Monday, May 25, 2015
Roundabout 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 12:25PMFriday, April 24, 2015
When all the elements fuse, when a director is clearly in charge and on the right track, it is such a pleasure to be out front watching everything come together, to make magic from first lig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:34PMThursday, April 23, 2015
Full disclosure: I have known and loved Chita Rivera and her talent since we were virtually toddlers. I was then (we’re talking the early 1950s) a baby agent and she had just emerged f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01PMIn the 1940s and ’50s summer theatres popped up all over the place, particularly in New England, where every other town boasted of one. Westport, Ct. had two; Hyannis, Falmouth, Dennis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PMThursday, April 16, 2015
“Fresh as paint” kept buzzing through my head as I sat, enthralled, as this latest “new musical based on a famous film” sang and danced its way across the boards of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
If you leave your sense of disbelief checked in the cloak room at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, you might just have a fun time as you watch this marriage romp unwind, filled with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PMThursday, April 9, 2015
For those of you who love live theatre enough to cherish the teamwork of two major acting talents, Skylight by David Hare should motivate you to book yourself a seat this spring, for the run…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
The current stage revival on Broadway of Lerner and Loewe’s film Gigi is lovely to look at. It’s filled with principal performers in supporting roles, who have played leads on Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:26PMSunday, March 22, 2015
I’m sending you this note on the City Center’s staged reading of Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon even though its brief 6 performances scheduled ended earlier today. I w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58PMThe word is out. It didn’t arrive in town with much hoopla, most thought “another revival of a relic from the past” so it fooled even the vast ticket buying public, but the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AMFriday, March 20, 2015
In 1989 Wendy Wasserstein’s play hit Broadway hard, dealing with her fervent feelings about women’s liberation which began with her graduation from high school just as the 1960…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PMMonday, March 16, 2015
It’s always a pleasure to welcome Helen Mirren back to the Broadway stage. Her new vehicle by Peter Morgan, who served her well once before as author of “The Queen,” a film…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AM 
