Thursday, June 22, 2017
Shakespeare clearly lies outside the right-wing attack machine’s area of expertise. While Breitbart News and friends were busy waging a full-scale war against the New York Public Theater…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
You know it’s an interesting year for the Tony Awards when a critic is still arguing with himself in June over what should win best musical and best play. I’m divided between “Dear Eva…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 09:36PMMonday, June 5, 2017
The secret to Tony Award nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:02PMThursday, April 13, 2017
Since the presidential election, private citizen Hillary Clinton has permitted herself two main types of recreation: hiking in the woods outside her Westchester County home and attending Bro…
Linked From St. Louis Today at 09:18PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Draft Hillary Clinton to make a pro-NEA statement at the Tony Awards
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:21PMFriday, October 21, 2016
Tom Stoppard reflect on a his long playwriting career
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:44PMFriday, September 16, 2016
From London to NY and now in LA this Ivo Von Hove-drected Olivier/TONY-Winner arrives starring a dazzling cast lead by FREDERICK WELLER, CATHERINE COMBS and ANDRUS NICHOLS running through Oc…
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SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe’s staging of “Love’s Labor’s Lost” proves that it is possible to fall in love with a production at first sight. John Lee Beatty’s scenic design transf…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:11PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Summer Shakespeare. These words can strike fear in the heart of a reluctant theatergoer. Yes, the plays are supposed to be good for you. But semiprofessional productions in which the artisti…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:33AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Steve Martin, the beloved comic whose career has branched out in unforeseen directions (bluegrass composer, art collector and curator, playwright) is often described as a moder…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:21PMLA JOLLA — Forget about all the TV pundits and op-ed columnists droning on about America’s problems. Playwright Ayad Akhtar is the diagnostician the nation needs to interpret its falteri…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:21PMSunday, August 7, 2016
No point in mincing words: Tennessee Williams is the greatest playwright America has ever produced. Yet more and more his reputation seems preserved in amber rather than renewed through reve…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:50PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Barbra Streisand didn’t give us a foretaste of her Rose in “Gypsy,” the classic musical about a formidable stage mother and her showbiz-bound daughters that she has been trying like Si…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:58PMSunday, July 31, 2016
“A Chorus Line” is an ideal musical for the Hollywood Bowl, and this weekend’s presentation faithfully staged by Baayork Lee didn’t disappoint. The show’s presentational style wor…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Feeling overwhelmed by this summer of tumult, when the news seems to go only from bad to worse? I have just the remedy: an English novelist who wrote delectable comedies of ma…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:13PMMonday, July 18, 2016
“The Last Tiger in Haiti,” a new play by Jeff Augustin that’s receiving its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse, begins in a tent shack in Port-au-Prince that is the home for a gr…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:31PMSunday, June 26, 2016
“Beautiful – The Carole King Musical” is that rare Broadway offering – a jukebox musical with a soul. The touring production, which opened Friday at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, r…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:08PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Ayad Akhtar’s “Disgraced” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2013, but for anyone encountering the work for the first time at the Mark Taper Forum, where the play opened Sunday in a s…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:09PMThursday, June 16, 2016
The setting for “Big Sky,” a new comedy by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros that opened Wednesday at the Geffen Playhouse, is a Ritz-Carlton condo in a deluxe vacation community in Aspen, Co…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:11PMMonday, June 13, 2016
“Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s landmark musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, had its coronation Sunday at the 70th Tony Awards. As expected, the show won for best musica…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:38AMFriday, June 10, 2016
The suspense over the Tony Awards is usually about which show will win for best musical, the prize with the most lucrative consequences. But this year we all know that “Hamilton,” nomina…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:37PMThe most memorable acting of the year was a group affair.
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:46AMThursday, June 9, 2016
On Sunday, the Tony Awards will recognize artists who did exceptional work in the 2015-16 Broadway season. As always, there’s a rich bounty of nominated talent to choose from, but the m…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 08:04AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
A precious First Folio of Shakespeare plays, one of several on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library, has arrived at the San Diego Central Library, where it will remain for the next month…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 07:32AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Harold Bloom subtitled his magnum opus on Shakespeare "The Invention of the Human" in recognition of the Bard's unprecedented ability to imagine the lives of others. The question I've bee…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:52PMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape,” written in 1921, still has the tang of an experiment by a relatively young writer testing the frontiers of what the drama can do. Mixing brutal expr…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 02:51PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Antonio Salieri, relegated by posterity to the shadows as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s journeyman contemporary, will always have Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” to augment his notoriety, if n…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 10:43PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
For those who have been tracking the thrilling career of the Belgian-born, Amsterdam-based director Ivo van Hove, the last place you'd expect to find him working is Broadway. But the Flemish…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMLast year, the Tony Awards could have adopted the hashtag #TonysSoBritish. This year, the nominees announced Tuesday morning look like the anti-Oscars, so diverse is the roster. There may no…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 11:12PMThe historical significance of "Hamilton"'s trove of Tony nominations
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMAlan Mandell, the evergreen 88-year-old actor, confessed that he might be ready to bid farewell to the stage when I interviewed him last year on the occasion of his performance in the Mark T…
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