Saturday, June 9, 2012
Louise Pitre steps into the title role of “Mame” — made famous by Angela Lansbury in 1966 — at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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Taken from the text and copied in flowing Renaissance script, words pour down the back wall and across the stage floor in a performance of “The Tempest” at Hartford Stage.
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Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale” is presented by the Yale Repertory Theater at the University Theater in New Haven through April 7.
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In Matthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man,” two former slaves and their former master share a makeshift Passover meal.
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“February House” is set in the 1940s, in a town house in Brooklyn Heights that served as an artists’ commune.
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Marc Camoletti’s “Boeing-Boeing,” about an American juggling three live-in stewardesses, is staged as a comedy in broad physical strokes at Hartford Stage.
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The Yale Repertory Theater’s production of Molière’s classic comedy blends random snippets of pop culture with classic slapstick routines, forming a gleeful whirligig of song and shtick.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
There is mayhem in the arty, upscale living room of the Tony-winning comedy of bad manners, “God of Carnage.”
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The production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven capitalizes on the timeless appeal of Fats Waller.
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Richard Dresser’s comedy “Rounding Third,” playing in Stony Point, follows a Little League team coached by a mismatched pair: a jock and a preppy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34AMThere are plenty of musicals with clever lyrics. Some offer clever books. A handful even manage clever melodies. “City of Angels” has all three.
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This “Crucible” is still set in Massachusetts, but it lives several centuries removed from the long black frocks and stiff white collars of the original.
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At the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, “Show Boat” has been reworked for 21st-century audiences and budgets, with no loss of impact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PMDonald Margulies’s “Shipwrecked!,” an adaptation of the Victorian memoirs of Louis de Rougemont, plays through Sept. 4 at the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point.
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“Race,” about a powerful white man charged with raping a black woman in a hotel, may evoke the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, but dates to 2009.
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August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” evokes the African-American experience from the slave ships to the first decades of emancipation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM“My One and Only,” at the Goodspeed Opera House, features songs by George and Ira Gershwin and choreography by Kelli Barclay.
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“Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock, is at Hartford Stage.
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A closer look at the costumes Susan Hilferty designed for the character of the Queen of Hearts in the Broadway musical “Wonderland.”
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
“Snow Falling on Cedars,” a play adapted by Kevin McKeon from the novel by David Guterson, is at Hartford Stage.
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