Monday, November 25, 2013
Theater and opera crazo Terrence McNally loves writing about his passions, especially anything to do with their...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:52PMGlen Berger's book examines Julie Taymor's extravagant mediocrity.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:43PMSunday, November 24, 2013
The new cast of Eugene Onegin, the season opener at the Met, has weighed in. Turns out -- hooray! -- they're a troupe of heavyweights, especially as conducted by debuting Alexander Vedernik…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:07PMThursday, November 21, 2013
London--Perhaps it has everything to do with what you choose to see, but right now in London there's a strong sense of déjà vu--a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PMFriday, November 15, 2013
As popular as P. G. Wodehouse and his creations, suave manservant Jeeves and first-prize twit Bertie Wooster, have been for almost 100 years, they've apparently never toddled onto a West End…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:06AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Samuel Beckett wanted his plays done exactly as he wrote them and as he particularized them in his stage directions. Don't think of adding even a second tree, for instance, to the Waiting fo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:51PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Claudia Roth Pierpont's "Roth Unbound" tells his story and stories.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:20AMSunday, November 10, 2013
Two-time Tony winner Mark Rylance is stage-obsessed. He's so taken with all aspects of the theater that he has the Shakespeare's Globe Productions company he's leading get into costume in fr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
In Beth Henley's quasi-Southern Gothic play The Jacksonian, the establishment of the title is a Jackson, Mississippi motel...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:49PMMonday, November 4, 2013
We may never know what Hilary Clinton was thinking during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky episode or how Silda Wall Spitzer was reacting when Eliot Spitzer strayed or whether Huma Abedin was severe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:16PMSunday, November 3, 2013
Why go on about the spectacular After Midnight, other than to say that for pure entertainment it comes as near being...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:06PMIf you know William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Julie Taymor's several publicity-nabbing productions--many
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:04AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Three plays currently running delve deeply into Jewish anxieties.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:23PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Something Mike Nichols chose to do when directing the final moments of Harold Pinter's Betrayal--now at the Ethel...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Musicals have dealt with incarceration (Kiss of the Spider Woman), hanging (Parade) and murder (Sweeney Todd,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:28PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
The thing I'm bursting to tell you immediately about Two Boys, the Nico Muhly-Craig Lucas opera at the Metropolitan...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:58PMSeveral years before JC Lee's stinging play Luce, at the Claire Tow, begins, Amy (Marin Hinkle) and Peter (Neal Huff) adopted a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:21AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Charlotte Moore as artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly as producing director at the Irish Repertory Theatre form one of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:17PMThursday, October 17, 2013
When in 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger shook up the London theater--and much of the rest of the English-speaking...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
It's beginning to look as if every 10 years or so--and no matter what the weather or geopolitical situation is--we can count on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:18PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Depending on when you see--or have seen--The Model Apartment, you will either think playwright Donald Margulies has...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:22PMMonday, October 14, 2013
About the 1937 Room Service, now revived at the Westport Country Playhouse, I'm tempted to say things like "They don't write...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:01PMSunday, October 13, 2013
Looking over the relatively lighter crowd coursing into the first revival of Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:46PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Tony Danza on stage--or anywhere, for that matter--is just about impossible to dislike. This contemporary show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:32PMComparisons may be odious, but in some cases, like this one, they're inevitable. Whenever performers--such...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:25AMThursday, October 10, 2013
Does a week go by without a newspaper report somewhere on the subject of prisoners staging a Shakespeare play as part of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:50AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Sometime in the winter of 1958, I had the chance to hear Billie Holiday on her closing night at Boston's venerated Storyville. For reasons I can't recall, I chose not to go. She died less …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz is the rare example of a playwright whose every play--with possibly one or two exceptions--is even better than...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:25PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Within minutes of Massive Attack V Adam Curtis beginning at the Park Avenue Armory, where it plays through Friday (October 4),...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:57PMMassive Attack, by the way, was seen from time to time when the three screens at the end of the hall were backlit. (There
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:57PM 
