Friday, November 20, 2015
The 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 01:20AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
On Your Feet joins its fellow juke box musicals Jersey Boys and Beautiful in the growing list of this new genre that delivers a full evening’s entertainment using pop hits of another e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMThursday, November 12, 2015
If you haven’t heard of Charles III of Britain, don’t berate yourself. He hasn’t happened yet, but playwright Mike Bartlett has conjured up what might happen if and when …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Michael Riedel, the theatre columnist for the New York Post and the co-host of the long running PBS show Theater Talk, sat with me for an hour on November 2nd, to discuss his valuable and re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Young Therese Raquin is in terrible trouble. We realize this the moment the curtain rises revealing a small and desolate village on the Seine in the year 1868. The entrance of Therese, (Ke…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMSunday, November 1, 2015
AR Gurney is the rolling stone playwright that is certainly gathering no moss. As recently as August of this year I reviewed a new Gurney offering, Love and Money which deftly dealt with a m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PMFriday, October 30, 2015
Way back in the dark ages (circa early 1930s) when musicals were musical comedies (if you don’t know what I mean, listen to “Musicals,” the showstopper in the light-hearted…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMThursday, October 29, 2015
I was away in August when the musical Hamilton opened on Broadway so yesterday I caught up with it as it was about to enter its third month of sellout business at The Richard Rodgers Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMSaturday, October 24, 2015
David Lindsay-Abaire has an enviable record of success with a solid list of plays, and in many of them he has written rewarding roles for the actress Marylouise Burke. He’s done so aga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04PMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Donald L. Coburn was born in 1938 in Baltimore to parents who were divorced two years later. His early life was unexceptional; he graduated from high school in 1957, then served in the U.S. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PMWho doesn’t have great respect and admiration for the musical team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick? Certainly no one who has seen and heard the great body of their work which include…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44AMThursday, October 15, 2015
In 1969 Graham Greene published a light novel with this title, which was in the vein of earlier romps such as The Egg and I, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and most particularly – Aunt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00AMMonday, October 12, 2015
This play by Sam Shepard was first presented by Circle Rep in 1983; it was a great success for them with Ed Harris and Kathy Baker playing Eddie and May. It transferred from their home base …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Harold Pinter must be smiling down on 42nd Street where the Roundabout is currently presenting his Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre. For starters, that street would hardly seem an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMSunday, September 27, 2015
Some time between 1890 and 1891 Frank Wedekind managed to complete a play in his native German, which contained all sorts of forbidden fruits. It dealt with adolescence, puberty, sexuality, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40PMMonday, September 21, 2015
The Mint Theater, in a 100 seat space on the 3rd floor of an office building on West 43rd Street, has been fulfilling its mission of re-discovering forgotten gems from the past, and offerin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PMSunday, September 13, 2015
I think we can safely call her the last Broadway Diva of the golden age. For she’s been putting together a career that is unique in this day and age in that it has been lived almost …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Master Playwright A.R.Gurney has used his own life as background material for some 50 plays, 4 musicals, plus 3 novels. Born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York, he decided early on to “write…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PMThursday, August 20, 2015
There are many plays that are known for their sparkling dialogue, others for their rapid fire words that require actors who can deliver them in machine gun manner. Now we have the prolific�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17AMFriday, July 24, 2015
It’s miraculous that this musical managed to cross the finish line, to land at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway. We all know how difficult it is to mount a musical these days, not o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45PMMonday, July 20, 2015
This year’s Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home opened in New York when I was in California. I finally caught up with it this weekend at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it has…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Patty LuPone is a highly original and always welcome star who has built a brilliant career primarily on stage, and we who love live theatre have been its beneficiaries. Season after season s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53PMFriday, June 26, 2015
Joshua Harmon’s first play Bad Jews introduced us to him as an imaginative writer with an uncanny ear for authentic dialogue. It also informed us that he could write with rage about ma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45PMThursday, June 18, 2015
As summer fare this highly imaginative black comedy by Robert Askins is not what you’d expect. No Butterflies are Free, no Barefoot in the Park romantic romp is this play that features…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMFriday, June 5, 2015
Jim Parsons was put together with pieces of PeeWee Herman, Jerry Lewis, and James Stewart and the result is a most appealing actor who’s found himself a character very close to the r…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Many scribes have been offering opinions on who might win the Tony Awards this coming Sunday, June 7th, and for those of you who haven’t yet made up your minds, I offer my own thought…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Critic Richard Seff puts 20th century playwright Teresa Deevy in the same league as Inge and Chekhov after seeing her 1936 play, newly discovered by NY's Mint Theatre.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMDCTS columnist Richard Seff and his fellow creators of the new musical Shine!, based on the Horatio Alger stories, describe getting this old school musical - it's orchestrator equates it to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMDCTS columnist Richard Seff and his fellow creators of the new musical Shine!, based on the Horatio Alger stories, describe getting this old school musical - it's orchestrator equates it to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM"This is one of those rare times when a play has been completely submerged so that a production can draw attention to its staging. Mr. Van Hove turned this family into the insane and certain…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRoundabout has given the play its usual A-1 production under Doug Hughes' meticulous direction. Cherry Jones is dressed as an elegant tart .. she's never been more beautiful than she is here…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM 
