Thursday, September 26, 2013
3LD has confronted a lot of adversity and survived, thanks to its earned-revenue model, and has a full season ahead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
The playwright on his first major NYC revival — “It’s a little like the day an AARP card arrives on your 50th birthday and you blanch a little and then you grin a little,&#…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:00PMThursday, September 19, 2013
My formative-album-replay project continues apace over at my Train My Ear blog, and I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't mention here that today's is a cast album, Oliver! (the original London r…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:24PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
I'm in Arizona helping my dad prepare for a big move, so I'm kind of out of the loop. I offer in lieu of original blogging, a look back to a post from five years ago today in which I propose…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:18AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
I realized recently that one could mark the years of my young life by actress crushes: Amy Irving and Ingrid Bergman in high school, Holly Hunter and Audrey Hepburn in college, and some inde…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 06:47AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Ten years ago today was my last as editor-in-chief of Back Stage West, the weekly actors' trade paper I joined 10 years previously (on Sept. 14, 1993). I just marked this anni…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:20PMMonday, August 26, 2013
“The old officeholders, the filthy herd of swine whom we vaguely knew and would even vaguely nod to at cocktail parties, were quietly replaced by a new herd of swine whom we didn’t know-…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
I've slowly but surely restarted my formative-album replay project over at my other blog, Train My Ear, and though many of the records aren't theater-related, today's is a beloved collection…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:12PMSaturday, July 20, 2013
As I write this, my four-year-old son is at a matinee of The Lion King with my wife. (Ah, seems like only yesterday he was going to toddler theatre...) They've never seen it; I saw it twice …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:17PMThursday, July 18, 2013
Most good actors, in my experience, manage a delicate balancing act between being vulnerable, emotionally available, with feelings closer to the surface than seems altogether healthy on the …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:23PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Brad Fleischer and Arian Moayed in Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo (photo by Craig Schwartz)
In the current issue of American Theatre, I've got an interview with playwright Rajiv Joseph (Gr…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:27AMMonday, July 8, 2013
It's been some time in the works: an album of songs inspired by Shakespeare and intended for kids, titled O Baby Mine: Sing a Song of Shakespeare. And though the actual CD, the brainchild of…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:29PMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Jeanine Tesori has long been something of a hero to me—not because I've loved every score she's done (did anyone think Shrek was a great fit?) but because I feel a distinct affin…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 06:16PMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Robbie in New Orleans: a large spirit and a sense of wonder.
In the summer of 2002, I was heading into what would be, in retrospect, a really rough patch of my life. My mom had died suddenl…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:10PMFriday, June 21, 2013
It's great to see Michael Feingold writing about theater again (kudos to TheaterMania for snapping him up), and with his own self-directed topics. And I love that he starts up his new column…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:25PMThursday, June 20, 2013
USMAN ALLY stars in Mary Zimmerman's production of "The Jungle Book" at the Goodman Theatre this summer beginning tomorrow night through August 11th.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:50PMIt's easy to forget that there are different generations of Disney films, and hence Disney fans. As I was born at the end of the '60s, it was the films Uncle Walt made in that decade, and th…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:40AMIn adapting “The Jungle Book” for a stage musical, Mary Zimmerman has had to take much into consideration — the Disney film, a mix of music and the possibility of offending audiences.&…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:21AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
It's been a few years in the making, and it's still not ready to roll out just yet, but with a few other songwriters I've been putting together O Baby Mine, an album of Shakespeare-insp…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:57PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Insert obligatory apology for light posting here. The slowdown has been mainly due to my being out of town to report a big story on the Goodman Theatre's new Jungle Book. You may have h…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:22PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
At the end of an illuminating interview about her new adaptation of The Jungle Book for the Goodman Theater, Mary Zimmerman gives a snappish but, I think, profound answer to a commonplace in…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:04PMThursday, June 6, 2013
Cross-posted at StageGrade.
We're sensing a trend with our StageGrade Tony Poll: Critical
dissatisfaction with shows themselves, coupled with huge love for the
performers and directors of…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:30PMI was just kvetching to someone yesterday about how Kenneth Lonergan's 1996 watershed This Is Our Youth is almost never revived (a subject I covered at more length for Isaac last year), and …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:19PMApologies for light posting lately, but I hope I can compensate with a few tidbits. I recently had the pleasure of looking back over the theater season with Kerry Weber, culture editor at Am…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:03AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
We're sensing a trend with our StageGrade Tony Poll: Critical dissatisfaction with shows themselves, coupled with huge love for the performers and directors of the self-same shows. In the ne…
SOURCE: stagegrade.com at 08:32AMMonday, June 3, 2013
From this space, four years ago today, I hailed Rocco Landesman's ascent to the helm of the NEA with an anecdote from playwright Oliver Mayer, who used to work in Rocco's office and describe…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:28AMFriday, May 31, 2013
I'm not sure the piece I wrote a few months ago about Belleville leads Greg Keller and Maria Dizzia, and their uniquely spiky chemistry playing couples onstage, captured just how much fun it…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:58AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Tomorrow, May 29, marks the 100th anniversary of the debut of Le sacre du printemps, the ballet by Igor Stravinsky that revolutionized modern music, or so legend has it (this piece by Matthe…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:30AMThursday, May 23, 2013
I first heard about musical Renaissance man Dave Malloy when I graded the reviews for Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage for Critic-O-Meter back in 2009; the repeated comparisons of his ro…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:59AM 
