Today we are taking a listen to Stephen Sondheim's musicals of the 1980s, each a striking artistic achievement attempting to do something never done before in Broadway history and improving the very genre of musical theatre itself with his work on these three very different shows. MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and INTO THE WOODS...
The Brothers Grimm 'go Broadway' as Sondheim and Lapine offer up a cockeyed fairy tale where all of your favorite characters (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and his beanstalk as well as The Witch) meet and interact on their journeys.
Company XIV, a Neo-Baroque dance-theatre group, is proud to present the World Premiere of Le Cirque Feerique (The Fairy Circus), a fairy tale inspired show for all ages, choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick, written and adapted by Austin McCormick and Jeff Takacs, and conceived by Austin McCormick and Zane Pihlstrom.
Color me ignorant of musical theatre, but is there any other way to direct 'Into the Woods' without it looking like that Great Performances production we all saw on PBS back in the early 1990s? I found the whole thing incredibly predicable as well as a little under lit. If Sondheim deconstructs the Brothers Grimm in 'Into the Woods', I think he would probably be ready for someone to deconstruct him now.
Company XIV, a Neo-Baroque dance-theatre group, is proud to present the World Premiere of Le Cirque Feerique (The Fairy Circus), a fairy tale inspired show for all ages, choreographed and directed by Austin McCormick, written and adapted by Austin McCormick and Jeff Takacs, and conceived by Austin McCormick and Zane Pihlstrom.
The Performance LAB will launch its inaugural season with a world premier musical, Le Cabaret Grimm - a punk cabaret fairy tale (sans fairies). It runs Thursday through Saturday April 8-24 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St. in Boston. Based on Tales of the Brothers Grimm, this experimental musical features a live band onstage, masks, large puppets and dance and is infused with a punk sensibility.
The 2009 production of Hello, Dolly! won three Laurence Olivier Awards at this year's ceremony, taking awards for Best Musical Revival, Best Actress in a Musical (Samantha Spiro) and Best Theatre Choreography (Stephen Mear).
The Brothers Grimm 'go Broadway' as Sondheim and Lapine offer up a cockeyed fairy tale where all of your favorite characters (Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and his beanstalk as well as The Witch) meet and interact on their journeys.
The Performance LAB will launch its inaugural season with a world premier musical, Le Cabaret Grimm - a punk cabaret fairy tale (sans fairies). It runs Thursday through Saturday April 8-24 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St. in Boston. Based on Tales of the Brothers Grimm, this experimental musical features a live band onstage, masks, large puppets and dance and is infused with a punk sensibility.
Acorn Productions kicks off a brand new program this month when the Fairy Tale Players present One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes from February 26 to March 7 in the Acorn Studio Theater.
AUDITIONS for STORY THEATER HAVE BEEN POSTPONED TO Thursday, March 4 at 7pm.
Dutch Country Players will hold auditions for 'Briar Rose: The Tale of Sleeping Beauty' on February 28 and March 1 at the DCP Theatre.
Dutch Country Players will hold auditions for 'Briar Rose: The Tale of Sleeping Beauty' on February 28 and March 1 at the DCP Theatre.
AUDITIONS for STORY THEATER HAVE BEEN POSTPONED TO Thursday, March 4 at 7pm.
AUDITIONS for STORY THEATER Saturday, Feb 27 @ 4pm at Duncan Smith Theater.
Acorn Productions kicks off a brand new program this month when the Fairy Tale Players present One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes from February 26 to March 7 in the Acorn Studio Theater.
AUDITIONS for STORY THEATER Saturday, Feb 27 @ 4pm at Duncan Smith Theater.
Theatre Rhinoceros and Grooviness Productions invite you to attend a reading of Hot Summer Night, Jerry Metzker's impertinent and queerified adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with a gleeful salute to Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods and a brazen nod to the Brothers Grimm, DC Comics, The Wizard of Oz, Homer, Christianity, cross-dressing, leather dykes and gender-blind casting.
If the Shoe Fits- Literally Alive Theatre's New Musical Production of 'Cinderella' Strides into the Players Theatre in Style
Performance Network Theatre presents STONE SOUP on Saturday, February 20th at 1pm. This all-ages show, part of the Children's Theatre Network's Saturday Series for Young Audiences, is followed by a free cookies and milk reception.
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