The new musical Far From Heaven, based on the 2002 Todd Haynes film about a 1950s Connecticut housewife whose world is turned upside down, opened Off-Broadway June 2 at Playwrights Horizons.
Christopher Lloyd's The Caucasian Chalk Circle Fails to Build a Complete Circle: Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk is the King Solomon story set in the Soviet Union.
A new musical version of the 2002 movie "Far From Heaven" has descended on Playwrights Horizons in New York. Starring Kelli O'Hara in the role originated by Julianne Moore, the musical trace…
Are critics marking up "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"?
Christopher Lloyd and Elizabeth A. Davis. Photo: Joan Marcus The Caucasian Chalk CircleBy Bertolt Brecht Transated by James and Tania Stern Lyrics by W.H.Auden Original Music by Duncan She…
This is a pretty standard tale of good vs. not-so-good, and in this production it is the supporting cast who deserves the praise. In "Ancient Grusinia" the times they are a-changin'. The w…
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Jacqueline E. Lawton, DC based dramaturg, teacher and playwright (her play The Hampton Years officially opens next Monday at Theater J) has made time in her busy schedule to include on her W…
Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s play Race opened on Wednesday (29 May 2013) at the Hampstead Theatre. The play follows a white man who is accused of raping a young black woman; h…
Classic Stage Company's off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by CSC Artistic Director Brian Kulick, opened on Thursday, May 29, and was commemorat…
-This production's new translation, songs and merger of the ancient and Kremlin revolutions have not prevented director BrianKulick and his actors from clearly taking us into Brecht's world …
'Terrible is the temptation to do good," softly growls the mysterious narrator played by the sepulchral and wondrous Christopher Lloyd at the tiny but mighty Classic Stage Company.
The Guardian (UK) 05/29/13
This version of Bertolt Brecht's typically dry work brings a little lump in the throat, thanks to Elizabeth A. Davis' performance.
Christopher Lloyd has made a career of playing mad geniuses, which makes this brilliant clown a perfect fit for Azdak, the wise fool who injects some cockeyed sanity into the state-sanctione…
It seems awfully punk-rock to set a production of committed Marxist Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle during the fall of the Soviet Union, but that is just what Classic Stage Compa…
Christopher Lloyd stars in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a fablelike play by Bertolt Brecht about a woman who impulsively adopts a baby abandoned by its mother.
Christopher Lloyd stars in this off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's modern classic. read more
Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company offers up a new production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" starring Christopher Lloyd.
For some reason, directors like to take liberties with Bertolt Brecht. Perhaps because the German playwright placed...
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, presents Bertolt Brecht's THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE featuring Christopher L…
A Broadway-bound musical about a charming serial killer and a play about a misunderstood French icon received top honors from the Connecticut Critics Association, honoring the best of the …
Classic Stage Company's production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd, officially opens at the off-Broadway theater on May 30. The show will…
The Off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, starring Christopher Lloyd and featuring music by Duncan Sheik, officially opens May 30 after previews that began…
DCMetroTheaterArts’ reviewer Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, who recently interviewed Playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton in a 3-Part Series on DCMTA, was interviewed by Jacqueline E., and the int…