Richard Greenberg’s new play is of the school from which the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” sprang. It has enigmatic hints of Harold Pinter in it as well, though Mr. Greenb…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27PM[SHARE]When you arrive at the American Airlines Theatre for a performance of Michael Frayn’s farce Noises Off, along with your Playbill, you will also be given a program for Nothing On, which…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:45PM[SHARE]Arthur Miller, in this, the celebratory season of his 100th birthday, is having a banner year, with productions of his major and minor works popping up all over the place. From the first…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PM[SHARE]I am so glad that Sheldon Harnick, the last surviving member of the creative team of the original production of Fiddler on the Roof, has been able to participate in this glorious revisica…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:02AM[SHARE]It was an active year, heavily marked by new and revisited musicals. The attendance and box office numbers were good, both on and off Broadway. I, as the only writer covering New York theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:16AM[SHARE]RICHARD SEFF’S LONDON WEEK Richard Seff recently flew over to London to see some shows and here’s what he thought: Guys And Dolls at the Savoy Theatre Guys and Dolls is or should…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AM[SHARE]Full disclosure: I am not a rock ‘n roller, and think its music has little to offer what we’ve come to know as “musical theater.” Before you start cursing me out a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25AM[SHARE]Andréa Burns. Note the accent over the e in the lady’s name. That puts the emphasis on its second syllable and indicates something latina in her background. And sure enough her mo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16AM[SHARE]In 1955, Johnny Mercer published these opening lines to a hit song of his: “When an irresistible force such as you meets an immovable object like me, something’s gotta give.&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:29AM[SHARE]Author Joe DiPietro has delivered a cozy little play that sits comfortably somewhere between situation comedy and family drama. It starts in a tennis club locker room as a brisk and brittle …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PM[SHARE]Peter Parnell has been writing plays, television scripts, books to musicals, and winning two Emmy Awards citations for his work as co–producer of The West Wing. I remember admiring his…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:38PM[SHARE]The title is misleading. It leads one to think the play is going to be one long groan of sadness, and that’s not what unfolds for us in its ninety minutes of playing time. “Miser…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:20AM[SHARE]On Your Feet joins its fellow juke box musicals Jersey Boys and Beautiful in the growing list of this new genre that delivers a full evening’s entertainment using pop hits of another e…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PM[SHARE]If you haven’t heard of Charles III of Britain, don’t berate yourself. He hasn’t happened yet, but playwright Mike Bartlett has conjured up what might happen if and whe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01PM[SHARE]Michael Riedel, the theatre columnist for the New York Post and the co-host of the long running PBS show Theater Talk, sat with me for an hour on November 2nd, to discuss his valuable and re…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:27AM[SHARE]Young Therese Raquin is in terrible trouble. We realize this the moment the curtain rises revealing a small and desolate village on the Seine in the year 1868. The entrance of Therese, (…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PM[SHARE]AR Gurney is the rolling stone playwright that is certainly gathering no moss. As recently as August of this year I reviewed a new Gurney offering, Love and Money which deftly dealt with a m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:43PM[SHARE]Way back in the dark ages (circa early 1930s) when musicals were musical comedies (if you don’t know what I mean, listen to “Musicals,” the showstopper in the light-hearted…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM[SHARE]I was away in August when the musical Hamilton opened on Broadway so yesterday I caught up with it as it was about to enter its third month of sellout business at The Richard Rodgers Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PM[SHARE]David Lindsay-Abaire has an enviable record of success with a solid list of plays, and in many of them he has written rewarding roles for the actress Marylouise Burke. He’s done so aga…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04PM[SHARE]Donald L. Coburn was born in 1938 in Baltimore to parents who were divorced two years later. His early life was unexceptional; he graduated from high school in 1957, then served in the U.S. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PM[SHARE]Who doesn’t have great respect and admiration for the musical team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick? Certainly no one who has seen and heard the great body of their work which include…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44AM[SHARE]In 1969 Graham Greene published a light novel with this title, which was in the vein of earlier romps such as The Egg and I, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and most particularly – Aunt…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00AM[SHARE]This play by Sam Shepard was first presented by Circle Rep in 1983; it was a great success for them with Ed Harris and Kathy Baker playing Eddie and May. It transferred from their home base …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:43PM[SHARE]Harold Pinter must be smiling down on 42nd Street where the Roundabout is currently presenting his Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre. For starters, that street would hardly seem …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PM[SHARE]Some time between 1890 and 1891 Frank Wedekind managed to complete a play in his native German, which contained all sorts of forbidden fruits. It dealt with adolescence, puberty, sexuality, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:40PM[SHARE]The Mint Theater, in a 100 seat space on the 3rd floor of an office building on West 43rd Street, has been fulfilling its mission of re-discovering forgotten gems from the past, and offer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15PM[SHARE]I think we can safely call her the last Broadway Diva of the golden age. For she’s been putting together a career that is unique in this day and age in that it has been lived almost…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Master Playwright A.R.Gurney has used his own life as background material for some 50 plays, 4 musicals, plus 3 novels. Born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York, he decided early on to “write…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39PM[SHARE]There are many plays that are known for their sparkling dialogue, others for their rapid fire words that require actors who can deliver them in machine gun manner. Now we have the prolifi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17AM[SHARE]It’s miraculous that this musical managed to cross the finish line, to land at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway. We all know how difficult it is to mount a musical these days, not o…
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