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Bregenz
Festival 2011
The Arrival of Austria's President, Dr. Heinz Fischer, To Open
The Bregenz Festival! / Festrede for the 2011 Festival: Changes
To Be Made--New Horizons! / Inside Jean Paul Marat's Head: Umberto
Giordano's André Chénier Loses His Own Head! /
Schöpfung with England's Judith Wier… / On an English
Achterbahn or Roller Coaster: Burning the Kebabs Wagon! / Lake
Stage André Chénier Will Survive the Alpine Winter
To Live Again Next July! / A Potent Plea from Kunsthaus Bregenz:
Free Ai Wei Wei!
Munich
Festival 2011
Look Where It Comes Again! Munich's Annual Opera Festival--In
Various Venues… / Don't Kill Bambi's Mother! Dead Deer
Violated in "Director's Theatre" Rusalka! / Da Ponte's
Don Giovanni Staged in Perambulating Cargo Containers! / Brilliant
Post Modernist Minimalist Ariadne auf Naxos: Truths Revealed…
/ In Ferrara, Don't Drink the Wine when Lucrezia Borgia Is Pouring!
/ Tired of Romeo & Juliet? How About Focusing on Capulets
& Montagues Instead? / Outside the Official Festival--But
Still a State Theatre: The Gärtnerplatztheater! / Very
Early German Opera: Georg Philpp Telemann's Der geduldige Socrates…
/ Madame Butterfly in the Middle of Munich: Modernist Japonoiserie
auf Deutsch! / Wright & Forrest's Grand Hotel Still Open
for Business & Monkey Business Also. / Getting Ready for
Oktoberfest in July: Looking Forward To More Beer Busts!
Look
Where it Comes Again! Shakespeare & More in Oregonian Ashland!
Not about Harvey Milk: Ghost
Light The Aftermath of the Murder of Mayor Moscone; Four Venues
in Two Weeks: Tracy Letts' August, Osage County Finds Its Groove!;
Julia Caesar Returns to Haunt Brutus: A Great Woman Has Power
Beyond the Grave; All Hands on Deck! Cornish Pirates Board the
Good Ship Shakespeare!; Deaf Signing in Henry IV, Part 2: Odd
Effect When Only Prince Hal & Poins Do It; Get Well Quick
Card for Ashland's Ailing Imaginary Invalid?; American Theatre
Critics Do Their Thing: How Do I Get My Reviews on the Internet?
San
Francisco and Nevada
Wagner's RING West of the Rockies: Leland Stanford as Wotan?;
SF Symphony Almost 100: Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, & Swan
Lake!; Double Bill at UC/Berkeley's Zellerbach: Afghan Music
& Dawsn Upshaw in Crumb's Winds; ACT SF Premieres Musical
Version of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City; Piper's Opera
House in Virginia City: More Preservation Needed Now!
Time
was, when May 31 arrived, the Season was at an end. Not now.
Reality Challenged Male Has Affair with Fantasy Girl friend
in Love Song!, Angry Old Brooklyn Commie Wants Out of Life:
Tony Kushner's Latest…, Alzheimers Is No Fun: A Disoriented
Julia at 59E59…, Banned Belarus Free Theatre at La MaMa:
State Terror & Harold Pinter., Molière's Misanthrope
Transmuted into School for Lies, by David Ives…, The Ex
First Lady of New York City--Donna Hanover--Is in Picked at
the Vineyard!, The Soul Leaves The Body in Tremendous Farts:
Hannoch Levin's Winter Wedding!, Lynn Nottage's Newest: Blacks
in the Movies--Do Meet Vera Stark, Down at the Public Theatre:
Knickerbocker, in Which Bob Dishy Returns!, Target Tempest Not
in a Tea pot, but at HERE, in a Candle lit Victorian Theatre!,
Derek Jacobi's Lear at BAM: Every Inch a King!, Irish Villains
Foiled Again by Irish Heroes: The Shaughraun, at Irish Rep!,
George Bernard Shaw Sings Again! Candida Transmuted into A Minister's
Wife., Newsical the Musical Brings You Recycled TV Newscasts
& More…, Lucky Guy: This Hilarious Show Is The Book
of Mormon for Country & Western!, Improve Your Yiddish with
Fiddler on the Roof Sound Alike: Hershele Ostropolyer, Rally
Round Herne's Oak! Charming Mannes College Falstaff at the Kaye
Theatre., Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya: Together Again on [Upper]
Broadway in September Songs., Boys Made of Cheese May Have Some
Survival Problems…, Karen Kandel Deserves a Tony©™
for Her Remarkable Role in Peter & Wendy!, Avant Garde Down
in the Vaults at 14 Wall Street: Monk Parrots' Gay Rodeo By
Laws, First It Was the Jersey Boys, But Now, It's Jersey Girls:
Loose Screws…, Tovah Feldshuh, David Dinkins, & Scott
Siegel Help Town Hall Celebrate Ninety Years!, Town Hall Celebrates
Broadway Musicals of 1982 with the Mark Stuart Dance Theatre!,
Linda Eder Almost Back on Broadway--Two Blocks Away, at Town
Hall, in Concert!
Report
on Charleston's Spoleto Festival USA: May 27 to June 12, 2011
Channeling Gian Carlo Menotti in a New Medium…, Elizabeth
Futral Channels Émilie du Chatelet: Fearing Death &
Translating Newton!, More Genius from Cornwall & Emma Rice:
Not The Red Shoes You Thought You Knew., Brilliant Dancing &
Choreography from the Corella Ballet: Come Back to Manhattan
Next Time!, Mozart's Magic Flute Gets the French Treatment:
Falling Through the Floor a Lot…, No Khmer Rouge Makeup
for Cambodian Khmeropédies: Ritualized Court & Temple
Dancing., Anne Marie McDermott Brings Louie Gottschalck Back
To Vibrant Life: The Union.
Troubled
Humanity On Stage at the Humana Festival
Adam Rapp Is Inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids for The
Edge of Our Bodies, A Devil at Noon Is Not Quite the Same Thing
as The Noonday Witch, Bob Is Destined for FAME: He Sees Himself
Right-Up-There on Mount-Rushmore!, Store-bought Bright &
New: Living Now in the 1950s—Maple & Vine!, Gun-Control
for Edith: Do Not Shoot Your Father’s New Squeeze!, Elemeno
Pea Is Really L-M-N-O-P! The Rich Are Not Like Us!, The End,
the Interns’-Show, Needs a Stronger-Conclusion…,
Three Ten-Minute Plays in More Than Ten-Minutes!
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The
6th Annual Weasel Festival: "The Red Letterbox" by
Alexandra Collier
Inspired
again by the genius of scribbler Mac Wellman, this year's 6th
annual Weasel festival features talented playwrights Caitlin
Brubacher, Alexandra Collier, Sara Farrington and Ariel Stess
with director Sarah Rasmussen. This experimental festival is
fast becoming an exciting platform for America's downtown playwrights
who are taking over from Broadway's blandness.We talk to award-winning
Australian playwright Alexandra Collier about her play "The
Red Letterbox." By Georgia Clark.
"Laughing
Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party" by Justin Krebs
"Laughing Liberally: This Ain't No Tea Party"
mixes humor, musical numbers, video, and political satire to
spread understanding of liberal ideas, advance progressive values
and provoke the Tea Party. We spoke to Justin Krebs about the
nuts 'n' bolts of putting this show together. By Gerogia Clark.
"Bring
Us The Head Of Your Daughter" by Dereck Ahonen
"Bring Us The Head Of Your Daughter" is the latest
effort from those Off-Broadway darlings, The Amoralists. Playwright/director
Derek Ahonen explains his biting examination of an unconventional
family. By Georgia Clark.
Too
Much Light? Never!
The New York Neo-Futurists launch the sixth year of "Too
Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind"; a lightening-paced
attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. By Georgia Clark. |
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The
65th Annual Tony Awards at the Beacon Theater
The American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards ceremony
was held on Sunday June 12 at the Beacon Theater in the Upper
West Side neighborhood of Manhattan. Neil Patrick Harris, who
hosted the 2009 awards, returned to host this year's ceremony,
which honored Nick Stafford's "War Horse" for Best
Play, "The Book of Mormon" for Best Musical, "The
Normal Heart" for Best Revival of a Play, and "Anything
Goes" for Best Revival of a Musical. By Clarissa Marzán.
The
67th Theatre World Awards
A May 10 announcement honored twelve actors for Outstanding
Broadway and Off-Broadway Debut Performances during the 2010-2011
theatrical season and announced the winners of the inaugural
award for Lunt-Fontanne Award for Ensemble Excellence as well
as the winners of the third annual Dorothy Loudon Award for
Excellence. The invitation-only Theatre World Awards presentation
took place on Tuesday, June 7 and was hosted by Peter Filichia.
The ceremony also presented a tribute to John A. Willis, the
founder of the Theatre World Awards, who passed away in June
2010. By Clarissa Marzán.
The
56th Obie Awards
A big crowd from Off and Off-Off Broadway gathered for the Obie
Awards Ceremony to celebrate the art of Theater at Webster Hall
on Monday May 16 in Greenwich Village. S. Epatha Merkerson and
David Hyde Pierce co-hosted the ceremony, accompanied by big
stars such as Alec Baldwin and Liev Schreiber introducing the
awards and the winners. By Agate Elie.
The 61st Outer Critics Circle
Awards
"Anything Goes" and "The Book of Mormon"
received the most accolades from the Outer Critics Circle Awards
when the results were released on Monday May 16, preceding the
celebratory awards dinner to be held on May 26 at Sardi's Restaurant
in Midtown Manhattan. With both productions winning four awards
apiece, "Anything Goes" won Outstanding Revival of
a Musical and "The Book of Mormon" received Outstanding
New Broadway Musical. By Clarissa Marzán.
The 76th New York Drama Critics
Circle Awards
The winners of the 76th annual New York Drama Critics' Circle
Awards were honored at the celebratory dinner at Agnus McIndoe
in Midtown Manhattan on Monday May 16. The panel of theater
critics struggled to choose the winner of Best Play, as they
underwent four rounds of voting before finally conferring the
award to David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People." By
Clarissa Marzán.
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