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Unheralded Actor Drawn to Kleban Role
The play was filmed on a stage -- the stage of the Booth Theatre in New York -- but without an audience. What you get may be good theater, but it is not particularly good television; the the…
Broadway Run Ends, but The Show Will Go On and On by Paula Span
They cheered the first note of the overture.
They screamed after every four-bar solo sung by every raggedy convict in the opening number.
They rose in a standing ovation for "One Day More" -- and it wasn't even intermission yet.
After intermission, they cheered the set.
We should all have pals as steadfast as Edward Kleban's.
Strong Cast Proves Pain's Relative
Albee Role Was a Natural for Philip Goodwin
Winners at last night's Helen Hayes Awards.
'Sweeney Todd' Wins Four Helen Hayes Awards; 'Hamlet' Earns Three
Bernadette Peters Brings Mama Vividly to Life in 'Gypsy'
President George H.W. Bush was slightly obsessed with Ford's Theatre's production of "Forever Plaid," his daughter-in-law recounted at yesterday's public memorial service for Frankie Hewitt …
Adult Musical Parodies Kiddie Culture
Audiences Here Take a Shine to The Classics. No Wonder So Many Theaters Are Dusting Them Off.
Oh, for the time on Broadway when men were men and bombs were bombs.
It's More Senses Than Sense, but So What if Looks Are Everything?
This is a weakly cast and irritatingly amateurish incarnation of a show that, when performed satisfyingly, makes a convincing case for musical theater as art.
With 'Topdog/Underdog,' Studio Collars a Pulitzer Winner for '03-04 by Jane Horwitz
Michael Learned estimated that she's read perhaps 20 books about Elizabeth I, whom she plays in Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth the Queen" at the Folger Theatre through May 4.
Second item.
"He's quite a guy, this old Ben," said David Huddleston, who plays the 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin in the Ford's Theatre revival of the 1969 Tony-winning musical "1776."
Second item.
In the closing moments of Folger Theatre's "Elizabeth the Queen," Michael Learned sinks back into the throne and lets out a small, anguished gasp. You can hear all of the monarch's conflicti…
Director to Redo Problematic Rodgers-Hammerstein Show
To see "1776" at Ford's Theatre is to realize afresh how far from a museum piece its creators, the composer Sherman Edwards and the book writer Peter Stone, sought to make it.
A Zoe Show: Caldwell To Direct 'Hot Tin Roof' by Jane Horwitz
The board of trustees of Ford's Theatre has named Brian Laczko acting executive producer of the historic 10th Street NW venue. Formerly the theater's managing director, Laczko will take over most of the duties performed by Ford's grande dame, Frankie Hewitt, until her death by cancer last month.
Second item.
It's Broadway's dirty little secret. For years, audiences have been largely shielded from a truth of theatrical life that singers and musicians, directors and producers have been privy to: On some occasions, you can't trust your ears.
The three violinists in the orchestra pit? They're being electronically "sweetened" to sound like six. The voices of the rollicking choruses in the Act 2 finale? To give the actors a breather, they're being played for you on tape. The symphonic swell of the overture? It's controlled as much by a guy at a computer as by the person with the baton.
Valerie Harper Cracks Upscale In 'The Tale of the Allergist's Wife'
A Theater's Class Act by Megan Rosenfeld
Frankie Hewitt, Stage Mother to Ford's
