Theatre
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Acybourn's Bedroom Farce At Huntington Theatre
A Comedy of Manners, Wit and Whimsey
By: - Nov 24th, 2016When you put 4 couples and 3 bedrooms on one witty night, Alan Ayckbourn creates marital mishegoss with a British accent. Trevor and Susannah, with their marriage on the rocks, invade the bedrooms of their family and friends over the course of an evening, spreading chaos in their wake. Director Maria Aitken (The 39 Steps, Private Lives) returns to the Huntington Theatre for this light comedy of marital misunderstandings.
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First Night Saratoga 2017
New Years Eve celebration of the Arts
By: - Dec 01st, 2016First Night is the most affordable, accessible, family-friendly, safe and exciting way to spend New Year's Eve in the region. On Saturday, December 31st join over 15,000 revelers as Saratoga Art’s presents one of the oldest and largest First Night celebrations in the country. Starting with the 5k roadrace at Skidmore College at 5:30pm, culminating with fireworks in Congress Park at midnight and packed full of live music, dance, comedy and magic in between, this event will be a highlight of your outgoing year.
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Tom Wahl in Act of God
Florida"s GableStage
By: - Dec 05th, 2016Carbonell Award-winning actor Tom Wahl portrays the Lord in GableStage’s funny, engaging production of “An Act of God,” which is on-stage through Dec. 18 as the company’s first 2016-17 production.
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Pygmalion in Chicago
Remy Bumppo Theatre's Production
By: - Dec 05th, 2016Remy Bumppo uses Shaw’s original script but adds some mid-century touches and a new character—an older version of Eliza, named Elizabeth, personified by Jane deLaubenfels. Elizabeth appears at beginning, middle and end of the play to honor the memory of what took place in the boxed-up rooms that used to be Higgins’ “laboratory” on Wimpole Street.
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Isaac Mizrahi Narrates Peter and the Wolf
John Heginbotham and Ensemble Signal Are Icing
By: - Dec 05th, 2016Of course the costumes are terrific. Isaac Mizrahi, narrator and imaginer of this production, is a top flight designer. Each animal and human has a few eyecatching details. Prokofiev is always fabulous. All the elements come together in the Guggenheim's Works and Process Christmas celebration.
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The Big Uncut Flick by Todd Michael
At NY's Theatre Row's Studio Theatre
By: - Dec 07th, 2016In the early days of television in the 1950s stations provided low budget filler by showing second rate B movies. The usual formula was to have a host, in this case a couple, who introduced the films and pitched products during breaks. This is the theme of Todd Michael's new play The Big Uncut Flick which is having an Off Broadway run.
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Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Pastiche of War and Peace
By: - Dec 07th, 2016What started Off Broadway at Ars Nova, with three steps in between, has transferred to Broadway. Based on a 70 page slice of Tolstoy's War and Peace the explosively inovative Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 is the one to beat as best musical come awards season.
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Sondheim's Into the Woods
Touring Company
By: - Dec 09th, 2016A national equity tour of an acclaimed production of Sondheim's Into the Woods recently kicked off at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa and is on its way up north -- possibly to your city.
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In Transit on Broadway
Charming New A Capella NY Musical
By: - Dec 11th, 2016The refreshing new a capella musical, In Transit, evokes commuters not only on the move but in transition. There are poingant thumbnails of eager millenials reaching for the brass ring underground in the naked city.
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Mark Morris Cracks the Nut
Christmas Traditions Celebrated at BAM
By: - Dec 11th, 2016Mark Morris' The Hard Nut is a Christmas tradition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It is easy to see why. Morris is true to E.T. A. Hofman's story and also the Tchaikovsky score. Bringing smiles to the audience, punctuated by fear, delight and humor Morris's Nut is terrific.
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The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Dark McDonagh Play at Mark Taper Forum in LA
By: - Dec 12th, 2016“The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” a black comedy written by Martin McDoagh in 1996, and staged on Broadway in 1998, returns in a riveting revival production at the Mark Taper Forum, solidly directed by longtime McDonagh associate Garry Hynes; both veterans of the Druid Theatre in Galway, Ireland, as is the entire cast.
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Icebergs by Alena Smith
A Geffen Playhouse World Premiere
By: - Dec 12th, 2016“Icebergs” is a light, nice, TV sitcom-like play with plenty of laughs. The actors are solid, in their verisimilitude performances, but it’s not like they’re splitting the atom or solving world hunger during this weekend in LA’ Silver Lake District setting
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Beware the Jabberwocky
Holiday Production in North Miami
By: - Dec 13th, 2016“Beware the Jabberwocky” is on stage at North Miami’s Storycrafter Studio, an intimate nonprofit theater company and arts institution, through Dec. 18.
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Decline in Theatre and Arts Media Coverage
Matt Windman Panel for American Theatre Critics Association
By: - Jan 08th, 2017Matt Windman, author of “The Critics Say…57 Theater Reviewers in New York and Beyond Discuss Their Craft and Its Future,” led a panel discussion during the NY ATCA conference on the state of theater criticism in today’s world of social media bloggers and a decreasing number of full-time print theater critics
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Romance Novels for Dummies at WTF
No Southern Comfort from Boo Killebrew
By: - Jul 24th, 2016What happens when you conflate Old Miss and Brooklyn routed through Boston University? As a playwright Boo Killebrew draws on her childhood and the heritage of gracious Southern women with the here-and-now sexual politics of a single mother and her sister traying to get the shards of her life together. That illusion of a stay at home wife and mother came to a screeching end with the death of her husband. Now just 29 she is picking up the pieces in a misfired drama striving for comedy.
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Constellations At Berkshire Theater Group
Links Quantum Physics with Human Relationships
By: - Aug 12th, 2016A love story set against the backdrop of quantum physics. Brilliantly written and superbly acted, Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat succeed in hitting the high and low notes of their characters' lives, moving seamlessly from one universe to another, and bringing the audience along with them.
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And No More Shall We Part by Tom Halloway
Ending Life Drama with Molina and Kaczmarek at WTF
By: - Aug 14th, 2016What are the options when patients opt to end treatment for devastating, excruciatingly painful terminal illnesses? With astonishing performances by the renowned actors Alfred Molina and Jane Kaczmarek the issues are explored in And No More Shall We Part by Tom Holloway at Williamstown Theatre Festval.
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Terrence McNally Play in Fort Lauderdale
Love! Valour! Compassion! at Andrews Living Arts Studio
By: - Aug 16th, 2016“Love! Valour! Compassion!” is a character-driven, relatable, touching and terribly timely work with just a smidgen of sentimentality. The play, which will cause you to laugh one moment and cry the next, a la Neil Simon, vividly captures the fears, hopes, heartbreaks, tension and pride of a group of eight gay men in the summer of 1995.
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Broadway Bounty Hunter Stars Annie Golden
Barrington Stage Debuts Hit Musical by Joe Iconis
By: - Aug 20th, 2016Annie Golden broke out with Hair in 1979. As she sings in a sure to be standard the actress is a "Woman of a Certain Age." She plays herself in a world premiere of Broadway Bounty Hunters by Joe Iconis at Barrington Stage Company. This is a fun musical that you will want to see at least twice. They just don't make them like this anymore.
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Tribes at Barrington Stage Company
Award Winning British Drama by Nina Raine
By: - Aug 22nd, 2016Since its London premiere in 2010 Tribes, an award winning drama by Nina Raine, opened Off Broadway and has since been produced by major regional companies. It is being directed at Barrington Stage Company by Jenn Thompson
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Two Gentlemen Of Verona at S&Co.
A Complicated Tale Of First love
By: - Aug 23rd, 2016In this early play by Shakespeare, rarely produced, we find four main characters, two love triangles, two fathers hoping to help their children, two of Shakespeare's clowns and a dog (!) providing laughs for the whole family. The absurdist atmosphere created by the director, Jonathan Croy, allows the audience to see the wonders and obsessions of first love.
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Steve Martin's Meteor Shower
World Premiere at Old Globe Theatre
By: - Aug 24th, 2016“Meteor Shower”, Steve Martin's latest play, is currently wowing audiences at the Old Globe with his far-out sense of humor that deals with the social mores of 1990s California. It has already been extended twice.
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Chorus Line in Charleston
Opens 85th Season of Footlight Players
By: - Aug 25th, 2016The production of A Chorus Line which opened the 85th season of Footlight Players in Charleston was so fresh and lively that it was hard to fathom that the musical premiered some four decades ago. The smallish stage was packed with 26 hopefuls auditioning for just eight roles.
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The Hypochondriac by Moliere
Stratford Festival of Canada
By: - Aug 26th, 2016Antoni Cimolino’s production is showy, full of brilliant moments, superbly cast, and elaborately staged. But what should be a souffle soon begins to feel like a heavy, overfilled, over-spiced stew.
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Sotto Voce at Shakespeare & Co.
Displaced Persons Seeking a New Nome.
By: - Aug 28th, 2016Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz spins a lyrical drama centering on the long forgotten voyage of the St. Louis, which carried 939 German Jews seeking asylum. They were turned away and 234 ultimately died in concentration camps. "I can't believe this is happening again," Bernadette, the protagonist, says toward the end of Sotto Voce. The plight of these refugees seems reenacted in today's conflicts.
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