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Theater: NORTH COAST REP’S 40TH SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT (Solano Beach near San Diego)
Two West Coast premieres, one Southern California premiere and one World Premiere highlight an engaging, eclectic 2021-2022 seven-play series at North Coast Repertory Theatre, now celebrating its 40th season. Among the offerings are a Tony Award-winning masterpiece, a poignant love story, a critical event in American history, an unexpected friendship, and three unforgettable, charming musicals….
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Virtual Theater: TINY HOUSE (Westport Country Playhouse)
IT’S A TINY WORLD, AFTER ALL How I love this company! But being an L.A.-based theater fan, it’s admittedly a tough drive. One of the very few bright sides to COVID is that great outfits can be sent right to your home. Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut will open its all-virtual 2021 production season with the…
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Event: 2021 NASHVILLE COMEDY FESTIVAL (Sebastian Maniscalco and Leanne Morgan)
2021 Nashville Comedy Festival Returns In Full Force With Comedy Superstars Sebastian Maniscalco and Leanne Morgan This June The Nashville Comedy Festival makes its triumphant return next month after a year that has us longing for laughter. Billboard’s first-ever “Comedian of the Year” Sebastian Maniscalco kicks off Nashville Comedy Festival on Saturday, June 12 at Ryman Auditorium. Maniscalco will have the…
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Broadway Preview: THE GREAT GATSBY (A New Musical)
A pre-Broadway engagement will be announced shortly for a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby, A New Musical. With lyrics by Grammy Award-nominated international rock star of Florence + the Machine Florence Welch and music by Florence Welch & Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett, THE GREAT GATSBY, A New Musical will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna…
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Theater/Film: ANIMAL WISDOM (PBS)
Woolly Mammoth and A.C.T. have finished work on an original film of The Bushwick Starr’s acclaimed production of Animal Wisdom, created by and starring Heather Christian. Filmed at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C., PBS is now streaming Animal Wisdom here. Do you believe in ghosts? Take a virtual front row seat for this original film of the…
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Obit: ROBERT FLETCHER (Costume Designer)
FROM STAR TREK TO NUTCRACKER, ORSON WELLES TO NOí‹L COWARD, ROBERT FLETCHER LEFT HIS WHIMSICAL MARK Robert Fletcher, the prolific costume designer for both stage and screen, died peacefully in Kansas City, MO on April 5 at the age of 98. Robert “Bob” Fletcher was a costume designer with more than six decades of experience….
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Streaming Theater: SITTING AND TALKING (Laguna Playhouse)
Laguna Playhouse is presenting Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) and Wendie Malick (Just Shoot Me) in the Southern California premiere of Sitting and Talking, which was created and written specifically for the zoom platform. Lia Romeo’s charming, deeply heartfelt play follows a man and woman in their 60s as they navigate the vulnerable, awkward, and…
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Opera: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE / AS ONE (Opera Maine)
Opera Maine is preseting live opera again this summer at Merrill Auditorium, with two performances July 28 and 30, 2021. Under the direction of Artistic Director Dona D. Vaughn, the company will stage an original production of Gaetano Donizetti’s endearing comic opera, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). Because of covid safety considerations, the opera…
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Theater Review: TRYING (North Coast Rep)
NORTH COAST REP SUCCEEDS, BUT THE PLAY IS STILL TRYING The eagerness of youth; the decay of old age; cynicism in a world of injustice; literature; mortality; idealism; FDR; and timeless quotes. All of these wrapped in the contentious years of 1967 and ’68 is what you’ll find in Trying, based on playwright Joanna McClelland…
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Theater: DIGITAL & LIVE SEASON 2021 (Oregon Shakespeare)
OSF’s combined Digital and Live Season for 2021 features classics and new works streaming from the OSF archives, imaginative and illuminating new works presented on OSF’s digital platform, O!, and a Fall 2021 live season on OSF’s campus in Ashland, Oregon, extending into January for the first time with OSF’s first winter special. Naturally, all…
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Theater: AN ILIAD (Live from the New Vic in Santa Barbara, Ensemble Theatre Company)
A HOMER RUN The 90-minute one-act play An Iliad is a stunning marvel. This retelling of the famous epic The Iliad, attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, is not a straight reading of The Iliad. This variation, adapted by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, mixes excerpts from the poem with modern interjections, a few of…
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Music: ASTOR PIAZZOLLA AT 100; CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE (Violinist Philippe Quint)
Philippe Quint returns to the stage in April to present two of his signature curated multimedia shows in California, streamed online. On Tuesday April 6, 2021 at 7pm PT, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County presents the world premiere of violinist ’s newest multimedia show, Astor Piazzolla at 100: A Musical Portrait with pianist Jun Cho. Quint’s narration leads…
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Opera / Film: RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA (Quantum Leap Productions)
A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THEATRE STARRING PETER COYOTE PREMIERES VIRTUALLY MARCH 25 – APRIL 11, 2021 Riders of the Purple Sage: The Making of a Western Opera, a documentary film that celebrates the artistry of live theatre, will be presented by Quantum Leap Productions as an online benefit to support creative professionals out of work…
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Theater: MR. PARENT (TheaterWorks Hartford)
Streaming this week through March 26, 2021, TheaterWorks Hartford presents Mr. Parent by Melinda Lopez and starring Maurice Emmanuel Parent will stream on demand March 7 – 26, 2021 to members and single ticket buyers. Conceived and directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Mr. Parent is a hilarious, joyful, and heartbreakingly honest peek into the kids, adults, and systems of Boston Public Schools. In a performance that is…
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Theater: HARLEM DUET (Coronado Playhouse in San Diego)
CORONADO PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS HARLEM DUET Coronado Playhouse: A San Diego tradition for 75 years, is presenting Harlem Duet, the critically acclaimed play by Djanet Sears, streaming on-demand from March 19-April 18, 2021. Harlem Duet received Canada’s highest literary honor for dramatic writing, the Governor General’s Literary Award, in 1998. That year it also received the…
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Theater: JERICHO (New Normal Rep)
New Normal Rep (NNR), a new streaming theater company dedicated to producing reflective and inclusive plays, launches this week with its inaugural production: Jericho by Jack Canfora. Directed by four-time Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl) and featuring Jill Eikenberry (LA Law), Jericho will be streamed on demand, March 4 – April 4, 2021. Tickets are $25, $10…
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Opera: THE ISLAND WE MADE (Opera Philadelphia)
PREMIERES ON FRIDAY, MARCH 19 ON THE OPERA PHILADELPHIA CHANNEL Opera Philadelphia’s latest digital offering, The Island We Made, combines ethereal electronic music, personal storytelling, arthouse filmmaking, and the transformative art of drag lip-sync to form an art-opera film. A deeply personal exploration of familial relationships told as a haunting lullaby, The Island We Made…
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Theater: CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM REUNITE FOR ASSASSINS 3OTH ANNIVERSARY (Patrick Cassidy and Studio Tenn)
FREE ONLINE ANNIVERSARY EVENT ON MARCH 8 INCLUDES SONDHEIM Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on February 16, 1991, after 73 performances. With sharp characters and fabulous songs, the simple premise has nine people who have tried to kill or who actually have killed…
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New York Theatre: 1st IRISH FESTIVAL (Origin Theatre Company)
GET YOUR IRISH New York’s Origin Theatre Company is bringing you a three-week celebration (Jan. 11-31, 2021) of contemporary Irish culture with its 13th Annual 1st Irish Festival, the world’s only festival dedicated to showcasing the work of contemporary Irish writers. There are 20 virtual events, which include: Filmed theatrical productions from some of the…
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Theater Review: RUSSIAN TROLL FARM: A WORKPLACE COMEDY (TheaterWorks Hartford, TheatreSquared, The Civilians)
TRENCHANT TROLLS TRIUMPH BY TRANSMOGRIFYING TRUTH Somewhere in the bowels of Saint Petersburg, Russia, there is an agency made up of both Americans and Russians that trolls the internet, creating hashtags and Facebook posts and memes from people who do not exist, and hurl them around the internet so that gullible Americans become so divisive…
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