T. Charles Erickson News

Boston premiere of 2010 Tony Award-winning play GOD OF CARNAGE at the Huntington Theatre is full of laughs but short on deeper satisfactions

The Ford's Theatre Society's world premiere of NECESSARY SACRIFICES has been extended through February 18, 2012. Check out photos from the world premiere below!

Is it possible to recreate someone else's authenticity seven times a week doing the same Off-Broadway show?  If last Saturday night's performance of Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good) is any indication, the answer is a resounding... I'm not sure.  But in any case, the lighthearted madness inhabiting The Public Theater's Newman space, devised by the German/British theatrical squad named in the title, makes for a rollicking good time.

There's a beautiful softness that bathes every artistic aspect of director Gordon Edelstein's graceful and endearing production of Athol Fugard's meditation on independence through creativity, The Road To Mecca.

Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director and Michael Stotts, Managing Director today announced the cast and creative team for Boeing-Boeing the high-flying Tony Award-winning comedy that will land at Hartford Stage from January 12 through February 12, 2012.

Hartford Stage, under the leadership of Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director and Michael Stotts, Managing Director today announced the cast and creative team for Boeing-Boeing the high-flying Tony Award-winning comedy that will land at Hartford Stage through February 12, 2012. Check out production shots below!

Paper Mill Playhouse's production, directed by James Brennan, features: Anne Horak (Gretchen), Brynn O'Malley (Gabriella), Heather Parcells (Gloria), John Scherer (Robert), Matt Walton (Bernard) and Tony® Award-winner Beth Leavel (Berthe). The show began performances on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, and runs at the Millburn theater through Sunday, February 12, 2012. The official press opening is scheduled for this Sunday, January 22, 2012. Check out photos below!

High-spirited hijinks make for a sexy, silly BOEING-BOEING at Hartford Stage.

As a part of its 30th Anniversary Season, the Huntington Theatre Company presents God of Carnage- the scathing Tony and Olivier Award-winning New York smash hit by Yasmina Reza (Art). The production runs through February 5, 2012 at the B.U. Theatre. Check out production shots from the show below!

The classic holiday film It's A Wonderful Life gets a magical adaptation though January 1

In The Book of Mormon, the young Ugandan ingénue sings of a fantasy world she imagines where all the warlords are friendly.  And while in J.T. Rogers' intriguing drama of 1980s American foreign policy, Blood and Gifts, Afghan warlord Abdullah Kahn isn't exactly depicted as a saint, the author paints him as a man deeply dedicated to his family and the culture of his people who, like a typical American father, has job-related headaches (trying to secure weapons to defend his soil against the Soviets) and can't understand the music his son listens to (Rod Stewart's 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy' and Tina Turner's 'What's Love Got to Do with It').  As played by Bernard White, he is a humble and patriotic man of dignity.

Michael Cristofer and Louis Cancelmi give captivating performances as Adolph Eichmann and Israeli Mossad agent Peter Malkin respectively in Evan M. Weiner's play receiving its world premiere at Huntington Theatre Company.

White Christmas is just too good a musical to be limited to holiday-time productions.  Especially when you have Larry Blank's ultra-snazzy swing orchestrations vibrantly delivering a gold-plated assortment of Irving Berlin classics and Randy Skinner's dancers heating up the floor with some sensational tapping.

Avatars appear as the users of an internet support forum for crack addicts sign on to chat, but the action doesn't take place in cyberspace. It unfolds on stage as Hartford Stage presents the world premiere of Quiara Alegria Hudes' moving play WATER BY THE SPOONFUL.

Lincoln Center Theater's production of BLOOD AND GIFTS, a new play by J.T. Rogers, directed by Bartlett Sher, opens on Monday, November 21, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). The cast features Michael Aronov, Jeremy Davidson, Robert Hogan, Jefferson Mays, Andrés Munar, Rudy Mungaray, J Paul Nicholas, Paul Niebanck, John Procaccino, Liv Rooth, Gabriel Ruiz, Pej Vahdat, Andrew Weems and Bernard White.

Huntington Theatre Company presents the premiere of Huntington Playwriting Fellow Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro's love story for grownups. Her insight into the hearts and minds of sixty-something old friends, her crisp and witty writing, and Jonathan Silverstein's smooth direction make this a worthwhile - and funny - evening in the theatre.

The Ford's Theatre 2011-2012 season continues with 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens and adapted by Michael Wilson, November 18 to December 31, 2011.

Westport Country Playhouse will stage Shakespeare's beguiling comic masterpiece, 'Twelfth Night, or What You Will,' directed by Playhouse artistic director Mark Lamos, playing through November 5.

The first Broadway Show my parents ever took me to see was Peter Pan. I remember this fluttery feeling in my stomach as the orchestra started to play the overture, and a few years later I was surprised to experience that same feeling as I waited off stage to make my entrance during a summer camp production of 'Charlotte's Web' (I played the Narrator). Of course I soon grew up, got training and also got critical and even though I still love performing in and attending shows, it's rare that I feel the butterflies. But last week, at Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Newsie's the Musical, I could feel them....and they were fluttering around inside my seven-year-old daughter's tummy as she sat beside me!

Director/adapter Mary Zimmerman brings Leonard Bernstein's gloriously satirical musical of blind faith and unblinking optimism to life with vivid clarity, joyful exuberance, and thrilling poignancy in a pitch-perfect production at Boston's Huntington Theatre