Monday, April 11, 2016
This interview originally appeared in the April 12, 2001 issue of Back Stage West."How's my light?" asked Laurie Metcalf as the cover photo for this story was being taken, and then she reali…
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The poet-playwright Dan O'Brien has a collaborative bond with the former war photographer Paul Watson, manifested in "The Body of an American."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Mother Courage and Her Children: Alexandria Wailes, Streep, Geoffrey Arend, and Frederick Weller. (photo by Michal Daniel)Improbably, Brecht's Mother Courage is in the news--the theatre news…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2016
The playwright talks about her incentive for injecting a cathartic surprise into the play, which centers on two teenagers bonding over poetry homework.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2015
photo by Sara Krulwich for The New York TimesThis excellent piece by my colleague Eric Grode, looking back at 50 years of Fiddler memories as the musical's newest revival readies for its ope…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
Tom Bell and Ian McKellen in the London premiere of Bent, 1979.A major revival of Martin Sherman's play Bent begins performances on July 15 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, directed b…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 8, 2015
I was recently contracted to write a preview of the Broadway transfer of Hamilton for Time Out NY, but the piece was spiked in favor of a no-doubt-excellent preview by the estimable Adam Fel…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 28, 2015
So the Times just had me contemplate the tradition of the Broadway musical's "11 o'clock number," and specifically, whether the great new musical Fun Home has one in the stunning "…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A striking number of people involved in the May 2006 production of columbinus at New York Theatre Workshop went on to have careers I've followed, and/or I've gotten to know: actors Anna …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:45AM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Once a kind of fortifying ritual for beleaguered theater artists, the Secret City has grown into a half-irreverent, half-earnest blend of revival meeting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The playwright returns to the painful divisive years of the recent Bush regime.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 05:58PM[SHARE]You've got to hand it to Elisabeth Vincentelli: Of New York's daily critics, she's the only one out there truly blogging. I do admire the Times' Theater Talkback idea, which forces Ben and C…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:58PM[SHARE]Designing costumes for Broadway’s The Pee-wee Herman ShowOne night back in 1977, Paul Reubens, a wiry sketch comic at the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings, came up with the c…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PM[SHARE]Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “Knickerbocker Holiday” and “Lost in the Stars” — entirely coincidentally — are back for concert readings i…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2015
Dakin Matthews and Helen Mirren in "The Audience." (Photo by Joan Marcus)The Broadway season has come to an end, and while much of the exciting work this past year was Off-Broadway (and ther…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
My review of the Disney film of Into the Woods is in the current issue of The Sondheim Review, and the editors have graciously allowed me to publish it in full here; it should be said that t…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 06:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
Once a member of the boy band Take That, Gary Barlow and his writing partner Eliot Kennedy brought a hit-song sensibility to the score of "Finding Neverland."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:49AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
The last thing I wrote about the controversy over L.A.'s Equity 99-Seat Plan, for American Theatre magazine, was more personal than the typical news report; I felt I couldn't help but inject…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 24, 2015
The rest of 2015 will have a lot to live up to: In quick succession, I've already seen/written about/considered two of the best productions I'll probably see in years, let alone this calenda…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Mercedes Reuhl and Bill Pullman in The Goat(photo by Sara Krulwich/NY Times)Bill Pullman said something really interesting in this interview--and it wasn't the fact that he's playing Othello…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2015
Anna Camp plays an artist in crisis in Verité — “This play is definitely keeping me up at night,” says Anna Camp, the star of Verité, Nick Jones’s unsettling new co…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
From left, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. from the cast of "Hamilton." CreditDamon Winter/The New York TimesOne of the most infectious sentime…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:34AM[SHARE]The composer-performer Lin-Manuel Miranda meets with cast members from his new musical, "Hamilton," to discuss hip-hop hustle and the founding fathers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
Stephen Ouimette and cast in an "Iceman" rehearsal. (Photo by Liz Lauren)I had the great privilege recently of sitting in a Chicago rehearsal room and watching the 18-person cast of the Good…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 06:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
It's been a spotty year of blogging here, got to admit, and only partly due to the October debut of this. And it's hard not to find it sobering that my two most-read post were essentially ob…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:26PM[SHARE]Most of the theater I've seen in my lifetime, and much of the best of it, has been in Los Angeles. And the great majority of that great theater was produced under what's now called the 99-Se…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 18, 2014
