The conversation ranges from Arena Stage's A Delicate Balance, to the responsibilities of today's audiences and what he'd consider a shooting offense.
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:00AM"Adding Machine" director David Cromer takes a fresh, clarifying look at "Our Town."
Linked From www.tdf.org at 12:00AMBut the movie is also one of the channel's harder-hitting efforts, and it has more specificity and, ultimately, more emotional heft than you generally find in such sociological-minded dramas.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMThe actor Jeremy Piven convinced a group of fellow actors that he did not violate his contract when he dropped out of the Broadway play "Speed-the-Plow."
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AM"I've never had to do a backer's audition in my life," said Lapine, who co-wrote and staged Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize- winning "Sunday in the Park With George." "Steve and I were making call…
Linked From Bloomberg at 12:00AMThe new traffic rules would bar vehicles from Broadway at public plazas in Times Square and Herald Square.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMA high school production of "Rent: School Edition" that had been canceled over concerns about content and the right of the principal to review the script, has been approved.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMMs. Lang was a major exponent of Martha Graham's choreography, and founded a distinguished company of her own, the Pearl Lang Dance Theater.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMLet me say something shocking: Meryl Streep is wildly over praised.
She is not the greatest actress of her generation. Indeed, I've yet to see one Streep performance on stage or on film that's fully believable.
Linked From backstage.blogs.com at 12:00AMIt was late 1977 when theater producer Gerald Duval got a call from a manager at the New York cabaret Reno Sweeney.
Linked From Washington Post at 12:00AMGod of Carnage's Marcia Gay Harden, Guys & Dolls' Nick Adams, A Little Night Music's Penny Fuller, and Ruined's Condola Rashad share their thoughts.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe truth comes out-she doesn't actually like belly buttons.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMThe former burlesque dancer, 93, describes a tough but rewarding experience performing during the Depression. And the fan mail keeps coming.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMCelebrated actress Kathleen Chalfant on her career and her latest role in Albee's A Delicate Balance.
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:00AMTriple threat Joseph Bologna on 'Lansky' and his career on and offstage
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMConni's Avant-Garde Restaurant serves up delish dishes-and theater.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMWhy is Jet of Blood so unstageable, you may ask?
Linked From Time Out New York at 12:00AMDavid Cromer has directed a wonderfully intimate, highly rewarding production of "Our Town."
Linked From theater2.nytimes.com at 12:00AMIt is as close to perfect as theatre gets.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMAudiences tend to think that "Our Town" is dated and boring. Luckily, a damn good production in town has arrived to remind us of the play's original brilliance.
Linked From weblogs.amny.com at 12:00AMI think Paul Newman whose last Broadway performance was as the Stage Manager, would love and appreciate David Cromer's unfussy, intimate production
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMDavid Cromer's beautiful staging of Thornton Wilder's play literally brings the audience into the experience.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMIn a re-imagining of the classic play "Our Town," director David Cromer creates a performance that doesn't feel like a performance at all.
Linked From The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:00AMFor me the shock of the new Our Town , off-Broadway, is not that David Cromer's staging reinvents Thornton Wilder's 1938 classic, as reviewers last year in Chicago argued, but that it recall…
Linked From The Financial Times Subscription at 12:00AMIf ever there was a foolproof American play, it is Thornton Wilder's "Our Town." I have seen professional and amateur productions, college and high-school performances, movie and opera versi…
Linked From Bloomberg at 12:00AMThe avoidance of sentimentality is admirable, but the almost complete lack of emotion in this performance style is so extreme it amounts to anti-sentiment.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMIn director David Cromer's hands, the cozy hamlet of Grover's Corners has become a frosty little town.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMUncomfortably spanning several eras, this threadbare revival ends up fit for none
Linked From Theater News Online at 12:00AMWe wonder what will go through Gov. M.Jodi Rell's mind when she takes in the opening Friday night of Hartford Stage's production of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMEventually, that nostalgic glow fades and a separate yet honorable version emerges in helmer Michael Wilson's graceful production, starring Matthew Modine as Atticus Finch.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMAs directed by Michael Wilson, this is a terrific, polished and gripping production.
Linked From Hartford Courant at 12:00AMIconoclasts in clubs: Betty Buckley, Ute Lemper, and Jamie deRoy
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMIn less capable hands, the show might have slid into slippery condescension, but Cosson and his company are too smart for that. They're on the side of the angels.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMThe National Theatre of the United States of America's take on the famous lecture circuit is consistently charming.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe design of the show adds to a festive mood, yet a theatrical riff on a lecture is still, in the end, a lecture.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMMary Fulham's Coming, Aphrodite! a musical adaptation of Willa Cather's novella that's worth catching if you like off-beat love stories
Linked From CurtainUp at 12:00AMThis musical adaptation of Willa Cather's story of two artists falling in love is muddled and often awkward.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMThe indelible image of Bradford Louryk as Christine Jorgensen is forever marked in my memory as one of the most fascinating pieces of acting I have ever witnessed.
Linked From Talk Entertainment at 12:00AMIt's not really a play, and "staged documentary" sounds way too dry for this fascinating look at a very famous mid-20th-century figure largely unremembered today.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMWhat if you decided to write a comedy whose dialogue consisted almost entirely of questions? That's the exercise Tara Dairman has set for herself. The show is really an extended sketch, but …
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMA superb Dennis Christopher brings flamboyant charm and petulance to Cornelius Coffin, a caustic, over-the-hill gay Southern playwright clearly conceived as a latter-day Tennessee Williams, …
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMDickstein's swirling hybrid of traditional Balinese choreography and violent modern dance is far more poignant than her script, which lacks the intensity of Sophocles' heightened verse.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMSheila Callaghan seems to have put third-wave feminism, Gen-Y gender confusion and macho writerly clichés in a blender set to high speed.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMThere's more than enough good writing here to make you want to see Moses again.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMThis visual correlative for Ibsen's 1879 diagnosis of the modern marriage packs an unusually contemporary punch.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMSoul Samurai kicks the Vampire Cowboys recipe up a notch; the script has the complexity of a graphic novel, though it hasn't sacrificed its zinelike homemade sweetness.
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMLeslie Lyles has the unenviable task of embodying the object of intermingled male desire and disgust in two new one acts
Linked From Time Out at 12:00AMTony sang with a warmth and a passion and sensitivity that showed off his smooth, lower sultry range, his belting top notes and his easy going, velvety, thick as molasses tones.
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