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BWW Reviews: CCP's GOLDEN BOY OF THE BLUE RIDGE Musically Updates Synge's Irish Classic

Back in the day-1907, actually-when John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theater, it apparently caused riots, its tale of an apparent patricide engendering great public outrage and overt hostilities. Four years later, when the play debuted in New York City, audience members hurled epithets, rotten tomatoes and various other vegetation across the footlights, protesting the play's perceived "immorality." (more...)

David Schramm, Nick Wyman and more will star in the York Theatre Company's 'Musicals in Mufti' presentation of Take Me Along from October 13th through 15th (more...)

This season's 'Musicals in Mufti' series will begin with Take Me Along, which begins tonight, Friday, October 13th and plays for just five performances this weekend through October 15th (more...)

BWW Reviews: A HARD WALL AT HIGH SPEED - Plane and Fancy

Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) presents the world premiere of Ashlin Halfnight's drama "A Hard Wall at High Speed". (more...)

BWW Reviews: Washington Stage Guild Produces Final T.S. Eliot Play: THE ELDER STATESMAN

In producing T.S. Eliot's THE ELDER STATESMAN-plus with their spring 2013 reading of Eliot's THE ROCK--Washington Stage Guild becomes the only theatre company in the world (as far as they can determine) to have produced all seven of Eliot's plays. And as Artistic Director Bill Largess jokingly remarked opening night, Washington Stage Guild is probably the only theatre that would produce all of T.S. Eliot's dramatic works. (more...)

Villanova Theatre Opens CAROUSEL, 3/27-4/22

Villanova Theatre's 2011-2012 season culminates with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic tale of love and loss, Carousel. Director Valerie Joyce's reimagined production will feature 'intimate staging, evocative choreography, and a vibrant chamber orchestration.' (more...)

Villanova Theatre Opens CAROUSEL, 3/27-4/22

Villanova Theatre's 2011-2012 season culminates with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic tale of love and loss, Carousel. Director Valerie Joyce's reimagined production will feature 'intimate staging, evocative choreography, and a vibrant chamber orchestration.' (more...)

American Century Revives NATIVE SON 4/14 At Gunston Center

Novelist Richard Wright's searing novel Native Son aroused violent controversy from the moment it was published. The saga of a young American black man who becomes an unrepentant killer, the book was hailed as an uncompromising indictment of the nation's racial divisions and social injustice, and condemned as feeding white bigotry while excusing crime. Naturally, Orson Welles, then the most dynamic force in American theater, thought it was just the kind of story his Mercury Theater needed to tackle. (more...)

BWW Reviews: MRS. WHITNEY Follows Her Heart

Merrimack Repertory Theatre presents John Kolvenbach's MRS. WHITNEY, an unsentimental and humorous look at the lengths to which people will go in pursuit of romance as the antidote to isolation. (more...)

Boiler Room Theatre to Present PIPPIN, 7/6-28

The Boiler Room Theatre (BRT), Williamson County's original and longest-running professional theatre company, follows its successful run of Next to Normal with an imaginative take on the Stephen Schwartz/Bob Fosse extravaganza, Pippin. The production will run from July 6th through the 28th at the theatre's iconic namesake venue in the historic Factory at Franklin, 230 Franklin Rd., Building Six, in Franklin, Tenn. (more...)

Chenoweth, Tucci, Etc. Set for Animated Film Space Chimps

One of Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth's upcoming roles will be of an unearthly variety in Space Chimps (more...)

Drilling Company Presents HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN 1/20-2/6

The Drilling Company, known for its short play projects and downtown Shakespeare in the PArking Lot, now in its 11th season, will premiere a hilarious new comedy from longtime collabortator Stephen Bittrich. Opening January 20th and running until February 6th, Thursday - Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., at The Drilling Company Theatre, 236 West 78th Street on the third floor, between Amsterdam and Broadway, just 1 block south of the 1 train at 79th Street. (more...)

Drilling Company Presents HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN, Closes 2/6

The Drilling Company Brings Texas to NYC: premieres 'Home of the Great Pecan' - the production will close on February 6. (more...)

BWW Reviews: OC's 3D Theatricals Revisits Classic THE SOUND OF MUSIC

While watching 3D Theatricals' largely pleasing stage production of the enduring Rodgers/Hammerstein Broadway classic THE SOUND OF MUSIC--now playing at the Plummer Auditorium in Fullerton, CA through February 26--one can't help but be reminded of just how great the more popular, Oscar-winning movie musical version truly is compared to its parental stage roots. Luckily, their winsome, beautifully-staged revival manages to overcome the presence of the stage version's flaws and ultimately comes off as smile-inducing, family-friendly production that all ages will find utterly beguiling. (more...)

Drilling Company Presents HOME OF THE GREAT PECAN 1/20-2/6

The Drilling Company, known for its short play projects and downtown Shakespeare in the PArking Lot, now in its 11th season, will premiere a hilarious new comedy from longtime collabortator Stephen Bittrich. Opening January 20th and running until February 6th, Thursday - Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m., at The Drilling Company Theatre, 236 West 78th Street on the third floor, between Amsterdam and Broadway, just 1 block south of the 1 train at 79th Street. (more...)

LA Theatre Works on the Air Airs The Doctor's Dilemma 8/28

Beginning Saturday, August 28, 2010, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, starring Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston, and Paxton Whitehead. (more...)

LA Theatre Works on the Air Airs The Doctor's Dilemma 8/28

Beginning Saturday, August 28, 2010, L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre Series will air The Doctor's Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, starring Jane Carr, Gregory Cooke, Kenneth Danziger, Roy Dotrice, Martin Jarvis, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, Simon Templeman, Douglas Weston, and Paxton Whitehead. (more...)

The York Theatre Company will present Take Me Along, Carmelina and Plain and Fancy as part of its 2006-2007 Musicals in Mufti season (more...)

Villanova Theatre Closes CAROUSEL Tonight

Villanova Theatre's 2011-2012 season culminates with Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic tale of love and loss, Carousel. Director Valerie Joyce's reimagined production will feature 'intimate staging, evocative choreography, and a vibrant chamber orchestration.' (more...)