Sunday, February 6, 2011
This is a tough review to write because this 90 minute one-act musical comes to the York Theatre from a successful run in Texas. It is in the form of a Crosby-Hope “Road” movie, which …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMTuesday, February 1, 2011
As the 21st Century enters its second decade, the plays of a hundred years earlier are attracting the eyes of the artistic directors of a number of New York theatres. Last week we had …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMTuesday, January 25, 2011
The Atlantic Theater Company has enriched us with productions of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Spring Awakening, both of which moved on to acclaim on Broadway. For these and other produ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PMMonday, January 17, 2011
2011 struggled to its feet and came up with a winner courtesy of Lincoln Center Theater’s André Bishop and Bernard Gersten, who’d stumbled themselves in recent weeks with Women on the V…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMFriday, January 14, 2011
If you’re looking for a recipe for a successful revival of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 masterpiece, a major ingredient has to be Brian Bedford. This British born Canadian resident is among the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMMonday, December 27, 2010
I knew little about Andrew Jackson, our seventh President, when I entered the Jacobs Theatre on Broadway at an Actors’ Fund Benefit performance this past week. When I left, I knew quite …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMMonday, December 20, 2010
Driving Miss Daisy is a holiday gift from some seventeen producers (imagine, for a play with 3 actors, 3 costumes and a few set pieces!). It’s a gift because, although the play is a pleasa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:16AMMonday, December 6, 2010
I have two winners for you this time, as opposed to my last column which featured two on the down side. First, La Bête, a farce by David Hirson, presented on Broadway at the Music Box The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AMMonday, November 22, 2010
It’s with regret that I must tell you that the Lincoln Center Theatre, which has been so spectacularly run by André Bishop and Bernard Gersten for the past twenty odd years, has come a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:37PMTuesday, November 16, 2010
In the words of William Feaver, the author of the book on which this play by Lee Hall is based, “It’s often said the play’s the thing. Here though, projected above the heads of the a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AM 
