"On a Clear Day," featuring songs by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner, is a musical comedy about a reincarnated woman with extra-sensory perception and her relationship with a psychiatrist. T…
Winners of the 37th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards were selected at the LAFCA annual voting meeting, which was held Dec. 11.
The New York Film Critics Online has announced the winners of their annual awards. The Artist was named best film, with its director Michel Hazanavicius taking top honors. In the performi…
The New York Film Critics Online has announced the winners of their annual awards. The Artist was named best film, with its director Michel Hazanavicius taking top honors. In the performi…
The Los Angeles Film Critics Circle has announced their awards for 2011. Stage stars Chistopher Plummer won Best Supporting Actor for Beginners, while Jessica Chastain was named Best Suppor…
In BONNIE amp CLYDE, the newest musical from Broadway regular Frank Wildhorn, Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes star as two small-town kids from the middle of nowhere that became the biggest fo…
I had the recent opportunity to speak with a director regarding the clash between the poor critical reception of the show and what appeared to be much warmer responses from the audience. I u…
The Broadway version stars Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes as the main protagonists. How did critics respond to the musical?The Broadway version stars Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes as the main…
"Bonnie & Clyde," the new musical by Frank Wildhorn and Don Black, opened on Broadway this week at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Based on the lives of the famous Depression-era outlaws, the…
"Bonnie & Clyde" blasted its way through its Broadway opening last night, December 1. The historical musical is booked into an open-ended schedule at Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. As its ti…
The French silent film "The Artist" has been awarded honors for Best Picture and Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle. Meryl Streep, Aaron Sorkin and Albert Brooks are…
The winners of the 2011 New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) Awards have been announced via the organization's Twitter Feed. Among the winners are stage veterans Meryl Streep, who has …
Among the winners at this evening's conferral of awards by the Capital Critics Circle in Ottawa was the out-going artistic director of the National Arts Centre English Theatre, Peter Hinton.…
Today I'll be at the London Coliseum for the annual Theatrecraft day that offers a range of seminars and workshops for young people, aged 17-25, who are contemplating a career in the theatre…
The Circle in the Square Theatre School presents Anansi the Spider, a children's play performed by CITSTS alumni, beginning Nov. 28 at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre.
Best actor finalist, Theodore Bikel (r)(in Lies My Father Told Me, also a finalist forbest costumes, best lighting, best ensemble)(photo: Andrée Lanthier)MECCA PRESS RELEASE:MECCA FINALISTS…
The phrase "critic-proof" isn't an approbatory one for most critics, for rather obvious reasons. Very few critics I know have any grand delusions about their influence, and no real expectati…
If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress,…
While I understand the great composer's aversion to reviewers, what creative spirit wants their work to be met with silence?I can sympathise with Stephen Sondheim in his attacks on critics. …
Michael Kaiser has been rightly ran through the ringer, but in this brave new democratically discursive world, what happens to art?
Written by: Dan Mason SPOILER ALERT (For Dummies) – Jesus gets crucified in the second act of Godspell. I don’t think I’m giving too much away by telling you that the last …
The beleaguered profession of criticism has received another stake through the heart courtesy of Stephen Sondheim. "It takes a long time to learn not to pay attention to critics, or at least…
Stephen Sondheim isn't as terrified of the internet as Michael Kaiser.Heck, Mr. Sondheim finds a certain optimism in the passion of the online exchanges about theater, even in internet theat…
The Guardian (UK) 11/20/11
Good reviews can be as harmful as bad ones, says Stephen Sondheim. In an extract from his new book, he reflects on a life of prizes, putdowns " and the joy of songs sung in SanskritAfter a r…