Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Norm Lewis, the first black actor to play the title role in “The Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway, has longed to tackle the part for years.
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Mark Ruffalo and Laurel Green in Justin Tanner's Still Life With Vacuum Salesman at the Cast Theatre, 1994 (photo by Ed Krieger)I haven't lived in Los Angeles since the summer of 2005 but I'…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:19PMA favorite scene from Foreign Correspondent, referenced in David Rudkin's new play The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock. Some time in the early 1980s, my dad flagged a listing in our loc…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:53AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
“The Lovesong of Alfred J. Hitchcock,” part of the Brits Off Broadway series at 59E59 Theaters, looks into the filmmaker’s youth and early career for clues to his later cinematic obses…
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I happened to catch Michael C. Hall in two early-ish stage roles: as the young kid in the Taper's exquisite production of Skylight (with Laila Robins and Brian Cox) and as the emcee in …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:12PMMichael C. Hall, who became a television star on “Six Feet Under” and “Dexter,” is back on Broadway in Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses.”
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The 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama has just been announced, and I'm so happy to hear it went to Annie Baker's The Flick, I played I thoroughly enjoyed and admired. I don't know how Annie got …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:35PMFriday, April 11, 2014
I came across this lede in an old review of mine while working on my recent feature on Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, and it struck as worth highlighting. The review is of the Mike L…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:43PMThursday, April 3, 2014
One reason I was so disappointed by Classic Stage Company's muddled, soporific staging of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle last year was that two of the most formative theatergoing experience…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:24PMNick Offerman (of “Parks and Recreation”) and Megan Mullally (of “Will & Grace”) are married and performing in Sharr White’s drama “Annapurna” at the Acorn Theater. …
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This is the 10th year of the Wicked Stage blog (predated by its few years as a weekly-ish column in the inky pages of Back Stage West), but so far it's been a sparsely populated, as you may …
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Although even Stephen Sondheim harshly dismissed the need for a musical-theater version of the Gershwin opera, the production arrives at the Ahmanson in April.Controversy of one kind or anot…
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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day helps Yale Repertory Theater give Shakespeare a Beatlesque spin with “These Paper Bullets!”
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The director Casey Nicholaw prepares the new stage version of “Aladdin” for its March 20 opening on Broadway.
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When I spoke to Jeanine Tesori last year about her new Encores! summer series, at the top of her wish list of musicals she wanted to revive was Randy Newman's Faust, which had a mostly great…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:19AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
The following article ran in the July/August issue of American Theatre in advance of the play’s run at Shakespeare & Company and at the Long Wharf Theatre. The play is now in prev…
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For its return to New York, John Cariani’s Almost, Maine is a proven hit — Extreme, near-Arctic cold can be an isolating purgatory–or, if northern Maine native John Cariani…
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As my modest theater blog enters its 10th year, it now feels chiefly like a venue for links to my feature writing as it comes along (though I was too busy recently to trumpet my latest piece…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:20AMTuesday, December 24, 2013
For what it's worth, when I recently took issue with Charles McNulty's review of three high-profile New York Shakespeare productions, I had already filed my review of the fall's Bard glut, b…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:18AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Charles McNulty is right on the merits and right in his reasoning in this new review lamenting the Lincoln Center Macbeth and adding his praise to the hosannahs for the Globe's Twelfth Night…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:27PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Kyle Riabko, of “Spring Awakening” and “Hair” on Broadway, leads the show “What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined” at the Workshop Theater.
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In lieu of a new Sondheim show, the airing tonight of Six by Sondheim on HBO qualifies as an event for fans. I'm gratified that the great interview clips that showed throughout the othe…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:20PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Capping this season's surfeit of Shakespeare productions is the Lincoln Center production of Macbeth, which I've taken to calling MacHawke after its star, Ethan Hawke (much as I will always …
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How much does it matter how you say “Godot”? With Beckett, no detail is too small. As I’ve noted in this space before, the excellent 2000 Matrix Theatre production starring David Dukes…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:56AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
I've got a piece in the new BAMBill, also online, about Filter Theatre's new environmentalist drama Water, which I saw on video in advance of writing. An excerpt:
A transatlantic mystery wi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:43AMFriday, November 1, 2013
The Book of Mormon has now been a Broadway hit for two and a half years, and it's now making its second trip to Denver--about as close to "Sal Tlay Ka Siti" as this irreverent if less t…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:32AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
There are no Playbills on offer at the Public's current production of The Good Person of Szechwan, a remount of the Foundry Theatre's beautiful, pitch-perfect queering/contemporizing of Brec…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:44AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
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I confess I haven't followed David Cromer's busy New York directing career as closely as I could or should have; but how coul…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:54PMFriday, September 27, 2013
More than a dozen years ago, when L.A. native Jon Robin Baitz belatedly premiered his L.A.-set play Mizlansky/Zilinsky at the Geffen Playhouse, I had the chance to sit down with him and…
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Early in my New York freelance career, I wrote about the opening of a new multimedia arts space not far from Ground Zero. It was almost exactly seven years ago, in early September, 2006, and…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:42PM3LD has confronted a lot of adversity and survived, thanks to its earned-revenue model, and has a full season ahead.
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