Posts Tagged ‘A Noise Within’
EXIT THE KING
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026Unless you are a huge fan of existentialist theater, you’ll probably find A Noise Within’s revival of Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist comedy Exit The King a very long hour and forty-five minutes.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Monday, March 30th, 2026
Geoff Elliott’s magnificent star turn as Willy Loman, nearly a dozen impeccable supporting performances, and inspired direction and design by an all-star A Noise Within team add up to as brilliant a revival of Death Of A Salesman as any Arthur Miller aficionado could ever hope to see.
RICHARD III
Friday, February 27th, 2026Ann Noble delivers a tour-de-force performance in the title role, but I found Guillermo Cienfuegos’s edgy, contemporary, stunningly staged take on William Shakespeare’s Richard III hard to follow (and most of its characters hard to distinguish one from another). Then again, that just might be me and my conflicted feelings about the Bard, particularly when he is in history play mode.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 21st, 2025
A production design that just keeps getting more gorgeous, staging that gets more and more inventive year after year, new songs and harmonies to make it seem almost a musical, and cast additions that only add to the magic… For these reasons and more, there’s no A Christmas Carol in town that comes close to matching A Noise Within’s one-of-a-kind take on the Charles Dickens classic.
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ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Monday, September 8th, 2025
The Swinging Sixties have rarely if ever swung as wildly and wackily as they do in the physical-comedy-packed screwball funfest that is the West End-to-Broadway smash One Man, Two Guvnors, A Noise Within’s couldn’t-be-more-fabulous 2025-2026 season opener.
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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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JANE EYRE
Friday, April 11th, 2025A Noise Within follows their spectacular reimagining of Macbeth with a solid production of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, albeit not as effectively staged or as ideally cast as I might have wished.
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MACBETH
Friday, February 21st, 2025
Transposing William Shakespeare’s Macbeth from the bleak moors of Scotland to the sultry streets of New Orleans is just the first of director Andi Chapman’s multiple strokes of genius in re-envisioning The Scottish Play to all-around stunning effect at A Noise Within.
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