Friday, June 20, 2014
For a change of pace, today I'm offering you a series of random theater-related thoughts. None of which could take up a post on its own, but together they seem worthy.
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While Holler if Ya Hear Me, the new musical featuring the songs of Tupac Shakur, has strong performances by Broadway vets, I found the work of Broadway newbies Joshua Boone and Dyllon Burnsi…
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I sometimes feel like I have my own Tony Awards black cloud. Last year, my guest got injured at Party #2 (and Matilda lost, which made...
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Fly By Night is about fate, love and loss. Out of those, the second topic provides for more entertaining discussions, so I emailed Allison Case, Adam Chandler-Berat and Patti Murin and asked…
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My fair readers -- it is a week before the Tony Awards. What does that mean? It's time for The Drama Desk Awards. There are...
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In March 2002, I watched what would become the most controversial play of the season, the short-lived The Smell of the Kill. I don't really remember what I thought of the show in any detail,…
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A few weeks ago, I wasn't feeling so great. My allergies were bothering me and I was tired, as I often am this time of...
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Often I am surprised with something right as the nominations come out, but, upon reflection, my surprise changes to understanding. This year that wasn't so. My opinions haven't changed since…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:34PMSunday, April 27, 2014
Well, the Administration Committee did it, they ruled Cabaret Tony eligible. I wrote previously about...
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My friends are never very excited about new plays. What is The Realistic Joneses and why did celebrities want to be in it? Is Casa Valentina an atmospheric production where they treat us lik…
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Like many critics, I found the Transport Group production of I Remember Mama to be a touching endeavor. I would...
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I write about the Tony Awards a lot. I admit it. A couple of weeks ago, The New York Post's Michael Riedel wrote about...
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Through the years, I have had many discussions with people about directors. A director's work is often tricky to...
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When it was announced last week that Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis would step into The Phantom of the Opera this May, most of the press was about the fact that Lewis was to become the first …
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I read Michael Riedel's column in last Friday's New York Post with the kind of dumbfounded look I have on my face when I see really...
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Larsen is currently playing lyricist Cynthia Weil in Beautiful, which opened this past Sunday. The road here has not been easy. Emergency colon surgery almost forced her to withdraw from the…
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I often sit in the theater and think: "Who is the audience for this?" I think that whether the show is about Jews or not. I am actually not the ideal audience for Jewish-themed sho…
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My trip to the west coast is bringing me in contact with two shows I have an emotional attachment to: Side Show and The Black Suits.
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There are those who think poorly of talkbacks. They think theater, in many ways an ephemeral art, is to be experienced, not analyzed. This is the same argument made by those who think you sh…
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I've seen over half a dozen Macbeths over the course of my career. We're going to have Romeo and Juliet running off-Broadway the same time it is running on Broadway. I'm often asked: Why? Ye…
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There was an infectious spirit at the Public Theater's free Public Works' production of The Tempest -- so much of it was joyous it was hard not to just go with it.
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Three of your shows happening off-Broadway in one season. Well, right now, Lucy Thurber has five of her shows playing simultaneously at five different West Village theaters. Pretty cool, rig…
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When Mary Zimmerman was announced to direct/adapt Disney's The Jungle Book, I was surprised. I never thought the production would materialize (Pinocchio, anyone?), but knew that if it did, I…
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I love regional theaters and I love road trips. So every summer I try to hit the road one or more times to see regional theater in the Northeast. On a recent Sunday, I traveled to Goodspeed …
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Al said to me that if he survived he wanted to educate people. He wanted people to know the risks associated with hepatitis. He wanted them to know about liver cancer. Five years later, we'r…
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Bend in the Road highlights what we all know about the shows at NYMF -- they are not all made for New York City runs.
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The more nervous producers, the more Broadway will turn into a land of stasis and the more important off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway will become for people who like to see new works.
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I genuinely did not know what to expect going into The Explorers Club. What I saw was a madcap diversion -- a hilarious way to take your mind of your troubles (for a couple of hours at least…
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My love of Shakespeare in the Park is sort of limitless, which is odd because my love of Shakespeare is not. Every year, even years when I don't have a fond affection for the play being perf…
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As creator Ken Mahoney told me, his site will be somewhere where married suburban housewives with two children can go to find out what shows other married suburban housewives with two childr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:38AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Tony night. The biggest night of the year for the theater industry (not gross-wise) and for me personally. This year it was a...
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