Theatre
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Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Directorial Debut for Actress Kathleen Turner
By: - Aug 10th, 2007The 1979 first play by Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama but in this production and the directorial debut of actress Kathleen Turner it does not appear to have aged well.
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The Physicists at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Nuclear Fission Sizzles
By: - Aug 09th, 2007The three inmates in an asylum think they are Newton, Einstein and Mobius. By the way they off their nurses but it turns out they may not be mad after all.
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The Corn is Green at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Kate Burton Stars with Her Son Morgan Ritchie
By: - Aug 03rd, 2007The spinster Miss Moffat (Kate Burton) with a modest inheritance plans to bring education to a village of poor Welsh miners. Her star student, Morgan Evans, is portrayed by Burton's real life son, Morgan Ritchie.
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Party Come Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Ersatz Jewish Musical Comedy Bounces between Manhattan and Rio
By: - Jul 28th, 2007Anti semitism, ancient and contemporary, is the theme of this new musical comedy at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Chiarascuro: Black Comedy at Barrington Stage Company
A Perfectly Ridiculous Farce Visits Pittsfield
By: - Jul 23rd, 2007The playwright of "Amadeus" and "Equus," Peter Shaffer, brings an absurd play "Black Comedy" to Barrington Stage Company for a hilarious run.
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Blithe Spirit at Williamstown Theatre Festival
Yet Another Noel Coward Hit
By: - Jul 21st, 2007For good reason audiences can't seem to get enough of Noel Coward and theaters are more than happy to oblige.
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A Marvelous Party: The Noel Coward Celebration at ART
A Summer Noel American Repertory Theatre Offers Fizzy Refreshment
By: - Jul 18th, 2007A musical theatre production like a large splash of Pimms with ginger ale on the rocks-a sparkling and delightfully fizzy summer refreshment.
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Villa America at Williamstown Theatre Festival
The Lost Generation's Flophouse
By: - Jul 15th, 2007The new play "Villa America" by the young British playwright, Crispin Whittell, was intended to enhance the exhibition of the neighboring Williams College Art Museum but has fallen short of expectations.
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Writer/ Director Crispin Whittell Discusses Villa America
Play Based on Sara and Gerald Murphy Premieres at Williamstown Theatre Festival
By: - Jul 11th, 2007Inspired by the Williams College exhibition and biography by Amanda Vaill Crispin Whittell has written a play "Villa America" based on the life of the Lost Generation's Gerald and Sara Murphy and their fabulous friends which opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival tomorrow night.
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Dissonance at Williamstown Theatre Festival
A String Quartet Comes Unstrung
By: - Jul 08th, 2007The new play, Dissonance, by Damian Lanigan for the Williamstown Theatre Festival, brilliantly reveals the demise of the Bradley String Quartet.
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The Front Page is Good News
Williamstown Theatre Festival Revives Ben Hecht and Charles Macarthur Classic
By: - Jul 06th, 2007The Main Stage season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival was launched last night with "The Front Page" the vintage comedy of a news room vigil of a 1920s Chicago hanging.
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West Side Story at Barrington Stage Company
Sharks and Jets Rumble in Pittsfield
By: - Jul 03rd, 2007This is the fiftieth anniversary of West Side Story. The classic Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim musical is presented in a flawless and galvanic production by Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires.
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B.D. Wong "Breaks a Leg"
Injured on Opening Night of Williamstown Theatre Festival Season
By: - Jun 19th, 2007In this one man play by Tom Cone, directed by Roger Reese, something went terribly wrong for the actor, B.D. Wong, on the opening night of "Herringbone" which launched the summer season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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Imago Theatre's Frogz
Silent Treatment at Emerson Majestic
By: - Jun 01st, 2007An evening of frogs, bugs, gators and wildly inventive animations by Imago Theatre at Boston's Emerson Majestic for just six nights.
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Victor Garber Stars in Present Laughter
Noel Coward Play Directed at Huntington Theatre by Nicholas Martin
By: - May 24th, 2007In the 1939 play Present Laughter Noel Coward is said to have projected a lot about himself and views of the theatre. Victor Garber, a character in the long running TV show "Alias" is glib and deft in portraying a fading matinee idol about to embark on a grueling six months tour of Africa. This is the final production of the 25th season of the Huntington Theatre.
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Harold Pinter's No Man's Land at ART
Against Interpretation: It is what it is more or less
By: - May 17th, 2007The Harold Pinter play "No Man's Land" ends the season for the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. It is played straight no chaser by director David Wheeler after a season of Oliver Twisted.
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Victor Garber, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Pamela Gray Meet the Press
Sit down with Actors in Huntington Theatre's Present Laughter
By: - May 10th, 2007Taking a break from rehearsals for the Noel Coward play "Present Laughter" which opens at Huntington Theatre Company on May 18, the actors Victor Garber, Brooks Ashmanskas and Pamela Gray met with the media.
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Where Elephants Weep, a Cambodian Opera
Lowell High School presents hybrid opera
By: - May 02nd, 2007The first known Cambodian opera, Where Elephants Weep is a hybrid of musical genres that bridges generations and cultures, decades after Pol Pot all but devastated Cambodia.
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Jay Scheib's This Place is a Desert
ICA Hosts World Premiere
By: - Mar 28th, 2007Filmed and projected onto four screens through live-feeds over the staged actions below. Their production's hybrid form followed dysfunction.
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A Superb Revival of R. C. Sherriff's World War I Classic Journey's End
A Twentieth-Century Triumph of Death
By: - Mar 20th, 2007British director David Grindley and a mostly American cast do justice to R. C. Sherriff's classic World War I play.
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Lisa Kron's Well at Huntington Theatre Company
All's Not Quite Well but Ends Well, Kindah
By: - Mar 15th, 2007A play within a play. Kindah. Lisa Kron stretches a standup routine into a "comedy" about ilness. The chronic incapacitation of her huge and earthy mother and her own struggle with allergies as a college student.
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Oliver Twisted by American Repertory Theatre
Neil Bartlett's Boffo Dickens Adaption
By: - Feb 22nd, 2007The American Repertory Theatre production of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Neil Bartlett, is everything one long for in a delightful and insightful evening of theatre. What fun.
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Sun Sets on Britannicus
American Repertory Theatre Deconstructs Racine's Drama
By: - Jan 26th, 2007In the final production for the American Repertory Theatre by departing artistic director, Robert Woodruff, the intrigues of the Bush presidency are foreshadowed by the treachery of Ancient Rome via the 17th century drama of Jean Racine.
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Huntington Theatre's The Cherry Orchard
TV�s Dr. Ellis Grey, Kate Burton, Stars in Chekhov's Masterpiece
By: - Jan 11th, 2007Tv's Dr. Ellis Grey, mother of Dr. Merideth in the hit "Grey's Anatomy" is starring in the Huntington Theatre production of the classic Chekhov play "The Cherry Orchard."
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Wings of Desire at A.R.T.
More Angels in America
By: - Nov 30th, 2006The 1987 film "Wings of Desire" set in post war Berlin by German director Wim Wenders has been reconfigured for the stage in a production by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
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