Friday, August 2, 2013
Playwriting as therapy is hardly a new concept. It might even be a challenge to find a single work in the annals that doesn't
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center series...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM[SHARE]Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2013
On behalf of Let It Be, described as "a celebration of the music of the Beatles," I don't have much to say. Why would I? I'm a longtime, dyed-in-the-vinyl Beatles fan.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:47PM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2013
Can it be that one of the funniest and one of the most anarchic comic writers of the 20th century, a true member of the exclusive Sui Generis Club, is already forgotten? Not at the Westport …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
So extraordinarily good was the one-night Encores! Off-Center staged concert reading of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley Violet, directed by Leigh Silverman, that it calls for some serious t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, July 12, 2013
To begin his Shun-kin note for the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival program, Complicite director Simon McBurney writes, "In...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 11, 2013
The cast of the Encores! Off-Center concert production of Marc Blitzstein's once highly controversial first musical...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2013
It would be a pleasure to report that what John Malkovich has come up with as part of the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival is a refreshing aperitif. It isn't.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Daniel Radcliffe is out to prove something, and he's doing a bang-up job of it. Set for life as the #1 Harry Potter alumnus,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
London--If you're a chocoholic like me, you're hoping Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be as delectable as...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
If you don't mind an Othello (Adrian Lester) and an Iago (Rory Kinnear) policing Cyprus in desert fatigues and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 15, 2013
By 1959 when Tennessee Williams got around to presenting Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, as directed by Elia Kazan and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
When Ben Stanton's lights flash up at the Lucille Lortel on Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, ex-lovers Steph (Jenna Fischer)...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Give thanks to the gods of talent for John Guare. They've conferred on him an inquiring mind that finds inspiration...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Immersive, site-specific, interactive--call it what you wil--it's here but maybe not to stay.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:43PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
People giddily adapting properties into musicals used to say of the source material--plays, novels,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
New York City--The most interesting piece of anecdotal information I picked up at this year's BookExpo America was from Paul Oliver...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
For some reason, directors like to take liberties with Bertolt Brecht. Perhaps because the German playwright placed...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:26PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Hey music lovers, let's consider--for want of a better term--pop crooners. At the moment, the greater listening public...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:22PM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Santo Loquasto's set at BAM's Harvey for Henrik Ibsen's undoubtedly most challenging, yet ultimately intriguing, play, The...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2013
Call it "interactive." Call it "immersive." Call it whatever contemporary term you will. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
If you like theater and you like politics, you're going to jump at the chance to see theater about politics, Then get...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2013
Perhaps it's this reviewer's imagination, but it seems that more than the usual number of plays set in the workplace are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
The single most spectacular dance number on view at the moment -- and it won't be for long; get there fast -- erupts in the second act of On Your Toes, the current Encores! series entry at C…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Just as William Shakespeare did with his history plays, Friedrich Schiller did with Mary Stuart and others have done...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet."
Yes,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:29PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2013
