Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer and director Liesl Tommy want to assure you that science can be fun. In pursuit of the noble...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
As far as I know, the most chillingly romantic scene in American dramatic literature occurs in the second half...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to ret…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
There's a reliable rule of the stage according to which, if the actors are having fun, the audience absolutely will. That's what's rambunctiously going on throughout Daniel Sullivan's fooli…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PM[SHARE]Friday, August 7, 2015
That a musical -- a musical! -- should recount a gritty slice of American history so beautifully is singularly moving.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:03PM[SHARE]It's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
The live performance part occurred July 29 at Joe's Pub, where Nora York--who's appeared at the venue every three or four months for several years as well as at any number of other prestigio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:19PM[SHARE]Friday, July 24, 2015
Though the abrupt changes of tone are initially jarring, it doesn't take long for the audience to understand that the ensuing transitions from a subdued dinner party to the frenetic behavior…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2015
There's a fantasy I have about stand-up comics and a shrine they keep somewhere in their homes. On it are little stereotype...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:37PM[SHARE]The treatment of women as second-class members of humanity, no matter what their accomplishments, is occupying the thoughts of the Potomac Theatre Project, again in residence this summer at …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
Sure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:23PM[SHARE]Monday, July 13, 2015
Hynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
In this day of 90-minute productions, many of which might have been expanded to make their point(s) more effectively, there remain productions of greater length that could have stood judicio…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 2, 2015
What follows is an unadulterated rave for the Encores! Off-Center presentation, at City Center, of the beloved Howard-Ashman-Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors, as adapted from the 1960 Roge…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Every so often a playwright has two plays or even more open almost simultaneously. The scheduling coincidence (?) tempts a more taut assessment of where the playwright is in his or her care…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 28, 2015
Friday, June 19, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
A myth about the Taj Mahal goes that when it was completed as an Agra, India palace for Shah Jahan's wife--who didn't live to...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 7, 2015
TONY AWARDS PRESS ROOM--Although the space where we flacks are packed into rows is provided with a simulcast...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:50PM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with plot diversion…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:34PM[SHARE]<![CDATA[Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with pl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2015
Whether two things appearing simultaneously can be called a trend seems premature. But when they appear one on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Sometimes the unforgettable characters populating your personal landscape are the ones you'd most like to forget. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:10PM[SHARE]Monday, June 1, 2015
Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26AM[SHARE]<![CDATA[Whatever is happening in publishing today looks to be reflected at the Book Exposition of America (BEA). The annual event, just held May 27-29 at the Jacob Javits center, seems t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:26AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 30, 2015
Sometimes at the theater the women wrest it from the men--not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02AM[SHARE]<![CDATA[Sometimes at the theater, the women wrest it from the men -- not quite that often, but sometimes. This is one of those weeks. I'm talking about <em>The Other Thing</em&g…
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