Is a gale-wind force of a closer enough to forgive what’s gone before?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:46PMSure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:23PMHynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:15PMRemember what John Boswell quoted Samuel Johnson as saying?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:24PMIn this day of 90-minute productions, many of which might have been expanded to make their point(s) more effectively, there remain productions of greater length that could have stood judicio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMWhat follows is an unadulterated rave for the Encores! Off-Center presentation, at City Center, of the beloved Howard-Ashman-Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors, as adapted from the 1960 Roge…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:00AMEvery so often a playwright has two plays or even more open almost simultaneously. The scheduling coincidence (?) tempts a more taut assessment of where the playwright is in his or her care…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMGets you thinking about conventional limitations, doesn’t it?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:52PMThe next wave of Great Britain's domination of Broadway.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:24PMA myth about the Taj Mahal goes that when it was completed as an Agra, India palace for Shah Jahan's wife--who didn't live to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:02AMTONY AWARDS PRESS ROOM--Although the space where we flacks are packed into rows is provided with a simulcast...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50PMCompounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with plot diversion…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PM<![CDATA[Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:34AMWhether two things appearing simultaneously can be called a trend seems premature. But when they appear one on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07AMSometimes the unforgettable characters populating your personal landscape are the ones you'd most like to forget. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:10PMWhatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26AM<![CDATA[Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just held May 27-29 at the Jacob Javits center, seems t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:26AMTime often takes its own sweet, or bitter, time.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:15PMSometimes at the theater the women wrest it from the men--not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02AM<![CDATA[Sometimes at the theater, the women wrest it from the men -- not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. I'm talking about <em>The Other Thing</em&g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:02AMJim Parsons, adored for his appearances as Sheldon Lee Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, is now appearing at Studio 54 (although it's not a Studio 54 production) as the Supreme Being, though th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32AMThe playwright who smacks us in the face.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:33PMThe 36 Goldberg variations on the Bach harpsichord tune are copious, but apparently Neil LaBute wants to give those spins on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02PMWhat does it mean when the best Broadway songs are almost all in the Tony-nominated revivals?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:28PMIf it's offbeat revues you're after, make a beeline to the short-run Street Singer: Celebrating the Life of Edith Piaf at 42West Nightclub, and make it fast. Tonight's performance (May 16) …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PMDinner With the Boys, written by Dan Lauria and at the Acorn, is a harmless enough comedy about the Mafia today--not...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:57PMLemon Anderson's Toast, printed some places as Toast, takes place in an Attica Correctional Facility cellblock during late summer 1971. The year isn't immediately specified, but it's mentio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:49PMEven before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue Forever at the New York Theatre workshop--as a follow-up to,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42PM<![CDATA[Even before Dael Orlandersmith begins her monologue <em>Forever</em> at the New York Theatre workshop -- as a follow-up to, among other writings, her acclaimed <em…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:42PMThe Anglo-American actress gabs about the Encores! "Zorba!" and much more.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:14AMWhen you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build...
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