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News: Could DC's Signature Theater production finally turn Chess into a hit?. . .It's curtains for Fela as of January 2nd-- with Patti LaBelle stepping into Lillas White Role for the last months. . .The Signature Theatre's Tony Kushner Seasons' Revival of the 2-part Angels in America has extended by six weeks even before it opened-- for details see our Annotated Broadway Listings. . .Come Fly Away will fly away from New York September 5th, but head for a national tour. . .Just in--our annual report on The Shaw Festival. . .David Cromer will returns to Barrow Street to "manage" the final (8/24/10-9/12/10) performances of the long running Our Town. . . Broadway Shows | London Shows | Los Angeles Theatre |San Francisco Theatre| Chicago Theater | Boston Theater
All American Girls/-play about an All American Girls' Black Negro League with a mystery twist . . . 2010 New York International Fringe Festival-The final post with winners and schedule of post-fringe events. . . Wife to James Whelan- Here's another thank you to the Mint Theatre's artistic director Jonathan Bank. He's again resurrected, produced and ably directed a regrettably obscure playwright, Teresa Deevy. . . Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party-though this made me laugh out loud at times, this three-act production's comedy was underwhelming. . . The Punishing Blow- A professor's punishment for an anti-Semitic remark is to deliver a lecture on a historically prominent Jew is not a punishment at all for the audience prescribed by the playwright Randy Cohen as the lecturer's audience. Trust- here is an inherent cleverness in the way that Weitz has manipulated the lives and relationships of his four equally unlikable characters and the way in which they become unwittingly entwined. . . Secrets of the Trade -Jonathan Tolan's endearing coming of age play at Primary Stages . . . 4Play -Paul Magid and his Flying Karamazov Brothers are back in town for an open run . . . The Two Gentlemen of Verona- Judith Shakespeare and Company's cross-gender production a bit long but good fun. . . A Little Night Music--a look at the new Desiree and Madame Armfeldt-- Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Bachelorette-Leslye Headland's nearly tragic, extremely caustic, and totally depressing dramedy . . . See Rock City & Other Locations-This is a collection of short musical vignettes that have been modestly but also adventurously conceived by the Transport Group Theatre Company . . . Freud's Last Session - It is gratifying that Mark St. Germain's absorbing play about an imagined yet entirely possible meeting between the controversial and legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud and the rising literary voice and religious philosopher/professor C.S. Lewis has found a theater in New York City. . . The Irish. . ..and How They Got That Way-One year after his death, the Irish Repertory Theatre is reviving Frank McCourt's musical revue. . . Extended to 9/26! Viagara Falls- Old jokes about old men and that little blue pill never die, but comically speaking, the blue of the pill has long faded to gray.. . . With Glee- certainly well named. It's as light and refreshing as the morning dew Extended to August 22nd!.. . . Berkshires Summer 2010 Season
Berkshire Summer '10 Retrospective- some things old made new again; some things new with promising futures . . . A Delicate Balance-Berkshire Theatre Festival ends its Main Stage season with a well worth seeing revival of Edward Albee's under appreciated, first Pulitzer Prize winner. . . Bad Dates- Theresa Rebeck's popular solo play a hit for Shakespeare & Companys Elizabeth Aspenlieder Gender Benders Are Big Winners in Two Prime Berkshire Venues- The Taster—a tasty, new play that connects the world of an old Basque Kingdom and modern New York . . . The Winter's Tale-Shakespeare's tragedy-romance gets a fine production in Lenox Sea Marks-Gardner McKay's much produced 2-hander at Shakespeare & Company's Elaine Bernstein Theater . . . The Life and Death of King Richard III-John Douglas Thompson further burnishes his reputation as Richard III at Shakespeare & Co. . . Mengelberg and Mahler-a provocative if flawed new play at Shakespeare & Company . . .
London
The Merry Wives of Windsor Revisits the Globe- the successful 2008 production returns to the scene of its initial triumph before going on tour. . .Earthquakes in London- Mike Bartlett's freewheeling epic play dealing with climate change. . . La Boheme-new English version at London's SoHo Theater . . . The Prince of Homburg-The Donmar celebrates the little knownHeinrich von Kleist Aspects of Love -Though now in the intimate Menier, at two hours forty minutes this back list musical from the Lloyd Webber stable feels overly long. . . The Railway Children-an exciting and touching, site specific production of Edith Nesbit's classic children's story . . . The Prisoner of Second Avenue-Director Terry Johnson puts this essentially American play on the West End stage but I suspect that those laughing loudest in the audience are native New Yorkers in London . . .
California A Wither's Tale- The Troubadour Theater troupe spoofs the Bard but his words do make it on stage. . . .Robin and the 7 Hoods- For this Broadway-aimed production debuting at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Casey Nicholaw has the ensemble in perpetual, joyous and frenetic motion. . . . King Lear- this sizzling production by the Antaeus Company directed by Bart DeLorenzo is a winner.. . . The Taming of the Shrew-The bard's popular comedy rounds out the repertory trio of of plays at the Old Globe . . . The Lieutenant of Inishmore- Martin McDonagh's dark comedy at the Mark Taper Forum. . . The Madness of George III- Alan Benett's rarely produced historical play turns out to be the lesser of the two plays that are part of a three-part repertory at the Old Globe . . . . King Lear-British director Adrian Noble who's helming two of three Old Globe Festival productions, refreshingly avoids trendy setting and lets Lear be Lear. . . .
Elsewhere Our Annual Shaw Festival Report Parallelogram- Bruce Norris's new play at Steppenwolf not a coup-de-theater for our critic. . . Menopause the Musical-a little engine that keeps finding new stages to sing on . . . Philadelphia A Midsummer Night's Dream -Mauckingbird Theatre Company is doing Shakespeare's great comedy, through a queer lens, butgay or straight, you'll love this production. . . .
Connecticut
High- Matthew Lombardi's play about drug addiction starring Kathleen Turner at Hartford Stage. . .
New Jersey
No Man's Land - Pinter's play gets a splendid prodction at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. . .
DC
ChessThe Signature's stellar production might just turn this into a hit at last. . .
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