 06th, 2022Okay – let’s cut straight to the chase. The unique chronical of “Little Shop of Horrors” is laugh-out-loud funny; the music is foot-stomping energetic; the production is superb; and the performances are great. Did I miss anything? If you see this TheatreWorks production and disagree, check with your physician to make sure you have the pulse rate of a sentient being.
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It's a Wonderful Life
New City Players Near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 06th, 2022New City Players in Southeast Florida has mounted a solid production of a live radio play adaptation of the Christmas classic film, "It's a Wonderful Life." The production runs through Dec. 18. The adaptation, while charming and heartwarming, is too similar to the source material.
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Geoffrey Richon Contractor and Philanthropist
Co-Founded Gloucester Stage Company
By: - Dec 05th, 2022Geoffrey Richon is a major contractor and philanthropist in Gloucester. He co-founded Gloucester Stage Company. For artistic director he hired and later fired the playwright Israel Horovitz. He was outed as a sexual predator, first by the Boston Phoenix in 1993, and then by the New York Times in 2007. The company has been through rough times but Richon sees a bright and expanded future.
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Wuthering Heights
An irreverent Contemporary Musical Adaptation
By: - Dec 02nd, 2022This rendering must be measured by a very different yardstick than traditional versions. By a calculation based on contemporary sensibilities, Adaptor/Director Emma Rice’s innovation succeeds in providing a multifaceted entertainment executed with top rate professionalism.
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Twelve Angry Men
Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Nov 30th, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks (PBD) in Southeast Florida is preparing to mount a production of the classic courtroom drama, "Twelve Angry Men." The play's basis is the Academy Award winning 1957 film with the same title. PBD's production will run through Dec. 24 at PBD's intimate venue in West Palm Beach.
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Phil Kline's Unsilent Night at MASS MOCA
Cult Christmas Classic
By: - Nov 30th, 2022Phil Kline's Unsilent Night has been presented in 150+ cities across five continents since its debut 30 years ago on the streets of Greenwich Village. Free as always.
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Dorothy's Dictionary
A World Premiere by Theatre Lab in Florida
By: - Nov 28th, 2022Dorothy's Dictionary is a funny, touching piece of theater about two contrasting people developing a bond over time. The play's word premiere production is running through Dec. 11 at Theatre Lab, the professional resident company of Florida Atlantic University. Theatre Lab is dedicated to producing new work.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
At San Francisco Opera
By: - Nov 28th, 2022Christoph Willibald Gluck’s contributions to opera extend beyond the merits of his individual operas. Like Richard Wagner a century later, Gluck conceived an intellectual framework that changed the opera landscape.
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Christmas Theatre In NY and Connecticut
Family Holiday Fun
By: - Nov 27th, 2022What happens when you combine A Christmas Carol and Sherlock Holmes? You end up with A Sherlock Carol which is returning to off-Broadway. In this version through Sunday, Jan. 1, Holmes is called in by an adult Tiny Time to investigate the death of Scrooge.
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Boston Modern Orchestra Project's John Corigliano Opera
Mark Adamo, Librettist. Brilliant work at Jordan Hall
By: - Nov 26th, 2022Leave it to Gil Rose, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera to present one of the most important operas of the last decade. At Jordan Hall in Boston, Rose and his company gave a superb concert production of John Corigliano’s “Lord of the Cries.” Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera, this was its east coast debut. Corigliano’s first opera, The Ghost of Versailles met with consistently rave reviews and was not performed often after its premiere. Corigliono swore off the form. He wanted to write music that was heard.
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Tom Stoppard’s Leoopoldstadt.
Now On Broadway
By: - Nov 25th, 2022Whether this is autobiographical or only suggested by Stoppard’s family, it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is the brilliant acting and story-telling.
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Kevin Puts' New Opera Opens
Starry Trio of Renee Fleming, Joyce Di Donato and Kelli O'Hara
By: - Nov 23rd, 2022OUT magazine suggested an opera based on the film The Hours back in 2014. At the time, Fabian Brathwaite wrote: (wishful thinking) Based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the 2002 Stephen Daldry film is basically two hours of “EMOTION!” Tears, breakdowns, more tears and a prosthetic nose — ingredients for operatic gold. And look no further for casting. Just give Meryl three weeks and a pack of lozenges. Renee Fleming now takes on Meryl Streep's role.
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Michael Cunningham's The Hours for Opera
The Author Loves Philip Glass and Awaits Kevin Puts
By: - Nov 22nd, 2022Before he writes in the morning, Michael Cunningham as always listened to PHilip Glass's music. Serendiptiy brought Glass's score to the Stephen Daldry film based on Cunningham's book, The Hours. He discusses the works with Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
At Shakespere & Company
By: - Nov 17th, 2022We're returning to the world of Jane Austen-inspired theater with a costumed, staged reading of Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, and directed by Ariel Bock!
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John Corigliano Premiere at Jordan Hall
Anthony Roth Costanzo Stars
By: - Nov 15th, 2022The Lord of Cries is a mélange of two classic literary works written two millennia apart: the Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides, and the Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Set in Victorian London at the fearsome time of Jack the Ripper, the opera begins with its title character – Dionysus, the god of fury – returning to earth. Anthony Roth Costanzo featured.
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Annual Berkshire Theatre Awards
Outstanding Work Recognized
By: - Nov 15th, 2022Top honors at the Berkies were Outstanding Musical Production to Barrington Stage Company for their production of A Little Night Music. Barrington Stage shared the Outstanding Play Production award with Bridge Street Theatre, for productions of Waiting for Godot and A Long Day’s Journey Into Night respectively.
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Lend Me a Tenor
MTC in Norwalk
By: - Nov 10th, 2022Kevin Connors has managed to keep the pace fast and the timing almost perfect. That’s a key to effective farce. Too slow and you lose interest. You can’t have time to really think about what is happening.
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