Monday, May 12, 2014
It seems to me there's more than one reason for staging a revival. The first one that springs to mind, because it's the most obvious, is that a well-written and successful play is always a …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
What Irma La Douce really is is rampant idiocy, for which there may be no excuse but for which there may be a wacky rationale having to do with national tastes.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
In Samuel D. Hunter's outstanding play, The Whale, presented at Playwrights Horizons in the 2012-13 season, obese and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:13PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
When you look over the plays Noel Coward trumpeted during his fabulous career, few give the impression of being in any direct way autobiographical.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 4, 2014
When Forbidden Broadway comes out swinging, not everything receives a knockout punch, which is more or less Alessandrini's usual result. Enough does, however, and after the kind of season we…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2014
It's not too often that great passion doomed--make that Great Passion Doomed--hits the boards. There's Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra and Cyrano de Bergerac and West Side Story wi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Before Red-Eye to Havre de Grace supposedly begins, a pleasant fellow in a Philadelphia Park Ranger's uniform...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
It would be folly to claim this is the greatest Lear yet seen, but it's surely no exaggeration to declare it's right up there with the best of them.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2014
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Somehow it should seem appropriate that Inventing Mary Martin is as corny as Kansas in August. But the kind of corniness prevalent in conceiver-writer Stephen Cole's revue, at the York, trib…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
It's taken for granted that any superior drama depends on its stakes being high. If that's the case, then The Great
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2014
Throughout Ebb's well-wrought lyrics and Kander incessantly rousing melody, Williams presents Sally as angry, as finally and thoroughly disillusioned at her situation, as practically a ghost…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
When you hear that Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein's new play, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman, takes...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
By fadeout, the actor has given an indelible portrayal of someone mustering the courage not only to drop his gaudy garments but to drop his guard as well.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2014
Having seen it again, I can report that it's every bit as lively, as thoroughly hilarious and as consistently heart-tugging here as it was there, if not that much better for the cast members…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 17, 2014
When theater veteran Moss Hart published his bestselling Act One in 1959, he packed a lot into it about his impoverished...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Plucking the dialogue pretty much verbatim from his best-selling book, Steinbeck handily transferred his tale to the stage. Again George and Lennie -- traveling together like the scores of o…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
It's close to a year since Steven Soderbergh announced he'd be quitting movies. Now he surfaces at the Public Theater...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
Perhaps the most complimentary remark to be made about Audra McDonald in Lady Day at the Emerson Bar & Grill is that in 90 minutes and under Lonny Price's fully empathetic direction, she…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2014
Although Athol Fugard turns 82 in June and his protagonist in The Shadow of the Hummingbird--having its world premiere at...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:06PM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
Not to put too fine a point on it, director-choreographer Martha Clarke's version of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 6, 2014
Let me tell you that if anyone wanted a spot-on one-sentence review of Eno's newest work, you couldn't do any better than what she said. But we professional assessors are expected to say mo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
On January 20, 1980 Mary McCarthy, never known to mince words in print or in person, was asked on Dick Cavett's PBS talk show whom she considered overrated writers. After a moment's thought,…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
With Washington's return to The Great White Way in the revival of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 A Raisin in the Sun at the Barrymore, he does a tremendous favor. Once again, as he did with his …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PM[SHARE]Frank Loesser disliked repeating himself. When he produced book, music and lyrics for The Most Happy Fella in 1956, he decided to go operatic. Not all the way, but more than he ever had be…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:43PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
I Remember Mama, John Van Druten's adaptation of Mama's Bank Account, Kathryn Forbes's memoir of her early 20th-century...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
Give me a minute here while I clear my head after attending last night's performance of If/Then, the new musical starring...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 27, 2014
Plays are revelations. Good plays, that is, and the better a play, the more revelatory it can be. And let's just say King Lear--now...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Throughout the 1980s and starting with William M. Hoffman's As Is and Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, plays addressing the...
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