Friday, November 16, 2012
A revised version of the 2000 musical “Bare,” about teenagers wrestling with religion and sexuality, is getting a new Off Broadway revival at New World Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
From the sleep-deprived depths of daddy leave, I come to you with a ticket giveaway offer: two tickets to Lincoln Center's revival of Clifford Odets' boxing drama Golden Boy, which will star…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:55AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
C Lavrov and Sasha K Tuzova in an illustration from TEATP
Writing a feature on CSC's new production of Ivanov gave me the enviable homework of reading this lesser-known, infrequently seen C…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:21PMSaturday, October 6, 2012
This past week my little family grew by one, so I'll be on official daddy leave for the next month or so, not only from American Theatre but from this blog (more or less).
I leave you in th…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:32PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
TCG’s annual Top 10 Most Produced Plays list is among the theatre season’s most anticipated, and most talked-about, barometers—though, as Gus Schulenburg pointed out recently, the conv…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:24AMMonday, October 1, 2012
Playwright Katori Hall on the cover of the October issue
This blog is still an indispensable platform for some of my thoughts about the theater and related arts, but it's hardly the only, a…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:04PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
L.A.'s best stage director, Bart DeLorenzo, is profiled in LA Stage Times, in advance of his production of Cymbeline at A Noise Within:Earlier in DeLorenzo’s career—particularly, he says…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:25PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Sarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, David Schwimmer, and Amy Ryan in Detroit (photo by Jeremy Daniel)As much as I share Charles Isherwood's love for Playwrights Horizons, which in so many ways …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:11AMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Joy Zinoman; photo by Todd FransonMy friend and colleague Isaac Butler has said repeatedly of Joy Zinoman, the founding artistic of D.C.'s Studio Theatre, that she saved his life (something …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:04AMTuesday, September 4, 2012
David Rakoff, 2010 (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)I had no intention of wading into the tragedy-vs.-comedy mini-debate that Terry Teachout started last week with his W…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:41AMThursday, August 30, 2012
I wasn't a great lover of the recent Soho Rep Vanya, as regular readers of this blog know, but I remain a fan of nearly everyone involved, including actor Reed Birney, whose lovely interview…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:39AMThursday, August 23, 2012
The site of the original enchantment I must have been 11 or so when my dad pointed out the cover of the Scottsdale Progress's weekend arts section: the Scottsdale Center for the Arts would b…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:15PMRob McClure, an actor with no Tony Award or major name recognition, nonetheless landed the title role in the musical “Chaplin” on Broadway.
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The happy occasion of Keen Co.'s revival of the Sondheim outtake anthology Marry Me a Little is a fine excuse to trot out this novelty, which not enough people have heard: a demo of the titl…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:13PMThursday, August 16, 2012
At least that's the way I read this quote from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator:Watching a movie is almost like falling asleep into the movie. You get taken away by the movie and you…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:53AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
"Old songs are more than tunes, they are little houses in which our hearts once lived."-Ben Hecht
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:51AMFriday, August 10, 2012
photo by Mark Von Holden/Getty Images North AmericaHad the pleasure recently of meeting and chatting with the very busy director Daniel Aukin, a new play specialist formerly of Soho Rep, now…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:00AMDaniel Aukin, who’s directing the premiere of Sam Shepard’s “Heartless” for Signature Theater, is admired for embracing uncertainty, his colleagues say.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AMThursday, August 9, 2012
"There is no real world/We live side by side/And sometimes collide"—Everything But the Girl
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:11PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
I don't recall exactly how it started, but I've become one of The Sondheim Review's regular reviewers, and the winter issue will contain my evaluation of the current Shakespeare in the Park …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:57PMWednesday, August 1, 2012
"I hate that word blogIt sounds like a large accumulation of snot"—Melissa James Gibson, This
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:15AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Blanchett and McElhinny in the Sydney Theatre Company production; photo by Lisa TomasettiSo I've now seen three Uncle Vanyas in as many months. Which takes the gold? If you count length of r…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:41AMFriday, July 27, 2012
Going deep into the astonishing new Dirty Projectors' album.Maybe this is why there aren't more theater practitioners doing criticism."If I expect them to build an ethical iPhone, then I had…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:22AMMonday, July 23, 2012
On HowlRound today, Sherri Kronfeld brings fresh passion and (seeming) common sense to an age-old debate (or at least one that's been raging as long I've been in the arts journalism racket).…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:30AMThis frank diavlog between self-confessed media manipulator Ryan Holiday and Fark.com's Drew Curtis about how the media business really works in the age of HuffPo and Gawker is alternately d…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:48AMFriday, July 20, 2012
"Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people." -Berenger in Ionesco's Rhinoceros
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:55PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Maybe because it was the first speech at the opening plenary of the recent TCG conference, maybe because it was more sobering nuts-and-bolts than rousing stump speech, maybe even because it …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:31AMMonday, July 16, 2012
How can you tell a masterpiece? It may be harder to recognize or even make them now, in an age of single-song downloads, longform episodic TV narrative, and multi-year film franchises; we s…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:11AMMonday, July 9, 2012
A few unrelated links and observations to start the week:Wisdom from the august Gus Schulenburg on how not to be a dick on the Intertubes (some warnings of which I could heed better).The act…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:22AMThursday, July 5, 2012
It was a busy spring and I feel like I'm only just caught up before the late-summer crunch begins, but I thought I should point out a few things that have made it into print at the publicati…
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