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Are we witnessing a major transition in the arts from regional organizations to fewer mega-organizations with the sophistication to mount large scale productions, to market them well and to …
Charlotte Moore as artistic director and Ciarán O'Reilly as producing director at the Irish Repertory Theatre form one of...
When in 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger shook up the London theater--and much of the rest of the English-speaking...
It's beginning to look as if every 10 years or so--and no matter what the weather or geopolitical situation is--we can count on...
Depending on when you see--or have seen--The Model Apartment, you will either think playwright Donald Margulies has...
In this day and age, what does it take to produce a new musical called Possibility Junkie, based loosely on a real-life troubadour who writes and sings songs of life, love and the world we l…
When a founder retires, the transition can be especially challenging. The organization was created specifically to support the vision of the founder. How does it support the new leader, and …
About the 1937 Room Service, now revived at the Westport Country Playhouse, I'm tempted to say things like "They don't write...
Looking over the relatively lighter crowd coursing into the first revival of Benjamin Britten's Midsummer Night's...
Tony Danza on stage--or anywhere, for that matter--is just about impossible to dislike. This contemporary show-biz given is both a boon and a problem for Honeymoon in Vegas.
Comparisons may be odious, but in some cases, like this one, they're inevitable. Whenever performers--such...
On the musical stage, the wild adventures of the hero of "Big Fish" turn into a series of production numbers. Too many production numbers, and too few that rouse us.
Does a week go by without a newspaper report somewhere on the subject of prisoners staging a Shakespeare play as part of...
Having spent most of my arts management career working to erase deficits of arts organizations, I must suggest that most organizations that face deficits do not face structural deficits.
my Huffington Post review of BAD JEWS
Sometime in the winter of 1958, I had the chance to hear Billie Holiday on her closing night at Boston's venerated Storyville. For reasons I can't recall, I chose not to go. She died less …
Jon Robin Baitz is the rare example of a playwright whose every play--with possibly one or two exceptions--is even better than...
While I never want to dissuade board members from serving as ambassadors for their organizations in their communities, I truly dislike the notion of a set elevator speech. I do not like the…
Massive Attack, by the way, was seen from time to time when the three screens at the end of the hall were backlit. (There
Within minutes of Massive Attack V Adam Curtis beginning at the Park Avenue Armory, where it plays through Friday (October 4),...
John Tiffany's revelatory new production gives us a Glass Menagerie unlike any that have preceded it.
It was when Tennessee Williams took him to see <em>The Glass Menagerie</em> that William Inge decided to become a playwright -- very much influenced, as it turned out, by his pal.
As far as I know, the only remains of Laurette Taylor's performance in The Glass Menagerie as Amanda
Although I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had
Although I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had...
