Friday, August 7, 2015
That a musical -- a musical! -- should recount a gritty slice of American history so beautifully is singularly moving.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:03PMIt's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:22PMThursday, July 30, 2015
The live performance part occurred July 29 at Joe's Pub, where Nora York--who's appeared at the venue every three or four months for several years as well as at any number of other prestigio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:19PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Though the abrupt changes of tone are initially jarring, it doesn't take long for the audience to understand that the ensuing transitions from a subdued dinner party to the frenetic behavior…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PMThursday, July 23, 2015
There's a fantasy I have about stand-up comics and a shrine they keep somewhere in their homes. On it are little stereotype...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PMThe treatment of women as second-class members of humanity, no matter what their accomplishments, is occupying the thoughts of the Potomac Theatre Project, again in residence this summer at …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:18PMSunday, July 19, 2015
Is a gale-wind force of a closer enough to forgive what’s gone before?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:46PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Sure 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 02:23PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Hynes 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 12:15PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Remember what John Boswell quoted Samuel Johnson as saying?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:24PMThursday, July 9, 2015
In 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 10:51PMThursday, July 2, 2015
What 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 08:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Every 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 10:48PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Gets you thinking about conventional limitations, doesn’t it?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:52PMFriday, June 19, 2015
The next wave of Great Britain's domination of Broadway.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:24PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
A 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 05:02AMSunday, June 7, 2015
TONY AWARDS PRESS ROOM--Although the space where we flacks are packed into rows is provided with a simulcast...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50PMFriday, June 5, 2015
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 plot diversion…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PM<
