1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
WILMINGTON, DEL. " A moment of silence, please, for Older Boogie.The character who served as narrator in last winter's Signature Theatre world premiere of "Diner," the musical, is no more. B…
When in the spring of 2002 it began the delightful series that has become its signature " movement-based interpretations of ShakesÂpeare, performed without dialogue " Synetic Theater went…
NEW YORK " As an antidote to the hateful rhetoric spewing from the presidential campaign, you should take in a Broadway musical.Not to escape the viciousness " to better understand its conse…
And then there was the time Natascia Diaz danced for Jerome Robbins.She was still a kid, only a few years out of Carnegie Mellon's drama program. But she had already toured Europe in a produ…
NEW YORK " The ecstatic noise emanating from West 45th Street may just have enough seismic force to shake foundations all the way to West 145th. It's the strength, collective and in…
NEW YORK " The new musical version of "School of Rock" is now in session, and all of the required elements are in attendance " almost. High-octane exuberance? Here! Decent songs? Present!…
NEW YORK " Nobody reaches a boiling point with more gleefully righteous ferocity than Al Pacino, a facility he " and we " can still count on, in his 75th year on the planet. As Mickey …
NEW YORK " Rita Moreno is scooting from one broadcast studio to another inside Rockefeller Center, spewing sound bites in English and opinions in Spanish and hawking her new CD as if her car…
About his Broadway aspirations, Steve Martin is unequivocal. "We actually set out to create something traditional, that had a strong melody and a strong story," he said. "We are trying to pu…
"Pericles" begins as a so-so play that " presto! " turns into a far better one, a transformation achieved satisfyingly by Folger Theatre's gently melodic and ever more persuasive presentatio…
Move over, "Shear Madness." After a mind-boggling 28 years as the money-minting chief tenant of a coveted performance space in the Kennedy Center " a uniquely advantageous perch in the world…
Spencer Liff puts bodies in motion under some remarkably high-stress conditions, most prominently for the popular television competition show, "So You Think You Can Dance" " an assignment…
NEW YORK " And just like that, Ivo van Hove cements his place irrefutably among the most revolutionary theater makers of our time.Because in its elemental economy, its flashes of uncanny�…
To tackle the direction of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, David Muse, the artistic head of Studio Theatre, had an illuminating thought: Why not ask a five-time Tony Award-winning lighting de…
LONDON " "Why is everyone in the KGB so stupid?" Irina, one of the jailed journalists asks, in Belarus Free Theatre's intense and highly watchable "Time of Women."Pausing from the bowl of…
LONDON"The crowds lining up nightly outside the Noel Coward Theatre on St. Martin's Lane for last-minute cancellations attest to the remarkable journey of "Photograph 51," Anna Ziegler…
NEW YORK"We all know exactly what elixir we've come for. And thankfully, the appropriate doses of delight are dispensed from the stage of Broadway's Marquis Theatre all through "On Your F…
It doesn't get much more hopeful than this. New theater company, new play, new playwright. A work that challenges the conscience, in a part of town that is changing rapidly, on a topic cryin…
NEW YORK"And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of "King Cha…
NEW YORK"And you thought the Plantagenets and Tudors had the royal market cornered on theatrics.Wait until you meet the battling, plotting, fulminating, equivocating Windsors of "King Cha…
NEW YORK"The Roundabout Theatre Company unveiled two new productions this week. One was powerful. The other starred Keira Knightley.We'll get shortly to the exquisitely observed "The Humans,…
"Girlstar" is really something. What that something is " well, your guess is as good as mine.Musical thriller? Musical spoof? Romantic tweener bait? Unfortunate mishmash?Maybe, maybe, maybe …
In the aftermath of his shocking dismissal in December after 18 years as artistic director of Theater J, Ari Roth doggedly embarked on plans for the next chapter of his career: a new Washing…
As impressionable teenagers, BeBe Winans and his sister CeCe traveled a remarkable God-focused path, from a gospel-infused Pentecostal home in Detroit to the stage of a Christian television …
NEW YORK " When Belgian stage director Ivo van Hove approached French actress Juliette Binoche about doing the Greeks, he told her he had a hankering for "Medea."Binoche, not so much."I was …
