ANNA IN THE TROPICS is something like a well curated and presented collection of themes that are both timeless and universal. Coming quite close to the proverbial, perhaps lofty goal of, having something for everyone. One thing we agreed upon is that ANNA IN THE TROPICS is the latest high caliber professional theatre in the Berkshires this season
Jack White has released his second new album of the year, ENTERING HEAVEN ALIVE, available everywhere now via Third Man Records. The new album, which features such acclaimed singles as “If I Die Tomorrow” and “Love Is Selfish,” is offered on all formats, including standard black vinyl, CD, cassette, and more. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!
The staged reading of Greenwood by Coolidge Harris II, the inaugural presentation of the TRU Diversity/Amplifying BIPOC Voices program initiative, will be followed by a 'dollars and sense' talkback discussion about the development of this new work. The reading will take place on Monday, July 25, 2022 at 7pm ET at The Actors’ Temple.
Japanese Breakfast, is the musical project of GRAMMY-nominee and New York Times Best Selling author Michelle Zauner. Japanese Breakfast is currently on tour, including headline shows, festival stops at Newport Folk, Incheon Pentaport, Primavera, and dates with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Florence + The Machine, Yo La Tengo, The Linda Lindas and Cate Le Bon.
The Dramatists Guild of America has announced further recipients for their 2022 Awards. The Awards for both 2021 and 2022 recipients will be presented at Joe’s Pub on Monday, July 25, 2022.
The Costa Mesa premiere of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Moulin Rouge! The Musical will take place at Segerstrom Center for the Arts for a limited three-week engagement November 9 to 27, 2022.
GRAMMY-nominated global superstar Demi Lovato has released their new single “Substance” – the pop-punk anthem is the second song off their forthcoming 8th studio album HOLY FVCK. The official music video, directed by Cody Critcheloe (SSION), nods to the late 90s and early 2000s pop-punk music videos but with a modern twist.
The thrilling stage spectacular inspired by the hit “Magic Mike” films will begin nightly performances in a custom built, state-of-the-art venue at the Miami Marine Stadium site on Key Biscayne on Oct. 13, 2022, for a six-month limited run before heading to its next major North American city.
The REV Theatre Company opens the second production of its 2022 season - The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The show runs July 13-August 2nd at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, NY.
Almanac Dance Circus Theatre has selected the first recipients of the BIPOC New Work Presentation Track. These works will be part of the second annual Cannonball, an independently run Fringe Hub of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Running September 1-30, including a week of performances before the start of Fringe, Cannonball features more than 300 performances of over 65 shows, spanning circus, dance, theater, film, and more.
Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU), announces the launch of TRU Diversity: Amplifying BIPOC Voices, an initiative to highlight the works and explore the concerns of BIPOC theater artists, producers and administrators. The debut of the TRU Diversity program will feature a free reading of Greenwood, a relevant new play by TRU member Coolidge Harris II, set during the Tulsa Race Massacre.
What did our critic think of ANNA IN THE TROPICS at Bay Street Theatre? Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre certainly has another hit on their hands with their latest offering, the Pulitzer winning Anna in the Tropics. The stellar production, the second of their current season, runs through July 24th at the adorable East End venue. It was on Broadway from the Fall of 2003 to early 2004 and this showing is indeed not one to be missed.
BAM will present a gorgeous new restoration of Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez’s radical narrative-documentary hybrid One Way or Another (1974) examining the interplay of race, gender, and class in Castro’s Cuba.
Ready to fire up summer with the final show of its 'Grand Reopening' season, The Ritz Theatre Company will present In the Heights, the Tony Award-winning musical (and cultural phenomenon) by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. Directed by Edwin 'Rico' Santiago, the production runs at The Ritz from July 15th through July 31st.
Moonlight Stage Productions will welcome audiences to the renaissance for its third musical of its 2022 season when it produces the hilarious Broadway hit “Something Rotten!” at the Moonlight Amphitheatre, July 20 through August 6 at 8 p.m.
Sweet Talk Productions has announced new preview and opening dates for the world premiere of Remembering the Future, an existential comedy by Peter Lefcourt.