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THE SWAMP DWELLERS & Kosky’s THREEPENNY OPERA - Review Roundup

6 days ago | theatrely.com | Juan A. Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

In a rare treat of African theater in New York, director Awoye Timpo stages the pitch-perfect off-Broadway debut of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s 1958 play, The Swamp Dwellers at the Theatre for a New Audience. It’s a production sharply attuned to the work’s mysterious rhythms, built, like its stilt house set, atop a delicate and inevitable flow of deliberately paced revelations.
Selling Identity to the Art World in MINOR.ITY - Review

1 week ago | theatrely.com | Juan A. Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

A sharp satire of the art world through the double prisms of race and generational gaps, the Cape Verdean-American playwright francisca da silveira’s minor.ity makes a canny premiere at the WP Theater. Co-produced with Colt Ceoeur, it takes place backstage at “Diaspora Now!”, a bigwig international fair in Paris, but begins with a front-of-curtain address from Cheikh (Ato Essandoh), a mid-career Senegalese artist who acts as our charming, unreliable griot.
A Heady Sex Education in JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN - Review

1 week ago | theatrely.com | Juan A. Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

Nevermind that their sex ed and drama programs were cut, the juniors at a small-town Georgia high school find plenty of those to pore over in John Proctor Is the Villain, a savvy new play by Kimberly Belflower. Starring a note-perfect ensemble, it follows a core group of teen girls interpreting, and unwittingly reenacting, that old witch-hunt chestnut, The Crucible.
A Ruthless, Sensational SMASH - Review

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Juan A. Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

That it subtitles itself “A Comedy About a Musical” is one of the few kindnesses imparted by Smash, the stage adaptation of the messy but memorable 2012 television series about the troubles of putting a show on Broadway. I mean that as a high compliment, because this show provides a delectably nasty view of show business to rival that of Bob Fosse.
42nd Annual Elliot Norton Award Nominations Announced

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

BostonKristin Chenoweth | Photo: Matthew MurphyIt’s time to celebrate the best of Boston theatre. Today, the Boston Theatre Critics Association (BTCA) have announced the nominations for the 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards. The ceremony is set to make place on Monday, June 2 at 7pm at the Huntington Theatre.
Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts To Lead TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) At ART

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

It's clear This Is The Place. Today it was announced that Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts will star in the West End hit Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York) when it makes it North American premiere at the American Repertory Theater at Hard University in Cambridge. The new musical makes its debut at the Loeb Drama Center on May 20, before an official opening night on May 30. The show runs through June 29.
A Charming OLD FRIENDS Brings Nostalgia To Broadway - Review

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Joey Sims

We are gathered at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre to remember the late, great Stephen Sondheim. The Bard of musical theater, he was a writer of boundless intellectual curiosity and tender emotional ambivalence; his work captured both the heartfelt joy and overwhelming despair that define our fleeting, shared human experience. But not to worry—we won’t make you think about death.
SUNSET BLVD Standout Diego Andres Rodriguez Joins Jamie Lloyd’s EVITA With Rachel Zegler

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Kobi Kassal

LondonDiego Andres RodriguezOh what a circus! Today it was announced that Diego Andres Rodriguez who is currently starring as Artie in Sunset Blvd on Broadway will star as Che in Evita this summer at the London Palladium. Directed by Jamie Lloyd, this new production will star Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón. First preview is set for June 14, with an official opening night on July 1. It runs through September 6.
BOOP! THE MUSICAL: Betty Lands on Broadway and Broadway Gains a Star - Review

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Juan A. Ramirez |Juan Ramírez

If you’ve never actually seen a Betty Boop short film – and, despite her ubiquity on tattooed biceps, it’s likely – you’re in for a treat. Like all the best early 20th century works tragically and systematically erased from our cultural memory, she’s bright, effervescent, relentlessly charming and sexy.
An Ambitious LAST FIVE YEARS On Broadway - Review

2 weeks ago | theatrely.com | Joey Sims

Kindly forgive the musical theater nerds in their chorus of gasps when, early in the new Broadway staging of Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander musical The Last Five Years, one character does the unthinkable simply by…well, by appearing on stage. It is not normally done this way. Brown’s unconventional musical, a 2002 flop Off-Broadway that quickly gained a huge following, typically keeps its central couple apart until the mid-way point of their doomed love story.