'Movin' Out" features 24 of Billy Joel's classic pop songs.
Never mind that in the 1940s and '50s--the Golden age of Broadway--Broadway music was popular music. It's hardly the first time Broadway producers searched the halls of popular music for the next potential hit.
By the time you reach the New Broadway rehearsal studios on West 42nd Street, you cannot help but be in a New York State of mind.
"Mary and I didn't know each other all that well when we started this process," Philip Glass said during a recent chat, "although we had worked on 'Akhnaten,' and I had seen her productions …
"I'm not at all scientific or math-minded, even though my father was a physicist and chair of the physics department at the University of Nebraska," Mary Zimmerman said during a recent break…
CHARLESTON, S.C--It may not have been part of the official brochure outlining all the dance, theater, chamber music, opera and installation events that were part of this year's Spoleto Festival U.S.A. But for real theater, Deep South style, nothing could quite compete with lunch at the Tea Room of the Grace Episcopal Church on a quiet street in the heart of downtown Charleston.
I guess the real headline writers have the day off on Saturdays!
For years now, Ravinia has been much more than a festival of purely classical music in an appealingly leafy setting. Artists in the fields of jazz, cabaret, dance, classic pop and world beat…
With the arrival of Roadworks Productions' exceptionally fine, meticulously directed revival of "The American Plan" and the extension of Steppenwolf Theatre's production of "The Dazzle," the…
Reviews of two "Talley's Folly" productions - one in Chicago...
First produced on Broadway in 1985, it is now receiving a most intelligent and sensitive revival by Pegasus Players, which has enjoyed a long relationship with Sondheim.
"Late Night Catechism"
John Raitt is 85 years old, and the next best thing to ageless.
On the surface, Anjali Bhimani and Louise Lamson appear to have little in common. Bhimani, who grew up in Orange County, Calif., is small, vigorous and dark while Lamson, originally from Iowa, is tall, lithe and light.
But Bhimani and Lamson, making their Broadway debut together in the Tony-nominated "Metamorphoses," have known each other since high school.
You've got to hand it to Coby Goss. The plot of his new play, "Calamity Meat," more or less rules out any chance that it will ever be optioned as a Disney film. That, alone, may make him a h…
CURTAIN CALL BY MARY HOULIHAN
"Calamity Meat"--the title refers to an old Irish superstition against eating carrion--receives its world premiere in a production by Seanachai Theatre. It features Julia Neary, Brian Hamman, John Dunleavy, Matt Gibson, Laura Jones-Macknin and Don Bender; Scott Cummins directs.
Any play with an actor named Dunleavy is ok by me!