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So many musicals to see, I know; but the show, which remains in exquisite condition, now strikes a tone -- emotionally, not just musically -- that has been absent in recent renditions.
Henrik Ibsen is often considered the father of realism, but the citation is, more likely than not, a result of plays written later in a career that began in1850. It was<em> Ghosts</…
Henrik Ibsen is often considered the father of realism, but the citation is, more likely than not, a result of plays written later in a career that began in1850. It was Ghosts (1879) and A D…
Heather Lind and Geneva Carr in Incognito.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Admirers of Nick Payne's Constellations,...
Damon Duanno and Nabiyah Be in Hadestown.
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When the trombone growls at the start of "The Road...
Dick Gregory isn't playing himself in Turn Me Loose, at the Westside Theatre, although, at 83, he certainly could. Right now Joe Morton, whom current tv viewers know from Scandal, is imperso…
Dick Gregory isn't playing himself in Turn Me Loose, at the Westside Theatre, although, at 83, he certainly could. Right now Joe Morton, whom current tv viewers know from Scandal, is imperso…
What confuses me is that producers, theater owners, journalists, etc. are all sharing in this outrage without admitting, even to themselves, they helped create the monster.
David Hare, who turns his plays out one on top of the next, can be sly when he wants. The Judas Kiss--about Oscar Wilde on the day he's arrested (April 6, 1895) for indecency and then, in th…
What makes a good revival? Is it just lovingly recreating an original or a prior revival? Or does it require reinvention?...
If you loved <em>Love, Loss, and What I Wore</em>, which opened off-Broadway in 2009 and is the Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron adaptation of Ilene Beckerman's book of the same titl…
If you loved Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which opened off-Broadway in 2009 and is the Nora Ephron and Delia...
What can be said is that the results are right up there with some of the best scores Rodgers helped turn out -- and Sondheim's agile words are also among his most devilishly clever.
Joe Mantello
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Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...
Joe Mantello
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe
Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...
When I watched it at a press preview and after maybe 60 or 70 minutes it ended, I was raring for it to start all over again
If you're the kind of musical lover who gets discerning every once in a while, preferring something other than one boffo number...
This is director Marshall Mason, who founded the Circle Repertory Company in the early 1960s and has contributed immeasurably
Michael Shannon, sitting in a tufted, black leather chair on rollers, is trying to get comfortable with it. Shifting in...
t's time for Feminism and Musical Theatre to get in bed together.
A while ago I read Michael Riedel's New York Post article, "A feminist war is being waged at Broadway's Waitress," about …
While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's <i>Crude</i>, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I …
While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's Crude, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I was on going into t…
George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe has directed such diverse productions as Angels in America, Caroline or Change, Elaine...
What will happen? Will agreeable Nellie venture into a hot-oven area to retrieve the tin and possibly scorch himself, or
Call them gang comedy-dramas, if you like. The truth is, you might want to get in the habit, because they appear to...
