Friday, 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 05:58PMRichard Seff reviews the new musical In Transit at 59E59.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff reviews this "splendid import from Britain."
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff is back on the beat (his musical Shine! closed at NYMF, and extolls the production and cast of Lee Hall's "rich stew of a play."
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff reviews Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A Free Man of Color, both at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM"I have two winners for you this time, as opposed to my last column which featured two on the down side."
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMTo watch Ms. Redgrave's thought processes, emotions conveyed without the use of words - to delight in Mr. Jones' canny ways with lines that are not nearly as funny as he makes them - there's…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMTo watch Ms. Redgrave's thought processes, emotions conveyed without the use of words - to delight in Mr. Jones' canny ways with lines that are not nearly as funny as he makes them - there's…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMHe's sly, this Bedford [as Lady Bracknell] - no histrionics on display, though he's miles away from the Strasberg Studio method, and thanks for that. He knows how to remain deadly still to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMWhat a joy to see a rich plumcake of a play, crafted well without apology for its craftsmanship, using language as it was meant to be used, to illuminate, to entertain, to engage.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff is grateful to the Atlantic for "taking this one off the library shelf, dusting it off, giving it a David Auburn spin & letting us have a look at what was attracting the crowds …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMThe first act, dazzling as it was, promised much, the next two acts delivered unevenly, and by final curtain we were all a little dazed by overkill.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff reviews The York Theatre's production of The Road to Qatar! "James Beaman and Keith Gerchak as the Authors are talented lads, and Sarah Stiles is adorable".
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMA.R. Gurney has written over 40 plays and I'll wager he's had more use of perhaps 6 characters than any playwright in history. This prolific playwright is in the Alan Ayckbourn/Neil Simon cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMDoug Hughes, who seems to be directing every other show to hit New York, manages to make us believe he's been thoroughly steeped in this world of inbred Southern ways and means. He is helped…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMRichard Seff interrupted his Fla vacation to catch the WSS touring company.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMThursday, April 30, 2015
It doesn’t sound like much of an epitaph for a Broadway season, but Something Rotten is indeed the title of the last show to open before the deadline for a 2015 Tony nomination. Happil…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51PMMonday, April 27, 2015
Hillary Mantel is a novelist, dramatist and critic whose best known works are her two novels about the Tudor statesman Thomas Cromwell. The play Wolf Hall is the collective title of two long…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMSunday, April 26, 2015
This will be a short review because I have respect for the creative team behind Doctor Zhivago, but disappointment in their relentlessly moving musical now at the Broadway Theatre. Boris Pas…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
I suggest that producers, composers, writers, stars and others with lots of money earned from their work other than in theatre, those who have done no apprenticeship in theatre, who have nev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PM 
