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Sylvia Herscher, a Broadway literary agent, general manager and producer who received a special Tony Award in 2000, died Wednesday.
Idle said "Spamalot" is upbeat — not a downer like Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera."
"All the years when Andrew Lloyd Webber, people with plates over their faces moaning and groaning and singing, was for me dead loss. I hated all that stuff," he said.
An authoritarian nun. A paranoid young man and his willing helpmate. A delightfully interfering mother. A firebrand AIDS activist. A low-comedy Greek god. A serial killer and the mother of o…
The Irish Rep production is tiny and not particularly well-acted or sung, so it is hard to judge Coward's score or book, which has been edited and condensed by Barry Day.
Lamos has done an exemplary job in clarifying the complicated, often confusing plot, which throws a lot of exposition at the audience in the play's opening scenes.
He is a tough-minded writer, and the sardonic dialogue, an odd combination of funny and unpleasant, crackles with a theatricality that rarely flags under Jo Bonney's icy, precise direction.
"Naked Boys Singing."
Director Jerry Zaks has pitched things way too frantically from the get-go, with the musical exhausting its emotions quickly, especially in the show's plot-heavy first act.
Nicole Kidman is dropping out of Mel Brooks' bigscreen adaptation of legit tuner "The Producers," so Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane will have to put out a new help-wanted ad for a thesp t…
Sure, the idea of setting the Bard to country music sounds counterintuitive. But with charming songs from the Red Clay Ramblers and the sure direction of Michael Bogdanov, the plucky cast pu…
