Theatre
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MJ Moonwalks to Broadway
Aces the Audience
By: - Dec 15th, 2021Lynn Nottage, the first female American playwright to win two Pulitzers, has created the story for MJ, the musical celebrating Michael Jackson. It has been due on Broadway for a while. The opening date is now postponed until February. Previews opened this week. If it stays in previews until the line of tickets dwindles, it will be a financial success. If it formally opens to reviews, it will succeed despite pederasty accusations.
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Shakespeare & Company News
First Three Titles For 45th Season
By: - Dec 16th, 2021Shakespeare & Company announces the first three titles slated for production during its 45th Season, beginning in June 2022. Two works by Shakespeare and a modern production will open the season, which also marks the one-year anniversary of The New Spruce Theatre – Shakespeare & Company’s 500-seat amphitheater, constructed in the summer of 2021.
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Roundabout Theatre's Trouble in Mind
Alice CHildreds' Drama Transfers after Decades in Limbo
By: - Dec 18th, 2021Roundabout Theater is mounting Alice Childress’ play, Trouble in Mind. It premiered off Broadway in 1957 to excellent reviews. Transfer to Broadway failed when the producers demanded changes the playwright refused to make. Now we get a look.
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James Lapine's Flying Over Sunset
Lincoln Center Theater Mounts Premier
By: - Dec 19th, 2021Flying Over Sunset, a new musical with book by James Lapine and music by Tom Kitt premieres at the Lincoln Center Theater. It features Aldous Huxley ( Harry Hadden-Paton), Cary Grant (Tony Yazbeck)and Claire Boothe Luce (Carmen Cusack), who all experimented with LSD in the 1950s. Both Huxley and Luce wanted to expand their horizons. Grant went to a psychiatrist for a supervised dose of the drug at the recommendation of his then wife, Betsy Drake.
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The Perennial Woman in Black
Produced by American Conservatory Theater
By: - Dec 20th, 2021The Woman in Black has drawn sufficient audience to run on London’s West End for over 30 years – second in longevity only to Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap.” It’s had productions around the world and has been translated into 14 languages. Not bad bona fides. Produced by American Conservatory Theater it plays at ACT’s Strand Theater, 1127 Market St., San Francisco.
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The Play That Goes Wrong
And That's the Truth
By: - Dec 22nd, 2021The premise of the play that actually goes wrong is introduced by Chris Bean, president of the Cornley University Drama Society (played by Matt Mueller). The drama society is staging the play The Murder at Haversham Manor in the USA, a production made possible, the program notes, by the British-American Cultural Exchange Program.
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Kinky Boots
Slow Burn Theatre Company in Ft. Lauderdale
By: - Dec 25th, 2021Slow Burn Theatre Company's production of "Kinky Boots" raises us up. The Ft. Lauderdale company's production runs through Jan. 2. Kinky Boots is based on a film of the same name, which, in turn, is based on a true story.
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Joe Papp at the Ballroom
A World Premiere by GableStage
By: - Dec 27th, 2021Joe Papp at the Ballroom attempts to recreate the theater legend's public concert in 1978. GableStage, together with Yiddishkayt Initiative (https://yilovejewish.org). The production runs through Dec. 31 at the award-winning Coral Gables professional, nonprofit theater company.
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Becoming Dr. Ruth with Tovah Feldshuh
A remarkable life at Museum of Jewish Heritage
By: - Dec 26th, 2021Mark St. Germain has crafted a moving and funny portrait of the great radio and television sex-pert, Dr. Ruth Westheimer. It plays at the Safra Hall in the Museum of Jewish Heritage. Scott Schwartz directs. Dr. Ruth triumphs over Hitler.
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Charlotte Moore Directs Irish Repertory Theatre
The Streets of New York Sizzle
By: - Dec 31st, 2021The Streets of New York laugh and cry as they burst into song in Charlotte Moore’s production. Everyone you've ever met is on stage. Celebrate the holidays at the Irish Repertory Theatre
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Almost, Maine
An Upcoming Palm Beach Dramaworks Production
By: - Jan 03rd, 2022Palm Beach Dramaworks will perform Almost, Maine from Jan. 12-30. In this play about love and romance, magic is literally in the air. Almost, Maine is an example of Magical Realism.
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Hairspray
A New Non-Equity Touring Production
By: - Jan 02nd, 2022A new non-equity touring production of the musical-comedy hit, Hairspray, is touring the country. The production, which achieves mixed results, recently played Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center, but some performances were cancelled due to positive COVID tests within the company. The next tour stop is Cincinnati's Aronoff Center from Jan. 4-9.
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The Musical Kimberly Akimbo
NYC’s Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater
By: - Jan 07th, 2022Kimberly Akimbo the newly penned musical with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Shrek the Musical) and music by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Caroline, or Change) is the most loving, loveliest, and poignant theatrical experience of the year.
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Lincoln Center's Flying Over Sunset.
Musical About Early Acid Trips
By: - Jan 08th, 2022In the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, LSD (before Dr. Timothy Leary) was a trendy drug used by both psychiatrists and other to help individuals explore their past and their subconscious. Among the well-known people who experimented with the drug was actor Cary Grant, novelist Aldous Huxley and playwright/journalist/diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
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Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Production Transfers to Broadway
By: - Jan 09th, 2022Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O'Hara, brings us abruptly into sexual fantasies played out by three interracial couples in the ante-bellum South. This is not what might have happened in the South before or during Jim Crow. No, it is the processing of feelings which will re-invigorate the Black partner’s sexual desire. In the second Act, Processing, we get into the nitty grity of race feelings, which range wider and tougher than the first act’s insight that cantaloupe has white skin and no taste
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Barington Stage Company Winter Program
11th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival
By: - Jan 12th, 2022Barrington Stage Company announces the 10-minute plays and casting for the 11th Annual 10X10 New Play Festival, part of the 2022 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival.
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The Band’s Visit
Touring Company in San Francisco
By: - Jan 14th, 2022The biggest star of The Band's Visit is the music. Lyrics in the sung songs are witty and divulging, and the accompanying music is pleasant throughout, with eclectic influences from American pop to klezmer to bossanova. Some of the stylings are a little rough, which at first may suggest poor casting, but on further consideration, less than perfect renditions work well. After all, the characters represented are not singers, they are working class.
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Tootsie
Non-Equity National Touring Production Playing in South Florida
By: - Jan 14th, 2022A non-equity national touring production of the stage musical adaptation of Tootsie is playing the Broward Center for Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale. The uneven production will remain in Ft. Lauderdale through Jan. 23. For showtimes and ticket information, go to https://fortlauderdale.broadway.com/shows/tootsie.
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America’s Critic Terry Teachout Was 65
Wrote for Wall Street Journal
By: - Jan 15th, 2022The author of several biographies, plays and opera librettos, Terry Teachout had an expansive interest in the arts. Few of his generation were more prolific. In an age of decline in arts journalism he was the only major critic who regularly covered regional theatre. We saw him several times each season in the Berkshires.
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Celebration of Black Voices — Ain’t I A Woman
Streamed Free by Barrington Stage Company
By: - Jan 19th, 2022Written by Shirley Edgerton and Felicia Robertson and directed by Shirley Edgerton and Ted Thomas, Ain’t I A Woman tells the stories of unsung African American heroines. Members of the Women of Color Giving Circle, Rites of Passage and Empowerment program, Youth Alive and other community members perform. Wanda Houston is the guest artist, telling the story and singing the songs of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Gypsy: A Musical Fable
The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum in South Florida
By: - Jan 18th, 2022The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton has mounted an impressive production of the classic musical, Gypsy. The production runs through Feb. 13. Laura Hodos as Mama Rose and the rest of the cast shine.
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Almost, Maine
At Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach
By: - Jan 21st, 2022Almost, Maine is a romantic comedy with magical realism. In magical realism, fantastical things happen within a realistic setting. However, the characters accept the otherworldly occurrences as normal. Almost, Maine runs through Jan. 30 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in South Florida.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
At San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
By: - Jan 21st, 2022This touring musical brings all of the glitzy production values of Broadway. Staging, which combines extensive back-lit projection along with movable scenery, is bright, colorful and appealing, especially the brilliant landscape diorama made entirely from candy. The play is highly episodic with different musical twists in the introductions of each winner of the free tour.
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Renee Fleming, Uma Thurman, Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall
Weaving Kevin Puts, Philip Glass, Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn
By: - Jan 23rd, 2022Tom Stoppard prefers rock and pop, but he contributes mightily to a musical monologue written with Andre Previn and sung and spoken by Renee Fleming and Uma Thurman with the splendid Emerson Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein.
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Grease
A co-production in South Florida
By: - Jan 24th, 2022South Florida-based companies present a rousing production of the classic musical, "Grease." The co-production between MNM Theatre Company and North End Theater Company runs through Jan. 30 at the Lauderhill Performing Arts Center. During the reviewed performance, one could spot audience members wearing outfits emblazoned with the words "T-birds" and "Pink Ladies."
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