The 100th Musical in Mufti is about to open at the York Theatre, which is a gem of a small space buried under St. Peter’s Church on 54th Street and Lexington Avenue. This very useful s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMI was apprehensive when I entered the central lobby of the vast Lyric Theatre on 42nd Street to see the latest revival of Bernstein-Comden and Green’s On the Town. I have to be one of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMIn 1976 Julie Harris, at the peak of her onstage career, brought this one woman play to Broadway. She managed to keep it afloat for over 100 performances at the Longacre Theatre where the re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:46AMJames Dickey’s novel Deliverance was a critical and popular success when it was published in 1970. It won the National Book Award, and was the basis of the equally popular film that wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:41AMThis title of a new play by Simon Stephens may seem long-winded and awkward, but it is an accurate account of what a child with Asperger’s Syndrome might answer when asked to describe …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMPlaywright Kenneth Lonergan has much to be grateful for, to Scott Rudin and his consortium of partners who brought us Steppenwolf’s revival of This Is Our Youth, which established Lone…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AMIf the Mitford sisters, who attracted attention in social circles in the 1930s, didn’t fascinate or even interest you, then you might have trouble cozying up to Tom Stoppard’s ve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMInspired by Chekhov’s The Sea Gull, Donald Margulies’ new play The Country House makes good use of some of the same raw materials. Chekhov liked country houses and actresses and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMIn ample time for Thanksgiving, Jeffrey Richards and a slew of associates (“by special arrangement with the Roundabout Theatre Company”) has delivered to the Longacre Theatre on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMChekhov’s play, now at The Pearl Theater for a few more weeks, offers so many unhappy characters, all rusticating in the country (rural Russia, circa 1890) it’s difficult to foll…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMA.R.Gurney is a national treasure, who earned his sobriquet slowly and surely by writing over forty plays in the past 60 years, rivaling his contemporary Sir Alan Ayckbourn in productivity. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMThere was for a time, in what we call the golden age of Broadway, a genre known as “the drawing room comedy”. A select few of the major playwrights of the day wrote them, dressed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04PMThis new two hander by Laura Eason opened July 31st but I was not available to see it during the press previews, so I apologize for reporting to you on it at this late date. Its run has been…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:28PMFull disclosure: I have known and represented John Kander, Fred Ebb and Chita Rivera since before they all three knew each other. As a young agent at the Music Corporation of America, I was …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMThe Atlantic Theatre Company, nestled in its own theatre in a church on East 20th Street, has come up with a winner in Between Riverside and Crazy, a taut and tingling family drama replete w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMBert Berns was an American song writer and producer in the 1960s. An original sixties rock ‘n roller and writer of soul, he made a mark in popular music, particularly with “Here …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMErasmus Fenn is a stage magician turned novelist turned playwright, whose first play, Drop Dead Perfect, has been brought to Theatre at St. Clement’s off Broadway, through the combined…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMPenelope Skinner’s very dark comedy The Village Bike first appeared in 2011 at the Royal Court’s Upstairs Theatre in London. In 2012 it played the Sheffield Theatres, what we wou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMIn recent times playwrights have been inviting us into worlds we would never know without them. Harvey Fierstein has set Casa Valentina in a camp in the Catskills to which certain men like t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AMThe mission of the Mint Theatre, operating out of a tiny black box theatre on West 43rd Street in an office building, is to unearth, to present and preserve forgotten plays of merit. In note…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMThe new musical If/Then, by the same creative team that brought us the prize winning Next To Normal five years ago, is once again an imaginative and impressive piece of work. Written by Tom …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AMI find it remarkable that a “well made play” which originally opened on Broadway in 1938 for a moderately successful run of 207 performances should have such an impact on an audi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMSir Alan Ayckbourn was in New York this past weekend polishing up his staging of the three evenings of theatre he has brought us to officially welcome the delights of spring. The weather tur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AMOne of the joys of a long life in theatre is that you get to visit old friends whom you first met decades ago. Cabaret is a true case in point, for back in the middle of the last century (19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMIt’s been several years since Gerard Alessandrini dusted off his skewering sword with which to parody working actors, writers and other well intentioned theatre folk. Now, in the curre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AMThe first ladies of the New York stage have been having a rough time of it of late. They have been finding rich and meaty roles in plays that come close, but don’t make it to the finis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMEach year, the Drama League bestows awards on all sorts of worthy talents who have contributed to the season just passed. On May 16th, I attended this year’s luncheon, the social event…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMTyne Daly has found herself a rich and demanding role, and she inhabits it with all of her considerable talent in peak condition. The role is Katherine Gerard, who first appeared in public i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMIf you like country music, bluegrass, lowdown rock and lots of gospel, you’ll find yourself moved by Jeanine Tesori’s score which was first heard off Broadway in 1997 in a well r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMEvery once in a while a play is announced for Broadway production with names attached to it that are not familiar to me. Such a case is The City of Conversation by Anthony Giardina, with a c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AMThis “revue of a lifetime” is a good idea, well intentioned, occasionally very well executed, but unfortunately off its mark as often as it is on. Conceived and written by Stephe…
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