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Thursday, May 5, 2011

The 'Follies' women: Linda Lavin at 73, still a Broadway baby - The Washington Post by Nelson Pressley

Broadway baby? You bet. Linda Lavin's first Tony Award nomination came in 1970 for Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," and she was in the running again last year " for the fifth time …

SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:05PM[SHARE]
Monday, March 28, 2011

Theater review: 'Stomp' at the Warner Theatre by Nelson Pressley

What we liked about "Stomp" - and there must be something, for the dance-a-little, whack-a-lot percussion show has been kicking around the world for 20 years - used to be its ferocious energ…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AM[SHARE]

Theater review: 'Tynan' at Studio Theatre, brash as ever by Nelson Pressley

The one-man show "Tynan" at Studio Theatre is based on the great British theater critic Kenneth Tynan's diaries of his final decade - he died in 1980, only 53 years old. Listening to his pro…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:01AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 4, 2011

'His Eye Is on the Sparrow,' soaring only when Bernardine Mitchell sings by Nelson Pressley

Bernardine Mitchell is playing the early 20th-century jazz and blues singer Ethel Waters in "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," and both women deserve better treatment than they get in the show. Pl…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM[SHARE]

Review: 'Carpetbagger's Children' spill Reconstruction-era family's secrets by Nelson Pressley

The old divisions are still alive in Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Children," a tale spun by three grown sisters looking back over their fractious lives. There's North vs. South, of cou…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:00AM[SHARE]

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