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Monday, December 27, 2010

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Richard Seff

I knew little about Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, when I entered the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway at an Actors’ Fund Benefit performance this past week.  When I left, I knew quite …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AM
Monday, December 20, 2010

Driving Miss Daisy and the Pinter plays by Richard Seff

Driving Miss Daisy is a holiday gift from some seventeen producers (imagine, for a play with 3 actors, 3 costumes and a few set pieces!). It’s a gift because, although the play is a pleasa…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:16AM
Monday, December 6, 2010

La Bete and Spirit Control by Richard Seff

I have two winners for you this time, as opposed to my last column which featured two on the down side.  First, La Bête, a farce by David Hirson, presented on Broadway at the Music Box The…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AM
Monday, November 22, 2010

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A Free Man of Color by Richard Seff

It’s with regret that I must tell you that the Lincoln Center Theatre, which has been so spectacularly run by André Bishop and Bernard Gersten  for the past twenty odd years, has come a …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:37PM
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

The Pitmen Painters by Richard Seff

In the words of William Feaver, the author of the book on which this play by Lee Hall is based, “It’s often said the play’s the thing. Here though, projected above  the heads of the a…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AM