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Opera: Life Is a Dream
feature Thirty-five years after Lewis Spratlan composed it, Life Is a Dream is finally having its world premiere.
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Theater: Freud’s Last Session
feature Mark St. Germain's latest play is an imagined talk-fest in which Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis engage in a “brainy fencing match of Olympic caliber.”
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Auctioning the Ainsleys
feature Laura Schellhardt’s new comedy-drama is about an offbeat family of antiques auctioneers whose collective obsession with objects warps their relationships with one another.
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A Guide for the Perplexed
feature Joel Drake Johnson’s new play captures a suburban home in “serious emotional disarray,” said Scott Morgan in the Chicago Daily Herald.
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Cherrywood
feature In a production that pushes the boundaries of live theater, director David Cromer has assembled nearly 50 actors to enact Kirk Lynn's play about a party.
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The Madness of George III
feature Even as the king “descends into hysteria and despair,” he seems only a little more deranged than the world surrounding him, said James Hebert in The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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A Parallelogram
feature In one of Bruce Norris' funnier and more compassionate plays, a young woman meets an older, time-traveling version of herself who tells her about her not-so-good future.
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Theater: Fences
feature The new production of August Wilson’s Fences, the fifth play in the 10-play cycle about the African-American experience, has a first-rate cast that includes Denzel Washington and Viola Davis.
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This Wide Night
feature Edie Falco and Allison Pill—two actresses “at the top of their game”—play two former prison bunkmates whose friendship is tried when one seeks shelter with the other.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
feature Obie Award winner David Cromer has created an “eye-opening take” on Williams’ allegory about the demise of the Old South.
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The Metal Children
feature A young-adult novelist named Tobin Falmouth, played by Billy Crudup, travels to a small town to defend his latest book, which has been banned by the local school board.
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Theater: Golden Age
feature Terrence McNally’s Golden Age imagines behind-the-scene antics on the opening night of Vincenzo Bellini’s 1835 opera, I Puritani.
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Theater: A Behanding in Spokane
feature In Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s uproarious black comedy, Christopher Walken offers a performance that is 90 minutes of sheer “off-kilter” brilliance, said Michael Kuchwara in the Associated Press.
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Me, Myself & I
feature Edward Albee's new play is about a pair of dysfunctional 28-year-old identical twins—named “OTTO” and “otto”—and their relationship with their neurotic mother.
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