Music is the theme for the seventh annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.  Running at multiple venues September 20-24, the line-up of events includes “The Glass Menagerie” and four other Williams plays, plus new works in theater, music and film.   “The Tennessee Williams Songbook” will feature Broadway star Alison Fraser in a production compiled and directed by David Kaplan,...

Playwright Tony Kushner is immersed in a dizzying amount of work, including crafting a new screenplay about Lincoln that’s still unfinished but is slated to begin filming in the fall with director Steven Speilberg. He’s also contributing new material to the season-long retrospective of his work at New York’s Signature Theatre. Kushner has a penchant for taking on big projects and important themes, starting...

Despite its name, “Lipsynch” is not a drag show.   It’s the latest large scale theater piece from the inventive Canadian writer and director Robert Lepage.  Best characterized as a play, the piece begins and ends with one character singing lengthy excerpts from Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.” As much as I’ve loved that slow and lush music and its popular 1992 recording by Dawn Upshaw,...