Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Kendrick Brown and Estella Henderson in the Houston's Ensemble Theatre production of Stick Fly (photo by Nathan Lindstrom for the Houston Chronicle)I've seen Lydia Diamond around TCG over th…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:58PMAnthony Lane's pans can be a joy to read, though I think they leave him open to the common charge of shallowness and snark. I much prefer his raves and appreciations, because they require hi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:47AM"Physical presence, the sound of a voice, gestures, the way people sit or walk can be more telling than writing. It is easier to tell a lie in writing because one can hide behind prose. Gest…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:27AMFriday, December 2, 2011
Quickly as I can:I'm as relieved as anyone about this news, though I've always thought Diamond Dogs would make a good musical.This is worth a whole post but for now I just have to say that I…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:02PMMy review of the new Godspell is up at America, the Catholic weekly:If you couple the atmosphere of communal expectation this 40-year-old show stirs in its fans with the fact that the show i…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:07AMMonday, November 28, 2011
The December issue of American Theatre is out today, with two great main features: One is by David Barbour, editor in chief of Lighting & Sound America (and one of favorite critics over at S…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:11PMWednesday, November 23, 2011
It has arrived. Have a great Turkey Day, dear readers!
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:35PMIn “Maple and Vine,” the playwright Jordan Harrison and the director Anne Kauffman create a society within ’50s society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Sam Robards as Jung, Harris Yulin as Freud in the Taper production of The Talking CureSounds like Christopher Hampton's script for A Dangerous Method is an improvement over the original play…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:37PMNew Yorker illustration by Pascal BlanchetI was one of the few critics who unreservedly loved Jordan Harrison's last play at Playwrights Horizons, Doris to Darlene, a Cautionary Valentine. B…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:15PMAt American Theatre, we often write about artists and plays before they reach the wider consciousness, or at least the stage of a major media town. When I was researching Tracy Letts last ye…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:26AMMonday, November 21, 2011
(Pictured: Holland Taylor. Photo by: Linda Matlow) Ann, Holland Taylor’s one-woman show about late Texas governor Ann Richards, opened recently at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre. Amer…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:11PMFriday, November 18, 2011
In my inbox this morning, this news stuck out:Steppenwolf Theatre said Wednesday that the actress Julianna Margulies will be the guest of honor of its annual Women in the Arts fundraising lu…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:16AMThursday, November 10, 2011
Buried under another deadline avalanche, so here are some stray links:Dominique Morisseau challenges the default whiteness of character breakdowns.One of the first reviews of Sondheim's lyri…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:59PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
On musical theater writing, from my February feature on multifacted playwright Laura Eason:I once got this incredibly sweet email from Charles Strouse; he saw an adaptation of mine at 59E59 …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:29AMI'm not a big Sarah Silverman fan, but this is good stuff. It's clear she'll make a great Joanne in Company one day.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:29AMMonday, November 7, 2011
There goes the neighborhood. (Seriously: Welcome, Chloe.)Playwrights blog their process: Matthew Freeman and George Hunka.Don Shirley drops some serious Gil Cates knowledge, from nude Quills…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:25PMMaybe I over-research as a reporter, but I almost always end up with a lot, lot more material than I can put into any given story. Case in point, my preview piece on the L.A. run of Bring It…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:14AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
I didn't know Gil Cates personally—I think I must have met him at least once during my time on the L.A. theater scene, and one of Back Stage West's best Garland awards shows (hosted by Chr…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:32AMMonday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
A subject of David Cote's critics' roundup in American Theatre speaks up.Phantom Limb's next project sounds even better than 69°S.One of my most-hit posts, obviously because of the title, i…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:52AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Schoenberg + Teletubbies = early Halloween fear candy. (via Daniel Capo on Vimeo.)
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:57AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Did you miss his readings-and-chat evening with Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and David Adjmi? Good news, it's all here.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:47PMThe above was our half-joking working title at American Theatre for this great new feature by David Cote, which surveys 12 of the nation's most influential theater critics about the state of…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:46AMPlaygoer throws down the gauntlet to the Oxfordians, gets a reading list.Matthew Freeman gets precisely one response to a bleg for critics people like.Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker are almost…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:20AM"If a reviewer should deem a production a failure, so be it. But at least start from the presumption of purpose; discuss the ideas. And this has been the revelation for me, as a relative lud…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:41AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
"I’m always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you’re drowning, and it’s there to rescue you. Then it sounds like musi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:04AMMonday, October 24, 2011
Ian David Moss has a blockbuster post today proposing that arts funding advocates stop shouting and e-blasting, and instead start doing business the way every other major industry lobby does…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:17AMFriday, October 21, 2011
You'd expect that Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs would be controversial for its entirely coincidental timing (in the works for some while, the show had been performed …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:46AM 
