“Shakespeare does not need your help,” barks Franz, the jaded, tyrannical director character in WSC Avant Bard’s world premiere of Caesar and Dada. The irony is that repackaging the ba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:55PMCalling all J.R.R. Tolkein geeks. If last year’s Hollywood blockbuster The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey left you dangling, W.T. Woodson High School Theatre Department’s lip-smackin�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00AMBack in the day when musical theater spawned chart-toppers, “The Impossible Dream” became an anthem not only for every hopeless romantic, but also for never-say-die American drea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AMThe words “world premiere” don’t always translate to “Must-See,” but in the case of Paul’s Case, a post-minimalist, compact opera unveiled by UrbanArias at Artis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PMApril is “The Music of New Orleans” Month at The Kennedy Center, and it takes a big tent to accommodate the eclectic artistic styles of the Crescent City. That explains the circ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53PMFresh from snaring eight 2012 WATCH awards, mostly for technical excellence, the Providence Players of Fairfax are serving up some refreshingly meaty artistry in Dinner With Friends, a 2000 …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMBudding love that is “star-crossed” with budding artistry is the magic potion that should move fine-arts lovers to flee their houses and partake in Catholic University’s School of Musi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10PMForget, for the moment, all you know about quantum physics. It’s history that matters in Copenhagen, Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning, World War II drama. Make that revisionist history…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMThe 25th-anniversary production of “Les Miserables,’’ now playing at the Opera House, qualifies as a truly extraordinary theatrical experience when high-tech wizardry blend…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:26PMLA CAGE AUX FOLLES Musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Book by Harvey Fierstein. (cq) Directed by Terry Johnson. (cq) Choreography, Lynne Page. (cq)Sets, Tim Shortall. (cq) Lights…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:56PMThe Rockettes’ eye-high kicks remain impressive, and their famous numbers return in all their glory at the Wang Theatre.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 09:29PMThe magical stories of Sheherezade’s 1,001 “Arabian Nights’’ come to life with the simple combination of a storyteller’s hypnotic voice, a richly colored backdr…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:29PMThe familiar tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up gets a thrilling new production in threesixty° entertainment’s tent, playing in City Hall Plaza through Dec. 30.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:34PMThe charm of Norton Juster’s book, “The Phantom Tollbooth,’’ lies in the author’s ability to take abstract concepts and attach them to arresting visual images, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:59PMThe opening of “Quidam,’’ the Cirque du Soleil production currently playing at the Agganis Arena, feels like it was lifted right out of “The Cat in the Hat.’…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:07PMGLOUCESTER - “Fighting Over Beverley’’ traces an odd romance, one full of sweet promises and longing, compounded by disappointment and regret. At its heart though, is Bever…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:50PMSTOCKBRIDGE - At first glance, Tennessee Williams’s “Period of Adjustment’’ plays like a formulaic domestic comedy: On Christmas Eve, unhappy newlyweds land on the su…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:01PMPlaywright John Kolvenbach’s “Love Song’’ sketches out characters who are trying to find “the courage to want.’’ It’s an ambitious challenge, …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:26PMASHFIELD - Five senses hardly seem enough for “The Odyssey,’’ Double Edge Theatre’s annual “summer spectacle,’’ a sumptuous sensory feast that reson…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:46PMGLOUCESTER – Composer Frank Loesser was a hopeless romantic. Whether exploring the crowd of New York gangsters in “Guys and Dolls,’’ an ambitious young man’s ri…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:34PMWELLFLEET – Farce demands precision. Without it, the comic hijinks that keep a ridiculous plot buoyant land as heavily as, well, the airplane that gives this play its name.
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