Monday, March 21, 2011
Beautiful Burnout, which is playing through March 27 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn Heights, is the textbook definition of style over substance. But the style is sensational.&nbs…
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The rap on the current revival of That Championship Season, which opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre last week, is that the play is outdated. Which seems a silly thing to say.&nbs…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:29AMTuesday, March 15, 2011
While reading the Times this morning, my husband K discovered that our friend Judd Jones had died. That means the world is a less fun place.
Judd, who passed on March 9 at the age o…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 05:11PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
Monday is traditionally a dark night in the theater so performances are rare, which probably explains why the New York Theatre Workshop was filled with theater folks—press and otherwise—…
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Life’s other demands have gotten in the way of my writing here and so I am again missing my regular Saturday morning posting deadline. But I’m hop…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:18AMWednesday, March 9, 2011
There’s a lively debate currently going on within the theater blogosphere. The subject is whether M.F.A. programs, writers’ workshops and the need to satisf…
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One of the best experiences I ever had in the theater was seeing A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters. Many times. And that’s a large part of why I so loved it. The story is told…
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Sign me up for the Geoffrey Rush fan club. And make that a lifetime membership, please. Like most people, I discovered the off-beat Australian actor when I saw his breakout—and…
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We’re closing in on the end of Black History Month. And I suspect that the August Wilson estate has seen another big uptick in royalty receipts as theaters around the country marked …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:46AMWednesday, February 23, 2011
Here are a few hard facts of modern theatergoing life. Times are tough. Money is tight. And so casts are small. Sometimes too small. As is the case with Compulsion, the new…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:16AMSaturday, February 19, 2011
Tennessee Williams would have been 100 if he’d lived until March 26. Although the chances of the hard-drinking, drug-abusing Williams surviving that long were never great. But he was…
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My hat is off to Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal. He could be hauling in big bucks playing brooding superheroes in 3-D action movies and she sassy c…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:19AMSaturday, February 12, 2011
This coming Monday is not only Valentine’s Day, it also marks the fourth anniversary of Broadway & Me. So I get to celebrate two things I love deeply: my husband K and writing he…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:25AMWednesday, February 9, 2011
Before I went to see Rain, the concert tribute to the Beatles that reopened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre last night after a three-week hiatus, I wondered who would pay up to $120 to see a …
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Despite the frigid weather, people milled around excitedly outside City Center on Wednesday evening. It’s always like that on the night before the latest Encores! production opens and fami…
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What a year Rajiv Joseph is having. His play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo has been hailed as a brilliant meditation on the Iraq War, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist last spring and wi…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:59AMSaturday, January 29, 2011
The first thing I do when I go to see a play at the Mint Theater Company is check out the bookshelf in its lobby. The Mint specializes in works by playwrights who have been forgotten and tho…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:39AMWednesday, January 26, 2011
Thanks to books (fictional homages by Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and George Bernard Shaw), movies (like the 1997 Stephen Fry biopic “Wilde,” in which Jude Law played his lover) and…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:56AMSaturday, January 22, 2011
Lincoln Center Theater must be a great place to work. The best actors in the theater today seem to be queuing up at its door. Just reading its cast lineups this season has been like lo…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:24PMWednesday, January 19, 2011
Everyone sitting around me in BAM’s Harvey Theater this past Saturday seemed to be a diehard theatergoer. The woman next to me was boasting about how she already had tickets to see C…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:26AMThursday, January 13, 2011
The news came today that Ellen Stewart has died. She was 91 and news report say that she died peacefully in her sleep. So this is less a note of mourning than one of celebrati…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 11:56PMWednesday, January 12, 2011
Driving Miss Daisy and I go back a long way. I saw the original 1987 off-Broadway production with Dana Ivey as the titular Jewish widow in post-War Atlanta and Morgan Freeman as the bl…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 09:31AMSaturday, January 8, 2011
No post today because all attention in our household is being paid to the anniversary that my husband K and I are celebrating this weekend. So, just as theaters do when they're temporarily v…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:45AMWednesday, January 5, 2011
Marriage—especially what makes for a long-lasting one—has been on my mind a lot lately. Maybe it’s the fact that my wedding anniversary is coming up at the end of this week. I su…
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The best thing about 10 best lists is that they give you a chance to look back and remember all the things you’ve done. I can’t say that 2010 was the best year I’ve had going to …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 10:41AMWednesday, December 29, 2010
I’m not a big fan of drag and I'm not fond of camp and yet, like just about everyone else who has seen it, I had a great time at The Divine Sister.
This campfest, written by and starring …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 08:14AMSunday, December 26, 2010
I got so wrapped up in our family merrymaking that I forgot it was Saturday as well as Christmas Day and so failed to post an entry yesterday. But I still want to wish each of you a ha…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 06:23AMWednesday, December 22, 2010
Weeks—actually months—have gone by since my theatergoing buddy Bill and I saw Angels in America, which is enjoying a sensational run at Signature Theatre as part of the company’s year-…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:13AMSaturday, December 18, 2010
If there’s a would-be actor on your Christmas list then you can find him or her no better present than a ticket to see Mistakes Were Made, the satirical comedy about a producer trying to p…
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:58AMWednesday, December 15, 2010
What would I do without my theatergoing buddy Bill? My husband K is a news junkie and my niece Jennifer is a history nut but both looked at me as though I were crazy when I brought up …
SOURCE: feedproxy.google.com at 07:07AMSunday, December 12, 2010
The folks at Lincoln Center Theater probably aren’t having the merriest holiday season. Over the past six weeks, they’ve opened two big shows—Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown …
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