Theatre
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Hunchback of Notre Dame in Ft. Lauderdale
Slow Burn Theatre Company Rings the Bell
By: - Oct 25th, 2016Composer Alan Menken, lyricist Stephen Schwartz and book writer Peter Parnell have created a heartfelt, heartbreaking and riveting version of the popular Victor Hugo novel.
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Red Velvet at Chicago's Raven Theatre
Actor Ira Aldridge Challenged London's Racism
By: - Oct 27th, 2016In 1833, the African-American actor Ira Aldridge (Brandon Greenhouse) was the first black man to play the leading role in Othello in a London theater.
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The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
Revival at Hartford Stage Company
By: - Oct 31st, 2016In 1987 August Wilson's The Piano Lesson premiered at Yale Rep. It was one of two plays from the ten in the decades spanning Pittsburgh Cycle that won a Pulitzer Prize. It is being revived in a production at Hartford Stage Company. The stunning, vintage, hand crafted upright piano from the original Yale production has been borrowed for this occasion. It is the centerpiece for sibling tension that informs the iconic Wilson drama.
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One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace
Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company Off Broadway
By: - Nov 02nd, 2016The title of the play, which feels like a cross between Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter's work, comes from words in a poem by English poet John Donne (1573-1631).
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The Bottle Tree by Beth Kander
Premiere at Chicago's Stage Left Theater
By: - Nov 02nd, 2016The bottle tree is a background symbol in Stage Left Theatre’s haunting new play by that name—a world premiere script by Beth Kander—about the U.S. gun culture and its most horrific example, school shootings.
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Tiger Style Purrs At Huntington
Chinese-American Play Promises More Than It Delivers
By: - Nov 04th, 2016Squabbling siblings Albert and Jennifer Chen attained academic achievement. But as adults, they’re socially awkward depressed failures: he’s just been passed up for promotion and she’s been dumped by her loser boyfriend. So pivoting to the West and the East, they confront their Tiger parents and launch an Asian Freedom Tour! From California to China and back, this new comedy examines race, parenting, and success.
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Zora Neale Hurston: a Theatrical Biography
Celebrating the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance
By: - Nov 05th, 2016The "Queen of the Harlem Renaissance" would probably be thrilled with the birthday bash Off-Broadway's New Federal Theatre and Castillo Theatre are throwing in her honor. They're presenting a fresh, dynamic production of the bio-play "Zora Neale Hurston: a Theatrical Biography" through Nov. 20 in Castillo's intimate black box theater.
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King Charles III At Chicago Shakespeare
After the Queen Dies
By: - Nov 21st, 2016This is a thoughtful drama (with comic lines) about the nature of law and constitutionality and father-son relationships. Director Gary Griffin takes Mike Bartlett’s carefully shaped story and brings out its drama, compassion and relevance to the day’s events.
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The Servant of Two Masters
At Brooklyn's Theatre for a New Audience
By: - Nov 20th, 2016The Polonsky Shakespeare Center mounts a charming production of Carlo Goldoni's famous play. Improvisation abounds. You'll hear about Flatbush and election night mares.
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Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement
At Florida's Island City Stage
By: - Nov 22nd, 2016The leadership of the multi-award winning Island City Stage, a bold and daring Wilton company near Ft. Lauderdale is dedicated to “producing theatrical experiences that positively impact the LGBT and general community,." “Perfect Arrangement” by Topher Payne centers on an effort to track down and fire homosexuals who worked for the U.S. government in the 1950s. .
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Holiday Inn at Roundabout Theatre
The New Irving Berlin Musical
By: - Dec 15th, 2016With a book co-written by Chad Hodge and Gordon Greenberg (he is also the director), Holiday Inn, stuffed with 22 Irving Berlin songs, some standards, others resurrected from the dead, is back on the boards again.
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Dear Evan Hansen
Backstory of How the Musical Made Its Way to Broadway
By: - Dec 15th, 2016During a meeting of American Theatre Critics Association in New York there was a panel devoted to the development from page to stage of the recently opened, well reviewed musical Dear Evan Hansen
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Promethean Theatre Ensembles
By: - Dec 15th, 2016Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is a documentary-style play set in a courtroom. Lest you think that sounds dry, it isn’t. Jamie Bragg stars as Oscar Wilde. Her performance is nuanced and persuasive as the jaunty Oscar in her every word, look, gesture and posture.
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Projection and Sound Design in Theatre
Panel During ATCA Critics NY Conference
By: - Dec 17th, 2016“See Me, Hear Me: Innovations and Challenges in Projection and Sound Design," moderated by Martha Wade Steketee, was the toipic of a penel during the New York conference of American Theatre Critics Association. A video of the panel may be viewed at the ATCA website.,
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Million Dollar Quartet In Coral Gables
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre
By: - Dec 20th, 2016The Tony Award winning show,which enjoyed a Broadway run, Million Dollar Quartet, dramatizes a real-life historic jam session between rock stars Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tenn. on Dec. 4, 1956.
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Lucas Hnath’s Play The Christians
At Chicago's Steppenwolf
By: - Dec 20th, 2016Lucas Hnath’s play The Christians at Steppenwolf Theatre challenges the belief systems of its characters on stage as well as those of religious and nonreligious audience members.
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Sandy on Broadway
No Business Like Show Business
By: - Dec 20th, 2016During the ATCA NY conference Sandy and Gerry Katz saw a bunch of shows on Broadway. She also has terrific travel tips.
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My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center in Boca Raton
By: - Dec 23rd, 2016While Zimmerman’s show is obviously meant mostly for laughs, there is at least one lesson to learn: In life, perseverance, thick skin and luck can lead to successes that once seemed impossible.
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Conor McPherson’s The Weir
Irish Theatre of Chicago.
By: - Dec 26th, 2016Conor McPherson’s The Weir isn’t your typical Christmas play, but I’ll take it any day over any of the traditional treacly tales that grace our stages this time of year. The play, however, has a Holiday theme.
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An American in Paris
Road Company in Miami
By: - Dec 29th, 2016“An American in Paris” is a musical composition by George Gershwin, which he referred to as an “extended symphonic tone poem.” The New York Philharmonic commissioned it and the piece soon became one of his most famous compositions. It was inspired by his visit to Paris during the 1920s.
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Avenue Q Lives On in the US
From College Grads to the 99%
By: - Dec 28th, 2016In the beginning, almost a decade and a half ago, target audiences were young people whose lives paralleled those of the characters on stage. Princeton has just graduated from college with an unmarketable BA in English. Kate can't find a job to fulfill her teaching ambitions. Gary Coleman peaked at fifteen and is now a building superintendent. Today these characters can be any one of the 99 % that make up our nation.
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Touring Company of 42nd Street
On the Road in Florida
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Current non-equity national tour director Mark Bramble doesn’t disappoint in a mostly commendable production of 42nd Street that played a one-night stand in West Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve. The 16-week touring production will continue at Florida venues until Jan. 6, when it heads north.
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Light Up the Night for New Year
Treasure Trove of Songs by the National Yiddish Theater
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Jewish music is often in the minor mode, but the enduring spirit of the people who sing it and live it creates a hopeful and joyous atmosphere.
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The Charleston Christmas Special
Yet Again Produced by Brad and Jennifer Moranz
By: - Dec 14th, 2016Brad and Jennifer Moranz want y'all to have a Holly Jolly Christmas and a Happy New Year. For the past 21 years their Charleston Christmas Special has provided Broadway-quality entertainment with the gusto of holiday happiness.
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Jay Presson Allen’s Tru
At Palm Beach Dramaworks
By: - Dec 13th, 2016Jay Presson Allen’s historical one-man play, “Tru,” which is on stage through Jan. 1 at Palm Beach Dramaworks in a first-rate production, deftly depicts the humanity and resiliency of late celebrity author Truman Capote.
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