Wednesday, August 17, 2011
When the character that the program identifies as Laura Wingfield briskly walks into the room, you know you’re not seeing The Glass Menagerie. But the program also tells us we’ll…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Congratulations to Paul Broussard, Chris Cuddihee, Kevin Daly, Kevin Dawson, Jason Flum, Laura Frankos, John Greene, Cathy Jones, John Kaiser, Tom Lancaster, Jack Lechner, Alex Mallory, Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AMNice month, as December always is. We all take it a little easier, work shorter hours, return fewer calls and e-mails, go to more parties, and see more friends. It’s almost as if the f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AMAll right, one of your holiday presents was a gift certificate for a bookstore, be it on-line or on the street. Now what’s the first book you should buy with it?
No question about it…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AMMonday, August 15, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
If you planned to see that Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest, alas, it’s too late. It closed on June 26 after 189 performances – which is the lon…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:48PMI’m not asking you to celebrate with me, but this month marks the 25th anniversary of my getting a CD player. Not only that, I bought the “Summer, 1986 issue” – Volum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMFriday, August 12, 2011
Jerry Dalia/Surflight TheatreCindy Williams, left, and Jo Anne Worley star as Olive and Florence, the female equivalents of Oscar and Felix, in Surflight Theatreâs production of Neil Si…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:37AMWhile I watched the excellent revival of Rent, I thought a good deal about Kathy Najimy. No, she never had anything to do with Jonathan Larson’s runaway hit. But I do recall her tellin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
JASON MEEHANNoah Zachary in "Spring Awakening" at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park. At any musical, people always applaud after every song. It's only polite. When they're enthusiast…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:31AMIAN AUGUST Whatever happened to Ian August? At the start of the new millennium, August was delivering some of the state's best performances on Jersey stages. He was terrific in "A Funny…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AMKander and Ebb have taught us that “those little town blues are melting away.” Perhaps, but little towns have always been in the consciousness of those who have written musicals.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Samuel AllenKevin Isola as the Maniac takes over the interrogation room of the Central Police Headquarters in Milan, Italy. The second act of “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” begins at…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:18AMBy Peter Filichia --
Tom Aldredge died on July 22. Fran Landesman met the same sad fate a day later. But The Nervous Set, the 1959 musical in which he performed and for which she wrote the…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AMMonday, August 8, 2011
I’m not asking you to celebrate with me, but this month marks the 25th anniversary of my getting a CD player. Not only that, I bought the “Summer, 1986 issue” – Volum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMIt’s a Saturday when I’ll see one of Shakespeare's most famous plays -- Hamlet -- and one of his least famous: The Two Noble Kinsmen. If indeed the latter can even be said to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Some weeks ago, I mentioned that the Talkin’ Broadway 2007 Summer Festival Citations had a marvelous award that no other award has. Sure, we can all point to countless organizations th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PM“What do you feel like doing tonight, Marty?”
“I don’t know, Angie. What do you feel like doing?”
And so it goes, over and over again in the 1955 film class…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PMTruth to tell, when I heard that the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut was attempting a production of 1776, I was wary. For one thing, I didn’t think that 26 actors wou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PMFriday, August 5, 2011
Alecia BrooksDirector Carlos Armesto with actresses Elena Ricardo, center, and Renée Bang Allen, rehearsing "Spring Awakening." A director must get the right chemistry o…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:58AMSo Jerusalem won’t recoup, producer Sonia Friedman told the Times. That’s the same newspaper that employs a theater critic who called Jez Butterworth’s work a “magnif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
Michael GoldsteinMal McCree and Paul Notice in Samuel J. and K. at Passage Theatre It’s a silver anniversary for Passage Theatre Company of Trenton. The troupe, which opened in1986 with a …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMTwo years ago, I liked Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living? at the Mint Theater Company. So while I’m up here at the Shaw Festival, I’m anxious to see another of his pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMTuesday, August 2, 2011
August is the only month in which we don’t have a true official holiday. Oh, August 11 is a big day in India and the day after is a big deal in Armenia. But for Americans, such big days as…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:08AMMonday, August 1, 2011
On Tuesday while writing my Wednesday column on That Championship Season, I went to check a line in my hardcover edition. That's when I noticed the quotations from the 1972 critics' reviews …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMReally, I planned to be good about it. While many of my fellow critics (or "brother wizards," as I like to call them) had already attended and assessed Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, I plann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do. If one really wanted to mount Oklahoma! exactly the way it was first done in 1943, it could be done. The original Robert Russell Bennet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMBen Brantley made it easy for me. Ever since I saw Gregory Mosher's production of That Championship Season last week, I've had a criticism I've wanted to make. But there was no way I could…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMIt was the month that Donald Driver of the Green Bay Packers appeared in the Super Bowl, and - Oh, Brother! He did his own thing in helping his team to win. Not interested in sports? All r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMOn Part Two of my Broadway Universe Mid-Term Exam, I asked readers, "What would you like in your gift-bag once you've arrived in heaven?" Donald Tesione replied, "Do I have to die to a get r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMMichael Hartman, Broadway's most handsome press agent, stood before the crowd. "Who went to Catholic schools?" he demanded to know. I dutifully raised my hand with a few others seated before…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSix Follies logos! Isn't that enough to get you to "Design: Fraver," subtitled "Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art"? As soon as you saunter into The New York Public Library for the Perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM 
