Theatre
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Galatea by David Templeton
At Spreckels Theatre Company
By: - Sep 06th, 2021Robot, replicant, android, or body snatcher – one of science-fiction’s leading obsessions has long been the fear of alien or man-made “beings” replacing humans. In playwright David Templeton’s “Galatea,” the near future envisions an outer-space centered universe populated by organics, like you (I think) and me, as well as synthetics, the latter being created by the former to appear and behave exactly like humans.
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The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons
A World Premiere Production by FAU's Theatre Lab
By: - Sep 06th, 2021The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons is a new play by Rachel Teagle receiving its world premiere production at Florida Atlantic University's Theatre Lab. The professional company's production runs through Sept. 19. Jess the Mastodon seeks to find her place in a world in which she seems out of place. A Mastodon is a large, extinct elephant-like mammal.
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The Winter’s Tale
At Cal Shakes
By: - Sep 10th, 2021Shakespeare’s infrequently produced “The Winter’s Tale” is often characterized as a “problem play,” meaning that its tone is inconsistent – sometimes dramatic with psychological overtones, sometimes comic with mystic qualities.
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Scalia/Ginsburg, Music and Libretto by Derrick Wang
Produced by Solo Opera
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Opera simply is not supposed to be this much fun. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were judicial titans representing the opposite ends of the political spectrum. Most opera goers would find Composer/Librettist Derrick Wang’s one-hour confection distinctive, entertaining, and evocative.
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Starting Here, Starting Now
San Francisco Playhouse
By: - Sep 13th, 2021Unlike most revues, this one also demands acting out the songs, and on this count, the artists excel, making the drama work. Dance and blocking choreographed by Nicole Helfer provide visual dynamics. Lovers of musical revues who like the cerebral and the discovery of unfamiliar music and lyrics will appreciate this production.
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WAM Theatre's US premiere of KAMLOOPA
Staged at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Sep 15th, 2021WAM Theatre to present the US premiere of KAMLOOPA: AN INDIGENOUS MATRIARCH STORY by Kim Senklip Harvey, winner of Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award for English Language Drama, directed by Estefanía Fadul (WAM’s Native Gardens, The Oregon Trail). COVID safe live performances of this new comedy, will be presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre in Lenox.
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Be Here Now at Lyric Stage
By Deborah Zoe Laufer
By: - Sep 15th, 2021A quirky romantic comedy about a professor of nihilism who experiences joy for the first time in her life.
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The Story Box Presented by Here
Suzi Takahashi Dramatizes Truth and Reconciliation
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Written and performed by Suzi Takahashi and directed by Kristin Marting, The Story Box explores the importance of safeguarding our civil rights through the lens of Japanese American identity. Using kamishibai (a traditional Japanese storytelling method), coupled with Takahashi’s own family history and original music, this show takes audience members on a 230-year journey through our country’s problematic treatment of Asian immigrants.
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A Different Kind of Self Portrait
A nine-and-a-half-feet tall mastodon
By: - Sep 16th, 2021Jess the Mastodon is puppet artist Jim Hammond's self-portrait -- kind of. Hammond designed Jess for Theatre Lab's production of The Impracticality of Modern-Day Mastodons. The professional company based on Boca Raton's Florida Atlantic University campus is staging the play about dreams coming true.
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Angela's Ashes: The Musical
Irish Repertory Theatre's Frank McCourt's Memoir
By: - Sep 19th, 2021Angela’s Ashes, a musical based on Frank McCourt’s fictionalized memoir of his early family life, is presented now in its musical version by Irish Repertory Theatre. It is a conventional musical. Yet the memoir’s conventionality did not diminish the story’s deep resonance not only with immigrants, but with all readers who have experienced difficult childhoods.
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Working by Studs Terkel
Produced by Palo Alto Players
By: - Sep 20th, 2021Terkel’s hometown beat was a great laboring town, Chicago, the City of Broad Shoulders. From a lifetime of communing in his community and across the country, he produced powerful oral histories based on interviews, particularly “Working” (1974) and the Pulitzer Prize winning “The Good War” (1985).
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The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown
Branford’s new Legacy Theatre
By: - Sep 20th, 2021The Last Five Years is a very popular musical with theaters; in part because it only needs two performers and minimal sets/costumes and partly because it tells a universal story of falling both in and out of love.
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Noorrrraaaaaaa after Ibsen
The Gorki Theater, Berlin
By: - Sep 21st, 2021Just be aware. The premiere of Nora at Berlin's smallest theatre, The Gorki Theater, offers anything but the expected story line of Henrik Ibsen's famous 1879 play about a woman stepping out of a comfortable upper middle class family life to become independent.
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Billy Crystal at Barrington Stage Company
Mr. Saturday Night a Work in Development
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Barrington Stage Company (BSC),welcomes Tony and Emmy Award winner Billy Crystal in a presentation of a new musical in development, Mr. Saturday Night, on the Boyd-Quinson Stage (30 Union Street) for nine performances. A new musical comedy, Mr. Saturday Night is about one man’s meteoric rise to the middle. The musical is a work in development and will be presented with minimal set and costume pieces.
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Was It Me by Andrea Fulton
Theatre for the New City is Live Again
By: - Sep 22nd, 2021Theater for the New City, Executive Director Crystal Field presents Andrea Fulton's Was it Me? Directed by Kymbali Craig, the play gives us a poignant peak into everyday life. Fulton probes the anguish of a woman burdened by an unresolved memory of a traumatizing assault in her childhood. Fulton brings the question of self blame to the fore as the woman asks: “Was it something about me that made this happen?"
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Shout! The Mod Musical
At South Bay Musical Theatre
By: - Sep 28th, 2021“Shout! The Mod Musical” is a musical revue of the ‘60s shown through the experiences of five young adult women living in London, as conceived and curated by three American men (of course)! The songbook draws from tunes of the era, predominantly those popularized by English songbirds, especially Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark (“Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Downtown” for starters.)
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A Crossing: A Dance Musical
Barrington Stage Presents Powerful New Work for All of America
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021While focused on a group of migrants this is the story of all of us. It conveys an America rooted in exclusion, violence and intolerance. This is a stunning new musical for all Americans.
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Hang at Shakespere & Company
By Debbie Tucker Green
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021In the playbill for Hang by Debbie Tucker Green, the setting is described as ‘Nearly now.’ How prescient the playwright is, to recognize old and new layers of fascism, terribly becoming everyday.
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Steel Magnolias Blooms in Denver
Robert Harling's Classic Perfetly Produced
By: - Oct 02nd, 2021Steel Magnolias is staged by the Cherry Creek Theater in Denver, Colorado. This comic tragedy comes alive in a beauty parlor, whose window frames look out on the talk of the town parading by. In the South, men sit under a pecan tree and talk about affairs as if they all had PhDs from Harvard. The women hunker down to have their hair and nails done.
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A.R. Gurney's Sylvia in Arvada Colorado
Brilliant Production of an Odd Love Triangle
By: - Oct 03rd, 2021A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia had a 1995 production in New York featuring Charles Kimbrough, Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker. It is one of Gurney’s most frequently produced plays. A husband in mid-life crisis would prefer the compansionship of a dog to a mistress.
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The Twentieth Century Way
At Island City Stage, near Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Island City Stage's first-ever production was of Tom Jacobson's play, The Twentieth Century Way. To kick off its 10th anniversary season, Island City Stage is reviving The Twentieth Century Way. The play focuses on two out-of-work actors in 1914 who hired themselves out to the Long Beach, Calif. Police Department to entrap "social vagrants (homosexuals)".
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The Porch at Windy Hill
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Oct 11th, 2021Blue grass and Appalachian music usually isn’t my thing, but my toes were tapping while enjoying the play-with- music, The Porch at Windy Hill now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, Oct. 17.
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The Helbing Mentorship Program
For LGBTQIA+ Arts Writers
By: - Oct 11th, 2021The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) announces The Helbing Mentorship Program. Under the program, LGBTQIA+ arts writers will work with leading theater critics to imrpove their craft and publish their work. The year-long program, which will begin in September 2022, includes a $5,000 grant.
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Every Brilliant Thing
Produced by Oakland Theater Project
By: - Oct 13th, 2021Duncan MacMillan’s award-winning, 60-minute, one-person play, “Every Brilliant Thing,” centers on a list reflective of obsessive compulsion. The narrator/protagonist itemizes everything worth living for. Remarkably, he starts the list at age seven.
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Lizard Boy
Produced by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
By: - Oct 13th, 2021With “Lizard Boy,” youth is served and age is respected. This is a big tent musical that will please anyone with an open mind and a caring heart. The auteur, Justin Huertas who wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and who plays the lead role, has fashioned an absolutely riveting theater piece that pulsates with emotion and extracts enormous empathy.
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