Saturday, September 20, 2014
There's no telling when Two Gentlemen of Verona will come around again. So if an incarnation this good is available, that's even more reason to tune right in.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:51PMThursday, September 18, 2014
Is Love Letters A. R Gurney's most lucrative play? No one seems to be quite sure, but it has to be up there among the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:28PMMonday, September 15, 2014
In Craig's Wife, George Kelly's 1925 play subsequently filmed twice with Rosalind Russell and then Joan Crawford as the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:45PMThursday, September 11, 2014
In Kenneth Lonergan's revived 1996 play, This is Our Youth, a Steppenwolf production transferred to the Cort, what...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:11PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
In the history of art, the importance of patrons has rarely been underestimated. The egregious result of Solomon Guggenheim's support for Rudolf Bauer is one of the most disturbing instances…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:47PMSunday, September 7, 2014
Remembering the clubs where the late comedian established her working patterns.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:55PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Four busboys are hustling non-stop at Frederick's Madison, an Upper East Side Manhattan restaurant, when Elizabeth Irwin's My Manana Comes -- ultimately an ironic title -- begins with veloci…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:08PMThursday, September 4, 2014
On the set, empty for the most part, are two upstage pianos. Music director Greg Jarrett and Roberto Sinha play them, both wearing straw hats and other Bromelmeier-supplied speakeasy garb. T…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:55PMMonday, August 25, 2014
If you tend to think of playwright Naomi Wallace as compulsively pretentious--I do--be advised that And I and Silence, the title...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:27PMGenerally, it's not a good idea for playwrights to direct their own work--or maybe anyone else's, for that matter. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:06PMThursday, August 21, 2014
Cabaret is alive and not quite yet reduced to gasping for breath in New York City.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:36PMTuesday, August 19, 2014
This time of year, things are so beehive-hectic in these parts that it's easy to drive around on a single Saturday and see, say, The Visit at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the compac…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:43PMSunday, August 17, 2014
At the start of Poor Behavior, Theresa Rebeck--who may be the most overrated contemporary American playwright by virtue...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:35PMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Helpful word has reached me about the musical longwindedly called Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson...
SOURCE: huffingtonpost.com at 09:36PMIs it clear by now that there's no call to throw your good money after their good money gone bad for something that might only be comprehensible to the citizens of Iceland -- something that …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:36PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Ohio's unique community theater showcase of new plays should be copied widely.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:15AMMonday, August 4, 2014
The craft and art of the song is assailed at the annual new-tuner event.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:13PMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Since Laura Eason calls her tense romantic comedy Sex With Strangers, audiences can be forgiven for jumping to the correct conclusion that these strangers -- they're both writers -- won't wa…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:04PMMonday, July 28, 2014
Before he began writing as well as directing his celebrated movies, Preston Sturges uncorked Strictly Dishonorable, a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:42PMMonday, July 21, 2014
Among the ground-shifting 1960s music and music-biz developments was the emergence of the singer-songwriter. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:59PMRemembering the unique pleasure of interviewing the theater legend.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:54PMThursday, July 17, 2014
Yes. Absolutely. No question. If you can get to City Center anytime through this weekend to see Pump Boys and Dinettes, which is the third and last of Encores! Off-Center summer series, g…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:51PMMonday, July 14, 2014
The last 10 minutes or so of Robert Boswell's play The Long Shrift, at the Rattlestick, are richly dramatic. During them Richard (Scott Haze) and Beth (Ahna O'Reilly) finally get to the conf…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:32PMSunday, July 13, 2014
Atomic, at the Acorn, is the show that asks the musical question: Once the A-bomb was realized, was it wise to use it? Coming...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:06PMSaturday, July 5, 2014
William Shakespeare historians have tried and failed to find a figure during the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V who might have been the inspiration for Sir John Falstaff, whom many of the pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Hilary Mantel persuasively presents the case for his preeminence at this relentless need in Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, and then again in Bring Up the Bodies, which won t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:17PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
When Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy) drops in on Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) totally unannounced in the revival of David Hare's 1995 play Skylight, at Wyndham's, he's clearly there to fan the emb…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:11AMMonday, June 16, 2014
LONDON--Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, which Brian Friel adapted for the stage under the same title in 1987 is just revived...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:34AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
LONDON, THE GLOBE--Scholars aren't certain when William Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, although they favor 1593. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:04AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Fly By Night, the Will Connolly-Michael Mitnick-Kim Rosenstock (who also conceived the enterprise) musical at Playwrights...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:14AMThe big fact about 75-year-old Alan Ayckbourn is that he's written 78--count 'em, 78--plays during his long career,...
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