Theatre
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The Faux-Real Theatre Company Comes to La Mama
Oedipus Rex XX/XY
By: - Mar 09th, 2013Oedipus Rex as conceived by the Faux-Real Theater Company is true to the original, although the producers say "sort of." A play in which Son kills Dad and then marries Mom with whom he begets half brothers and sisters provides latitude. Even though Oedipus is played by an actress and Jocasta by an actor, the brew has already been mixed and turned upside down by the time the play starts. The Faux-Real troop provides a classic take with brilliant winks.
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Treat Williams a the Clark March 11
Shorts in Winter with Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Mar 06th, 2013On Monday, March 11 at 7 pm, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute welcomes friends from the Williamstown Theatre Festival as they present “Shorts in Winter,†a cozy winter evening of short stories read by Festival actors.
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Sensational Clybourne Park At SpeakEasy
A Brilliantly Scripted Play About Our Past and Present
By: - Mar 06th, 2013Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play. Filled with ironic humor, it is a brilliant drama about race, real estate and the volatile values of each. Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, it transcribes racist American attitudes in two acts set 50 years apart. In the late 50s, a community is up in arms over the first black family to buy a house in their white neighborhood. Fifty years later, the neighborhood has changed around the same house, as now young white couples want to buy into the now predominantly black neighborhood. The social and emotional anxieties are mirror images. The writing and acting is sensational. This is great theatre.
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Kate Burton and Nicholas Martin
Return to Huntingon for the 2013-2014 Season
By: - Mar 05th, 2013The complete 2013-2014 Season will include four plays at the Boston University Theatre on the Avenue of the Arts, three plays at the Wimberly Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA, and one play in the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA.
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Clever Stones In His Pockets At LyricStage
What It Means To Be Irish When Hollywood Invades
By: - Mar 04th, 2013A darkly clever play of what happens to a small village in County Kerry when a Hollywood crew shoots a "truly" Irish film using and in some cases abusing the locals who are hired as the extras. The story is carried on by verbally dueling very adroit two actors that transform themselves into fifteen characters by a turn of the head, a doffing of a cap or a twisting of the body. Actors Phil Tayler and Daniel Berger-Jones have strong nonstop performances.
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Nobel Author Jelinek Deconstructs Jackie O
Tina Benko Compels at Women's Project Theatre
By: - Mar 04th, 2013Tina Benko’s performance as Jackie in the play of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek, is a turn for the ages. Beat by beat, swoop by swoop, dashes and arrested moments, Benko holds us in her sway. Every surprising comic opportunity is subtly presented.
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Noel Coward's Fallen Angels
At the Pasadena Playhouse
By: - Mar 03rd, 2013The Pasadena Playhouse has a long and pleasant association with the plays of Noel Coward. Twelve of his plays beginning with “Hay Fever†in 1926, “Star Quality†in 2003, and now with “Fallen Angelsâ€, have been seen on its stage.
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Christine Lahti and Treat Williams: The Lion in Winter
Berkshire Theatre Group June 25 to July 13
By: - Mar 01st, 2013Berkshire Theatre Group announces award-winning actress, Christine Lahti, and award-winning actor, Treat Williams, will join.the cast of The Lion in Winter at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage. The classic play runs June 25 to July 13
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The National Civil War Project
The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Harvard University
By: - Feb 28th, 2013The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) and Harvard University are proud to announce their participation in The National Civil War Project, an ambitious multi-city, multi-year collaboration of four universities and five performing arts organizations to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, which launched today in Washington, D.C. Inspired by noted choreographer Liz Lerman, The National Civil War Project will include the commissioning of original theatrical works as well as the creation of new arts-integrated academic programs.
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Muckrakers and Little Mermaid, Jr. at Barrington
June 13 – July 6 on the St. Germain Stage
By: - Feb 27th, 2013Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, under the leadership of Artistic Director, Julianne Boyd, and Managing Director, Tristan Wilson, proudly announces two additional productions as part of the theatre’s 19th season; the world premiere of Muckrakers by Zayd Dohrn and Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2013
Third Season for Artistic Director Jenny Gersten
By: - Feb 25th, 2013Highlights of the 2013 season include: Animal Crackers, Pygmalion, and a new musical adaption of Bridges of Madison Country on the Main Stage. The smaller Nikos Stage will feature American Hero, Hapgood, and Johnny Baseball. The Free Theatre will stage a version of Dracula by Steve Lawson.
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Legally Blonde The Musical
The Palm Canyon Theatre In Palm Springs
By: - Feb 21st, 2013With the current production “Legally Blonde The Musicalâ€, at The Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs, the show is weak on story and heavy on singing and dancing. Everyone likes singing and dancing, but not to the detriment of the “book/story†otherwise it becomes merely a dance/singing recital.
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SUDS: Melida Gilb, Steve Gunderson, Bryan Scott
Annenberg Theatre in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 21st, 2013The Coyote StageWorks production "Suds" at the Annenberg Theatre in Palm Springs, directed by the very talented actor/director David Engel, faithfully recreates the era of the 1960’s thanks to the brilliant performances of its four cast members, and the songs that transport the audience back in time when life was a heck of lot simpler.
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The Gift at LA's Geffen Playhouse
New Play by Joanna Murray-Smith Doesn't Cut It
By: - Feb 20th, 2013One of the problems with the piece, at least for me, is that playwright Joanna Murray-Smith, and possibly director Maria Aitken, are not sure what kind of story “The Gift†is supposed to be and what the play is trying to convey.
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The Brothers Size By Tarell A. McCraney.
Old Globe Production Directed By Tea Algic
By: - Feb 20th, 2013The Old Globe’s production of “The Brothers Size†is directed by award winning director Tea Algic. Algic is a very seasoned and a highly respected professional director originally from the Balkans.
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On Broadway At Cabaret Theatre West
Now In Its Third Season in Palm Springs
By: - Feb 20th, 2013Cabaret Theatre West, now in its third season, is one producing organization that has found that the “cabaret styled†entertainment production is a winning formula. They just get better doing one entertaining and dazzling show after another.
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2013 Season
From Oklahoma to Lion in Winter
By: - Feb 16th, 2013During the July Fourth weekend which launches the Berkshire season the Colonial Theatre will stage the perennial tribute to Ameriana the classic musical Oklahoma. The Stockbridge Main Stage will get a jump start on June 25 with Treat Williams starring in The Lion in Winter. Local legend Karen Allen, who made her directorial debut at the Unicorn Theatre with Moonchildren will return to that stage directing Extremities.
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The Glass Menagerie Brilliant At A.R.T.
Tennessee Williams' Eloquent Memory Play Is Transcendent
By: - Feb 13th, 2013Perhaps Tennessee Williams' best work, the Glass Menagerie is starkly presented as an emotionally painful memory play that features the struggling writer Tom and his disfunctional small family. Cherry Jones is note perfect as mother Amanda. Tom is edgily performed by Zachary Quinto. Celia Keenan-Bolger poignantly plays sister Laura going in and out of her shell. A theatrical old chestnut with a new taste and dramatic spice, this is an as good as it gets Glass Menagerie. It should not be missed.
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Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Spring
Programming in Great Barrington
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington announces spring 2013. Highlights include a talk by author and illustrator Brian Selznick followed by a screening of Hugo, Masters of the Fiddle with Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, humorist David Sedaris , singer/mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau , Cirque Shanghai: Bai Xi, Paul Taylor Dance Company , "Live in HD" broadcasts by the Metropolitan Opera, London's National Theatre, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, as well as classic movies.
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Shakespeare & Company Stars for 2013
Tina Packer, Olympia Dukakis, John Douglas Thompson Return
By: - Feb 11th, 2013Following a two year tour of Women of Will the founding artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, Tina Packer, returns with The Beauty Queen of Leenane co starring Elizabeth Aspenlieder. Last summer Olympia Dukakis and John Douglas Thompson had hit shows with The Tempest and Satchmo at the Waldorf. This summer they will perform together in the 20th century classic Mother Courage.
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A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
McCarter Theatre Mounts a Fresh Take
By: - Feb 10th, 2013A Delicate Balance, directed by Emily Mann at the McCarter Theater, etches the cost of buried feelings. Albee, who attended rehearsals in Princeton and delivers the opening announcement on the intercom, wrioe that the play is about “the rigidity and ultimate paralysis which afflicts those who settle in too easily, waking up one day to discover that all the choices they have avoided no longer give them freedom of choice and what choices they have left are beside the point.â€
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Jackie By Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prize Winning Writer at NY's City Center Stage II
By: - Feb 08th, 2013Jackie is part of Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek's cycle of "Princess Plays" that she describes as a satirical counterpoint to Shakespeare’s histories, which in German are called “Kings Plays.†She has female role models such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Di and Jackie Kennedy, who, for the 20th Century, is the essential princess. The production history surrounding Jackie is mysterious, and this production may well be the world premiere of the English language translation.
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Lighting From Heaven by Scott C. Sickles
Dramatizing Publishing Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago
By: - Feb 07th, 2013Workshop Theatre Company presents the New York premiere production of Lightning From Heaven by Workshop Theater Company Artistic Director and award-winning playwright Scott C. Sickles. It is directed by Thomas Coté and will play a limited engagement on the Main Stage at WorkShop Theater (312 West 36th Street, 4th Floor).
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Will Eno's The Flu Season at A.R.T.
Directed by Marcus Stern
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training continues its 2012-13 Season with Will Eno’s The Flu Season, directed by A.R.T. Institute director Marcus Stern. The production runs February 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1 and 2 at 7:30pm at the Zero Church Street Performance Space, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Admission in free.
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The Human Variations by Blueprint Theatre Project
Staged In Abby Verbosky's Photography Exhibition
By: - Feb 07th, 2013The backdrop for “The Human Variations†is a photography exhibit featuring the work of Abby Verbosky. Two men. Six women. Drink. Dance. Desperate loneliness. What begins as innocent banter over cocktails at an art opening quickly transforms into fantasy, nightmare and possible redemption. In “The Human Variations" has four movements (Allegro, Largo, Scherzo and Rondo).
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