Thursday, June 20, 2013
If you don't mind an Othello (Adrian Lester) and an Iago (Rory Kinnear) policing Cyprus in desert fatigues and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:49AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
By 1959 when Tennessee Williams got around to presenting Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway, as directed by Elia Kazan and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:47AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
When Ben Stanton's lights flash up at the Lucille Lortel on Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, ex-lovers Steph (Jenna Fischer)...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:59PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Give thanks to the gods of talent for John Guare. They've conferred on him an inquiring mind that finds inspiration...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:08PMMonday, June 10, 2013
Immersive, site-specific, interactive--call it what you wil--it's here but maybe not to stay.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:43PMMonday, June 3, 2013
People giddily adapting properties into musicals used to say of the source material--plays, novels,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56AMFriday, May 31, 2013
New York City--The most interesting piece of anecdotal information I picked up at this year's BookExpo America was from Paul Oliver...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:46PMThursday, May 30, 2013
For some reason, directors like to take liberties with Bertolt Brecht. Perhaps because the German playwright placed...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:26PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Hey music lovers, let's consider--for want of a better term--pop crooners. At the moment, the greater listening public...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:22PMMonday, May 27, 2013
The Cinderella formula is increasingly affecting what musicals get produced.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:54AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Santo Loquasto's set at BAM's Harvey for Henrik Ibsen's undoubtedly most challenging, yet ultimately intriguing, play, The...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:43PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Call it "interactive." Call it "immersive." Call it whatever contemporary term you will. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:09PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
If you like theater and you like politics, you're going to jump at the chance to see theater about politics, Then get...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Perhaps it's this reviewer's imagination, but it seems that more than the usual number of plays set in the workplace are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:06AMThursday, May 9, 2013
The single most spectacular dance number on view at the moment -- and it won't be for long; get there fast -- erupts in the second act of On Your Toes, the current Encores! series entry at C…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:06PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Just as William Shakespeare did with his history plays, Friedrich Schiller did with Mary Stuart and others have done...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet."
Yes,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:29PMMonday, April 29, 2013
When she goes--if she goes--she goes as one of the irreplaceables.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:18AMThursday, April 25, 2013
In Chicago, Fosse had Fred Ebb and John Kander explain the power of giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle, and Diane Paulus has taken that dictum to heart with her American Repertory Theater prod…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:26PMTuning into the gossip the Divine Miss M spews jubilantly as another Divine Miss M is such fun it hardly matters that five minutes after the romp ends, much of the dirt dished with such five…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:23AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
What Nikos Kazantzakis did to de-sanctify Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, Colm Toibin has done for the Madonna in The Testament of Mary -- with, predictably, the some outraged respon…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:39PMFriday, April 19, 2013
It's a strongly recommended drama that takes place on Manhattan's Central Park West in a beautifully furnished 14-room apartment, the confusing layout of which eventually becomes a metaphor …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:33PMIf someone grabbed you on the street and yelled in your face for the next two and a half hours, what would you do? Well, the cast of the Jekyll & Hyde revival at the Marquis scream until…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:12AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Plays conjuring Manhattan in the 1930s often take on the look of a live-action Edward Hopper painting. Not a bad thing. Actually, the effect is stunning when the curtain rises on The Nance.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:01PMDoes "The Flick," Annie Baker's 3-Hour work, really need an artistic director's apologia?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:31AMMonday, April 1, 2013
"The Audience" with Helen Mirren and "This House" at the National show the English how they're governed.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AMMonday, March 18, 2013
"Vanished Years" wins valuable 2013 theater biography prize.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:28AMMonday, March 4, 2013
How will William Shakespeare history get over new (pun intended) hump?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:40AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Are star names above the title above the title absolutely necessary?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:29PMMonday, January 21, 2013
I’ve been accused of kindness many more times than I care to enumerate.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:41AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Londoners – or those willing to cross the pond – have plenty of must-see plays on their plates, ranging from new takes on Shakespeare and Ibsen to new works about Shakespearean actors an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM 
