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Theater Review: “The Flamingo Kid” — An Amiable Throwback

This new musical is charming and lively, but without some renovation its future life is in question.

By: Christopher Caggiano Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Christopher Caggiano, Darko Tresnjak, Hartford Stage, The Flamingo Kid

Theater Review: Freedom for “The Whipping Man”

An unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: African-American, Hartford Stage, Jewish, Matthew Lopez, The Civil War, The Whipping Man

Coming Attactions in Theater: October 2011

It is encouraging that the list of recommendations for October isn’t filled with musicals. Are straight plays back? I wouldn’t count on it in this economic climate. So let’s bask in the chance to hear words without music.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Theater Tagged: A Raisin in the Sun, Actors-From-the-London-Stage, ArtsEmerson, Before I Leave You, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Buddy Cop 2, Cahoot's Macbeth, Clybourne Park, Company One, Dogg's Hamlet, Double, Double Toil and Trouble (A witches' brew of Shakespeare remixed), Gold Dust Orphans, Happy Medium Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington-Theatre-Company, imaginary-beasts, In the Red and Brown Water, Macbett, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Oberon, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Salem Theatre Company, Stoneham Theater, Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Civilians, The Debate Society, The Farm, The Rocky Horror Show, The Tempest, The Woman in Black, Tiny Kushner, Trinity Repertory Company, Water by the Spoonful, Wellesley College, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, William-Shakespeare, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents' Divorce, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Coming Attractions in Theater: February 2011

A hold-onto-your seat month with some intriguing world premieres, including a musical version of a Korean folktale, an attempt to turn Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound into a rock event, and a cerebral confab featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli. By Bill Marx. King Lear by William Shakespeare. Directed by Michael Grandage. NT Live screens the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Theater Tagged: Abbey Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Ajax, American Repertory Theater, Bod Clayman, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Cymbeline, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Divine Rivalry, DollHouse, Greek, Hartford Stage, Howard-barker, John Kuntz, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Michael Kramer, New Repertory Theatre, Prometheus Bound, Serj Tankian, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Steven Sater, Stoneham Theatre, Sunfish, Terminus, The Europeans, The Exceptionals, The Hotel Nepenthe, Theresa Rebeck, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, tragedy, Underground Railway Theater, Whistler-in-the-Dark-theater

Theater Review: Antony and Cleopatra Pitch Woo in Hartford

The Hartford Stage may be far from the shores of the Nile, but this lively production of Antony & Cleopatra and the company’s rejuvenated theater space are fit for the entertainment of a Pharaoh. Anthony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. Directed by Tina Landau. At the Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street, Hartford, CT, through November […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Antony-and-Cleopatra, Hartford Stage, John Douglas Thompson, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Wilson, Shakespeare, Susan Miron, Tina Landau

Coming Attractions in Theater: January 2010

By Bill Marx The coming month offers some unusual examples of theater. Finished with “exploding” Shakespeare, the American Repertory Theater has decided to present the American classics unabridged. Produced by the Elevator Repair Service, “Gatz” is an evening of drama that revolves around a complete reading of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Political […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 4:48 psychosis, All My Sons, American Repertory Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, Carny Knowledge, Company One, Fabuloso, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Gamm-Theatre, Gatz, Gee's Bend, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theater Company, Indulgences, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nation, NT Live, The Good Negro

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