BWW Reviews: Fresno Comes Alive With THE SOUND OF MUSICby Harmony Wheeler - May 28, 2012Audience members laughed and smiled as if they had never before seen Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” at Saturday night’s Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater performance of the classic musical. Such fresh enjoyment testifies to the quality of a show so often done — one that seems to be popping up everywhere this year and next. Despite a few glitches one might expect from community theater, Roger Rocka’s talented cast and crew gave a consistently strong two and a half hours of solid entertainment.
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Gustavo Pace's NAKED BRAZILIAN Set for Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity June 5-17by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Planet Connections Theatre Festivity will present Naked Brazilian, written and performed by Gustavo Pace, as part of the 4th Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. The Festivity will take place May 30th through June 24th at Culture Project, 45 Bleeker Street in New York City. Ticket $18. Naked Brazilian is playing at Culture Project (Downstairs) in a limited run: Tuesday, June 5th @ 6pm; Friday, June 8th @ 8:30pm; Sunday, June 10th @ 4pm; and Sunday, June 17th @ 3pm, 2012. (more...)
SPORTS PLAY by Elfriede Jelinek Set for English-Language Premiere UK Tour 11 July to 4 Augustby BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012SPORTS PLAY, an unflinching exploration of the close relationship between sports, nationalism and violence by the Nobel Prize winning author of The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek, receives its English Language premiere on the eve of the London 2012 Olympic Games in Lancaster. The production then tours the UK, finishing in London for a run July 30 to August 4 at the Chelsea Theatre. (more...)
Full Cast of Matthew Bourne's PLAY WITHOUT WORDS UK Tour Announcedby BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012New Adventures and the National Theatre have announced full casting for MATTHEW BOURNE’S PLAY WITHOUT WORDS. The Company will be Madelaine Brennan, Daniel Collins, Saranne Curtin, Daisy May Kemp, Anabel Kutay, Katy Lowenhoff, Adam Maskell, Anjali Mehra, Liam Mower, Jonathan Ollivier, Alastair Postlethwaite, Danny Reubens, Christopher Trenfield, Hannah Vassallo, Neil Westmoreland and Richard Winsor. (more...)
BWW Reviews: SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM is a Lively Revue of Masterful Songs, Now thru 7/8by Vicky Croisant - May 28, 2012When all is said and done, Great Lakes Theater should be extremely proud of its first collaboration of PlayhouseSquare as part of the annual Key Bank Broadway Series. The production is on par with the touring shows that stop in Cleveland. Just because SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM is considered a regional production shouldn't stop people from going to see it. You'll leave the theatre with a deeper appreciate of the theatre process, more knowledge of the amazing Stephen Sondheim and a song or two stuck in your head. (more...)
Photo Flash: Polly Draper in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE at Bay Street Theatreby BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Bay Street Theatre has announced the first production of the 2012 Mainstage Season. Polly Draper stars in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE, by Geraldine Aron. This American Premiere begins Tuesday, May 29 and runs through Sunday, June 24. The production is directed by Matt McGrath, one of Bay Street’s Artistic Associates. See photos of Draper on stage below! (more...)
GLOBE TO GLOBE Festival Comes to a Close with HENRY V, Beg. June 8by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012The last few days of the Globe to Globe Festival approach, and the last foreign theatre Company will perform at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on Sunday, 3rd June. A Lithuanian Hamlet will be the last non-English language production. The festival closes with Henry V, performed in English by the Shakespeare’s Globe Company, which begins on 8 June. (more...)
SPAMALOT Starring Marcus Brigstocke and Jon Culshaw Plays West End, July 24-Sep 9by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Howard Panter (Mr West End himself) for The Ambassador Theatre Group presents Monty Python’s Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe. Galloping into the West End for a truly bespoke season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (long pause) Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 9 September 2012 (press night Tuesday 31 July). Tickets on sale now. (more...)
Danny Glover, Lonette McKee et al. Set for Coalition of Theatres of Color Town Hall Meeting, 6/4by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Danny Glover, Lonette McKee, Barbara Montgomery, Daniel Beaty, Roscoe Orman and other veterans of New York theater will address “Can NYC's Theatres of Color Survive in the New Economy?” at the Coalition of Theatres of Color (CTC) Town Hall Meeting on June 4 at 6PM at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (135th St. & Lenox Avenue) in Harlem. (more...)
Company of Fools Presents DAS BARBECÜ in Hailey, 7/4-28by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Company of Fools kicks off the summer season with the sassy Ring Cycle-inspired musical DAS BARBECÜ by Jim Luigs and Scott Warrender running July 4 - 28, 2012 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. (more...)
Strand Theatre Company Presents WELL, 6/1-16by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Strand Theater Company presents Well by Lisa Kron, June 1-16, 2012. This will be the directorial debut of Artistic Director Rain Pryor. (more...)
BWW Reviews: THE BEAMS ARE CREAKING - A Compelling Character Studyby David Clarke - May 27, 2012The Beams are Creaking is a dramatic representation of the tumultuous life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a man who became a Christian martyr of Nazi resistance because of his unyielding faith. Bonhoeffer is a German pastor who tried to assassinate Hitler, but is ultimately a more complex character than one may expect given that information. This is where the A.D. Players and Douglas Anderson, the playwright, step in and deliver a compelling character study of the infamous theologian. (more...)
Lillias White Celebrates THE NIGHT AFTER THE TONYS at Catalina Jazz Club, 6/11by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, for one performance only, on Monday, June 11. Showtime is 8pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. (more...)
AS YOU LIKE IT Comes to The New American Shakespeare Tavern, 5/31-7/1by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Shakespeare's As You Like It, directed by Troy Willis from June 2-July 1, 2012. (more...)
Commedia Beauregard Presents CORLEONE: THE SHAKESPEAREAN GODFATHER, 6/1-24by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012This Friday, Commedia Beauregard, a Chicago-based theater Company dedicated to producing plays in translation, opens its final production of the 2011-2012 Season. Corleone: The Shakespearean Godfather will be presented at the Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago, Ill. The production opens on June 1 at 7:30p.m. Remaining shows are scheduled for Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. through June 24, 2012. (more...)
Photo Flash: Bootleg Theater Extends EVANGELINE, THE QUEEN OF MAKE-BELIEVE thru 6/2by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe — The songbook of Grammy Award winners David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos drives Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, a multimedia play with music that takes its title from the group’s 1985 rocker “Evangeline.” Evangeline, a devoted daughter by day, a Hollywood go-go dancer by night. A journey of self discovery by a young Chicana, whose neighborhood roots and make-believe world collide when she experiences the West Side art scene and the music of the Sunset Strip, is set against the 1968 student walkouts in East L.A. and the fight for equal education and civil rights. Two performances have been added to Bootleg and About Productions' show, Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2, both at 7 pm. (more...)
Baum and Chambers Lead BRT's NEXT TO NORMAL to Artistic Heights, Both Expected and Unexpectedby Jeffrey Ellis - May 27, 2012In fact, in the retrospect afforded me by twelve hours, I have to admit that the production’s most revelatory performance is delivered by Mike Baum, as the long-suffering and beleaguered Dan Goodman, Diana’s stalwart and steadfast husband. That doesn’t mean Chambers’ performance is anything less than the spectacular onstage turn that it is—but, truth be told, it was expected from her. When word of her casting became publicly known, it is safe to say that 99% of the theater-going public (and actors themselves) agreed that Chambers’ casting was indeed perfect. And she delivers exactly what we all hoped for, showing off the versatility, the confidence and the presence that has long identified her as one of the very best to be found onstage. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks DEATH OF A SALESMANby Stage Tube - May 27, 2012Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the nation's top acting talents known for playing extremely varied roles in film and on stage, including Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar, and Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt, which earned him an Oscar nomination, speaks with Mo Rocca about his Tony Award-nominated performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
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Photo Flash: Yes, and ... Productions Kicks Off LA Premiere of ORDINARY DAYSby BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Yes, And … Productions, led by Helen H. Ota and Michael C. Palma, presents the Los Angeles premiere of the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon at the Imagined Life Theater now through June 10, 2012. See photos from the production, which opened last night, May 26, below! (more...)
BWW Review: WW II Love Story: AND A NIGHTINGALE SANGby Nancy Grossman - May 27, 2012Wellesley Summer Theatre Company has a knack for creating the world of its plays and this love story within a war story is no exception. It is funny and dramatic, like life, and infused with earnest warmth by this solid ensemble. Playwright C.P. Taylor gives us characters to care about with flaws that make them interesting and human, and his charming dialogue is steeped in colloquial expressions that are peculiar to the British wordscape. (more...)
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