Friday, September 18, 2015
Give 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.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:04PMSunday, September 13, 2015
Although Matthew-Lee Erlbach appears to have written myriad plays and tele-whatevers, I've only seen his one-man Handbook for...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:25PMThursday, September 10, 2015
It was Margot Harley, just leaving her lengthy tenure as The Acting Company producer, who came up with the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:17PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
A thriller about corruption in Ireland and Nigeria involving a large cast of characters isn't the sort of thing you'd expect to turn up as the 80-minute two-hander Little Thing, Big Thing.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:18PMFriday, September 4, 2015
In the English theater there's a term for it: jobbing actor. It's used to indicate actors who are regularly employed but infrequently achieve star status. They're typically extremely talente…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:10PMThursday, September 3, 2015
The convolutions Harris and Wilson conjure in their separate diversions earn a high hair-raising quotient, but perhaps even more irresistible are the Walliams and Raine performances -- perfo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:25PMWednesday, September 2, 2015
You could say that Joan Beber's In Bed With Roy Cohn is a fantasia about the notorious Joe McCarthy-period lawyer. It features the alienating figure experiencing nightmares during his death …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:32PMThursday, August 27, 2015
Actors Silverman and Dellapina, who plays guitar and sings nicely along the way, perform well together, and Westrate has some effective stretches. If on arrival he were to play Nate as less…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:31PMMonday, August 24, 2015
When Love & Money begins with Cornelia Cunningham (Maureen Anderman) confronting lawyer Harvey Abel (Joe Paulik) over...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:40PMSunday, August 23, 2015
Shylock's inflexible insistence on the bond he made with Antonio for a pound of flesh were the 3,000 ducats not repaid -- that's to say, Shylock's unrelenting stance as a broader revenge on …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:24PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Fiction set in the future never seems to have nailed it right when the actual future rolls around. Maybe Jules Verne hit on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:32PMTuesday, August 18, 2015
Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer and director Liesl Tommy want to assure you that science can be fun. In pursuit of the noble...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMMonday, August 17, 2015
As far as I know, the most chillingly romantic scene in American dramatic literature occurs in the second half...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:18PMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to ret…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:34PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
There's a reliable rule of the stage according to which, if the actors are having fun, the audience absolutely will. That's what's rambunctiously going on throughout Daniel Sullivan's fooli…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PMFriday, August 7, 2015
That a musical -- a musical! -- should recount a gritty slice of American history so beautifully is singularly moving.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:03PMIt's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:22PMThursday, July 30, 2015
The live performance part occurred July 29 at Joe's Pub, where Nora York--who's appeared at the venue every three or four months for several years as well as at any number of other prestigio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:19PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Though the abrupt changes of tone are initially jarring, it doesn't take long for the audience to understand that the ensuing transitions from a subdued dinner party to the frenetic behavior…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PMThursday, July 23, 2015
There's a fantasy I have about stand-up comics and a shrine they keep somewhere in their homes. On it are little stereotype...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PMThe treatment of women as second-class members of humanity, no matter what their accomplishments, is occupying the thoughts of the Potomac Theatre Project, again in residence this summer at …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:18PMSunday, July 19, 2015
Is a gale-wind force of a closer enough to forgive what’s gone before?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:46PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Sure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:23PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Hynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:15PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Remember what John Boswell quoted Samuel Johnson as saying?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:24PMThursday, July 9, 2015
In this day of 90-minute productions, many of which might have been expanded to make their point(s) more effectively, there remain productions of greater length that could have stood judicio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMThursday, July 2, 2015
What follows is an unadulterated rave for the Encores! Off-Center presentation, at City Center, of the beloved Howard-Ashman-Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors, as adapted from the 1960 Roge…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:00AMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Every so often a playwright has two plays or even more open almost simultaneously. The scheduling coincidence (?) tempts a more taut assessment of where the playwright is in his or her care…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Gets you thinking about conventional limitations, doesn’t it?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:52PMFriday, June 19, 2015
The next wave of Great Britain's domination of Broadway.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:24PM 
