Broadway Baby Andrea McArdle to perform in Follies in Las Vegas
by Debbie Hall
- Apr 4, 2024
FOLLIES, Stephen Sondheim, and James Goldman’s legendary production will be brought to life in a spectacular performance featuring a 45-person cast, including 12 of Las Vegas’s original showgirls. The limited-run engagement will be a star-studded affair at Access Showroom at Aliante Casino + Hotel + Spa, April 11-14.
FOLLIES Will Premiere in Las Vegas Next Month
by Stephi Wild
- Mar 14, 2024
Metropolis Theatricals Las Vegas LLC will debut FOLLIES, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s musical production, in a star-studded spectacle featuring a 45 person cast, including 12 of Las Vegas’s original showgirls.
Review: THE LION IN WINTER at .Zack Theatre
by James Lindhorst
- Oct 7, 2023
Director Tom Kopp’s sharp and brisk direction keeps things moving on the small stage at the .Zack Theater. He smartly uses Brad Slavik’s static set design to ensure the limited space never seems overcrowded with four or five actors in a scene. His collaboration with his team of actors and technicians creates an effective palate for storytelling.
Musical Theatre Guild Announces Casting For Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES
by A.A. Cristi
- Aug 29, 2023
Musical Theatre Guild, a Southern California theatre institution for over a quarter century, has announced casting for its upcoming production of FOLLIES. Stephen Sondheim's classic 1971 musical reflecting the collapse of American innocence and naivete in the post-Kennedy years, will take place on Sunday, October 1st, 2023 at Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center's Eli and Edythe Broad Stage.
The Girls Upstairs: Stories of 1998's Ill-Fated FOLLIES
by AJ Hunsucker
- May 7, 2023
What is it about juicy backstage drama that so intrigues audiences? For decades, people have flocked to films and plays portraying the exciting events that happen behind the curtain. Arguably, the most famous musical on this topic was written by the God of musical theatre: Stephen Sondheim. It’s title: Follies.
Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. Presents Stephen King's MISERY
by A.A. Cristi
- Feb 8, 2023
Experience the heart-pounding tension of Misery as Dirt Dogs Theatre Co. (DDTCo.) envelops you in the narrative through an intimate staging of the tangled relationship between a trapped author and his psychotic fan.
Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre Celebrates Survival In 2022
by A.A. Cristi
- Dec 9, 2022
In its first full season since the onset of the pandemic, one of the region's most adventurous and innovative small theatre companies came roaring back! Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre got through all of 2022 without having to cancel a single performance or send on a single replacement cast member!
Previews: MIDNIGHT COMPANY 2023 SEASON at Midnight Company
by James Lindhorst
- Dec 7, 2022
The Midnight Company announces it 2023 five-show season that includes two world premiere productions. The Season opens on March 1, 2023 with the world premiere production of JUST ONE LOOK based on the life and career of Linda Ronstadt at The Blue Strawberry. Midnight Company continues its season with THE ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS OF LEONARD KELLY at The Kranzberg Black Box May 4th -20th, THE YEARS at The Chapel July 13th-29th, and YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU at The Blue Strawberry July 26th – August 9th. Midnight Company closes its season with a production of THE LION IN WINTER at the .ZACK October 5th-21st.
Handsome Production, Tedious Script: THE LION IN WINTER at Everyman Theatre
by Jack L. B. Gohn
- Oct 30, 2022
You not only have to have the talent to do the technical side of costume drama well, and have actors who can emote convincingly and then (in this case) reverse gears convincingly, and then reverse gears again as many times as the script calls for. You need a script that doesn’t make them do it so often it makes the audience stop following and stop caring. That is a bar this script doesn't clear.
THE LION IN WINTER Comes To Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre in November
by Stephi Wild
- Oct 27, 2022
Merry Christmas, 1183! King Henry II has just released his estranged wife Eleanor from prison so that the entire back-stabbing royal family can spend the holiday together. He's getting on in years and a succession plan needs to be mapped out. But which of their three sons will end up on the throne? The stakes are high, the knives are out, and it looks like this will be one Christmas where nobody is going to get what they want.
The World Premiere Of Brad Fraser's SHELLEY'S SHADOW Begins Next Month at Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 23, 2022
Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill has just launched into rehearsals for the first play in our 2022 Fall Mainstage Season. For the first time ever, the company has commissioned a playwright to create a totally new work to be presented on our “Priscilla” Mainstage. Based on actual events, Brad Fraser's hilarious and touching “Shelley's Shadow” is set to open for a two-weekend run on September 8.
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