Monday, 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 10:46PMSam Wasson looks at a enormously gifted man's chronic lack if assurance.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:07PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Depending on how the individual observer assesses Colin's choice, he can be considered either as declaring his independence or as self-destructively tossing it aside. Either way, Sillitoe's…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PMMonday, January 20, 2014
The annual event -- this is the 10th year -- is supposed to focus on the new and experimental. Maybe yes, maybe no, but certainly there are helpful hints about whom and what to look for in …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Frank Langella is doing a completely respectable King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey in William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. But wait. Better be more specific, s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:41AMThursday, January 16, 2014
If it's true that great minds think alike, it may be equally true that minds a notch or two below great also think alike.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PMSunday, January 12, 2014
Before we get to what's wrong with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at the Stephen Sondheim, let's establish what's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PMThursday, January 2, 2014
Much of the intense charm of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (Opheus's Descent...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:29PMWednesday, January 1, 2014
Die Fledermaus back again as the Metropolitan Opera's New Year's Eve gala confection? Directed by Jeremy Sams,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:48PMMonday, December 23, 2013
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Okay, I admit it, I entered A Christmas Carol at St. Clement's thinking, Oh no, not another one! Which just goes to show...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:57PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
The one thing you can safely say about The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic at the Park Avenue Armory is that it is what...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:55PMThursday, December 12, 2013
The Night Alive suspense then builds on whether Aimee will be able to extricate herself from Kenneth's sinister demands, which include stealing money Tommy has hidden beneath floorboards. W…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:06PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Some plays need to look as if they're being performed with absolutely no effort whatsoever. They must seem merely tossed off. That's the fun of them. Perhaps the most famous example is Priva…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07PMThursday, December 5, 2013
Truth is, Tyrell's effortlessly infallible phrasing has the effect of making what he does appealingly conversational. The emotion he's experiencing is a component of his seemingly off-handed…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Daniel Kitson is not only a marvelous story-teller. He may be our foremost meta-storyteller, and possibly because...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:54PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Theater and opera crazo Terrence McNally loves writing about his passions, especially anything to do with their...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:52PMGlen Berger's book examines Julie Taymor's extravagant mediocrity.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:43PMSunday, November 24, 2013
The new cast of Eugene Onegin, the season opener at the Met, has weighed in. Turns out -- hooray! -- they're a troupe of heavyweights, especially as conducted by debuting Alexander Vedernik…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:07PMThursday, November 21, 2013
London--Perhaps it has everything to do with what you choose to see, but right now in London there's a strong sense of déjà vu--a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PMFriday, November 15, 2013
As popular as P. G. Wodehouse and his creations, suave manservant Jeeves and first-prize twit Bertie Wooster, have been for almost 100 years, they've apparently never toddled onto a West End…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:06AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
Samuel Beckett wanted his plays done exactly as he wrote them and as he particularized them in his stage directions. Don't think of adding even a second tree, for instance, to the Waiting fo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:51PMMonday, November 11, 2013
Claudia Roth Pierpont's "Roth Unbound" tells his story and stories.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:20AMSunday, November 10, 2013
Two-time Tony winner Mark Rylance is stage-obsessed. He's so taken with all aspects of the theater that he has the Shakespeare's Globe Productions company he's leading get into costume in fr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
In Beth Henley's quasi-Southern Gothic play The Jacksonian, the establishment of the title is a Jackson, Mississippi motel...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:49PMMonday, November 4, 2013
We may never know what Hilary Clinton was thinking during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky episode or how Silda Wall Spitzer was reacting when Eliot Spitzer strayed or whether Huma Abedin was severe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:16PMSunday, November 3, 2013
Why go on about the spectacular After Midnight, other than to say that for pure entertainment it comes as near being...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:06PMIf you know William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream and Julie Taymor's several publicity-nabbing productions--many
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:04AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Three plays currently running delve deeply into Jewish anxieties.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:23PMSunday, October 27, 2013
Something Mike Nichols chose to do when directing the final moments of Harold Pinter's Betrayal--now at the Ethel...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:50PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Musicals have dealt with incarceration (Kiss of the Spider Woman), hanging (Parade) and murder (Sweeney Todd,...
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