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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30PMTaken 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24AMShakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale” is presented by the Yale Repertory Theater at the University Theater in New Haven through April 7.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMIn Matthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man,” two former slaves and their former master share a makeshift Passover meal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:50PM“February House” is set in the 1940s, in a town house in Brooklyn Heights that served as an artists’ commune.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:10PMMarc Camoletti’s “Boeing-Boeing,” about an American juggling three live-in stewardesses, is staged as a comedy in broad physical strokes at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40PMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMA misplaced hat raises questions of fidelity for a man who is trying to stay clean and sober.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:00AMThere is mayhem in the arty, upscale living room of the Tony-winning comedy of bad manners, “God of Carnage.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20AMThe production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven capitalizes on the timeless appeal of Fats Waller.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:05PMRichard 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:10AMThis “Crucible” is still set in Massachusetts, but it lives several centuries removed from the long black frocks and stiff white collars of the original.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMAt 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:41PM“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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40PMLighting designers are rarely on our minds as we watch plays. But this one is crucial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24PMAugust 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PM“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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PMA closer look at the costumes Susan Hilferty designed for the character of the Queen of Hearts in the Broadway musical “Wonderland.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:14PMFrancesca Choy-Kee plays Agnes in “Agnes Under the Big Top,” at Long Wharf.
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