Onstage This Week: Dec. 8-15
Crowd pleasers rub shoulders with outright provocations this week, with a wide enough range of warm holiday programming, and stark counter-programming, to keep any theatregoer on their toes.
Nationwide
Stories with a national scope.
Top of the Pods
Catching up with our favorite theatre podcasts after a holiday break, these feasts for the ears have us going back for seconds.
History Set to Music in Black Ensemble Theater’s 2015 Season
A season of musical tributes will salute Bill Withers and great pop divas, as well as Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black baseball pro, and film critic Roger Ebert.
Let Us Show You Our Bottoms (and Titanias)
The flowery bed where a donkey-man and a fairy queen meet cute is an iconic Shakespearean image, so it’s no surprise it’s graced our cover so often.
Annie and 'Fanny,' as They Were Meant To Be Seen
Annie Baker’s disorienting experience with a digital showing of ‘Fanny and Alexander’ fueled her play ‘The Flick.’ IFC has invited her back for a 35mm screening and a chat.
NEA's First Cycle of 2015 Grants Totals $29 Million
Among the first batch of grants announced under Jane Chu’s chairmanship, more than $3.58 million went to theatre companies.
Rodney King's L.A. Story Resonates Backward and Forward
In dramatizing questions about the man whose beating by police incited riots, solo artist Roger Guenveur Smith finds story that’s deeply American—and quintessentially L.A.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Announces 2015 Season
‘Arabian Nights’ and ‘An Iliad’ will join ‘Midsummer’ and ‘Winter’s Tale’ in the open-air tent in Garrison, N.Y. next summer.
The Guthrie Mourns Father Figure Kenneth Washington
Minneapolis remembers a gentle mentor who shepherded young performers and never had a harsh word for anyone.
Vox Lumiere Creates a Steampunk 'Phantom of the Opera'
For their version of “Phantom of the Opera,” Vox Lumiere combined steampunk and silent film, and no white mask.
