Theatre
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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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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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Angela's Ashes: The Musical
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production
By: - Sep 02nd, 2021Angela's Ashes: The Musical is a new musical adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Frank McCourt memoir. The award-winning, Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre will stream the show from Sept. 9 through Sept. 22. The online production follows an in-person, critically-acclaimed run in Ireland in 2017.
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The Suburbs
Thrown Stone Theatre in Ridgefield i
By: - Sep 02nd, 2021After a two block walk, the audience arrives at the lawn of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for The Caterers by Tony Menses. At least you can understand why a museum dedicated to recent art was chosen, since the play takes place sometime after 2030.
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The New Agit Prop
American Repertory Theatre
By: - Sep 01st, 2021The press release for fall programing at American Repertory Theatre contained a signifying statement.
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Sweet Land, Opera of the Year
The Industry Produces Grand Opera
By: - Aug 29th, 2021Sweet Land by a consortium of artists formed by the adventuresome Los Angeles company The Industry has won the award for best new opera in 2020 from the Music Critics Association of North America. Music by Du Yun and Raven Chacon. Libretto by Douglas Kearney and Aja Couchois Duncan . Directed by Cannupa Hanska Luger and Yuval Sharon.
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Having Our Say- the Delaney Sisters First 100 Years
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Aug 28th, 2021These two sisters, 103 and 101 at the time of the play, regale us with incidents and observations on their lives and opinions. And what experiences they are. They talk about their family’s history (and photos are projected) of slavery and freedom.
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Faust by Berlioz in Salzburg
A Masterpiece Revealed
By: - Aug 27th, 2021La Damnation of Faust is a glorious dramatic legend. It bombed in Paris, much to composer Hector Berlioz’ dismay and confusion. Yet even members of the orchestra he conducted at the premiere asked the composer about notes he wrote. “That note does not exist,” complained a horn player. “It sounds like a sneeze.” “That’s just what I wanted,” replied Berlioz. No one contests the musicality of the "Romane" aria, "D'amour l'ardente flame," so beautiful that it was selected to conclude the memorial service for Maria Callas.
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Elektra in Salzburg
Supreme Strauss
By: - Aug 25th, 2021Elektra, the stage drama that underlies the opera Elektra, was written by Hugo von Hoffmansthal for a theatre venue run by Max Reinhardt in Berlin. Reinhardt would go on to found the Salzburg Festival in 1920. After a hundred years, this Festival is inarguably one of the world’s most satisfying. Their new production of Elektra is classic and thrilling.
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 22nd, 2021“Eugene Onegin” not only represents the greatness of Russian opera but is one of the fine representatives of the whole operatic idiom. Director Alessandro Talevi marshals the creative team to give a look that blends traditional and modern elements.
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Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 20th, 2021Shakespeare’s frequent conceits include mistaken identities, confused love matches, supernatural interventions, play-within-a-play, and multiple plot lines, but “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” embraces them all, and more. Several threads are interspersed and overlapping throughout the play and opera’s narrative that may cause confusion to the uninitiated.
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The Lord of Cries by John Corigliano
Commissioned by Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2021“The Lord of Cries” is an unusual melange of two literary works written two millennia apart. The more recent is Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” which has been used as the basis for operas before, but none have entered the repertoire. Adamo concludes that Stoker must have known the other contributing piece, Euripides’s “The Bacchae.”
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George M. Cohan Tonight!
An Irish Repertory Theatre Streaming Production.
By: - Aug 19th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre (IRT) is streaming a shortened version of George M. Cohan Tonight! through Aug. 29. IRT gave the piece its theatrical debut in 2006. The original IRT production earned award nominations. While reservations are free, IRT suggests a $25 donation for those who can afford it.
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World Premiere by Composer Eve Beglarian
Twenty-four Double Basses in a Grove of Trees
By: - Aug 16th, 2021When was the last time you listened to music that was composed by a piece of birch wood? Eve Beglarian, in collaboration with superstar bassist Robert Black, one of the founding members of the renowned Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, has composed a fascinating new work entitled "A Murmur in the Trees."
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A Tony Award for Woodie King Jr.
At Last
By: - Aug 16th, 2021Woodie King Jr. will receive a Tony Honoring for Excellence in the Theatre on September 26. These awards were established in 1990. It's about time! King and his New Federal Theatre have been producing excellent work for over fifty years.
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Walden by Amy Berryman
TheaterWorks in Conjunction with Riverfront Recapture
By: - Aug 14th, 2021Welcome to Walden the new play presented by TheaterWorks in conjunction with Riverfront Recapture running through Sunday, Aug. 29. It will also be available for streaming from Sunday, Aug. 15 to Sunday, Aug. 29.
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Oedipus Rex
Legacy Theatre CT
By: - Aug 13th, 2021This production features a translation by Ian Johnston, who has translated many Greek works. I have read better translations, this one lacks poetry. At times the wording is jarring, too informal for such a work.
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Maltz Jupiter Theatre
The Company's 2021-22 Season
By: - Aug 12th, 2021Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Southeast Florida will kick off this upcoming season by presenting "Jersey Boys" in a baseball stadium. The season opens on Jan. 11, with Jersey Boys running from Jan. 11-30. Maltz Jupiter Theatre will re-open following a $36 million expansion. Highlights of the theater’s expansion include a new larger stage.
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Parsifal at Bayreuth
Celebrating 139 Years of Wagner
By: - Aug 12th, 2021One hundred and thirty-nine years after Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal premiered at the Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, it was performed in concert in this house that Wagner built for its performance. Apparently, Richard Wagner himself took the podium to conduct Act III of Parsifal at the Festival performance in 1883. He died later that year in Venice. There is no recording of the performance, but witnesses commented on the extremely slow tempos and the majesty of the reading.
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Sondheim's Into the Woods
At Conn'sPlayhouse on Park
By: - Aug 08th, 2021The production is enjoyable due to the hard work and talent of the cast. Because of various complications caused by Covid, the cast does not include any members of Actor’s Equity.
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Irish Repertory Theatre Streams The Cordelia Dream
Marina Carr Play in Dublin
By: - Aug 06th, 2021The Irish Repertory Theatre has expanded our notion of performance in their streamed productions. A company with a small theatre (146 seats in the main house), now offers its consistently superior productions to the wide audience they deserve.
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The Many Loves of Eleanor Roosevelt
Harriet Harris in Eleanor
By: - Aug 02nd, 2021Harriet Harris has caught Eleanor’s mannerisms well, her physical motions exactly - living in the age of newsreels, her figure, her speech, her presence are indelible in public memory.
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And Away We Stared
Chicago's Trap Door Theatre
By: - Jul 28th, 2021And Away We Stared is an inventive and theatrically imaginative production, using text from the works of writers Charles Mee, Gertrude Stein and Matei Visniec, a Romanian-French playwright frequently produced by Trap Door. The theater is committed to “seeking out challenging yet obscure works and bringing them to startling life on stage” and they’ve succeeded here.
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Wolf and Badger
World Premiere by Miami Lakes' Main Street Players
By: - Jul 26th, 2021Wolf and Badger is a tight and intense drama receiving its world premiere production at Main Street Players in Miami Lakes. The drama by Michael John McGoldrick shows what can happen drug use becomes habitual. The play takes place in 2006 in a working class neighborhood of Syracuse, N.Y. Main Street Players' strong production runs through Aug. 29. People can watch the play virtually if they choose.
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Salome in Munich
Marlis Petersen, Kirill Petrenko and Krzysztof Warlikowski
By: - Jul 26th, 2021The Munich State Opera is presenting Salome, the opera by Richard Strauss. The set is dark, yet in full view as we enter the opera house. A man is fidgeting over a desk deep in the set. On it sits a banker’s lamp with its classic green hood. A patent for this lamp was taken out in 1909. In a prologue to the opera, Mahler songs are being sung, another brief clue to date the monumental, elegant setting created by Malgorzata Szczesniak.
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