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The production feels like an unfinished canvas; the colors are all there, but they don't blend in all the intended ways.
'Henry IV' Star Recalls A Gentler Side of Williams
Fashion owes a significant debt to playwright Tennessee Williams.
So many words are unintelligible in the new touring production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" that Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic rock opera might as well be performed in Aramaic.
Fame Has Come Late for Patricia Clarkson -- or Maybe It's Right on Time
This musical makes the Broadway season's other towering misfires, "Taboo" and "The Boy From Oz," seem like worthy candidates for literary analysis by Renaissance scholars.
"I've really come to love all of them," Kathleen Chalfant says of the five short Tennessee Williams plays at the Kennedy Center through May 9 under the rubric "Five by Tenn."
The overdependence on laughs throws the play off-kilter and may help to explain some spectators' confused responses -- why, at moments of pathos, they break into giggles.
Any doubt as to whether "Assassins" can be mentioned in the same breath as "Sweeney Todd" or "Follies" should now be put to rest. Joe Mantello's spectacular production for the Roundabout The…
Director Kenny Leon, whose Broadway revival of "A Raisin in the Sun" opens next week, plans to bring Langston Hughes's "Tambourines to Glory" to the Lincoln Theatre in September.
Second item.
Fifteen years ago, Ute Lemper's music was like caviar. Sunday evening at George Mason University's Center for the Arts, it was more like a Big Mac.
Each of Stephen Lang's meticulously drawn profiles of seven war veterans is right on target.
The question raised by these melodies is one you might address to any new flame: Where have you been all my life? The answer -- and this is where the bad news comes -- has to do with the mat…
Williams Put a Lot Into His Plays -- Including Himself
Frank Loesser's Widow Brings His Last Musical to Life at Arena Stage
The bakery is curiously devoid of an essential ingredient -- a sense of imminent dramatic explosion -- and that lack of tension undermines Kraiem's themes and, ultimately, the production its…
Round House's 2004-05 Season to Begin With Lisa Loomer Comedy
Plus an interview with Stephen Lang (second item).
When Arena Stage Plans Its Schedule, The Process Seldom Adheres to a Script
Producers Take Risk in Bringing Play About a Terrorist to Broadway
The opening event in the Kennedy Center's "Tennessee Williams Explored" festival this spring and summer will be a one-evening symposium with grande dames of the stage. Zoe Caldwell, Rosemary Harris, Estelle Parsons and Eva Marie Saint will join moderator Charles Osgood of CBS News to talk about the playwright.
Caldwell and Harris gave Backstage a snippet of what they might discuss.
At Ford's Theatre, with Andre Garner, Bradley Dean and Becca Ayers.
For 20 juicy minutes, the revival of Larry Gelbart's "Sly Fox" makes a believer out of you.
