Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Samuel AllenKevin Isola as the Maniac takes over the interrogation room of the Central Police Headquarters in Milan, Italy. The second act of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" begins at the…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:18AM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia --
Tom Aldredge died on July 22. Fran Landesman met the same sad fate a day later. But The Nervous Set, the 1959 musical in which he performed and for which she wrote the…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2011
I’m not asking you to celebrate with me, but this month marks the 25th anniversary of my getting a CD player. Not only that, I bought the “Summer, 1986 issue” – Volum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PM[SHARE]It’s a Saturday when I’ll see one of Shakespeare's most famous plays -- Hamlet -- and one of his least famous: The Two Noble Kinsmen. If indeed the latter can even be said to be …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 6, 2011
Some weeks ago, I mentioned that the Talkin’ Broadway 2007 Summer Festival Citations had a marvelous award that no other award has. Sure, we can all point to countless organizations th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PM[SHARE]“What do you feel like doing tonight, Marty?”
“I don’t know, Angie. What do you feel like doing?”
And so it goes, over and over again in the 1955 film class…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PM[SHARE]Truth to tell, when I heard that the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut was attempting a production of 1776, I was wary. For one thing, I didn’t think that 26 actors wou…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44PM[SHARE]Friday, August 5, 2011
Alecia BrooksDirector Carlos Armesto with actresses Elena Ricardo, center, and Renée Bang Allen, rehearsing "€œSpring Awakening."€ A director must get the rig…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]So Jerusalem won’t recoup, producer Sonia Friedman told the Times. That’s the same newspaper that employs a theater critic who called Jez Butterworth’s work a “magnif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Michael GoldsteinMal McCree and Paul Notice in Samuel J. and K. at Passage Theatre It's a silver anniversary for Passage Theatre Company of Trenton. The troupe, which opened in1986 with a mi…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AM[SHARE]Two years ago, I liked Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living? at the Mint Theater Company. So while I’m up here at the Shaw Festival, I’m anxious to see another of his pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2011
August is the only month in which we don't have a true official holiday. Oh, August 11 is a big day in India and the day after is a big deal in Armenia. But for Americans, such big days as H…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:08AM[SHARE]Monday, August 1, 2011
On Tuesday while writing my Wednesday column on That Championship Season, I went to check a line in my hardcover edition. That's when I noticed the quotations from the 1972 critics' reviews …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Really, I planned to be good about it. While many of my fellow critics (or "brother wizards," as I like to call them) had already attended and assessed Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, I plann…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It ain't so much a question of not knowing what to do. If one really wanted to mount Oklahoma! exactly the way it was first done in 1943, it could be done. The original Robert Russell Bennet…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Ben Brantley made it easy for me. Ever since I saw Gregory Mosher's production of That Championship Season last week, I've had a criticism I've wanted to make. But there was no way I could…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It was the month that Donald Driver of the Green Bay Packers appeared in the Super Bowl, and - Oh, Brother! He did his own thing in helping his team to win. Not interested in sports? All r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]On Part Two of my Broadway Universe Mid-Term Exam, I asked readers, "What would you like in your gift-bag once you've arrived in heaven?" Donald Tesione replied, "Do I have to die to a get r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Michael Hartman, Broadway's most handsome press agent, stood before the crowd. "Who went to Catholic schools?" he demanded to know. I dutifully raised my hand with a few others seated before…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Six Follies logos! Isn't that enough to get you to "Design: Fraver," subtitled "Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art"? As soon as you saunter into The New York Public Library for the Perfo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]When I asked readers "What Broadway songs have you tired of?" I got a number of fascinating answers: Richard Brock: "'Being Alive.' Every singer seems to try to 'improve' it and only end u…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Some years ago, Jennifer Strome was spending New Year's Eve with friends in California, hoping that the next year would be better. "I'd felt that I'd recently been betrayed, and I poured o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Does Patti LuPone realize how many men imitate her? Well, yes, she probably does. I really didn't. But when I asked readers "Which performers did you imitate when you were a kid - or, for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]A-14 is an almost great seat to a Broadway show. Depending on the theater, you're in the first or first few rows, but terribly off to the side. But that's not my experience at the press pr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Ron Schroeder said, "Okay Peter, if a lot of people answer, you've got a lot of reading. The problem with the essay questions is that there are too many answers." He was referring to the s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It all started in late 2001, after I read A Cat's Diary: How the Broadway Production of 'Cats' Was Born by Stephen Mo Hanan. Near the end of the book, he noted that Cats won seven Tonys -- a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So did we all stay in on Sunday night and watch those Super Bowl commercials? So many loved six-year-old actor Max Page, the mini-Darth Vader in a VW ad. Good Lord, the kid didn't have to …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Interesting, isn't it, that when Robert Buckner got the assignment to write Yankee Doodle Dandy -- that 1942 biopic of George M. Cohan -- he decided to start with I'd Rather Be Right? Buck…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It was the month Chicago lost in football but was still winning on Broadway. How does it do it? And to think that in only six months, it'll pass in number of performances the show that origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So Encores! is getting pretty serious. The wonderful series at City Center has since 1993 allowed us to see a panoply of musical styles: operetta (The New Moon), revue (The Ziegfeld Follies …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Val Addams, Peter Alfano, AnyaToes, John Atkins, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Richard Brock, Jeremy Fassler, Lara Fodor, Laura Frankos, John Greene, John Grif…
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