BRAZIL THEATER REVIEWS

Theatro Sao Pedro announces its 2022 season. The lyrical series will include eleven titles: La Serva Padrona; Livietta and Tracollo; The Capulets and the Montechios, by Bellini; West Side Story; Lecture on Waterbirds; Threepenny Opera, by Weill; Ariadne in Naxos, by Strauss; Viva La Mamma, by Doniz...

“7 x Pecado - Broadway in Concert” is the show chosen for the reopening of Teatro Escola Basileu França in Goiânia. Sponsored by the Government of Goiás, is based on the Seven Deadly Sins and how they manifest themselves in contemporary life they punctuate the scene through the great Broadwa...

Theatro Sao Pedro closes the opera season with the debut of the opera Signor Bruschino, by Rossini. With staging and lighting by Caetano Vilela, the production will be musically directed by Claudio Cruz, who will command the Theatro Sao Pedro Orchestra. The costumes are by Gabriel Villela. Saulo J...

Staged in an amphitheater, the play COCK, by British author Mike Barlett, is directed by Nelson Baskerville, and premieres December 2nd through 18th, free of charge, at the Centro Cultural Oswald de Andrade. Brazilian staging was created by Andrea Dupré & Daniel Tavares, who are also in the cast al...

Brenda Lee e o Palacio das Princesas is a musical that brings a bit of the history of Brenda Lee, called the “guardian angel of transvestites”, activist who founded the first support house for people with HIV/AIDS in Brazil. She has a pension for transvestites who, for the most part, live off pr...

The show by award-winning author Vitor Rocha, wich will have live seasons from October 2nd, was created entirely during the quarantine and, after having a streaming version, arrives on the stages of Teatro Viradalata, in Sao Paulo...

With libreto, lyrics and direction by Ze Henrique de Paula and original music and musical direction by Fernanda Maia, the language used is inspired by German cabarets, strongly referenced in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil. George Orwell's Animal Farm takes place on a farm led initially by Mr. Jones. ...

As part of the cultural programming return in Brazil, Rua Augusta will receive an innovative show that will take drag art to one of the most diverse and cosmopolitan streets in Sao Paulo. Drag Nights, a project by drags Thelores and Alexia Twister, will open on September 10, from 9 pm, at Clube Barb...

One of the most famous stories in universal literature will take Sao Paulo stage. Cinderella, o Musical premieres on September 2, at Teatro Liberdade, after being seen by more than 200,000 people in its previous productions. With Fabi Bang spearheading the new cast, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderell...

Izabella Bicalho's play, directed by Sueli Guerra, supervised by Joao Fonseca and musical direction by Tony Lucchesi, tells remarkable moments in the history of singer Elizeth Cardoso, nicknamed A Divina (the Divine), her great meetings with friends, historical partners, her passions and her shows. ...

The musical show Cordel Viajante, which performs online on YouTube from March 7 to April 11, is a musical journey through Brazilian popular culture, which combines Forro, Cordel Literature poetry and woodcut....

A great success for more than 10 years, with praise from critics and the public, attended by more than 200 thousand people, the musical comedy O Meu Sangue Ferve Por Você (My Blood Boils for You) runs a virtual season from February 26 to March 21. The play pays homage to the Genero Brega (tacky sty...

Barca dos Coracoes Partidos will present Desancora, its first authorial show, with live and free exhibition over the internet. The show will be broadcast from Teatro Riachuelo stage on February 20 (Saturday), at 8 pm, on YouTube, on the channels of Barca dos Coracoees Partidos, Sarau Agencia and Tea...

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories. Born to a Jewish family in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First Wo...

Jose Gomes Filho (1919 a?' 1982), more commonly known as Jackson do Pandeiro, was a Brazilian percussionist and singer who received the nickname a??King of Rhythma??. He is described by Allmusic as a key promotor of Northeastern Brazilian musicand one of the most inventive and influential Brazilian ...

From the union between cinema and theater, the show Oito was born. A contemporary format 'phygital' - physically live and digitally transmitted, remembering that the real world and the digital world are increasingly closer together. Directed and choreographed by the award-winning Alonso Barros, it ...

As part of the project PALCO INSTITUTO UNIMED-BH EM CASA, in its second edition, this icon of Brazilian music will be honored in the monologue CAUBY, UMA PAIXAO, an adaptation by Flavio Marinho of the great musical CAUBY, CAUBY, with DIOGO VILELA. The presentation will take place on September 24 (T...

a?oeI never imagined acting on a stage for a virtual audience. We are all being challenged by the art of reinventing ourselves a??, says Renata Ricci, actress, singer, dancer and creator of the musical French Kiss- Na Intimidade (French Kiss- In Intimity), which is having a very short season online ...

Saulo Vasconcelos and Carolina Puntel will take you to the Broadway universe in The Best of Broadway in 60 Minutes, via Volto platform (www.volto.live) The live will be done July 9 at 6 pm in Brazil and at 10 pm in Portugal. It will be a journey through the universe of Broadway, with music as the ma...

Happened last night, December 10th, the online broadcast of the third edition of the Premio Destaque Imprensa Digital (DID - Highlight Digital Press Award). Composed by Culture and Entertainment digital vehicles, in addition to those specializing in musical theater, the award evaluated 32 musical sh...

Novos Baianos is a Brazilian rock and MPB group from Salvador, Bahia. It was formed in the 1960s and enjoyed success throughout most of the 1970s. The band members were Paulinho Boca de Cantor (vocals), Pepeu Gomes (electric guitar), Moraes Moreira (vocals and acoustic guitar), Baby Consuelo (vocals...

The itinerant show Casa Rosa dos Ventos (Windrose's House) opens December 6 with direction by Fabiana Tolentino. The play is a production of M.O.T.I.M (Women Organized by an Infinite Movement Theater), which works on themes such as feminism, art and spirituality. Conceived by Fabiana Tolentino, it a...

Winner of the 2018 Humor Award, Broadway musical comedy [title of show] finally arrives in Sao Paulo in a short season, from Saturday to Monday, at Nucleo Experimental....

Finally in Sao Paulo the show that tells and sings the relationship of Brazilian Popular Music with Soccer, intertwining songs from Pixinguinha to Skank, with texts and chronicles from Nelson Rodrigues to Carlos Drummond de Andrade....

After Paris and West End success, A Mentira (Le Mesonge/The Lie) - starring Miguel Falabella and Zeze Polessa - opened this week in Sao Paulo, with original stage play by Florian Zeller. Directed and translated by Miguel Falabella, also has in the cast Karin Hills and Frederico Reuter. The play open...