Update: A memorial service for Tom Prewitt will be held Sunday, Nov 29, 2020 at 1 pm ET. Tom’s family invites you to join them in remembering Tom’s life and celebrating his memory. For a link to the Zoom event, email [email protected] (subject: RSVP) by Wednesday, November 25. Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard Theatre’s Artistic Director, […]
Archives for November 2020
Keegan’s about to go live (stream) with Trans Am and Gumbo to Mumbo
Live theater is a dangerous place. We know it as a place where audacious ideas and forms – The Seagull, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America, A Strange Loop – saunter their risky walks across the stage. But it’s also a high-wire act, where a catastrophic misstep by an actor or by technical support […]
Review: The interrogation of Alberto Gonzales hits its musical mark in Gonzales Cantata
Election night 2020 IN Series opened a cantata-as-opera based on the Senate Judiciary hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It was bold enough that Artistic Director Timothy Nelson had announced earlier this year that his company IN Series would be “the first completely virtual opera house” and produce a full season of works. Then came […]
National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors free show Friday night on PBS
Before James Corden became known to American audiences as host of “The Late, Late Show,” he became a theatrical star in the Royal National Theatre’s 2011 production of One Man, Two Guvnors. The production moved from the National Theatre to London’s West End before moving to Broadway the following year, and is this Friday night’s […]
Review: IN Series takes to film with a contemporary Orphée et Eurydice
IN Series is presenting its 2020-2021 season completely online and free through its platform, INvision, though paid access has additional perks. Their production of Orphée et Eurydice (which became available November 1) embraces the unique qualities of film with no regrets for the absence of stage production. Presenting Opera (a uniquely non-realistic medium) as film […]
Award-winning playwright Adrienne Kennedy finally gets her due, and debuts a new play in upcoming festival
[Editor’s note: DCTS had been planning to review Kennedy’s debut play Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side, before we ceased publication on Dec 31. The reading was rescheduled, and so I recommend Jonathan Mandell’s Kennedy festival review.] When I first encountered Adrienne Kennedy, through her Obie award winning 1964 play Funnyhouse of a […]
Review: Roaring, Best Medicine’s 20’s comedy, a fun diversion
Roaring is a peek at the tumultuous 1920’s as seen through the eyes of a plucky go-getter, Mabel Daniels (Kara Burri). In this fun-filled digital original by Best Medicine Rep’s John Morogiello, we witness history unfold as Mabel romps through the decade finding her own way while history unfolds under her feet. Determined to call […]
Gonzales Cantata: A moment of profound American shame gets set to music
Melissa Dunphy’s The Gonzales Cantata, which will begin its run on In Series’ website November 3, is an opera with a unique libretto – transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ December 7, 2006 decision to fire seven United States Attorneys. Though it may be strange to hear the words […]