Photos: Go Inside Bay Street Theater's 32nd Annual Benefit Gala MAYBE THEY'RE MAGIC...!
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 14, 2024
On Saturday, July 6, Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts hosted their annual EPIC full-blown gala extravaganza with special twists and exciting surprises, honoring show stopper Neil Patrick Harris, star of stage and screen (+food!) David Burtka, and East End community treasure Dr. Georgette Grier-Key. See photos here!
Review: Tesseract Theatre's MY HEART SAYS GO at The Marcelle
by James Lindhorst - Jul 12, 2024
Gunn, Corpuz, Urday, Wilkinson and company delivered a compelling and entertaining production of the new musical MY HEART SAYS GO. The mundanities with the score and book are what keep this production from really soaring. Indigo’s coming-of-age story is not particularly different from what has been seen in other stories where a child makes a choice that is met with a parent’s disapproval. The themes are consistent with most stories about young adults pursing their dreams. Perhaps if the promising score were more dynamic and memorable, the familiar follow-your-heart story could reach new heights.
Video: Go Inside Rehearsals For Barrington Stage's BOEING BOEING
by Joshua Wright - Jul 9, 2024
Go inside rehearsals for Boeing Boeing at Barrington Stage in this all-new video. Marc Camoletti's hilarious 1960 French farce, Boeing Boeing, translated by Beverley Cross & Francis Evans, won a new generation of fans with a critically acclaimed, award-winning Broadway production in 2008.
Interview: 'No Spiel...The Show Must Go On!' - MSMT Panel Explores FUNNY GIRL
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - Jul 6, 2024
“We battle with other theatres to get the rights for shows. We always try to get MSMT on the national radar as much as we can and get first rights if possible, but it is very competitive,” explains Curt Dale Clark, Maine State Music Theatre’s Artistic Director, as he recounts how the Brunswick theatre managed a virtual coup for this 2024 season by becoming the first regional theatre to receive the rights to produce FUNNY GIRL after it closed its recent revival on Broadway. “In the case of FUNNY GIRL, Concord Theatricals was holding our money for a show that we planned to produce in 2020 before the pandemic shut everyone down. Since they do not return money, they were eager for us to choose another show from their catalog and clear their books. I agreed if they would give us the first rights to FUNNY GIRL after the Broadway show closed.”
Clark is sharing his thoughts with the audience at MSMT’s second Peek Behind the Curtain on July 3 at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, where he is joined by actors Sue Cella, Douglas Raymond Williams, and Michelle Beth Herman, as well as panel moderator, Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold.
GOGO BOOTS GO Comes to Edinburgh This August
by Stephi Wild - Jun 28, 2024
Interrogating the incomprehensible connections shared between women and the way people construct sexuality through first experiences, Gogo Boots Go is a new show exploring the shame people carry through childhood, queerness, womanhood and religion.
Previews: MY HEART SAYS GO and CASCADE'S FIRE Headline Tesseract's New Musical Summer Fest
by James Lindhorst - Jun 25, 2024
Tesseract Theatre company is following up their critically acclaimed productions of The Inheritance Parts I & II with their festival of new musicals. CASCADE’S FIRE written by Taylor Gruenloh with music composed by Kyle Wernke and MY HEART SAYS GO written by Matthew Hawkins with music and lyrics composed by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, and additional arrangements by Geoffrey Ko, will have their St. Louis Premieres in July at Tesseract’s “New Musical Summer Fest 2024.”