Friday, July 9, 2021
THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE IS BACK THIS SUMMER WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF ENTERTAINMENT ON ITS HISTORIC STAGES Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago’s oldest continuously operating Off-Loop theatre is back, w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:38AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Anyone who's ever been in a school office will immediately recognize the verisimilitude of the set created for The Mad Ones
SOURCE: at 09:01PMMonday, December 4, 2017
If you're finding these dim days of December are a little dimmer than usual, give your heart cheer and your soul comfort with the pure goodness of a show that celebrates people who love, com…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 09:46AMThursday, November 9, 2017
This double bill at TNFA is an amusing study in contrasts
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Avant-garde and absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco was born in Slatina, Romania to a Romanian father and a French-Romanian mother, and he wrote mostly in French. Not surprisingly, one does …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:41AMMonday, July 10, 2017
This wonderful revival by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene is at the Museum of Jewish Heritage through early August. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 10:00PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Anna Reeder does her best to make Courtney Baron's play as as much a pleasure to watch as she is. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:33AMthese William Inge plays in rep do give us a picture of middle America back in the 1950s when jobs were still plentiful and boredom was the chief demon of those living in rural America, not …
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 06:32AMSunday, February 19, 2017
John Augustin Daly's once popular melodrama given a new life at the tiny Metropolitan Playhouse. .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:05PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
a wonderful opportunity to see the play that inspired Paula Vogel's Broadway bound Indecent.
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:40PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Super titles mean you don't have to speak Yiddish to enjoy this operetta. And you don't have to be Jewish. All you need is an open heart, a sense of humor and a love of life
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 07:14AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Arthur Miller's drama has come to be seen as a penetrating indictment of the American Dream but New Yiddish Rep's Yiddish translation opens up whole new vistas of interpretation
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 12:16PMMonday, July 27, 2015
often familiar, but well told 2-character musical about aging .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 08:14AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
The warmth and wit that emanates from Churchill the man and Churchill the politician come in great part from the writing, but is also due to Ronald Keaton's very believable portrayal and Kur…
SOURCE: www.nytheatre-wire.com at 11:55AMMonday, May 25, 2015
a one-woman show that takes a heartfelt look at a woman who captured the heart of many people whom she touched both personally and professionally
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThe characters in the drama that surround Lizzie Borden are not much different from the rest of humanity, but minus the hatchet
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMTime marches on, and plays, even substantial ones like this one by Vaclav Havel don't always keep in step . . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMThe title of Craig Wright's new comedy refers to a play a small-time producer is desperate to get on stage, but it's clear.that the mistakes in question exist on many levels. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMEncores! brings back the telephone switchboard. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMHaving played throughout the United States andaround the world, this sport-y revue returns to the city of its birth
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMHaving played throughout the United States andaround the world, this sport-y revue returns to the city of its birth
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMIf you think puppet entertainment is limited to children's shows don't miss . Wakka Wakka's story of a dying universe reborn.. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMthis may not be as much fun as a big Broadway musical , but it touches the heart in ways that are not easily forgotten . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMStevenson's adventure tale gets a lively, fun production at Brooklyn's Irondale Center . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMMarvell Rep has neither the money nor the stage to recreate the galloping horses of escaping lovers or the wild celebration of the ill-fated wedding, but Leibowitz makes the audience see and…
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 05:58PMSunday, October 12, 2014
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, only 25 of which are included in Berliner Ensemble’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets. But that is more than enough to make for an exciting the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
A MERRY APPROACH TO A MELANCHOLY CLASSIC These days when directors revive a classic, they have to decide whether their approach will be either to modernize the play or mount it as a period p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:43AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
DRAMA IN THE MARKETPLACE Trade Practices, which launches HERE’s 2014-2015 season, takes the audience on a tour into the bowels of the corporate world where deals are negotiated, promises a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:15PMMonday, June 16, 2014
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SEE If one were only to see Shakespeare as produced by The Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that all o…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:44PMFriday, May 16, 2014
As long as these men can set the stage on fire, the music that is America’s greatest cultural contribution to the world will never die.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:36AMMonday, April 28, 2014
OUR HEARTS BELONG TO MARY, BUT THE REVUE ABOUT HER LIFE NEEDS REINVENTING The legendary actress and singer Mary Martin would have been 100 years old today, and to celebrate this centennial Y…
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