Theatre
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
First Play Brilliantly Completes Huntington's Cycle
By: - Mar 17th, 2012With wonderful performances, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is one of the 10 play Cycle by playwright August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of the 20th Century African-American experience. Set in Chicago in the 1920s, it is an ambitious discourse about race, art, God and religion along with exploitation of black recording artists. This fact based drama is brilliantly performed and produced-- a must see.
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Berkshire Actor’s Theatre 2012 Season
Auditions for Doubt Slated for March 17
By: - Mar 10th, 2012The Berkshire Actors Theatre (BAT) 2012 summer season will pair two shows by John Patrick Shanley, both performed at Berkshire Museum. The season will open June 21 with Doubt: A Parable, Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play. Opening one week later will be a remount of last season’s successful production of Four Dogs and a Bone, which will be performed in repertory with Doubt: A Parable.
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Tony Award Winning Musical Avenue Q
1000th Perofrmance at New World Stages March 14
By: - Mar 08th, 2012The Tony Award winning musical AVENUE Q -- which played a triumphant 6-year run on Broadway before moving to New World Stages over two years ago -- will celebrate its 1000th performance at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.) on Wednesday, March 14. On that date, AVENUE Q will reach a combined total number of 3, 534 performances -- 2,534 on Broadway and 1000 at New World Stages -- placing the show in the company of such beloved, long-running musicals from the past as 42ND STREET (3,486), GREASE (3,388) and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (3,242).
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Berkshire Theatre Group 2012
Season Program
By: - Mar 08th, 2012Berkshire Theatre Group announces programming for Summer 2012. BTG’s Summer of 2012 boasts a full assortment of theatrical productions, concerts, comedy, Friday Series play readings, Musical Mondays, Made in the Berkshires and more.
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Barrington Stage Adds Four Associate Artists
Darren R. Cohen, Mark H. Dold, Debra Jo Rupp, and Renee Lutz.
By: - Mar 07th, 2012Barrington Stage Company (BSC) announces four new Associate Artists. Formed in 2010, the Associate Artists Program’s inaugural honorees were composer/lyricist William Finn, actor/director Christopher Innvar and playwright Mark St. Germain. This year’s new Associate Artists are music director Darren R. Cohen, actors Mark H. Dold and Debra Jo Rupp, and production stage manager Renee Lutz.
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Obama 44 by Mario Fratti Off Broadway
La MaMa World-Premiere March 29
By: - Mar 06th, 2012La MaMa will present the world-premiere of Mario Fratti's newest play, OBAMA 44, with performances starting March 29, 2012 prior to an official press opening April 1 at La MaMa (74 E. 4 St.) in Manhattan. Directed by Wayne Maugans, the cast of OBAMA 44 includes Rob Sedgwick, Julia Motyka, Dennis Ostermaier, Thomas Poarch and Richard Ugino.
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24Hour Project by WAM Theatre and MOPCO
April 14 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox
By: - Mar 06th, 2012The second 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project brings together playwrights, directors, designers, stage managers, technicians and actors from both the Berkshires and the Capital Region armed with the common task of mounting 5 new short works by female playwrights; all written, rehearsed and performed in 24 Hours.
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Calixto Bieito Brings Camino Real to Chicago
A Provocative Williams at the Goodman Theater
By: - Mar 06th, 2012What was Williams thinking and feeling is the first question a director like Calixto Bieito asks. And he is not afraid to go where the answers lead him. A sad and yet exhilarating production of Camino Real at the Goodman.
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Eavesdropping on Dreams by Rivka Bekerman-Greenberg
NY's Barefoot Theatre Company April 20 to May 20
By: - Mar 01st, 2012Lynn Cohen and Jake Robards set to headline the cast of the world-premiere of Rivka Beekerman-Greenberg’s EAVESDROPPING ON DREAMS, presented Off-Broadway by Barefoot Theatre Company with previews beginning April 20 prior to an official press opening of Friday, April 27 at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Ronald Cohen will direct.
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Cherry Lane Theatre's Mentor Project
Patricia Buckley's Evolution March 13 to 24
By: - Feb 29th, 2012Cherry Lane Theatre's award-winning MENTOR PROJECT will continue its 13th season with a production of EVOLUTION, written and performed by Patricia Buckley, directed Michele Chivu and mentored Jean-Claude van Itallie with performances scheduled March 13 through March 24 at Cherry Lane Studio Theatre (38 Commerce Street in Manhattan), where the 2012 MENTOR PROJECT is in residence through April 14.
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Just Sex by Brandt Johnson March 22 to April 15
Theatre for the New City, NYC
By: - Feb 29th, 2012Following its acclaimed, sold-out run earlier this season as part of Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival, playwright Brandt Johnson’s JUST SEX will return to Theater for the New City (155 First Avenue) for a limited Off-Broadway engagement. Preview performances of JUST SEX begin March 22 prior to an official press opening of March 27
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John Douglas Thompson in WTF Reading at the Clark
Richard Wilbur's Translation of The Misanthrope
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The two time Pulitzer honored translator of Moliere, Richard Wilbur, was present for a reading of The Misanthrope at the Clark Art Institute. The Williamstown Theatre Festival event, sponsored by the Williams Inn, was a benefit for the Williamstown based charity Higher Ground. We discussed the presentation and Moliere with John Douglas Thompson who portrayed Alceste.
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Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Award
The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) Finalists
By: - Feb 29th, 2012The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2011. The top award of $25,000 and two citations of $7,500 each, plus commemorative plaques, will be presented March 31.
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Williamstown Theatre Festival 2012
Oscar Wilde in Witness Protection
By: - Feb 28th, 2012Yes, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, as announced today, will open its season on the Main Stage with a perennially witty The Importance of Being Earnest. But no, this comedy will not play on the current mania for all things Downton Abbey. Rather, think Sopranos. Seems some Joisey boys are on the lam in the Berkshires. It will run head to head with Blythe Danner in a new work in the smaller Nikos Stage. The fun begins on June 26.
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Dennis Lehane's Coronado in Denver
Mysterious Heartbreaks, Murder and Mayhem Lehane Style
By: - Feb 27th, 2012Dennis Lehane is a well-known Massachusetts novelist whose books are often made into movies like Mystic River. This is his first play and is based on several short stories. At the Firehouse Theater in Denver the play received its regional premier.
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Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane at the Germinal
Remembering the Days Before Stonewall
By: - Feb 25th, 2012Gary Oldman, nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, once played Joe Orton in the great film, Prick up Your Ears. Orton's partner and murderer had suggested the title for a film Orton was writing for the Beatles, but Orton thought the title too good. No question when you hear Orton done well, as it is in Denver, you prick up your ears.
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Barrington Stage Has Its Game Face On
Musical Nominated for Five IRNE Awards
By: - Feb 24th, 2012Barrington Stage Company announces that it has received 5 Award Nominations by the Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) for last summer’s production of the musical The Game.
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Kelli O'Hara Headed to Williamstown This Summer
To Star in a New Musical Far From Heaven
By: - Feb 24th, 2012Three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara will star in the previously announced musical adaptation of the 2002 film Far From Heaven at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Directed by Michael Grief and featuring a score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and book by Richard Greenberg, the show will run at the summer theater’s Main Stage from July 19 through 29.
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Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross in Colorado
The Edge Theater Presents a Daring Take
By: - Feb 21st, 2012Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet's best known play. To make it fresh for audiences who know the dialogue by heart and who often hear it daily in the office where it has become young business people's way of talking, is not easy. Rick Yaconis and his young company succeed, of course, with a little help from the great playwright.
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Barrington’s 10x10 is a Ten
A Winter Buffet of Theatre in Pittsfield
By: - Feb 20th, 2012With an intermission in between the program of ten, ten minute plays at Barrington Stage, for the most part, went by in a blur. It also entailed absorbing tons of information during a compressed and intense experience. It may have been like the mini bar in a hotel. If you knock back all those nips it adds up to an intoxicating orgy of theatre,
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Time Stands Still At Lyric Stage Company
Couple Wrestles With Relationships And Events
By: - Feb 20th, 2012Hailed as one of the best new plays on Broadway, Time Stands Still is the story of Sarah, a photojournalist, and James, a foreign correspondent, who are picking up the pieces of their lives after a recent brush with death while fighting with their own individual humanity. With excellent acting, this production looks at intense lives in our contemporary turbulent time.
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Nottage's Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Denver: An Early Play Rings True Today
By: - Feb 19th, 2012Theater is alive and well across the country. Perhaps because people simply are not satisfied by looking at canned images all day and communicating with others in tweets and Facebook postings, legitimate theater is thriving. In nooks and crannies surrounding the Denver Arts Performing Center, small companies with special missions are filling their houses.
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Theatre Critic Peter Bergman Part Three
Covering the Berkshires and Beyond
By: - Feb 17th, 2012What I do consistently look for, and I think I said this earlier, is what each member of the company brings to the stage, and that goes for designers, actors, directors, musicians, choreographers and anyone else credited with anything for the production. I want to see the best in them and from them always. When I don't, I say so.
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Panoramic Wild Swans At American Rep Theatre
Visually Spectacular But Problematic Drama
By: - Feb 17th, 2012Based upon Jung Chang's 20th Century family memoir, A.R.T.'s presentation of Wild Swans is visually stunning but dramatically flat. The drama follows three generations of a family of strong-willed women facing the political and social problems of the Chinese Communist regime the late 1940s through the exploding urbanization after Mao's death. Needing polishing and a better ending, this drama has theatricality and epic proportions that can be built upon.
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Woyseck at Space on White in New York
Georg Buchner's Unfinished Masterpiece is Great Theater
By: - Feb 14th, 2012Buchner died at 25 but left behind an enduring legacy. Woyseck is more familiar as Alban Berg's opera, but the play is dynamite, particularly as presented by a small, young New York Company, Stasz/Pruitt.
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