Saturday, April 12, 2014
Although Athol Fugard turns 82 in June and his protagonist in The Shadow of the Hummingbird--having its world premiere at...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Not to put too fine a point on it, director-choreographer Martha Clarke's version of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:34PMQualifying "theater" with "live" should be redundant, but has become common.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:28PMSunday, April 6, 2014
Let me tell you that if anyone wanted a spot-on one-sentence review of Eno's newest work, you couldn't do any better than what she said. But we professional assessors are expected to say mo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:21PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
On January 20, 1980 Mary McCarthy, never known to mince words in print or in person, was asked on Dick Cavett's PBS talk show whom she considered overrated writers. After a moment's thought,…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:23AMThursday, April 3, 2014
With Washington's return to The Great White Way in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 A Raisin in the Sun at the Barrymore, he does a tremendous favor. Once again, as he did with his …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PMFrank Loesser disliked repeating himself. When he produced book, music and lyrics for The Most Happy Fella in 1956, he decided to go operatic. Not all the way, but more than he ever had be…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:43PMMonday, March 31, 2014
I Remember Mama, John Van Druten's adaptation of Mama's Bank Account, Kathryn Forbes's memoir of her early 20th-century...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:40AMSunday, March 30, 2014
Give me a minute here while I clear my head after attending last night's performance of If/Then, the new musical starring...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:05PMThursday, March 27, 2014
Plays are revelations. Good plays, that is, and the better a play, the more revelatory it can be. And let's just say King Lear--now...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
Throughout the 1980s and starting with William M. Hoffman's As Is and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, plays addressing the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:01AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Newspapers drop arts criticism in a troubled culture.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:48AMThis isn't your grandfather's Les Miz. It's the new and enhanced-in-some-ways-diminished-in-others Les Miz, and it very much takes into account the movie and the possible expectations that i…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:59AMSunday, March 23, 2014
To be blunt about it, I've never thought much of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy as a play, but I'm always willing to change...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26PMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Nowhere in the program for Tales From Red Vienna, at Manhattan Theater Club's City Center Stage I, is there any...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:24PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Companies here and abroad, far and wide, high and low devote themselves to William Shakespeare. There's nothing new about the dedication. The Shakespeare devotees just keep coming.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:36PMMonday, March 10, 2014
Since it's impossible to stay on top of absolutely everything on view from one year to the next in burgeoning New...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:16PMFriday, March 7, 2014
The first performance of the new Wozzeck production at the Metropolitan Opera House turned into one of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:30PMThursday, March 6, 2014
Missing for deliberate reasons or reasons of chronology from All the Way, Robert Schenkkan's sure-fire hit at the Neil Simon, are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:53PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
London--If you're heading this way with theatergoing in mind, here's a short list of what's on offer in the next couple...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:56AMMonday, February 24, 2014
Was he really "the greatest actor of his generation"?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:46PMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Andrew Lloyd Webber rules Brittania's West End and, as will come as a surprise to few, has for just about 40 years. Right now, three of his musicals are at hand. The Phantom of the Opera is …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:45PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
Because of the hell into which he was thrown with thousands, Flynn conjures moments reminiscent of Dante's Inferno. There are even echoes in his lines of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. And w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PMThursday, February 13, 2014
I admire Margulies's nuanced understanding the dynamics of friendships. He's put "Dinner" is his title, and he plays with it by devoting two scenes to Karen and Gabe preparing food…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Standing ovations are so prevalent they are meaningless. The consensus is that ticket buyers paying so much for a seat rise at curtain calls in order to convince themselves they've just gott…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:02PMSunday, February 9, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
When Little Me opened in November 1962, its major pluses were Sid Caesar, the Carolyn Leigh-Cy Coleman score and the rarely-miss Neil Simon gags. Revived at City Center this weekend, it can…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:32PMThursday, February 6, 2014
Eric Simonson, who gets his kicks writing plays about sports figures, is jumping the gun on Valentine's Day by sending a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:30PMThursday, January 30, 2014
Brian Kulick certainly attempts to get around the inherent problems with all manner of theatrical notions in a new translation by Gerhard Nellhaus, with Duncan Sheik's music carrying Brecht'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Before I get to an outright pan of the immoderately irritating Stop Hitting Yourself -- created by Austin's Rude Mechs and now squatting in the Lincoln Center Theater at the Claire Tow -- I'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM 
