Friday, April 29, 2016
From what would seem to be the most unlikely source material, Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa have fashioned a dazzling and original musical theatre piece. The source is Bret Easton…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
A company called Wellington Road, LLC has produced this 80-minute play by Cate Ryan at the Beckett Theatre on Theatre Row on 42nd Street, with a company of five featured players, under the d…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39AMSaturday, April 23, 2016
I doubt if in 1777 Richard Brinsley Sheridan was giving much thought to whether or not his comedy of manners would have any relevance to New York audiences in 239 years. But here he is aga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMSaturday, April 16, 2016
Floria Zeller, the French playwright might have called his play The Father In Winter, for The Lion in Winter was already taken. In this one act and 90-minute tragedy, adapted from the Fren…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02PMFriday, April 15, 2016
This revival of The Color Purple opened at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Broadway in December of 2015 but I wasn’t able to get to it until tonight, in the fourth month of its successf…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25AMMonday, April 11, 2016
Jean Webster’s novel, on which Daddy Long Legs is based, was written in 1911 in a farmhouse in Massachusetts. and much of its New England common sense, dry humor, and old fashioned vi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:27PMThursday, April 7, 2016
Arthur Miller’s 1953 play has been resurrected by Producer Scott Rudin and 20 cohorts in a production staged by Ivo Van Hove, who performed similar service to Miller’s A View Fro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMThursday, March 31, 2016
If you insist on edge in your musicals, Bright Star is not for you. On the other hand, if you care to spend a couple of hours in the mid 1940s and the early 1920s in rural areas of North Car…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41PMFriday, March 25, 2016
I once heard the late director Moss Hart say that when a show is a great hit, there were omens that predicted its future. “For example,” he said, “when we were fine tuning …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15AMFriday, March 18, 2016
If you’re in the mood for a visit with a shipload of fun loving actors, many of whom you’ve seen and enjoyed in shows like Guys and Dolls (Faith Prince), The Producers (Roger Bar…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMThursday, March 17, 2016
Under Joe Mantello’s keen direction, Blackbird begins with a bang and ends with a cry in the night. In the 80 minutes that elapse between one and the other, his cast of two holds us ti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:12PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Danai Gurira, the author of this white hot very topical play about sexual slavery in Nigeria, has made a remarkable start to a major career as playwright and actor. Perhaps best known as sta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMFriday, March 4, 2016
Jason Robards first played the central character in this Eugene O’Neill one-act mood piece; that was in 1964. That character isn’t “Hughie” — no, he’s g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:42PMThursday, March 3, 2016
“Suddenly there is God so quickly” is one of those gems in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and it flashed into my mind as I watched Stephen Karam’s play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:05PMThursday, February 25, 2016
Playwright Hazel Ellis is not a name that comes readily to mind. Her play, currently running at City Center under the auspices of the Mint Theater Company, was first produced in her native…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:54PMSaturday, February 20, 2016
John Patrick Shanley is a prolific and gifted playwright who’s had a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony for his hugely successful play Doubt. He also wrote its screenplay and directed the film …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
As a way of plugging in to the national conversation addressing issues of change in the United States, this highly regarded regional not-for-profit theatre has put several plays in to its …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:21PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
I talked with Nick Wyman only minutes after his performance as President Lyndon Johnson in All the Way at a matinee on February 13th. We met in the lobby of the stunning Asolo Repertory Thea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:28PMI’d seen the film, but never the musical on which it was based. The original with a score by Vernon Duke and John LaTouche opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway and only manage…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12AMMonday, January 25, 2016
Richard Greenberg’s new play is of the school from which the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” sprang. It has enigmatic hints of Harold Pinter in it as well, though Mr. Greenb…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PMSunday, January 17, 2016
When you arrive at the American Airlines Theatre for a performance of Michael Frayn’s farce Noises Off, along with your Playbill, you will also be given a program for Nothing On, which…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PMMonday, January 11, 2016
Arthur Miller, in this, the celebratory season of his 100th birthday, is having a banner year, with productions of his major and minor works popping up all over the place. From the first g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PMI am so glad that Sheldon Harnick, the last surviving member of the creative team of the original production of Fiddler on the Roof, has been able to participate in this glorious revisical.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02AMFriday, January 1, 2016
It was an active year, heavily marked by new and revisited musicals. The attendance and box office numbers were good, both on and off Broadway. I, as the only writer covering New York theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AMSaturday, December 26, 2015
RICHARD SEFF’S LONDON WEEK Richard Seff recently flew over to London to see some shows and here’s what he thought: Guys And Dolls at the Savoy Theatre Guys and Dolls is or should…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSaturday, December 12, 2015
Full disclosure: I am not a rock ‘n roller, and think its music has little to offer what we’ve come to know as “musical theater.” Before you start cursing me out as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25AMFriday, December 11, 2015
Andréa Burns. Note the accent over the e in the lady’s name. That puts the emphasis on its second syllable and indicates something latina in her background. And sure enough her moth…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AMIn 1955, Johnny Mercer published these opening lines to a hit song of his: “When an irresistible force such as you meets an immovable object like me, something’s gotta give.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Author Joe DiPietro has delivered a cozy little play that sits comfortably somewhere between situation comedy and family drama. It starts in a tennis club locker room as a brisk and brittle …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMFriday, November 20, 2015
Peter Parnell has been writing plays, television scripts, books to musicals, and winning two Emmy Awards citations for his work as co–producer of The West Wing. I remember admiring his…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38PMThe title is misleading. It leads one to think the play is going to be one long groan of sadness, and that’s not what unfolds for us in its ninety minutes of playing time. “Miser…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AM 
