Friday, June 16, 2017
We are in the streets of Rome. The lights onstage bump up and immediately we are in the midst of controversy. Flavius and Marullus are admonishing the crowd to break up and get on with their…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:31PMThursday, June 15, 2017
The Manhattan Theatre Club is presently offering a 4-character play set in “the urban east of America” in the “near present day.” That description in the Playbill is …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50PMSaturday, June 10, 2017
The New York theatre scene continues to offer variety and great fun with this post-Tony production of Nikolai Gogol’s masterpiece, The Government Inspector, as adapted by American play…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20AMSunday, May 21, 2017
Out of his imaginative mind comes another powerful theatre piece by Robert Shenkkan, author of 15 plays including two dealing with LBJ (All the Way and The Great Society.) This time, he prop…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PMThursday, May 18, 2017
Every now and then it’s refreshing to turn on the time travel clock and return to what we then called “civilization” circa 1920. You know, after the war to end all wars, be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:37PMTuesday, May 9, 2017
With apologies to James Morgan and the York Theatre Company (“York Theatre”) for this very late review of their current offering Marry Harry. I saw this new musical on April 30, but in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMSunday, May 7, 2017
In 1982 a distinguished group of Broadway pros, including Hal Prince, Betty Comden and Aldolph Green, came up with what was then thought to be a misbegotten idea: what happened to Nora Helme…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:12PMThursday, May 4, 2017
Eleven new musicals have opened since War Paint and here comes the last before the April 30th deadline for Tony Nomination. It’s called Bandstand and it didn’t offer us Bette Mid…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50PMAs the theatre season races to the end of its nomination deadline for the Tony Awards, musical shows are exploding all over the place. We’ve had half a dozen in the last two weeks, and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:55PMSunday, April 30, 2017
The night I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the new musical based on Roald Dahl’s novel, the theatre was packed with moms and dads with little kids in tow. All of them seemed to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:38PMFriday, April 28, 2017
Andy Karl is a delightful musical theatre leading man, but he’s been having a bit of bad luck lately. During a late preview of Groundhog Day, his latest outing on stage, he suffered se…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
John Guare’s masterpiece from 1990 solidly launched his career, earning a run of 155 performances off-Broadway which extended to a run at the Beaumont Theatre on Broadway of 485 additi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47PMI’ve seen this play so many times. As a youngster of 19 I played “Horace” at NYU in a production that helped me along in my burgeoning acting career. Someone saw me in it, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMMonday, April 24, 2017
I’m going to tell you a short story before I get to my review of Hello, Dolly! which is now playing at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. I do so to give what’s now called “t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:53PMThursday, April 20, 2017
Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She’s been particularly interested in exploring the need …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it’s about the battle for supremacy in the field of female skincare and beauty. It sounded like ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27PMMonday, April 17, 2017
I had only dim memories of the 1993 agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which had been secretly arranged by a Norwegian couple, who had spent from April 1992 until September…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:18PMFriday, April 14, 2017
Family plays have changed so in the past few decades. They once concerned themselves with sibling rivalry for power and control (The Little Foxes), long held lies that are finally unearthed …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34PMSunday, April 9, 2017
It doesn’t take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a witty script that isn’t in a hurry (not a 90-minute mini-play, but a full-size evening that keeps yo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:49AMSaturday, April 8, 2017
The Lyceum Theatre on Broadway is playing host to a most unusual guest.. It has brought in the Cornley University Drama Society’s production of The Murder at Haversham Manor and because of…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PMBased on a charming French film, Amélie the musical begins with a narrator letting us know we’re going to be in Paris and its surroundings for the next 90 minutes, and as he and the music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52AMSunday, April 2, 2017
It took a while, but the Oregon Shakespeare Festival helped by staging this remarkable play in the summer if 2014. It caused enough of a stir for the Public Theatre in New York to pick it up…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
This is the play that introduced me to the writings of Tennessee Williams long ago, in 1945! That was the original production at the Playhouse Theatre on Broadway, and it contained the now l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:44PMMonday, March 27, 2017
Producer Jack Viertel and his merry band of music makers at Encores! have unearthed another great example of the beginnings of American dominance in the field of musical theatre. Our heritag…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:45AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
ACT TWO. Two years later, in 1970, I once again tried to put together a package of my clients – in the show that became 70 Girls 70 – for I’d enjoyed looking after Chita Ri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:33AMFriday, March 17, 2017
One thing is certain about this new musical, now on Broadway at The Schoenfeld Theatre – it had the youngsters in the audience hooting and hollering and having themselves a fine time f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:26AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Jeff Talbott established himself as a writer of great promise with the MCC Theater production of his first play The Submission in 2011. This excellent actor/playwright joined The Actors Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
With the spate of openings in March, I wasn’t able to get to Wallace Shawn’s new play, the New Group’s production which played a strictly limited engagement through March…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:10AMThis is one of Arthur Miller’s successes, and though it’s been revived three times on Broadway since it first appeared in 1968, it has never attracted the audiences that flocked …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04AMThursday, March 9, 2017
I don’t know all the works of author Penelope Skinner, but based on The Village Bike and the currently running New York production of Linda, I suspect she is now on the short list of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:30PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Richard Seff at a dinner honoring Harold Prince. Photo courtesy of Richard Seff. THE CURTAIN RISES One of the properties for which I tried to get this new team hir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26PM 
