Onstage This Week: Oct. 27-Nov. 3
Animals and angels, scientists and seers, extraordinary and ordinary folks jostle for attention in this week’s sampling of U.S. stage offerings.
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Animals and angels, scientists and seers, extraordinary and ordinary folks jostle for attention in this week’s sampling of U.S. stage offerings.
Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s new devised show goes beyond “eat your vegetables” to teach kids about food and sustainability.
From Beethoven to Irving Berlin, the versatile polymath has built a repertoire of solo shows about the lives and work of great musicians.
Nine adaptations of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” ranging from American Repertory Theater to Cornerstone Theater, that shows you don’t need to do it as a straight play, or set it in Italy, to make it magical (though you can add real magic if you’re really ambitious).
The dead of Père-Lachaise come to life in a fanciful new play at Pittsburgh Public Theater.
Artistic director Mark Clements says his 50-year-old theatre strives to stage plays that are redemptive—and reflective of a diverse and changing state.
In staging Alice Childress’s obscure 1962 play, the classical-oriented Antaeus Company is making a statement about the play’s value—and its relevance.
Project Shaw insists on the relevance of not only of the late dramatist’s plays but of his criticism and activism, as well.
In a new exhibit for Atlanta’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, the New York director highlights the theatricality, and the drama, of the Civil Rights Movement.
Music, murder, trickery and grief are some of the themes in play this week across America, from the Greeks to the geeks, from the cocktail hour to the boxing ring.