Thursday, 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 11:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 07:27PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 01:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
In a Trip of Love program note, creator-director-choreographer James Walski asserts that his expensive-looking...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 07:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
When Joe DiPietro's Clever Little Lies gets going at the Westside Theatre, it almost immediately gives the impression that...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
The first act of Robert (Bootycandy) O'Hara's Barbecue consists of four scenes, two each in alternation, depicting a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Even before William Shakespeare's so-called "problem play" Measure for Measure gets properly underway at the Globe, director Dominic Dromgoole has loosed on the audience what looks…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
LONDON--Though Samuel Foote is not remembered today and therefore another instance in the annals of the millions once famous and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2015
LONDON--By now it's well known to theatergoers that Nicole Kidman is back on stage and in Anna Ziegler's Photograph...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
About that embroidered handkerchief so crucial to Othello's undoing in the William Shakespeare tragedy that takes his name: When it's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Mint Theater Company producing artistic director Jonathan Bank continues apace his compulsive rooting around for overlooked playwrights.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:15AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
Give playwright MJ Kaufman and director Adrienne Campbell-Holt abundant credit for writing a compact and understanding study of isolation in How to Live on Earth, at HERE.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
Although Matthew-Lee Erlbach appears to have written myriad plays and tele-whatevers, I've only seen his one-man Handbook for...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
It was Margot Harley, just leaving her lengthy tenure as The Acting Company producer, who came up with the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
A thriller about corruption in Ireland and Nigeria involving a large cast of characters isn't the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up as the 80-minute two-hander Little Thing, Big Thing.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:18PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
In the English theater there's a term for it: jobbing actor. It's used to indicate actors who are regularly employed but infrequently achieve star status. They're typically extremely talente…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
The convolutions Harris and Wilson conjure in their separate diversions earn a high hair-raising quotient, but perhaps even more irresistible are the Walliams and Raine performances -- perfo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2015
You could say that Joan Beber's In Bed With Roy Cohn is a fantasia about the notorious Joe McCarthy-period lawyer. It features the alienating figure experiencing nightmares during his death …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Actors Silverman and Dellapina, who plays guitar and sings nicely along the way, perform well together, and Westrate has some effective stretches. If on arrival he were to play Nate as less…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:31PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2015
When Love & Money begins with Cornelia Cunningham (Maureen Anderman) confronting lawyer Harvey Abel (Joe Paulik) over...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 23, 2015
Shylock's inflexible insistence on the bond he made with Antonio for a pound of flesh were the 3,000 ducats not repaid -- that's to say, Shylock's unrelenting stance as a broader revenge on …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Fiction set in the future never seems to have nailed it right when the actual future rolls around. Maybe Jules Verne hit on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer and director Liesl Tommy want to assure you that science can be fun. In pursuit of the noble...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
As far as I know, the most chillingly romantic scene in American dramatic literature occurs in the second half...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to ret…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
There's a reliable rule of the stage according to which, if the actors are having fun, the audience absolutely will. That's what's rambunctiously going on throughout Daniel Sullivan's fooli…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PM[SHARE]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 01:03PM[SHARE]It's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
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