Thursday, October 24, 2013
Musicals have dealt with incarceration (Kiss of the Spider Woman), hanging (Parade) and murder (Sweeney Todd,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:28PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
The thing I'm bursting to tell you immediately about Two Boys, the Nico Muhly-Craig Lucas opera at the Metropolitan...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:58PMSeveral years before JC Lee's stinging play Luce, at the Claire Tow, begins, Amy (Marin Hinkle) and Peter (Neal Huff) adopted a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:21AMSunday, October 20, 2013
Charlotte Moore as artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly as producing director at the Irish Repertory Theatre form one of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:17PMThursday, October 17, 2013
When in 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger shook up the London theater--and much of the rest of the English-speaking...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
It's beginning to look as if every 10 years or so--and no matter what the weather or geopolitical situation is--we can count on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:18PMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Depending on when you see--or have seen--The Model Apartment, you will either think playwright Donald Margulies has...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:22PMMonday, October 14, 2013
About the 1937 Room Service, now revived at the Westport Country Playhouse, I'm tempted to say things like "They don't write...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:01PMSunday, October 13, 2013
Looking over the relatively lighter crowd coursing into the first revival of Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:46PMFriday, October 11, 2013
Tony Danza on stage--or anywhere, for that matter--is just about impossible to dislike. This contemporary show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:32PMComparisons may be odious, but in some cases, like this one, they're inevitable. Whenever performers--such...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:25AMThursday, October 10, 2013
Does a week go by without a newspaper report somewhere on the subject of prisoners staging a Shakespeare play as part of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:50AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Sometime in the winter of 1958, I had the chance to hear Billie Holiday on her closing night at Boston's venerated Storyville. For reasons I can't recall, I chose not to go. She died less …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz is the rare example of a playwright whose every play--with possibly one or two exceptions--is even better than...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:25PMMonday, September 30, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Within minutes of Massive Attack V Adam Curtis beginning at the Park Avenue Armory, where it plays through Friday (October 4),...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:57PMMassive Attack, by the way, was seen from time to time when the three screens at the end of the hall were backlit. (There
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:57PMThursday, September 26, 2013
As far as I know, the only remains of Laurette Taylor's performance in The Glass Menagerie as Amanda
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:20PMIt was when Tennessee Williams took him to see <em>The Glass Menagerie</em> that William Inge decided to become a playwright -- very much influenced, as it turned out, by his pal.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:20PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Although I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:46PMAlthough I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:46PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Anyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:20PMAnyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in Manhattan
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:20PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
In a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling Anna Nicole, now at BAM, as the opening for what could be the revam…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:08PMIn a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling <em>Anna Nicole</em>, now at BAM, as the opening for wh…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:08PMTuesday, September 17, 2013
If you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32AMIf you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the cinema's
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32AMMonday, September 16, 2013
What lies ahead on the road to Broadway, off- and off-off always looks bright in the Fall.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AM"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55AM"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55AMSunday, September 15, 2013
David Staller is likely the current world authority on George Bernard Shaw. For quite some time, under the auspices of...
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