Friday, July 15, 2011
Daniel HeddenCynthia Meryl, artistic director of the New Jersey Youth Theatre, directs the cast of "Kiss Me, Kate" at a rehearsal. It all started simply because parents didn't have…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:38AM[SHARE]It got skunked at the Tonys, which everyone expected, given that it got all of two nominations, excluding Best Musical. And yet, of the three musicals that lost to Memphis in 2010, American …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2011
Peter Marshall finds himself in the center square this week on the Jersey Shore. The longtime host of "Hollywood Squares" will star in A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters." It's a two-character play…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Some weeks ago, I told of the theatrical crimes I committed – for missing such shows as Song of Norway, Coco, and Drat! The Cat! Turns out I’m not the only theatrical criminal. P…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AM[SHARE]This month, I did Cole Porter one better. While he cited Philly, Boston, and Baltimo’ as places for good theater, I'm going to those cities and one more for my on-stage entertainm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AM[SHARE]It was the month in which we celebrated “World Theatre Day” – on March 27. Do you think that day was chosen it because on that date in 1964, Barbra Streisand awoke and read…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Jason Meehan Photography .Alyse Alan Louis (Kira) and Bernard Dotson (Danny) in Revision Theatre's Xanadu. At least "Xanadu" knows exactly what it is. "This," says one character, "is childre…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]Ever hear of a comedy called Come Live with Me?
You’re pardoned if you haven’t. After all, the 1967 comedy lasted all of four performances at the Billy Rose (now the Nederlande…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Rick Engler (Center) Greg Jackson as Timon fends off the debt collectors. So you've never seen "Timon of Athens"? Attend the production at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and half an …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:10AM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia --
If all had gone according to plan, I would have written and posted this column -- marking a sixty-second anniversary -- last Tuesday.
Don't blame me: I'm not the one w…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:34AM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2011
In Douglas J. Cohen's musical The Gig, a would-be professional jazz musician is excited because "I played with a guy who played with Benny Goodman." Well, right now I'm just as exc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2011
Paul Whelihan Playwright Dominique Morisseau, seated, with "Follow Me to Nellie's" cast members, from left, Ley Smith, Michelle Wilson and Kelly McCreary. It was the best little wh…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:32AM[SHARE]You may recall that in 1932, Oscar Jaffee was pressuring Lily Garland to star in his production of The Magdalene. She didn’t wind up doing it. Now, here’s The Magdalene at St. Cl…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2011
David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce, who is directing "It Shoulda Been You" for the George Street Playhouse this fall, has hired an old colleague, Edward Hibbert, to be in the new musical. T…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:41AM[SHARE]An acrobat performs a hoop balancing act in Cirque Ziva, which will be presented in Asbury Park throughout July. In addition to all the pretzels served on the beach at Asbury Park, a theater…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:51AM[SHARE]Remember the question that Joe Gaken asked a few weeks ago? He wanted to know, “What was the musical that was announced that made you say ‘Are you kidding? There’s going to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
You may know Song of Norway, for which Robert Wright and George ("Chet") Forrest adapted melodies from Norwegian classical composer Edvard Grieg. In the '40s, it ran t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13AM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2011
I’ve seen 26 of Shakespeare’s plays performed outdoors in 34 different productions, but I’ve never had quite the al fresco experience with the Bard as I’m having in A…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2011
What a blessing in disguise Cirque de Soleil gave us by renting Radio City for Zarkana, thus sending the Tonys to the (comparatively speaking) more intimate Beacon. Have you heard anyone not…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Alicia Keys is going where Whoopi Goldberg, Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have gone before her.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]See what can happen when you root for a sports team? Consider the Oyster, David MacGregor’s terrific new comedy that’s playing at The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
There was a good deal of talk last week about the change in cigarette packaging. Terribly graphic images are now to be put on the labels.
Why couldn't this have happ…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:05AM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2011
My, what wondrous responses so many of you gave to my question, “What line or lyric that comes from a musical is one that you tend to say quite often in your everyday life?” Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2011
Next to "When are you going to write about Follies in Washington?" the question I've been most asked is "When are you going to write about Spider-man?" On December 26, 20…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Interesting, isn't it, that a story that proves the transformative power of art should be one of the oldest and most enduring? That’s One Thousand and One Nights, the ancient Arabic st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Last week, we talked about the Robert Merrill-Patrice Munsel recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel that was made in 1955 " when the world wasn't as frank a p…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:20AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2011
Here in Toronto at the annual Luminato Festival, meant to be a city-wide arts celebration, one pays a pretty penny for most of the attractions. Andromache, a contemporary retelling of the Ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2011
I'm on a plane, getting ready to see a theatrical event to which I've looked forward for months. Ah, you're saying, Follies in Washington. Over the past few months, I've heard these two ques…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, June 17, 2011
Of the two roles that Nitya Vidyasagar has in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," she prefers the one that has the fewer lines.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:52AM[SHARE]I'm on a plane, getting ready to see a theatrical event to which I've looked forward for months. Ah, you're saying, Follies in Washington. Over the past few months, I've heard these two ques…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2011
Everyone has a dark side " even fairy tale characters, Dennis Giacino believes.
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