Elsewhere on smaller Boston stages, Charlestown Working Theater brings to town Berlin’s Theatre Kranevit in JORINDE AND JORINGLE (October 26-29), a mask-and-puppet performance taken from the Brothers Grimm, and Obie-winning New York–based puppeteers Great Small Works in THE RAPTURE PROJECT (November 16-19), which examines the phenomenon of religion in American politics. Local jazzman Stan Strickland appears in his one-man show COMING UP FOR AIR — AN AUTOJAZZOGRAPHY (BCA, September 27–October 14), which is written and directed by Jon Lipsky. Strickland and Lipsky have collaborated for two years on the work, the jumping-off point of which is Strickland’s near drowning off the coast of Hawaii. Company One presents Gina Gionfriddo’s AFTER ASHLEY (BCA, October 27–November 18), which focuses on a teenage boy who’s excruciatingly catapulted to media celebrity by personal tragedy; it was well received in 2005 Off Broadway. And at the same venue, Boston Theatre Works offers A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN’S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT (November 24–December 16). A 2004 Obie winner by Kyle Jarrow that was dubbed “an instant cult classic” by the Los Angeles Times, it’s a tongue-in-cheek Nativity pageant devoted to the life of Tom Cruise’s personal savior, L. Ron Hubbard.
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“New Visions” is the kind of title ballet-company directors come up with for programs that are sort of new and are hoping for vision.
- Passion by proxy
Via Dolorosa, British playwright David Hare’s eloquently reported account of his 1997 fact-finding mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories, is not up to the minute. But that’s hardly the point.
- Just a gigolo
Two guys on Berkshire stages are trying to parlay sexual prowess into deep pockets this week.
- Fringe benefits
The clock is ticking in The Maternal Instinct (at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre through April 16).
- Funny business
“Ashlee Simpson’s new album sold so poorly,” snorted the headline on Yahoo! this past week, that “it was beaten by a comedy album.”
- More new than old
Artistic director Mihailo "Misha" Djuric has a polished ensemble of dancers and impressive choreographers at the Festival Ballet Providence.
- Musical power
The Man in the Chair (Charles Abbott) is a man of a certain age who wears both a sweater vest and a cardigan, feels pangs of a "non-specific sadness," and harbors an abiding nostalgia for the musical theater of yesteryear.
- The human condition
In the ambitious program they will perform this weekend (November 20 and 21 at Rhode Island College), members of Fusionworks Dance Company will premiere three pieces that look at the human condition from several perspectives.
- Both new and old classics
The Gamm certainly has come a long way in the quarter-century leading up to this its 25th anniversary season. The evolution of its name alone is quite a trip.
- Odd couples
The East Hampton Board of Health would doubtless approve Grey Gardens: The Musical , since it comes minus the crapping cats, feral raccoons, and piles of garbage that form the supporting cast and unsanitary milieu of the famed documentary on which it's based.
- Play’s the thing
On the high-tragedy chessboard of Hamlet , the title characters are pawns, but in Tom Stoppard’s spooky, hilarious, and ingenious Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead , they are, existentially, the stars.
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