David Mamet has something here. But what?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:40PMCynthia Erivo is the toast of the town.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:40PMPerhaps Thornton Wilder's chief glory is his belief in and conviction about the celestial mundane.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:54PMA logic that often crosses into the illogical.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:05PMThe old theater saying that goes "If you have a great finish, you don't have to worry about anything else" comes close to working for the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Glenn Slater-Julian Fe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:15PMThey never stop coming: the Dysfunctional American Family plays. In the last few weeks, we've had The Humans, Lost Girls and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:34PMGranted, Nick Jones's latest should probably be played in one act instead of two and goes a bit wilder than it needs to in the second half. None of that, however, detracts significantly fro…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:40PMSometimes understatement is the best kind of statement. It's surely true of these six pieces, and it's also surely true that dramatist Yearley proves to be a master of understatement. Congra…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07AMStage thrillers come along once in a very blue moon--and good ones in even fewer extremely blue moons. In the last...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02PMShear Madness has just arrived in Manhattan for the first time after playing for decades(!) in Boston. How appealing does a seeming farce sound that's been fruitcaked with broad topical joke…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:16PMSurprising for this author, he keeps self-aggrandizement off its pages.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02PMThe tic I find annoying in the work of very busy director Ivo van Hove is happily suppressed for his revival of A View From the Bridge, birthday-boy Arthur Miller's unrelenting, as usual, pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMDirector Phyllida Lloyd's inspiration for her all-women Shakespeare productions -- first Julius Caesar and now Henry IV, both at St. Ann's Warehouse -- wasn't simply to have her actors perfo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07PMIn contemporary writing for the theater it can sometimes seem as if there's an undeclared competition to determine...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:25PMWe all know about the importance of being earnest, but it's likely we all underestimate the importance of not being earnest. That importance struck me while watching Allegiance, the new mus…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45PMLet it immediately be said, audiences will certainly get their money's worth at On Your Feet! if they're enamored of the hot-hot music spread around the globe in tandem by Gloria Estefan and…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PMWhere this all leads is too thought-provoking, too explosive and too outright entertaining.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:30PMApparently, director Evan Cabnet believes the difference between comedy and tragedy is that the former is played fast and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMThe comedy winks at a particular instance of a dog being man's best friend -- but not, as Gurney writes it, a woman's best friend. What the prolific playwright has here is the study of one g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:27PMMichael Mayer's updating Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto in a more or less contemporary Las Vegas setting of Christine Jones's devising lends the histrionic drama an alluring air of 21st-century …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:14PMIn a Trip of Love program note, creator-director-choreographer James Walski asserts that his expensive-looking...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:12PMTopher Payne sets Perfect Arrangement, directed by Michael Barakiva at the Duke, in 1950 Washington, D. C. when Commie baiting and routing out supposed deviants of any stripe were becoming f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:05PMIf you think you're about to hear anything critical of the two old pros James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in director...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:57PMWhen Joe DiPietro's Clever Little Lies gets going at the Westside Theatre, it almost immediately gives the impression that...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50AMThe first act of Robert (Bootycandy) O'Hara's Barbecue consists of four scenes, two each in alternation, depicting a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:33PMEven before William Shakespeare's so-called "problem play" Measure for Measure gets properly underway at the Globe, director Dominic Dromgoole has loosed on the audience what looks…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:27PMLONDON--Though Samuel Foote is not remembered today and therefore another instance in the annals of the millions once famous and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:34AMLONDON--By now it's well known to theatergoers that Nicole Kidman is back on stage and in Anna Ziegler's Photograph...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:29AMAbout that embroidered handkerchief so crucial to Othello's undoing in the William Shakespeare tragedy that takes his name: When it's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:10AMMint Theater Company producing artistic director Jonathan Bank continues apace his compulsive rooting around for overlooked playwrights.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:15AMGive playwright MJ Kaufman and director Adrienne Campbell-Holt abundant credit for writing a compact and understanding study of isolation in How to Live on Earth, at HERE.
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