Onstage This Week: Apr. 6-13
Highs and lows, from the depths of human depravity to the heights of ecstatic expression, and all points in between, characterize the theatrical week.
‘Airline Highway’ Shows a Slice of NOLA Life
The design team of ‘Airline Highway’ by Lisa D’Amour, currently on Broadway, took a real-life New Orleans motel and put it onstage.
Editor’s Note for April 2015
Fresh critical insight on Chekhov and a new anti-realism alternate with in-depth interviews with Roche Schulfer and the creators of ‘Fun Home.’
Executive Letter for April 2015: Ecosensational
Looking back at how far the theatre field has come in the last half century inspires us to move forward and take the next steps together.
‘Alice’ in a Rock-and-Roll Wonderland at Chicago Children’s Theatre
Rachel Rockwell and Michael Mahler’s new version takes inspiration from Joan Jett, Queen and the Beatles as much as from Lewis Carroll.
A.R.T. Season to Include ‘Waitress,’ Fishermen, ‘Natasha’ and Big Brother
Sara Bareilles, Dave Malloy, Mark Rylance, Eve Ensler, the TEAM and Headlong Theatre are among the artists bringing work to the Boston-area theatre.
Pasadena Playhouse Announces 2015–16 Season of ‘Curves’ and Musicals
The California theatre plans a new musical by Kirsten Guenther, Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz, plus plays by Josefina Lopez, Ricardo Khan and Harvey Fierstein.
Sex, Comedy and Mystery on Tap for McCarter’s 2015–16 Season
World-premiere laffers by Ken Ludwig and Sharyn Rothstein are on the Jersey theatre’s schedule, along with a staging of Tennessee Williams’s film ‘Baby Doll.’
Randall Duk Kim and Anne Occhiogrosso Channel the Greats in ‘Then Came Each Actor’
The couple honor theatrical history with a retrospective of great actors—Eleanor Duse, Sarah Siddons, Edwin Booth—and their greatest roles.
Cory Finley Is First Recipient of Flea Theater’s New Gurney Playwrights Fund
Named after (and financed by) playwright A.R. Gurney, a Flea mainstay, the new award is annual gift of $100,000.
