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Tickets For WAM Fall Mainstage Show ROE Now On Sale
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2020
WAM Theatre has announced that tickets go on sale Tuesday, March 3, for their fall Mainstage production of ROE by Lisa Loomer, directed by WAM Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven. The production will run September 24-October 11, 2020, presented at Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox, MA.
No Limit Productions Presents Silent NO MORE
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2020
Silent NO MORE, the theatrical documentary experience that reminds audiences of the power of the human spirit, is coming to the Boston Area for a special one-night-only performance, March 7 (7:30 PM) at Arlington's Regent Theatre, 7 Medford Street. The show has performed to sold-out audiences across the country, including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, with a cast that features acclaimed author Rebecca Alexander ('Not Fade Away'), five-time American Comedy Award nominee Kathy Buckley (the award-winning PBS special 'No Labels, No Limits'), and alumni of the No Limits Theater Group, each sharing their personal stories of living and thriving with hearing loss.
ArtsEmerson Presents 4th Annual MR. JOY: The Neighborhood Tour
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2020
ArtsEmerson, in collaboration with METCO, Inc. presents the 4th annual Mr. Joy: The Neighborhood Tour a?" a series of free theatre performances of Daniel Beaty's Mr. Joy, a play that explores issues of race and class in America to help us find our common humanity. The experience of seeing this play has proven an excellent catalyst to begin important discussions on race, class and community. Mr. Joy succeeds in inspiring the public to remember the power of empathy and the need to stand up to injustice.
Berklee to Showcase Student Musical Theater Writers with CURTAIN UP!
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2020
Curtain Up!, a Berklee College of Music revue of new musical theater songs written, orchestrated and performed by students, returns to the Berklee Performance Center Wednesday, April 15th, 2020. Featuring a powerhouse 17-piece band and a dazzling array of Broadway stars in the making, Curtain Up! celebrates the winners of Berklee's annual Musical Theater Songwriting Contest, and showcases Berklee's unique Musical Theater Writing program. Tickets are on sale now at Berklee.edu/events.
Playhouse Stage Co Will Present World Premiere Of JERRY LEE LEWIS VERSUS JERRY LEE LEWIS
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2020
Playhouse Stage Co presents the world premiere of Jerry Lee Lewis Versus Jerry Lee Lewis by Jefferson McDonald
Comedian Jacqueline Novak Will Bring GET ON YOUR KNEES to Boston
by BWW News Desk - March 02, 2020
ATG Colonial has announced the Boston engagement of Jacqueline Novak's GET ON YOUR KNEES, fresh off its four-time-extended hit off-Broadway engagement. Written and performed by comedian Jacqueline Novak, directed by John Early, executive produced by Mike Birbiglia and originally presented by Natasha Lyonne, ATG Colonial presents the Boston engagement in the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA for an intimate experience, the show will play a 16-performance run beginning Tuesday, March 31, 2020 and running through Sunday, April 12, 2020.
BWW Review: REVOLUTION: DANCE ON THE EDGE at Boston Ballet
by Andrew Child - March 02, 2020
Boston Ballet's rEVOLUTION: Dance on the Edge features three works by pivotal choreographers which stretch the label 'contemporary' to its breaking point. The three pieces, which all premiered between 1957-1987 may trace through the timeline of progress for commercial ballet in America, but I question if anything a ballet company can do could live up to the streamlined, techno aesthetic toted by their marketing team. The title, with its radical use of capitalization, cuts through the smooth blackness on the cover of the program above a photograph of two dancers in an acrobatic pose in green leotards. Inside the booklet, a geometrically conceived sketch of a dancer invites us to an event called 'Turning Pointe' where we can engage with a?oeleading innovators in the arts, sciences, and industry who are building the future in Boston.a?? Another page announces Boston Ballet's upcoming collaboration with Stephen Galloway, the creative movement director for the Rolling Stones, promising to a?oeshatter expectations of what ballet can bea??. 
The Theatre Institute Brings URINETOWN To The Orpheum Stage
by BWW News Desk - March 01, 2020
'A bad title can ruin a show pretty good,' says the character Little Sally in the opening scene of Urinetown the Musical. That may be true, but it hasn't stopped The Theatre Institute of the Hockomock Area YMCA from producing this satirical dark comedy. The show will play at the Marilyn Rodman Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th at 7 PM.
BWW Review: THE TREASURER at Lyric Stage Company of Boston
by Andrew Child - March 01, 2020
For playwright Max Posner, sitting down to write The Treasurer must have been a feat of de-centering oneself. The narrative takes a dusky, balmy look back at the relationship between his father and his grandmother, a wealthy, New York socialite who lived with dementia in her old age. While the story is, in a way, indirectly autobiographical, it offers few mentions of the playwright himself, uplifting the perspective of the protagonist, his father. In shouldering the role, Ken Cheeseman seems to push Posner's language further into the periphery. His ambulatory addresses to the audience and stoic musings seem to be conceived of in real time, not memorized from a written source. However, Lyric Stage Company's production of The Treasurer is not the standard a?oeI hate my fathera?? solo performance you are likely to see at any undergraduate institution's annual student festival. In fact, though the text is dominated by Cheeseman's character, the production is upheld just as much by him as it is by Cheryl McMahon in the role of Ida, his mother.
'Zing Went the Strings of My Heart' Comes to The Common Market Restaurant in Quincy
by BWW News Desk - February 29, 2020
Singer/Actress Marissa Mulder moved to New York City in 2007 from Syracuse, NY and has gone on to become one of the most successful young cabaret artists on the Manhattan scene. In 2011, she beat out 60 other singers to win the Metro Star Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, an American Idol type contest for up and coming cabaret artists. Since then she has performed in several of her own shows. Stephen Holden of the New York Times called her show ' Tom...In His Words, the songs of Tom Waits', 'Far and away the season's best show, everything the genre can be but almost never is.'
New York Singer Comes To Quincy in SONGS FROM THE HEART
by BWW News Desk - February 29, 2020
'Songs From The Heart' features music by Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and others, starring Corinna Sowers Adler who is a well-known professional cabaret singer from NYC, having performed her solo shows in many venues including Feinstein's, The Triad, Feinstein's / 54 Below and Jazz at Lincoln Center's famed Appel Room. She has been a featured performer five times on the NYC Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention, most recently singing Bernstein's famed 'Glitter and Be Gay' on the Rose Theater stage. Corinna is a six-time Tony Award Nominee for Excellence in Theatre Education and has been named one of the best voices in New York City!
Actors' Shakespeare Project Presents THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
by BWW News Desk - February 29, 2020
Actors' Shakespeare Project (ASP) continues its 16th season with The Merchant of Venice, performed at the Plaza Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. Performances run March 11-April 5, 2020.
BWW Feature: THE FORTUNE TELLER at TC Squared Theatre Company
by Andrew Child - February 29, 2020
Playwright Christina R Chan has been developing a new work, The Fortune Teller, which will have a premiere staged reading through one of TC Squared Theatre Company's Playwright Salons on March 1. This follows after her 2017 finalist entry for the Eugene O'Neill Play Conference, which also started as a reading in TC Squared's salon. I got to chat with Chan as well as TC Squared artistic director Rosalind Thomas-Clark about how The Fortune Teller has grown and developed through the Playwrights' Lab.
The Rose Art Museum Has Announced a Gift of 50 Important Works on Paper from Collector Stephen Salny
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2020
The Rose Art Museum has announced the gift of 50 works on paper from Baltimore-based collector Stephen Salny. This gift includes pieces by some of today's leading artists and significantly includes a number of works by Ellsworth Kelly, as well as pieces by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella. Many of the works enrich already existing clusters of work by the same artists while others are new to the Rose's permanent collection.
World Premiere Recordings Released Of Thomas Adès' Acclaimed Concerto For Piano And Orchestra And 'Totentanz'
by BWW News Desk - February 28, 2020
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has added another CD to its extensive and prestigious discography: world-premiere recordings made live at Symphony Hall of Thomas Adès' Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (performed in 2019) and Totentanz (2016), featuring pianist Kirill Gerstein, mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn, baritone Mark Stone, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the composer's direction. They are part of a new album from Deutsche Grammophon, set for international release on February 28, 2020.
First Annual Playwright's Festival Announces Winners
by BWW News Desk - February 27, 2020
Barnstable Comedy Club is excited to announce the winners of its First Annual Playwright's Festival held last fall. A total of twelve plays were featured as readings, written by playwrights from throughout the New England region. From those plays, two have been selected to return to the theater for a workshop session this spring.
Odyssey Opera Continues Tudor Season With Elisabetta, Regina D'Inghilterra
by BWW News Desk - February 27, 2020
One of the nation's most adventurous opera companies, Odyssey Opera, continues its Tudor-inspired season with the fully-staged production of Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (1815) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868). With a libretto by Giovanni Schmidtfrom the play The Page of Leicester by Carlo Federici,this two-act Italian opera contrasts the public and private spheres of Queen Elizabeth I. This seldom-heard work by one of opera's most beloved composers is the first of the nine Rossini Neapolitan operas. Gil Rose conducts with the soprano Serena Farnocchia as Elizabeth making her Boston debut.
Greater Boston Stage Company Will Present THE MOORS
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
Greater Boston Stage Company will present The Moors, written by the celebrated and widely produced playwright Jen Silverman. Directed by Producing Artistic Director Weylin Symes, performances run March 12 - 29, 2020. The Press Opening is Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 8:00pm.
Barnstable Comedy Club Presents AN EVENING OF UNSCRUPULOUS WONDERMENTS
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
The Barnstable Comedy Club located at 3171 Main Street in Barnstable Village proudly presents AN EVENING OF UNSCRUPULOUS WONDERMENTS, a modern take on the Miracle Shows of the 1920's and 1930's.
The Company Theatre Presents Tony Award-Winning Musical FUN HOME
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
The Company Theatre has announced its upcoming production of the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. This fiercely funny and, at times, heartbreaking coming-of-age story explores the complexities of self-discovery and family dynamics all against the backdrop of a family-owned funeral home - the 'fun home.'
Ricardo Engermann to Replace Johnny Lee Davenport in FENCES at New Repertory Theatre
by BWW News Desk - February 26, 2020
New Repertory Theatre announces that Ricardo Engermann replaces recently deceased Boston favorite Johnny Lee Davenport, as Troy in New Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of August Wilson's Fences. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush, the production runs April 25 through May 17, 2020 in the MainStage Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA. Tickets are $25-$67 and may be purchased by calling the New Rep Box Office at 617-923-8487 or visiting newrep.org. Student, senior, and group discounts are available, as well as free tickets for WIC/EBT cardholders.
Great Barrington Public Theater to Present East Coast Premiere of New David Mamet Play and More in 2020 Season
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2020
Great Barrington Public Theater unveiled plans for its 2020 season, to be produced at the Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington. In keeping with the Public's core mission, the 2020 season will consist of new works and new voices, primarily spotlighting the deep pool of local area talent. Tickets will be price-conscious and affordable to all.
Tradition & Opulence: Easter In Imperial Russia Exhibition Comes to Museum Of Russian Icons
by BWW News Desk - February 25, 2020
On view April 7a?"August 7, 2020, Tradition & Opulence: Easter in Imperial Russia, an exhibition of nearly 200 objects, will recreate the splendor of Easter celebrations during the last days of the Tsars. No country is better known for its Easter eggs than Russia. From the jeweled creations of Fabergé to humble wood carvings, the nation's greatest artists, icon painters, jewelers, and artisans have created imaginative egg designs in every medium for the most important of the Orthodox Christian feasts.
Broadway March Madness Announced at THE BLACK BOX
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2020
Broadway March Madness is coming to THE BLACK BOX, the region's premier theater, music, and event venue in downtown Franklin. Stars of Broadway will be in residence at THE BLACK BOX throughout the month of March.
Newton's New Philharmonia Orchestra Continues Silver Anniversary Season With ST. PETERSBURG VIRTUOSOS
by BWW News Desk - February 24, 2020
Newton's New Philharmonia Orchestra, Francisco Noya, Music Director, continues its Classics Series with a?oeSt. Petersburg Virtuososa??, a celebration of the works  of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Prokofiev. The concert will feature Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and the polonaise from a?oeEugene Onegina?? as well as a special performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1 with Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Tatiana Dimitriades. The New Phil will perform a?oeSt. Petersburg Virtuososa?? at the First Baptist Church in Newton on Saturday, March 14th at 7:30 PM and Sunday, March 15th at 3:00 PM.

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