Theatre
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Suor Angelica
Puccini's Tragedy in the Covent
By: - Oct 05th, 2026The intense 60-minute opera tells of a young woman consigned to the convent as punishment for having a child out of wedlock. Having already subjugated earthly desires to serving God, she is asked to make one final sacrifice.
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Urmetazoan by Alex Rugman
North American Premiere at Barrington Stage Company
By: - Oct 05th, 2026An obtuse title is but one of many complications in an ambitious but overreaching North American premiere of Urmetazoan by Alex Rugman. With a sci fi approach it is both micro and macro from the cosmic to quotedian. There is a simultaneous production in London which has opened to mostly positive reviews.
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Little Bear Ridge Road
Tony Nominee Opens TheaterWorks Season in Hartford
By: - Oct 05th, 2026TheaterWorks Hartford, under the leadership of Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Managing Director Jeff Griffin, announces details for its production of LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD, written by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale). The 2026 Tony Nominee for Best Play is set to kick off TheaterWorks Hartford’s 26/27 season.
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Tony Winner Jason Robert Brown
Recipient of 2026 William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre
By: - Oct 05th, 2026Barrington Stage Company will celebrate Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, recipient of the 2026 William Finn Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, at its annual BSC in NYC event on Monday, October 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the legendary 54 Below.
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Mannes Produces Suor Angelica
Puccini in a Cathoic Church
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Mannes School of Music filled the nave of Our Lady of Good Counsel in New York with Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Arguably the best music school in New York, Mannes produces wonderful operas and concerts week after week. They are offered free and they're always a treat.
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The Happiest Man on Earth
St. Germain One Man Play at Plahouse On Park
By: - Oct 03rd, 2026Any solo show needs a premise to explain why the character is talking to us, the audience, and telling us this story. Playwright Mark St. German who adopted this from Eddie’s autobiography has created a very effective premise to explain this. Eddie is finally going to talk about his experiences the next day at a Synagogue. He is nervous so he is practicing in front of us who he calls his new friends.
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Shakespeare & Company Festival
Celebrating Jewish Plays
By: - Oct 02nd, 2026Join Shakespeare & Company for Celebrating Jewish Plays, a three-day festival bringing Jewish stories, voices, and perspectives to the stage through powerful plays, staged readings, poetry, music, and conversation.
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Beatle Girls
Four Girls Who Ran Their Fan Clubs
By: - Oct 01st, 2026“Beatle Girls,” has its Sarasota premiere as the season-opening attraction at Tree Fort Productions.
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Snow Goose Lays an Egg
World Premiere at Goodspeed
By: - Oct 01st, 2026I tried so hard to like this adaptation of Paul Gallico‘s very short novella, The Snow Goose –a Story of Dunkirk, but some elements just made it difficult to do so.
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Black Billed Cuckoo at La Jolla
Watching Birds and Discovering Selves
By: - Sep 28th, 2026A Black-billed Cuckoo, is the second play written by Mat Smart as part of the DNA New Work Series at the La Jolla Playhouse. Smart, an avid birder himself, got the idea for the play during a birding outing after he didn’t see the cuckoo that everyone else saw. The play, directed by Shelley Butler, follows five bird-watchers over 24 hours in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
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Carrie the Musical
Stephen King Classic on Stage
By: - Sep 28th, 2026In the story, Carrie has long been an outcast among her classmates, taunted for how she acts and what she wears, and she must deal with an oppressive relationship with her mother, Margaret, who has strong views on religion and how Carrie should be raised.
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Lincoln in the Bardo Preview
Death of ClassicL and Greenwood Cemetery Magical Partners
By: - Sep 27th, 2026Lincoln in the Bardo, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli, is based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Previewed at Green-wood Cemetery, the opera will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on October 19.
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Thea Musgrave's Tragic Opera
By: - Sep 26th, 2026At age 18, Mary returns to Scotland as queen, having grown up in France. Her several years of rule before abdicating are marked by constant internal threats. At various times, four powerful men close to Mary are murdered by other men close to her. The opera conveys the instability adeptly in its drama and music.
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Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest
The Movie as a Farcical Play
By: - Sep 25th, 2026During the Cold War, an advertising executive is mistaken by spies for a U.S government man of interest to their hostile country. A chase by plane, train, and automobile from New York to Mount Rushmore commences. The twist (and there is plenty of dance-like choreography) is that the underlying tension from the suspense is retained, but the action is played for laughs.
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What a Glorious Feeling by Jay Berkow
Musical Based on Making of Film Singing in the Rain
By: - Sep 23rd, 2026Early on in freeFall Theatre’s production of “What a Glorious Feeling!” two impressive performers playing Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen start tap dancing wildly inside a small Hollywood rehearsal studio. They’re creating steps that will become a crucial part of the tongue-twisting song “Moses Supposes” in their classic 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”
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Simon Stone's Cherry Orchard
Park Avenue Armory Goes Korean
By: - Sep 21st, 2026What is striking about the current production of The Cherry Orchard at the Park Avenue Armory in New York is its musicality. You notice this quickly, because, if you’re like most of us, you don't understand the Korean language spoken in this version of the play. It was written by the brilliant director Simon Stone, who says he wanted to "pin words onto his actors." You clearly get the emotion of the phrases—they chirp and tinkle and chip away at the air like musical notes.
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Co-founder Dolly Jacobs Ousted from Circus Arts Conservatory
Sarasota Supporters Outraged
By: - Sep 18th, 2026In the days since Circus Arts Conservatory co-founder Dolly Jacobs’ Sept. 11 announcement that she had been terminated by the organization’s board of directors, fans of the legendary aerialist, supporters of the nonprofit and members of the Sarasota circus community have reacted with shock, outrage and vows to discontinue support for the organization.
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Come From Away at Sharon PLayhouse
A Timely Revival
By: - Sep 18th, 2026Though it seems as though everyone must know the plot of come from Away by now, it is set in Gander, Newfoundland on Sept. 11, 2001, and the days following. Gander, once a major refueling stop for cross Atlantic flights becomes one of the airports that flights that are in the air on 9/11 are directed to when the US airspace is closed. 38 jumbo jets, mostly originating in Europe, are told to land; the 7,000 passengers on board exceed the population of the town.
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Music Theatre of Connecticut
Harmony Opens Season
By: - Sep 18th, 2026The show tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a singing group of six men formed in Germany in the 1920s. Their close harmony and jazzy routines, as well as their humor made them an international success. Tours of Europe led to an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 1932. Best selling recordings led to movie contracts.
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Edith Wharton Play Roman Fever
Staged Reading at the Mount
By: - Sep 17th, 2026Set against the timeless backdrop of Rome, “Roman Fever” explores friendship, jealousy, betrayal, and the secrets that can reshape a lifetime. In Wharton’s sharply observed story, two longtime friends revisit their shared past, gradually revealing simmering tensions, long-buried secrets, and startling revelations. The reading brings Wharton’s razor-sharp wit and enduring fascination with the complexities of human relationships vividly to life.
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Don Giovanni
Opera San Jose's Fine Production of Mozart Classic
By: - Sep 15th, 2026Serial sex abuser Don Giovanni's downfall begins with his killing Donna Anna's father The Commendatore in a swordfight. Three of his conquests are joined by two male friends to bring an end to his reign. Meanwhile, we enjoy Mozart's fine music and an exceptional libretto from Lorenzo da Ponte that integrates comedy, tragedy, and fantasy in a matchless manner.
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Sarasota Players Fundraise for New Home
It Hasn't Been Easy
By: - Sep 15th, 2026At the Sept. 10 ceremony, the theater company broke with tradition to kick off the launch of Payne Park Auditorium and the fundraising campaign by plugging in a ghost light, which has been part of theatrical history and superstition since the 19th century.
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Norweigans by C. Denny Swanson
Launches Fall seasob for Shakespere & Company
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Launching the Berkshire shoulder season, Shakespeare & Company, is presenting a dark comedy, The Norwegians, on weekends in the intimate Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. It's a rare treat to see the hilarious Elizabeth Aspenlieder sharing a stage with Peggy Phar Wilson.
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Boston Lyric Opera's Fiftieth Season
Launches with William Tell
By: - Sep 14th, 2026Although its overture remains among the best-known classical pieces ever written, Angus says, WILLIAM TELL also contains some of Rossini’s richest music, including soaring choral writing, expansive ensembles, and virtuosic arias that reveal a composer working on a far grander canvas than the comic operas for which he is often remembered.
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Baker Street Beginnings
Heckscher Theatre for Families Production
By: - Sep 09th, 2026Theatre Lab's annual family-friendly production this year is the humorous, thrilling, and endearing "Baker Street Beginnings." The production marks the world premiere of Gina Montét's new play.
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