Thursday, February 15, 2018
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the very successful Encores! series threw us a party by offering its seven audiences (February 7"11) a potpourri of book scenes and musical numbers from ei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Long buried in a box marked “forgotten” was this remarkable play, now unearthed by Jonathan Banks’ Mint Theater Company, which has brought it back to shimmering life for a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
Robert Fairchild, a lead dancer with the New York City Ballet Company, burst upon the Broadway scene two years ago by playing the lead in the stage version of An American In Paris. He was im…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PM[SHARE]Friday, December 22, 2017
I believe there’s a reason the name of the countertenor Farinelli precedes that of King Philippe V of Spain in the title of the play running currently at the Belasco Theatre on Broadwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2017
The Manhattan Theatre Club has imported the London Royal Court Theatre’s production of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, and with it have come the highly acclaimed original cast (Francesc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Drawing room comedy is back for the moment, thanks to Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman. Genuine high wattage star Uma Thurman is riding in this vehicle which deals with the powerful …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2017
This 90-minute sketch by Steve Martin begins as a situation comedy. Until fairly recently there were always several lighting up Broadway; and they were usually written by the likes of Neil S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PM[SHARE]At last, a musical version of the SpongeBob family of characters who first appeared in a film cartoon in 1999. The title character and his friends have always lived in the fictional underwat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Just as I was about to resignedly sigh Another tired revival of a favorite musical from the Golden Age?–along came Brigadoon from the remarkable New Yorks City Center “Encores!&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2017
Only on rare occasion have I found a one-man (or woman) play rich enough for my blood. I do recall John Gielgud’s mesmerizing performance in Shakespeare’s Ages of Man, and there …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AM[SHARE]The playwright Julia Cho now has Office Hour on at the Public Theatre, but she has been a steady and welcome contributor to the contemporary scene for some time. Works of hers have been prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AM[SHARE]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 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:08PM[SHARE]A 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 11:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 08:47AM[SHARE]Monday, 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, 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. Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 10:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 09:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 03:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 01:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 07:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 03:27AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:54AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, 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…
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