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  • Theater Season Announcement: LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (“Welcome Home” 2021/2022)

    By Nia Liat | June 2, 2021
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    McCoy Rigby Entertainment are bringing Broadway shows and events back to The La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. Their newly announced season will feature:    WEST COAST PREMIERE CLUE September 24 – October 17, 2021 Based on the screenplay by  JONATHAN LYNN  Written by  SANDY RUSTIN   Additional Material by  HUNTER FOSTER and ERIC PRICE   Based on the Paramount…

  • Theater Podcast: MAGELLANICA (Audio Drama by E.M. Lewis from Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR)

    By Tony Frankel | May 25, 2021
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    Streaming for free through June 30, 2021, is Artists Repertory Theatre’s five-part, four-hour audio drama Magellanica on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Sticher, and where you find podcasts.   Magellanica is about a crew of climate scientists during a 1986 “winter over” in Antarctica. Adapted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence and Steinberg New Play Award winning…

  • Virtual Opera: DESERT IN (Boston Lyric Opera)

    By Connor McCormick | May 22, 2021
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    AN OPERATIC OASIS WHERE ANYTHING IS DONE TO KEEP LOVE SAFE Lost souls are found, love is rekindled, and secrets are exposed at a mysterious motor lodge in the American West. There’s an extraordinarily impressive team behind Boston Lyric Opera’s new operatic miniseries desert  in, which premieres June 3, 2021 on  operabox.tv streaming service. Anthony Michael Lopez…

  • Theater: NORTH COAST REP’S 40TH SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT (Solano Beach near San Diego)

    By John Todd | May 20, 2021
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    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….

  • Virtual Theater: TINY HOUSE (Westport Country Playhouse)

    By Tony Frankel | May 17, 2021
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    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…

  • Event: 2021 NASHVILLE COMEDY FESTIVAL (Sebastian Maniscalco and Leanne Morgan)

    By Tony Frankel | May 6, 2021
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    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…

  • Broadway Preview: THE GREAT GATSBY (A New Musical)

    By Gregory Bernard | April 27, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater/Film: ANIMAL WISDOM (PBS)

    By Tom Chaits | April 15, 2021
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    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…

  • Obit: ROBERT FLETCHER (Costume Designer)

    By Tony Frankel | April 14, 2021
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    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….

  • Streaming Theater: SITTING AND TALKING (Laguna Playhouse)

    By Tom Chaits | April 4, 2021
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    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…

  • Opera: THE ELIXIR OF LOVE / AS ONE (Opera Maine)

    By Connor McCormick | April 3, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater Review: TRYING (North Coast Rep)

    By Tony Frankel | April 2, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater: DIGITAL & LIVE SEASON 2021 (Oregon Shakespeare)

    By Nia Liat | March 29, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater: AN ILIAD (Live from the New Vic in Santa Barbara, Ensemble Theatre Company)

    By Tony Frankel | March 26, 2021
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    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…

  • Music: ASTOR PIAZZOLLA AT 100; CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE (Violinist Philippe Quint)

    By Connor McCormick | March 25, 2021
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    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…

  • Opera / Film: RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE: THE MAKING OF A WESTERN OPERA (Quantum Leap Productions)

    By Tony Frankel | March 15, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater: MR. PARENT (TheaterWorks Hartford)

    By Lamont Washington | March 10, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater: HARLEM DUET (Coronado Playhouse in San Diego)

    By Tom Chaits | March 9, 2021
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    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…

  • Theater: JERICHO (New Normal Rep)

    By Gregory Bernard | March 7, 2021
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    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…

  • Opera: THE ISLAND WE MADE (Opera Philadelphia)

    By Nia Liat | March 4, 2021
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    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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