Theatre
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Vignettes on Love by David Steele in Frisco
Produced by PlayGround at Potrero Stage
By: - Jul 11th, 2017The world premiere of the dark dramedy "Vignettes on Love" by David Steele provides enjoyable entertainment as it explores the dynamics of love from its giddiness to its hurt. It is produced by PlayGround and plays at Potrero Stage in, San Francisco, through July 30.
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William S. Burroughs Naked Lunch with Live Score
When Typewriters Talk
By: - Jul 13th, 2017Naked Lunch is never going to be a mainstream film, but the opportunity to peer into the twisty subconscious of the creative mind and the keen brilliance of a jazzman the caliber of Ornette Coleman was a perfect coming together of two seemingly opposed forces. And no Interzone insectoid typewriter would argue with that.
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Romy Nordlinger Delves into Nazirova
Woman Filmmaker's Career Dramatized
By: - Jul 23rd, 2017Alla Nazirova was a theater and film original, who came to the US and stormed Broadway Leaving for Hollywood, she became Tinseltown's highest paid talent. She was Queen of Sapphic Los Angeles and that cost her. Now she is brought to life by Romy Nordlinger at 59E59 Theaters.
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Sweeney Todd in South Florida
Sondheim Thriller at Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Jul 24th, 2017A fine cast and crew captures the darkness and the comic in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The lead actor creates a sympathetic Sweeney, even if we abhor the character's actions. The unease of Sweeney Todd's world eerily mirrors our own.
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The Clean House by Pulitzer Nominated Sarah Ruhl
All Star Production at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 26th, 2017Mandy Greenfield, artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival, has produced The Clean House, a 2005 Pulitzer nominee, by Sarah Ruhl. Ii is a play written by, about, and for women. It is directed by Tony winner, Rebecca Taichman, and pairs Tony nominees Jayne Atkinson and Jessice Hecht. There are two other women and a guy who Ruhl sends packiing in Alaska leaving his terminally ill mistress.
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Timon of Athens at Stratford Festival
Yet Another Superb Production
By: - Jul 27th, 2017Stratford has a special history with this Shakespeare play, dating from Michael Langham’s extraordinary 1963 production with incidental music commissioned from Duke Ellington. Updating the setting, Langham offered an opulent melodrama with some textual additions, guest musicians and dancers.
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The Nance at Pride Arts Center
Evoking an Era of Burlesque
By: - Jul 28th, 2017The burlesque acts at the Irving Place Theatre make up almost half of The Nance, which is riproaringly directed by John Nasca. You’ll see a feathery fan dance by Joan (Britt-Marie Sivertsen) and other songs, dances and modest strip routines by Sylvie and Carmen (Steph Vondell). The women’s costumes are colorful and sparkly—and designed by Nasca, doing double duty as costume designer.
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Katrin Hilbe Directs Dear Jane
Joan Beber Play Mounted at the Clurman
By: - Jul 28th, 2017Joan Beber has tackled an intimate part of her own life, the death of a twin sister, in her new play, Dear Jane. Formed as a letter to her deceased sibling, Beber creates many memorable characters. Katrin Hilbe directs flawlessly.
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Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
American Dreams in 1905
By: - Jul 29th, 2017Inspired by her great grandmother's life, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage, presents Esther, a fine seamstress in 1905's New York City. Through this lens, we meet others of various races and sexes, from places around the world, all struggling to achieve their dreams. How they fare becomes our concern.
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Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow
Feiffer Deconstructs Chekhov in Williamstown
By: - Jul 30th, 2017Over 62 years of Williamstown Theatre Festival there have been 18 productions of the four best known plays by Anton Chekov; The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, the Seagull and Three Sisters. There have been five prior versions of Three Sisters and this season we have yet another. Well, not exactly.
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Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
Making Family Insanity Hilarious in Stockbridge
By: - Jul 31st, 2017This is a classic comedy that still entertains with a spectacular cast and great timing! Arsenic and Old Lace ran for three years on Broadway starting in 1941 and still holds up. There is a lively production on Stage at Bekshire Theatre Group in Stockbridge.
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Bad Jews in Miami Lakes
Main Street Players Stages Joshua Harmon Dramedy
By: - Jul 31st, 2017Bad Jews is a biting comedy/drama at South Florida theater. Joshua Harmon play marks Main Street Players' third professional production. Company excels in an intense, funny production.
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Dimitrij by Dvorak at Bard's SummerScape
Leon Botstein Conduts an Underdog Opera
By: - Jul 31st, 2017Leon Botstein, a great American educator and music polymath, makes the case for underexposed compositions by known and unknown composers. This year, he presents Anton Dvo?ák's Dimitrij as a feature of the Bard SummerScape Festival.
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Footloose the Musical in Fremont. California
Starstruck Youth Performing Arts
By: - Aug 01st, 2017"Footloose the Musical" is based on a film that was part of a strong cluster of movies that in some ways was a gentle echo of the youthful rebellion of the '60s. Hollywood struck a rich vein of teen and young adult musical films in the decade starting 1978. Some were based on earlier stage musicals, and others would later become live theater pieces. Starstruck Youth Performing Arts has selected a perfect vehicle for a large teen cast.
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Berkshire Theatre Group's Fall Programming
Pulitzer and Tony Winner David Auburn's Lost Lake at the Unicorn
By: - Aug 04th, 2017Berkshire Theatre Group announces additions to the fall and winter seasons, as well as casting for the Fall production of David Auburn’s Lost Lake at The Unicorn Theatre. Therde wlll also be a number of unique musical events at its Colonial Theatre in downtiown Pittsfield.
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Berkshire Museum Releases Auction List
Two Rockwells and 38 Other Works
By: - Jul 24th, 2017Initially the Berkshire Museum disclosed plans to sell two paintings by Norman Rockwell but declined to reveal the other works. Under intensive media scrutiny and concerns from the community the museum has posted responses to frequently asked questions on the website and has released the full list of deaccessioned works. The lot has a pre auction estmate of $50 million toward a goal to "reboot" with $20 milion in renovation and $40 million for endowment. The remaining $10 millions will be raised apart from the sale of works of art.
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Taking Steps by Alan Aykbourn
Farce Rocks Barrington Stage
By: - Jul 24th, 2017Leaving our thinking caps at home there was no heavy lifting in the delicious British farce, Taking Steps, by the redoubtable Alan Ayckbourn. At last count he has written 77 plays. After the knockout job that director, Sam Buntrock, and a truly gifted cast did with this one, one hopes that over time Barrington will produce the other 76.
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Conflating Early with Late Edward Albee
Interesting Mismatch at Berkshire Theatre Group
By: - Jul 23rd, 2017In 1958 the one act play Zoo Story launched the career of playwright Edward Albee. In 2004 he added a first act. That version , retitled At Home at the Zoo (Zoo Story), is being produced by Berkshire Theatre Group on its intimate Unicorn stage in Stockbridge.
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Another Palm Canyon Theatre Hit
Tony Winner Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights
By: - Jul 15th, 2017“In the Heights” by Lin Manuel Miranda chronicles the daily struggles of the neighborhood in its day to day existence of raising families, paying the rent and trying to keep one’s business from going bankrupt, along with the age-old frustration of the younger residents in not being able to make their own choices in their searches for love, romance, and marriage.
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Tender Napalm by Philip Ridley
Anton's Well Theater Company in Oakland
By: - Jul 16th, 2017Several recurring themes frame the arc to provide color to the story telling. Detailed sexual activity with graphic anatomical references as well as analogies such as bullets and exploding grenades are often described. Unfortunately, the tsunami of f-bombs reduce their effectiveness and seem like a child's learning a nasty word and mindlessly repeating it until it becomes meaningless.
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Where Storms are Born in Williamstown
World Premiere by Harrison David Rivers
By: - Jul 17th, 2017In its smaller Nikos Stage the Williamstown Theatre Festival features another, homegrown, world premiere. Last summer playwright Harrison David Rivers was a fellow at the renowned festival. The play that he was developing Where Storms Are Born is being produced this season. Again there is a focus on diversity and plot points hinged on gay characters, There is risk taking in this strategy wih bold and progressive but unresolved results.
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East of Edinburgh New Plays at 59E59th
Two Matters of Life and Death
By: - Jul 15th, 201759 East 59th Street Theaters is presenting New York’s annual Edinburgh Festival Preview. The acting in the plays is terrific. While these are works in process, the directors give us engaging productions on provocative themes.
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1984 On Stage in Pompano Beach
Adaptation of Orwell Novel in South Florida
By: - Jul 18th, 2017Outre's production depicts a future-- and even a present -- in which surveillance is becoming more prevalent. Actors fare better after intermission in Outre Theatre Company's 1984. Interrogation scene not as graphic as what audiences are reportedly witnessing on Broadway.
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Speech & Debate at Barrington Stage
Coming of Age Comedy by Stephen Karam
By: - Jul 19th, 2017Speech and Debate is a 2007 play by Tony winner Stephen Karam (The Humans). Since then there have been more than a hundred productions. It is being refreshed at Barrington Stage. It focuses on the bonding of three high school misfits. The awkward and insecure Howie (Austin Davidson) came out when he was nine. The uptight, preppy Solomon (Ben Getz) is a closeted wannabe investigative reporter. Diwata (Betsy Hogg) is a plain Jane, nerdy teen, passed over by the drama club, who wants to be a star. This makeover of a popular play slogs along until coming alive when the amazing Hogg takes the bit in her mouth and races hell for leather to a remarkable finish. Fasten your seat belts.
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Syrian Drama at Lincoln Center Festival
Into the Heart of Damascus
By: - Jul 20th, 2017Syrians are spreading across the world as civil war rages on in their country. We who greet, house and share our countries with them are curious about the country from which they have come and what it feel like to live there during this period of torture and destruction. The theater of Syria helps us understand what prompts exodus.
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