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“A Steady Rain” con Hugh Jackman e Daniel Craig - Broadway

Posted on September 26th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

The Schoenfeld Theatre
236 West 45th Street
(between Broadway and 8th Avenue)
New York, NY 10036

Fino al 6 dicembre

Web-Site: www.asteadyrainonbroadway.com

Descrizione: C’e’ davvero bisogno di descrivere uno degli eventi teatrali dell’anno? C’e’ davvero bisogno di spiegare trama, di dare notizia sul regista, su scenografo, costumista e cosi’ via? Questo e’ lo spettacolo in cui recitano, uno contro l’altro, uno accanto all’altro, due fra gli attori piu’ famosi di Hollywood… e piu’ ammirati al mondo! Sappiate solo che i biglietti costano abbastanza (pensate che quelli scontati per gli studenti costano $ 31.50!) e che sono rimasti solo pochissimi posti per novembre e dicembre. Dunque affrettatevi se volete vedere uno spettacolo decisamente speciale!

Description: Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman star in the most anticipated theatrical event of the season: A Steady Rain. This new American play by Keith Huff tells the story of two Chicago cops who are lifelong friends and whose differing accounts of a few harrowing days change their lives forever. Directing is John Crowley. From the play web-site.

A Steady Rain is produced on Broadway by Frederick Zollo, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Raymond L. Gaspard, Frank Gero, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Jeffrey Sine, Michael Rose Ltd, The Shubert Organization, Inc. and Robert Cole. Set and costume design are by two-time Tony Award winner Scott Pask, with lighting design by two-time Tony Award nominee Hugh Vanstone and original music and sound design by Mark Bennett.

Performance Schedule

Tuesday at 7pm
Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm
Wednesday & Saturday at 2pm,
Sunday at 3pm
Added performance: Thursday, October 1 at 2pm
No performance: Thursday, November 26 at 8pm

Subway: N, R 49th street, N, R, Q, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, F, V 42nd Street

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HAMLET con Jude Law - Broadway - New York

Posted on July 30th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

HAMLET 
BROADHURST THEATRE
235 West 44th Street (Between Broadway and 8th Avenue)
New York NY 10036
www.hamletbroadway.com

Descrizione: Fra le stelle che accanderanno Brodway questo autunno c’e’ anche l’affascinantissimo Jude Law nel panni del famoso Principe di Danimarca. La produzione e’ londinese e lo spettacolo e’ gia’ stato visto in terra d’Inghilterra… crediamo! Le repliche andranno avanti per sole sei settimane e I biglietti – avvertiamo subito – sono alquanto cari, ma se siete fans del bel Jude, beh, non c’e’ prezzo che tenga!

Description: The King of Denmark is dead. Consumed with grief, Prince Hamlet determines to avenge his father’s apparent murder, with devastating consequences for his family and the Kingdom. Tony Award® and Academy Award® nominee Jude Law returns to Broadway in an extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s definitive masterpiece, direct from a sold-out hit run in London’s West End. Tony nominee Michael Grandage directs. From Hamlet Web Site.

First Preview Date
September 12, 2009

Opening Date
October 6, 2009

Closing Date
December 6, 2009

Running Time:
3 hours and 10 minutes, include on 15 minute intermission

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The Merchant of Venice - Brooklyn Academy of Music - 6-17 Maggio

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.


May 6–9, 12–16 at 7:30pm
 May 10 & 17 at 3pm

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Watermill Theatre (UK) and Propeller production
Directed by Edward Hall
Set design by Michael Pavelka
Lighting design by Ben Ormerod
BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton Street)
www.bam.org

Artist Talk with Propeller
May 7, post-show (free for same-day ticket holders)
BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton Street)

“Edward Hall’s superb, all-male company Propeller proves again the value of a true ensemble and a director who treats Shakespeare’s plays as if they’d just been written.” —The Guardian

Edward Hall and Propeller aim to rediscover Shakespeare by staging his plays with great clarity, speed, and imagination. Their adherence to the original men-only tradition onstage underscores Shakespeare’s intricate tanglings between the sexes and animates the physical life of the production with the poetry of the text.

Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice is a work that poses still-incendiary questions about truth, morality, and prejudice. The story revolves around Shylock, an observant Jewish moneylender caught between his faith’s strictures and the demands of Christianity. In this astute production, Hall and the company reveal the play’s underlying absurdities—the virtue in vice and vice in virtue—while delivering an unsparing rendition of the harrowing bargain at its core.

About the artists
Director Edward Hall, a member of a major theatrical family, made his U.S. directorial debut in 2003 with Rose Rage at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre—a production which he and Roger Warren adapted from Henry VI parts I, II, and III. This production subsequently transferred to the Duke Theater in New York, where it received four Jeff Awards including Best Play, Best Director, and Best Ensemble Cast. The original production, for which he received an Olivier Award Nomination for Best Director and the TMA Award for Best Touring Production, opened with Propeller at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury, U.K. and subsequently toured to the Haymarket Theatre in London, as well as internationally. He made his New York directorial debut with Propeller at BAM with A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Spring 2004, which was nominated for several Drama Desk Awards. Hall and Propeller returned to BAM in 2005 with The Winter’s Tale as part of the Next Wave Festival and subsequently in spring 2007 with a double-bill of The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night. A former director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hall has received a South Bank Show Award for Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Career highlights include directing Natasha Richardson on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire and Kenneth Branagh in an acclaimed National Theatre production of Edmond. He also directed the Olivier Award nominated production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the National Theatre.
The all-male Propeller was formed in 1997 in conjunction with the Watermill Theatre to create an ensemble for Edward Hall’s Henry V and has been praised for its original interpretations of Shakespeare’s works including Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, Rose Rage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Winter’s Tale. Both Henry V and The Comedy of Errors toured extensively in Europe, South America, and the Far East. Hall and Propeller aim to perform Shakespeare’s plays with a contemporary aesthetic while maintaining emphasis on the spoken word, and to continue developing relationships between performers and audiences. “Working with a minimum of money and fuss, and a maximum of ingenuity and imagination,” says The Daily Telegraph (U.K.), “Propeller has become one of the finest and most distinctive acting ensembles in the country.”

The Watermill Theatre (U.K.), a year-round, regional producing theater created in the mid-60s, is a converted 19th-century mill situated in gardens beside the Lambourn River in the Berkshire countryside. The Watermill Theatre has brought new energy to its historic space, featuring a wide range of productions, youth theater, education, and outreach. A floor plan conducive to the Shakespearean presentation of plays “in the round” and the building’s small size provide the opportunity for theatergoers to receive an intimately authentic theater experience. The theater’s professional reputation for producing quality work attracts high caliber artists and production personnel, which in turn creates opportunities for works to tour throughout the world.

Designer Michael Pavelka is an award-winning international scenographer who has designed over 130 productions worldwide, many of which have been new plays and new musicals.  He is a longstanding collaborator with director Edward Hall and has won Manchester Evening Standard Awards for Hall’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Galileo (for best production and best design, respectively). He was awarded the Barclays Theatre Award for Best Touring Production for his work on Rose Rage in 2002 and his designs for ensemble performance have been developed at major companies including The Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Lighting designer Ben Ormerod has varied and award-winning work that covers theater, dance and opera.  He is hailed as one of the most exciting lighting designers in the U.K. Ormerod has designed for the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has worked with Edward Hall on many productions such as Rose Rage, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Winter’s Tale.
Artist Talk with Propeller

On Thursday, May 7, members of Propeller will present an Artist Talk in the Harvey Theater, immediately post-performance.

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“Corpo di Stato” by Marco Baliani - May 7th - Casa Italiana at NYU - New York

Posted on May 4th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

May 7, 2009, 6 p.m.
Corpo di Stato
By and With Marco Baliani
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
24 West 12th Street (between 5th and 6th avenue)

www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana/events.html

Descrizione: Un ottimo attore e uno spettacolo forte. Un’occasione unica e rara di vedere un attore di grande calibro recitare a New York. Il monologo parte da uno dei fatti piu’ oscuri o comunque drammatici, fondamentali, indimenticabili dell’Italia degli ultimi decenni per raccontare una generazione che con questi fatti  ha dovuto fare I conti per molto tempo.

Description: Actor, writer and director Marco Baliani will be performing “Corpo di Stato” (Body of State), a show on Aldo Moro’s kidnapping, one of the most tragic events in recent Italian political history. The discovery of the lifeless body of Aldo Moro in the baggage compartment of a red Renault on May 9 1978 brings an end to his 55 days in captivity. Fifty-five days that shocked Italy and opened wounds still unhealed. BODY OF STATE is a historical account and an unsparing, open portrait of the generation that split during the crisis of conscience triggered by the Moro kidnapping, but also the story of one man who discovered his vocation in theatre as he lived through it. In his monologue, Baliani reconstructs the story and ruthlessly interrogates himself about his role in the events, driven by a need to understand and confront the meaning of justice and responsibility. The performance moves between two levels: with the great events of national history as the background, the little histories, as Calvino called them, illuminate history with minute but intense tales of life, memory, and lived experience.

In Italian with English supertitles followed by a Q&A with the Director

Subways: F, V 14 street, N, R, Q, W, 6 Union Square-14 street

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God of Carnage - Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre - Broadway - New York

Posted on April 24th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

Fino al 19 Luglio
God of Carnage
Bernard Jacobs Theatre
242 W 45th St, New York
Tickets: Telecharge.com or 212.239.6200
Web-Site: www.godofcarnage.com

Descrizione: E’ uno degli spettacoli del momento, portato in scena in Italia col titolo di Il dio della carneficina e interpretato da Alessio Boni, Micaela Cescon, Anna Bonaiuto, Silvio Orlando. Ne parliamo perche’ e’ sulla bocca di tutti, i suoi interpreti sono famosi e bravissimi e se volete vedere qualcosa davvero attuale a NY, questo e’ uno degli eventi dell’anno.

Description: Two ostensibly civilized married couples meet up to sort out a playground fight. The son of one couple (Jeff Daniels and Hope Davis) has broken two of the teeth of the son of another (James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden). At first diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses and the rum flows, huge tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving more than just their liberal principles in tatters. From the play’s web-site.

With/Con: James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis
Scritto da/Written by Yasmina Reza
Regia/Directed by Matthew Warchus

Subways: Tutte le metro che fermano alla 42ma strada

Quartiere/Area: Theater District-Time Square
Tipo/Type: Comedy

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“La Didone” The Wooster Group - St. Ann’s Warehouse - New York

Posted on April 17th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

Fino/Until April 26
La Didone
St. Ann’s Warehouse
38 Water St, DUMBO
www.stannswarehouse.org

Descrizione: Descrivere il lavoro dell’Wooster Group in poche righe non e’ affatto facile. Il gruppo di Elisabeth LeCompte produce da anni spettacoli importanti, che utilizzano vari media e in cui l’attore e’ uno degli elementi in scena. Una delle caratteristiche del gruppo e’ di presentare la loro versione di testi o opere conosciute. In questo caso si tratta de La Didone, un’opera barocca del 1641 scritta da Francesco Cavalli. La storia e’ quella di Enea che arriva sulle coste dell’Africa dopo una violenta tempesta. Attraverso questa storia, trasportata nel 21mo secolo, il gruppo ne approfitta per parlare del potere della passione erotica e della caparbieta’ della natura umana di fronte alla idea di annientamento.

Description: The Wooster Group returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with Cavalli / Busenello’s baroque opera La Didone (1641), in which Aeneas, prince of Troy, lands on the shores of Africa after a violent sea storm. There he falls in love with Dido, queen of Carthage, and becomes entangled in a web of love, deception, power and madness. In Mario Bava’s 1965 cult movie Terrore nello spazio, the spaceship Argos crashes on the planet Aura, and its crew becomes locked in a desperate battle with zombies over the all-important “meteor rejector.” The Wooster Group stirs these two Italian cultural artifacts together, dropping Aeneas’ ships onto a forbidding planetary landscape, setting the lute alongside live electric guitar, blending acoustic and electronic space, and finding an unexpected synergy between early baroque opera and pre-moon landing sci-fi: A 21st-century retelling of an ancient tale about the destructive (and redemptive) power of erotic passion and the sheer tenacity of human nature in the face of annihilation.

Running Time: Approximately 90 Minutes

THE WOOSTER GROUP
LA DIDONE
A Baroque Opera by Francesco Cavalli
Libretto by Francesco Busenello
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Music Direction by Bruce Odland

NEW YORK PREMIERE
THRU APR 26*
TICKETS START AT $37.50
718.254.8779
Tue - Sat, 1PM - 7PM
(or 3 hours prior to performance)
866.811.4111 (extended hours!)
M - F 9AM - 9PM, Sat - Sun 10AM - 6PM

Production: The Wooster Group, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts
Coproduction: Edinburgh International Festival, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg), Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, CC Belém (Lisboa)

With: Hai-Ting Chinn, Ari Fliakos, Jennifer Griesbach, Hank Heijink, Andrew Nolen, Kamala Sankaram, Scott Shepherd, Harvey Valdes, Kate Valk, Judson Williams, John Young

Set: Ruud van den Akker; Lighting: Jennifer Tipton, Gabe Maxson; Master Electrician: Robert Reese; Sound: Matt Schloss, Omar Zubair; Video: Zbigniew Bzymek, Joby Emmons, Andrew Schneider; Costumes: Antonia Belt; Production Manager: Bozkurt Karasu; Assistant Director: Jennifer Griesbach; Stage Manager: Teresa Hartmann; Technical Director: Aron Deyo

Quartiere/Area: DUMBO

Subways:
F to York Street
Make a right when exiting the train station. Make a left onto York Street, walk 3 blocks to Washington Street. Turn right on Washington Street and walk 2 blocks to Water Street. Turn left on Water Street and continue past Main Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

A/C to High Street
If you are coming from Manhattan, exit at the rear of the train. Walk downhill on Cadman Plaza West (which becomes Old Fulton Street) to Water Street. Walk 1 block down Water Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

2/3 to Clark Street
Exit the station elevator and make a left onto Henry Street. Turn left on Old Fulton Street and continue downhill to to Water Street. Walk 1 block down Water Street; the Warehouse entrance is between Main and Dock Streets.

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Mario Cantone at Caroline’s on Broadway- April 16-19 - New York

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

April 16-19
Mario Cantone
Caroline’s on Broadway
Web-Site: www.carolines.com

Descrizione: Ricordate Anthony Marentino, organizzatore di matrimoni e amico di Charlotte in Sex and the City? Ebbene, l’esplosivo Anthony si chiama in realta’ Mario Cantone ed e’ un attore bravissimo che spesso lavora anche come stand up comedian,vale a dire un attore che solo, in piedi di fronte al pubblico (standing up = stando in piedi!), commenta la sua vita, la vita degli altri e cosi’ via, con lo scopo di far sbellicare la gente che lo sta guardando. Beh, Mario Cantone e’ uno di quei comici che vi fara’ davvero venire le lacrime agli occhi per il troppo ridere. Sempre che capiate l’inglese. Se non avete problemi di lingua, vi incoraggiamo ad andare. Oltretutto Caroline’s e’ un luogo storico per questo tipo di spettacoli. Una esperienza che va assolutamente fatta!

Description: Cantone wrote and starred in his solo Broadway shows, Laugh Whore and An Evening With Mario Cantone, with additional Main Stem credits including Assassins, The Violet Hour, The Tempest, and Love! Valour! Compassion! He is also well known for his role of Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City as well as his appearances on The View. Caroline’s April line-up will also include headliners Donnell Rawlings and Ashy Larry (April 2-5), Paul Mooney (April 2-26), John Witherspoon (April 9-12), Kevin Pollak (April 23-26), and Bill Burr (April 30-May 3).

Tipo/Type: Stand Up Comedy

Caroline’s on Broadway
1626 Broadway, New York
Tel. 212-757 4100

Quartiere/Area: Theater District

Subways: C, E, 1, 2 50th street, N, R, W 49th street

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“Ruined” at the New York City Center - Stage I - New York

Posted on March 20th, 2009 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

New York City Center – Stage I
131 West 55th Street – New York

Fino/Until Sunday May 3, 2009
Tue 7, Wed – Sat 8, Wed, Sat & Sun 2, Sun 7

Descrizione: Uno spettacolo che sta facendo molto parlare di se’, per il tema, ma anche per l’ottima messa in scena e per un cast di altissima qualita’. Siamo in Congo, nel 2000. Una giovane ragazza raggiunge Mama Nadi, una donna che protegge e trae profitto da donne i cui corpi sono stati usati e sfigurati. Lo spettacolo chiude i battenti il 19 aprile, grazie all’enorme successo che ha fatto postporre la chiusura di una settimana.

Description: Set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the year 2000, Ruined follows a young woman’s nightmarish path to Mama Nadi, a savvy businesswoman who—in the midst of a complex civil war—both protects and profits from the women whose bodies have become battlegrounds. At once heartbreaking and captivating, Ruined pays homage to the courageous and resilient women who must piece themselves together after the ruin. From Ruined Web-Site.

With/Con: Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Russell Gebert Jones, Kevin Mambo, Chris Chalk, Tom Mardirosian, Condola Rashad, and Quincy Tyler Bernstine.

Scritto da/Written by Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel.

Regia/Directed by Kate Whoriskey (The Piano Teacher, Fabulation)

Web-Site: www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com

Tipo/Type: Drama
Quartiere/Area: Theater District
Subways: N, R 7th Avenue, F 57th Street.

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Ute Lemper at Joe’s Pub - New York

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

Descrizione: La divinissima Ute canta Weill-Brecht, la Piaf, Brel e molti altri come solo una vera diva sa fare. In un attimo, sarete trasportati indietro nel tempo e vi sembrera’ di essere alla Taverna dei Sette Peccati ad applaudire la divina Marlene (Dietrich). Per chi ama questo tipo di musica, il concerto di Ute Lemper e’ assolutamente imperdibile. Noi ci abbiamo portato anche amici che non erano afecionados del genere e hanno apprezzato ugualmente. Consigliamo di prenotare un posto al tavolo se si vuole mangiare… per bere, si puo’ anche stare al bar, anche se non e’ grandissimo!

Description: German-born cabaret legend Ute Lemper’s performing career grows out from a passionate and enduring commitment to art, politics and history, and out of a contentious and complicated relationship with her homeland and its past. Her panache, versatility and sophisticated repertoire - including Berlin cabaret songs and the dark gems of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill - have led her to international acclaim as a recording artist, and in the theatre, cabaret and film worlds. Tonight’s journey leads through the French song world from Ferre, Piaf to Prevert and Brel and continues to the backstreets of Berlin, where ancient ghosts with new faces write poetry and songs between yesterday and tomorrow. (Songs by Hollaender/ Weill/ Brecht/ Lemper/ Waits and Mitchell). From Joe’s Pub web-site.

Quartiere/Area: Astor Place

Tipo/Type: Cabaret

Teatro/Theater: Joe’s Pub

Indirizzo/Address: 425 Lafayette Street
Tel. 212-967-7555

Web-Site: www.joespub.com

Da-a/From-to: 28/29 Novembre

Orari/Hours: 7:30pm & 9:30pm

Runtime: Un’ora circa/ About one hour

Subways: N, R, fermata 8th street, 6 fermata Astor Place

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Peter Brook’s THE GRAND INQUISITOR - New York Theater Workshop

Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin.
Categories: NY da Teatro - Theatre NY, NEW YORK.

Descrizione: Il maestro dei maestri e’ in scena in uno dei teatri Off-Broadway piu’ quotati della citta’ per la qualita’ dei lavori che propone. Anche se non abbiamo sempre apprezzato le produzioni di questo teatro, The Grand Inquisitor diretto da Peter Brook e’ certamente un pezzo di teatro che non va assolutamente perso. Il testo e’ tratto dai Fratelli Karamazov di Dostoyevksy ed e’ stato adattato da Marie-Hélène Estienne. L’attore in scena e’ Bruce Myers, nella compagnia di Peter Brook da sempre.

Description: Renowned director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Mahabharata) continues his long time collaboration with the renowned actor Bruce Myers (The Mahabharata, The Unbearable Lightness of Being) in Marie-Hélène Estienne’s (French version of Far Away) adaptation of the Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov. Together, they bring Dostoyevsky’s chilling parable about the perversion of religious faith to life. (from NYTW’s web-site)

Quartiere/Area: East Village

Tipo/Type: Drama

Teatro/Theater: New York Theater Workshop

Indirizzo/Address: 79 East Fourth Street– New York

Web-Site: http://www.nytw.org/

Fino/Until November 30, 2008

Orari/Hours: Tuesday 7pm – Wed-Fri 8pm – Sat 2pm & 8pm – Sun 3pm & 7pm

Runtime: 55 minutes, no intermission

Subways: N, R, to 8t street - 6 to Astor Place

With/Con: Bruce Myers

Adattamento/Adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne

Regia/Directed by Peter Brook

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