Friday, November 24, 2017
Jason Alexander was a Broadway baby long before he achieved fame on Seinfeld, but he’s had trouble re-establishing himself even though he’d appeared in Merrily We Roll Along, The…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMThursday, November 16, 2017
A few weeks ago I found myself hankering to have a look at the London theater season, so I spent a day in the friendly skies of United Airlines to spend a week in which our own NY scene was …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:08PMA junk bond is a high-yield, high-risk maturity in the financial markets, and a greedy group of investors bought them and enjoyed the 10-12 percent interest that was sent out semi-annually, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:21AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The characters Song Lilig and her consort René Gallinard are back on Broadway. Their play is M.Butterfly and its tale of a romance between a French diplomat (Gallinard, played by Clive Owen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
I was most anxious to see Follies in its current production at the National Theatre in London. Somehow news of it had escaped me, but Imelda Staunton is a great favorite of mine, and sheR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16PMSunday, November 12, 2017
David Yazbek has been one of the less publicized composer/lyricists from the generation of writers who followed those who wrote musicals in the “Golden Age” of Broadway. Yazbek h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47AMMonday, October 30, 2017
The setting of Lonely Planet is a “map store on the oldest street in an American city.” I assume the playwright, Stephen Dietz, wrote that into the program to let us know that w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Brian Friel’s play, The Home Place, has taken its time to find its way to New York, where it arrived in good hands at the newly renovated Irish Repertory Theatre off Broadway. The pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMFriday, October 13, 2017
The Roundabout Theatre Company has delivered to Broadway an interesting revival of this J.B. Priestley play that intrigued Depression audiences in the mid 1930s when it opened in New York an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:17PMSunday, October 1, 2017
A small, amiable musical, very loosely based on Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, has opened at the York Theatre Company on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue. It’s called Despe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
The New York Theatre Workshop on East 4th Street in the East Village is a small but potent force in the theater community. Its mandate is to offer production of new works which deal with iss…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:57AMThursday, September 14, 2017
Sarah Ruhl is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and a Tony Award nominee. Playwrights Horizons has played host to two of her many play — Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. He…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMSunday, August 27, 2017
The Cherry Lane Theatre, in Greenwich Village, is offering a new play by a New York playwright, Thomas Klingenstein, whose earlier works have been seen at the Lark Theatre Lab, the Atlantic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
Hal Prince, producer/director extraordinaire is far too modest. His new offering at the Manhattan Theatre Club is so vastly entertaining that I hereby elevate him from PRINCE to KING OF BROA…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:55PMThursday, August 10, 2017
An awful lot goes on in William Shakespeare’s dream play, but here’s all you really have to know. It’s set in Athens at first, later moves into the woods, for that’s …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMSunday, August 6, 2017
Barbara Goldman was married to the Academy Award winning playwright/screenwriter/novelist James Goldman; she’s been called Bobby through their 23-year marriage, which ended when he die…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
One of the most fascinating items on the Broadway scene is the current production of a British import, 1984. Co-adapted from the 1949 novel of George Orwell by Duncan Macmillan and Robert Ic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27AMFriday, July 7, 2017
Scott McPherson wrote Marvin’s Room, a play about illness, family ties, and death when he was just a lad of 30. As a gay man, he was of course aware of the AIDS epidemic that had been …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54AMMonday, July 3, 2017
In Napoli, Brooklyn, playing at Roundabout Theatre Company through September 3, Playwright Meghan Kennedy gets us started with a mimed prologue in which a family sits at the dining table, en…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
We are in the streets of Rome. The lights onstage bump up and immediately we are in the midst of controversy. Flavius and Marullus are admonishing the crowd to break up and get on with their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMThursday, June 15, 2017
The Manhattan Theatre Club is presently offering a 4-character play set in “the urban east of America” in the “near present day.” That description in the Playbill is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
The New York theatre scene continues to offer variety and great fun with this post-Tony production of Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, The Government Inspector, as adapted by American play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20AMSunday, May 21, 2017
Out of his imaginative mind comes another powerful theatre piece by Robert Shenkkan, author of 15 plays including two dealing with LBJ (All the Way and The Great Society.) This time, he prop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMThursday, May 18, 2017
Every now and then it’s refreshing to turn on the time travel clock and return to what we then called “civilization” circa 1920. You know, after the war to end all wars, be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:37PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company (“York Theatre”) for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I saw this new musical on April 30, but in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMSunday, May 7, 2017
In 1982 a distinguished group of Broadway pros, including Hal Prince, Betty Comden and Aldolph Green, came up with what was then thought to be a misbegotten idea: what happened to Nora Helme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Eleven new musicals have opened since War Paint and here comes the last before the April 30th deadline for Tony Nomination. It’s called Bandstand and it didn’t offer us Bette Mid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMAs the theatre season races to the end of its nomination deadline for the Tony Awards, musical shows are exploding all over the place. We’ve had half a dozen in the last two weeks, and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMSunday, April 30, 2017
The night I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on Roald Dahl’s novel, the theatre was packed with moms and dads with little kids in tow. All of them seemed to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Andy Karl is a delightful musical theatre leading man, but he’s been having a bit of bad luck lately. During a late preview of Groundhog Day, his latest outing on stage, he suffered se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
John Guare’s masterpiece from 1990 solidly launched his career, earning a run of 155 performances off-Broadway which extended to a run at the Beaumont Theatre on Broadway of 485 additi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47PM 
