Tuesday, 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 10:47PMI’ve seen this play so many times. As a youngster of 19 I played “Horace” at NYU in a production that helped me along in my burgeoning acting career. Someone saw me in it, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMMonday, April 24, 2017
I’m going to tell you a short story before I get to my review of Hello, Dolly! which is now playing at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. I do so to give what’s now called “t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:53PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She’s been particularly interested in exploring the need …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it’s about the battle for supremacy in the field of female skincare and beauty. It sounded like ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PMMonday, April 17, 2017
I had only dim memories of the 1993 agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which had been secretly arranged by a Norwegian couple, who had spent from April 1992 until September…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMFriday, April 14, 2017
Family plays have changed so in the past few decades. They once concerned themselves with sibling rivalry for power and control (The Little Foxes), long held lies that are finally unearthed …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMSunday, April 9, 2017
It doesn’t take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a witty script that isn’t in a hurry (not a 90-minute mini-play, but a full-size evening that keeps yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:49AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
The Lyceum Theatre on Broadway is playing host to a most unusual guest.. It has brought in the Cornley University Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor and because of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PMBased on a charming French film, Amélie the musical begins with a narrator letting us know we’re going to be in Paris and its surroundings for the next 90 minutes, and as he and the music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52AMSunday, April 2, 2017
It took a while, but the Oregon Shakespeare Festival helped by staging this remarkable play in the summer if 2014. It caused enough of a stir for the Public Theatre in New York to pick it up…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
This is the play that introduced me to the writings of Tennessee Williams long ago, in 1945! That was the original production at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway, and it contained the now l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Producer Jack Viertel and his merry band of music makers at Encores! have unearthed another great example of the beginnings of American dominance in the field of musical theatre. Our heritag…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
ACT TWO. Two years later, in 1970, I once again tried to put together a package of my clients – in the show that became 70 Girls 70 – for I’d enjoyed looking after Chita Ri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33AMFriday, March 17, 2017
One thing is certain about this new musical, now on Broadway at The Schoenfeld Theatre – it had the youngsters in the audience hooting and hollering and having themselves a fine time f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Jeff Talbott established himself as a writer of great promise with the MCC Theater production of his first play The Submission in 2011. This excellent actor/playwright joined The Actors Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
With the spate of openings in March, I wasn’t able to get to Wallace Shawn’s new play, the New Group’s production which played a strictly limited engagement through March…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10AMThis is one of Arthur Miller’s successes, and though it’s been revived three times on Broadway since it first appeared in 1968, it has never attracted the audiences that flocked …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04AMThursday, March 9, 2017
I don’t know all the works of author Penelope Skinner, but based on The Village Bike and the currently running New York production of Linda, I suspect she is now on the short list of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Richard Seff at a dinner honoring Harold Prince. Photo courtesy of Richard Seff. THE CURTAIN RISES One of the properties for which I tried to get this new team hir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26PMI know Playwright Steven Levenson only from his work as librettist on the musical Dear Evan Hansen, so this for me is his first play. It more than fulfills the promise shown in the musical, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:48AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
COME HEAR THE MUSIC PLAY: Memories of My Twenty Years as Agent For John Kander by Richard Seff OVERTURE. John Kander and Fred Ebb have written some fifteen musicals for Broadway as well a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39PMMonday, March 6, 2017
On March 18th composer John Kander will mark his 90th Birthday and to honor that happy occasion I’m going to unearth some of the memories I have of the twenty years in which I repres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Robert Holman is a British playwright whose plays have been done under the auspices of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, he’s had productions of his many plays at…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49PMSunday, February 19, 2017
John Kander, who will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday, has now confirmed that his collaboration with 39 year-old playwright Greg Pierce, is on solid ground, and offers us great promise…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
The Palace Theatre is back in business with a big time headliner on the bill. It’s Glenn Close, returning to the role of Norma Desmond, direct from her recent great success in it at Lo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45AMThursday, February 9, 2017
There is a delightful surprise in store for any of you who can manage to get to the Davenport’s 75-seat Loft Theatre to watch Ed Dixon’s one-man play in which he brings to vivid …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Playing now in repertoire with The Great Society, a stunning new play that New York has not yet seen, called The Originalist, is keeping the good citizens of Sarasota who clearly love good t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
I regret to say that until I saw Mint Theater Company’s production of Miles Malleson’s comedy Yours Unfaithfully, I wasn’t aware of the author, hadn’t heard of him. A…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:42PMMonday, January 23, 2017
A remarkable new production of August Wilson’s play Jitney is now available to us all, thanks to the Manhattan Theatre Club, which has staged it on Broadway as the last of the Wilson…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23PMMonday, January 9, 2017
In the beginning there was a play by Anton Chekov that was simply called “a long play without a title”. He’d written a first draft of it in 1878, later called it Fatherless…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AM 
