Showing posts with label monthly preview. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monthly preview. Show all posts

Thursday, March 01, 2007

March 2007 Preview

Here are some shows beginning performances in March that look interesting:

Tea and Sympathy - Keen Company presents a revival of Robert Anderson's 1954 play about a young man whose schoolmates think he's a homosexual; Clurman Theatre; March 6th – April 14th; www.keencompany.org

Dog Day Afternoon - A stage adaptation of the famous film about a bank robbery gone awry, written and directed by Frank Solorzano; American Theatre of Actors; March 7th – March 25th; www.barefoottheatrecompany.org

Moby Dick-Rehearsed - A revival of Orson Welles's stage play based on the classic American nove by Herman Melville; Richmond Shepard Theatre. March 7th – March 25th; www.twentyfeetproductions.org

Bouffon Glass Menajoree - It's back! A clown theatre version of Tennessee Williams's famous play; this was one of the highlights of the recent NY Clown Theatre Festival. Brick Theatre; starts March 8th – March 24th; www.bouffonglassmenajoree.com

Hotel Oracle - A new play by Bixby Elliot about six strangers who leave their hotel to seek out the Oracle; Walkerspace; March 8th – March 31st; www.hoteloracle.org

Prometheus Bound - Aquila Theatre Company presents a new production of Aeschuylus's famous tragedy; Classic Stage; March 13th – April 14th; www.aquilatheatre.com

Desire in the Suburbs - A new play by Frederic Glover, inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Desire under the Elms, about a love triangle between a man, his wife, and his son; WorkShop Theater; starts March 14th – March 31st; www.workshoptheater.org

The Exiles - A new adaptation of Euripides's Orestes by puppet theatre artist Theodora Skipitares; La MaMa; March 22nd – April 8th; www.lamama.org

Tales of the Lost Formicans - A revival of Constance Congdon's great play about a family coping with their grandfather's advancing Alzheimer's; Theatre 54 @ Shetler; March 28th - April 15th; www.spoontheater.org

Rearviewmirror - A new play by Eric Winick inspired by The Bacchae; Presented by Reverie Productions; 59E59; starts March 31st – April 22nd; www.reverieproductions.org

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

February 2007 Preview

Here are a few shows that are begining in February that I think look interesting:

Mary Rose
– a revival of the play by J.M. Barrie; directed by Tina Landau; with Keir Dullea and Paige Howard (daughter of Ron); Vineyard Theater; Febraury 1st – April 11th; www.vineyardtheatre.org

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel - Tennessee Williams play presented by The White Horse Theater Company at Abingdon Arts; February 2nd -18th; www.whitehorsetheater.com

(mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story – a new play with music by Joan Ross Sorkin produced by Emerging Artists at Theater Five; February 7th – March 4th; www.eatheatre.org

Journey's End - a revival of R.C. Sherriff's World War I drama comes to Broadway with the same director as the recent West End production, David Grindley; Belasco Theatre; Previews begin February 8th and opens February 22nd; www.telecharge.com

The Other Here – a new work by Big Dance Group; directed by Paul Lazar and choreographed by Annie-B Parson at The Japan Society; February 8th – 11th; www.bigdancetheater.org

Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist / Cleansed - Immediate Theatre Company presents a double bill of plays by Thomas Bradshaw; Brick Theater, Williamsburg; Febaruay 8th – March 3rd; www.theimmediatetheater.org

The Spanish Tragedie - The Queens Players present the not-often-revived revenge play by Thomas Kyd at both The Jackson Avenue Theatre in Long Island City and the Bridge Theater at Shetler Studios; Febrauary 8th - 25th; www.thequeensplayers.com [adjust your volume first!]

Los Angeles - a new play by Julian Shepperd; directed by playwright Adam Rapp at The Flea; February 14th - March 17th; www.theflea.org

Mad Forest - QED Productions present a revival of Caryl Churchill's drama directed by Julia Beardsley O'Brien; Hudson Guild Theater; Feb 15th -Mar 4th; www.qedproductions.org

Our Leading Lady - a new play by Charles Busch about Laura Keene, the 19th century American stage actress, as she prepares to perform at Ford's Theatre on the fateful night when Abraham Lincoln is assassinated. Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II; February 22nd – April 21st; www.mtc-nyc.org

Jack Goes Boating - The LAB presents a new play by Bob Glaudini starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega at The Public Theater; February 27th - April 8th; www.labtheater.org

Hamlet – The Wooster Group's take on Hamlet as filtered through the 1964 Richard Burton production debuts at St. Ann's Warehouse; February 27th – March 25th; www.thewoostergroup.org
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