BWW Review: Broadway San Jose's Limited Run of RENT is Glorious
by Linda Hodges
- Apr 9, 2022
Broadway San Jose's limited run of Jonathan Larson's RENT is a glorious time of raw-energy rock, as well as a heartrending reminder to measure your life in love. Billed as the 'Farewell Tour,' supposedly being the final time the original Michael Greif staging will travel North America, the show packs up its bags after Sunday, April 10 - and you do not want to miss it.
Photos: NEXT TO NORMAL Comes Alive at Westport Country Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi
- Apr 8, 2022
The three-time Tony Award-winning musical and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 'Next to Normal,' opens Westport Country Playhouse's 92nd Season, from April 6 through April 24. Check out photos from the multi-racial production.
59E59 Theaters Cancels Remaining Performances of HEARTLAND
by Nicole Rosky
- Apr 7, 2022
59E59 Theaters has just announced that Heartland, a new play written by Gabriel Jason Dean, in collaboration with Geva Theatre Center, has canceled its remaining performances due to breakthrough COVID cases in the company.
Photos: First Look at PENELOPE, OR HOW THE ODYSSEY WAS REALLY WRITTEN
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 5, 2022
Production photos for The York Theatre Company world premiere presentation of Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, a new musical comedy, with book & lyrics by Peter Kellogg (York’s Desperate Measures), music by Stephen Weiner (The Rivals), directed and choreographed by Emily Maltby (York’s Lolita, My Love), with music direction and orchestrations by David Hancock Turner (York’s Cheek to Cheek, Desperate Measures) and vocal arrangements by David Hancock Turner, Steve Delehanty, and Stephen Weiner.
Photos: Inside Look at 59E59's HEARTLAND at the Geva Theatre
by Marissa Tomeo
- Mar 30, 2022
59E59 Theaters (Val Day, Artistic Director; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) to present Heartland, a new play written by Gabriel Jason Dean, in collaboration with Geva Theatre Center. Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh, Heartland plays now through April 10, 2022.
Final Weeks to See Keen Co's World Premiere of THIS SPACE BETWEEN US
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Mar 23, 2022
Keen Company's World Premiere of the new comedy This Space Between Us by Peter Gil-Sheridan (The Rafa Play), directed by Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein, will begin its final two weeks. Performances will continue through April 2nd only at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, between 9th and Dyer Avenues.
Harvey Fierstein to Appear at The Ridgefield Playhouse to Discuss New Memoir
by Marissa Tomeo
- Mar 3, 2022
Multitalented Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein’s new memoir “I Was Better Last Night” hit bookshelves on March 1st. Now, the cultural icon and legendary performer is set to bring his stories to the stage of The Ridgefield Playhouse on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 7:30pm – in his hometown event (“a small fictional town in Connecticut”). Fierstein will be in conversation with fellow Ridgefielder and The New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Roz Chast, followed by an audience Q&A.
Photos: First Look at Glynis Bell & More in the World Premiere of THIS SPACE BETWEEN US
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 28, 2022
Previews are underway for Keen Company's World Premiere of the new comedy This Space Between Us by Peter Gil-Sheridan (The Rafa Play), directed by Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein. Opening Night is set for Wednesday March 9th. Performances will continue through April 2nd at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, between 9th and Dyer Avenues.
Photos: First Look at the World Premiere of SANDBLASTED
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Feb 17, 2022
Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater have announced that the World Premiere of sandblasted will add a week of performances ahead of its opening night on February 27 at Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street). sandblasted began previews on February 6 and will now play until March 13.
The Old Globe Adds ON BECKETT Starring Bill Irwin to 2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- Jan 28, 2022
The Old Globe announced today that it will present On Beckett, conceived and performed by Bill Irwin (Broadway’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 2005 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play; Waiting for Godot), as part of its 2022 Season.
BWW Review: RENT at Golden Gate Theatre
by Steve Murray
- Dec 6, 2021
Jonathan Larson's small off-Broadway show about love and fear during the AIDS pandemic and has had a phenomenal life- Tony and Pulitzer Awards, running on Broadway for twelve years and seen worldwide in successive tours. Loosely based on Pucinni's La Bohème, the play touches a strong cord among young adults and artists in its portrayal of the incredible fear of death, the joys of new love and the loss of creative spaces. We here in San Francisco can surely empathize with Rent's messages. This spectacular touring cast was embraced heartily by a very youthful audience, who, while not born during the AID crisis, still experience its long-lasting ramifications.
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