Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Anyone these days even casually interested in theater news has to be aware of the recent developments with the Classic Stage...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PMReading the script, the play's original director had to “go lie down at once."
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:44PMMonday, January 11, 2016
No sooner than the Broadway revival of A. R. Gurney's Sylvia closes, in which an actress plays a dog, than Mac Wellman's The Offending Gesture, opens, at the Connelly, in which not one but t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PMMonday, December 28, 2015
As Americans, we're lucky to have an abundance of national treasures. Some treasures, however, are more prominent than others. One less regularly ballyhooed is The American Dance Machine.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29AMMonday, December 21, 2015
The relatively new comedy -- it played the Sanford Meisner Theatre in 2005 and the New York Fringe Festival in 2010 -- tells the tale of an earnest, likable blue-collar Italian man advancing…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:11PMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Since April 23, 2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, it shouldn't be surprising that homages to the great playwright will be popping up right, left and center.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:17AMMonday, December 14, 2015
Since opera is first and foremost about the music -- and that certainly applies to Gioachino Rossini as much as or more than many composers -- it frequently means that the quality of any giv…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Bah humbug! to anyone who goes to the Transport Group Theatre Company's Once Upon a Mattress, at the Abrons Arts Center,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Perhaps Thornton Wilder's chief glory is his belief in and conviction about the celestial mundane.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:54PMTuesday, December 8, 2015
Sunday, December 6, 2015
The old theater saying that goes "If you have a great finish, you don't have to worry about anything else" comes close to working for the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Glenn Slater-Julian Fe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:15PMSunday, November 29, 2015
They never stop coming: the Dysfunctional American Family plays. In the last few weeks, we've had The Humans, Lost Girls and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:34PMMonday, November 23, 2015
Granted, Nick Jones's latest should probably be played in one act instead of two and goes a bit wilder than it needs to in the second half. None of that, however, detracts significantly fro…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:40PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Sometimes understatement is the best kind of statement. It's surely true of these six pieces, and it's also surely true that dramatist Yearley proves to be a master of understatement. Congra…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07AMSunday, November 15, 2015
Stage thrillers come along once in a very blue moon--and good ones in even fewer extremely blue moons. In the last...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02PMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Shear Madness has just arrived in Manhattan for the first time after playing for decades(!) in Boston. How appealing does a seeming farce sound that's been fruitcaked with broad topical joke…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:16PMThursday, November 12, 2015
Surprising for this author, he keeps self-aggrandizement off its pages.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02PMThe tic I find annoying in the work of very busy director Ivo van Hove is happily suppressed for his revival of A View From the Bridge, birthday-boy Arthur Miller's unrelenting, as usual, pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMWednesday, November 11, 2015
Director Phyllida Lloyd's inspiration for her all-women Shakespeare productions -- first Julius Caesar and now Henry IV, both at St. Ann's Warehouse -- wasn't simply to have her actors perfo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07PMMonday, November 9, 2015
In contemporary writing for the theater it can sometimes seem as if there's an undeclared competition to determine...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:25PMSunday, November 8, 2015
We all know about the importance of being earnest, but it's likely we all underestimate the importance of not being earnest. That importance struck me while watching Allegiance, the new mus…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45PMThursday, November 5, 2015
Let it immediately be said, audiences will certainly get their money's worth at On Your Feet! if they're enamored of the hot-hot music spread around the globe in tandem by Gloria Estefan and…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Where this all leads is too thought-provoking, too explosive and too outright entertaining.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:30PMThursday, October 29, 2015
Apparently, director Evan Cabnet believes the difference between comedy and tragedy is that the former is played fast and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
The comedy winks at a particular instance of a dog being man's best friend -- but not, as Gurney writes it, a woman's best friend. What the prolific playwright has here is the study of one g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:27PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Michael Mayer's updating Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto in a more or less contemporary Las Vegas setting of Christine Jones's devising lends the histrionic drama an alluring air of 21st-century …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:14PMMonday, October 19, 2015
In a Trip of Love program note, creator-director-choreographer James Walski asserts that his expensive-looking...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:12PMThursday, October 15, 2015
Topher Payne sets Perfect Arrangement, directed by Michael Barakiva at the Duke, in 1950 Washington, D. C. when Commie baiting and routing out supposed deviants of any stripe were becoming f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:05PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
If you think you're about to hear anything critical of the two old pros James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in director...
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