Tuesday, October 21, 2014
White-hot controversy is dogging the opera's Metropolitan Opera House premier engagement after many productions elsewhere, only some of them protested. The circumstances have, not surprising…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:05PMThe Billy & Ray of the vague title Mike Bencivenga gives his play at the Vineyard are Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08AMSunday, October 19, 2014
Only occasionally does Engstrom include one of Parker's economic poems. She leaves out the one about men not making passes at girls who wear glasses and the suicidal one with the conclusion …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Leave it to Neal Goren. He's cherry-picked Bohuslav Martinu's comic one-acts Alexandre Bis and Comedy on the Bridge...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:41PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Yes, I was in Shea Stadium when the Beatles shook their moptops and played their instruments for 35 minutes while not...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:51PMMonday, October 6, 2014
Context is everything. At least that's the impression I had on leaving The Actors Company Theatre revival of Frank Marcus's 1965 multiple prize-winning play, The Killing of Sister George, at…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PMThursday, October 2, 2014
Curiously, one of the reasons the play falls short of Pulitzer Prize-winning Margulies's usual vaunted mark is that he's chosen, as many playwrights before him have, to make The Country Hous…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:35PMMonday, September 29, 2014
From start to finish Pendleton and Walsh give astoundingly natural performances that go some way, though not far enough, to justify the length of the sketch.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:41PMThe hot cabaret singer who could rest comfortably on her natural talents...doesn't.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:17PMSunday, September 28, 2014
Rarely have I seen such a large collection of scene-stealers on one stage. Check that. There's so much hilarity occurring that no one can steal a complete scene. What these thieving actor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:08PMFriday, September 26, 2014
The interest Oliver Sacks takes in the human brain fascinates Peter Brook. The Valley of Astonishment is another consequence of that fascination, and, as presented at the Young Vic, currentl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMMonday, September 22, 2014
Discounting the rare scare flick, I've only once been tempted to look away from a movie screen--and succumbed to the urge. It...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:44PMThe Money Shot (title appropriated from porn-industry jargon, if you didn't already know) shouldn't be as consistently amusing as it is. LaBute get his laughs -- and he gets a carload of th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:33PMSunday, September 21, 2014
During the intermission after the first uneven two acts of the Pearl Theatre Company's Uncle Vanya revival, I remarked to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:38PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
There's no telling when Two Gentlemen of Verona will come around again. So if an incarnation this good is available, that's even more reason to tune right in.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Is Love Letters A. R Gurney's most lucrative play? No one seems to be quite sure, but it has to be up there among the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:28PMMonday, September 15, 2014
In Craig's Wife, George Kelly's 1925 play subsequently filmed twice with Rosalind Russell and then Joan Crawford as the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:45PMThursday, September 11, 2014
In Kenneth Lonergan's revived 1996 play, This is Our Youth, a Steppenwolf production transferred to the Cort, what...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:11PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
In the history of art, the importance of patrons has rarely been underestimated. The egregious result of Solomon Guggenheim's support for Rudolf Bauer is one of the most disturbing instances…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:47PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Remembering the clubs where the late comedian established her working patterns.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:55PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Four busboys are hustling non-stop at Frederick's Madison, an Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, when Elizabeth Irwin's My Manana Comes -- ultimately an ironic title -- begins with veloci…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08PMThursday, September 4, 2014
On the set, empty for the most part, are two upstage pianos. Music director Greg Jarrett and Roberto Sinha play them, both wearing straw hats and other Bromelmeier-supplied speakeasy garb. T…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PMMonday, August 25, 2014
If you tend to think of playwright Naomi Wallace as compulsively pretentious--I do--be advised that And I and Silence, the title...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27PMGenerally, it's not a good idea for playwrights to direct their own work--or maybe anyone else's, for that matter. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:06PMThursday, August 21, 2014
Cabaret is alive and not quite yet reduced to gasping for breath in New York City.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:36PMTuesday, August 19, 2014
This time of year, things are so beehive-hectic in these parts that it's easy to drive around on a single Saturday and see, say, The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the compac…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:43PMSunday, August 17, 2014
At the start of Poor Behavior, Theresa Rebeck--who may be the most overrated contemporary American playwright by virtue...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:35PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Helpful word has reached me about the musical longwindedly called Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson...
SOURCE: huffingtonpost.com at 09:36PMIs it clear by now that there's no call to throw your good money after their good money gone bad for something that might only be comprehensible to the citizens of Iceland -- something that …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:36PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Ohio's unique community theater showcase of new plays should be copied widely.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:15AMMonday, August 4, 2014
The craft and art of the song is assailed at the annual new-tuner event.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:13PM 
