Saturday, April 25, 2015
I suggest that producers, composers, writers, stars and others with lots of money earned from their work other than in theatre, those who have done no apprenticeship in theatre, who have nev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:25PM[SHARE]Friday, April 24, 2015
When all the elements fuse, when a director is clearly in charge and on the right track, it is such a pleasure to be out front watching everything come together, to make magic from first lig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
Full disclosure: I have known and loved Chita Rivera and her talent since we were virtually toddlers. I was then (we’re talking the early 1950s) a baby agent and she had just emerged f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:01PM[SHARE]In the 1940s and ’50s summer theatres popped up all over the place, particularly in New England, where every other town boasted of one. Westport, Ct. had two; Hyannis, Falmouth, Dennis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
“Fresh as paint” kept buzzing through my head as I sat, enthralled, as this latest “new musical based on a famous film” sang and danced its way across the boards of t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
If you leave your sense of disbelief checked in the cloak room at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway, you might just have a fun time as you watch this marriage romp unwind, filled with …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
For those of you who love live theatre enough to cherish the teamwork of two major acting talents, Skylight by David Hare should motivate you to book yourself a seat this spring, for the run…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2015
The current stage revival on Broadway of Lerner and Loewe’s film Gigi is lovely to look at. It’s filled with principal performers in supporting roles, who have played leads on Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
I’m sending you this note on the City Center’s staged reading of Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon even though its brief 6 performances scheduled ended earlier today. I w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58PM[SHARE]The word is out. It didn’t arrive in town with much hoopla, most thought “another revival of a relic from the past” so it fooled even the vast ticket buying public, but the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02AM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
In 1989 Wendy Wasserstein’s play hit Broadway hard, dealing with her fervent feelings about women’s liberation which began with her graduation from high school just as the 19…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:16PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
It’s always a pleasure to welcome Helen Mirren back to the Broadway stage. Her new vehicle by Peter Morgan, who served her well once before as author of “The Queen,” a film…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
Larry David's 'Fish' gives new meaning to the word "promising." There's no question his play is full of laughs, but it is peopled by over a dozen completely one dimensional characters who re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:56AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
At the conclusion of the Saturday matinee during the seven performance run of each Encores! presentation at New York’s City Center, there is always a talkback with members of the compa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2015
I hadn’t been to the Nederlander, the theatre that is the furthest south in the neighborhood called “Broadway”, since Rent opened there in 1996. That musical stayed put for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Playwright Ayad Akhtar has Disgraced running on Broadway. It’s found its audience, which responds to the play’s sparkling and insightful dialogue dealing with the complicated rel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Bernard Pomerance’s play from 1977 has been revived on Broadway for a fourteen week run, starring Bradley Cooper in the title role, which is the only big news connected with the produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
It’s a few months after Hurricane Sandy hit New York on October 29, 2012. Staten Island took a beating from the storm and when the lights come up on Sharyn Rothstein’s new play, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2014
One of the unexpected pleasures of covering New York theatre for our site is that I have the opportunity to view the wide spectrum of subjects, themes, current issues that playwrights use as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
Another revival has plunked itself down on Broadway . As the original new musicals are mostly half baked, I wonder what the season will be like 20 years from now, when there is nothing to re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2014
I have to credit Jack O’Brien, the director, and lead producer Tom Kirdahy for delivering what is unquestionably the hottest ticket in town as we hit the mid-season mark. I say that be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2014
A full house at the 776 seat Circle in the Square in Manhattan’s theatre district managed to settle in just before 8PM, for there were signs all over the place announcing “No one…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57AM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
When Mike Nichols passed away last Wednesday night at the age of 83, I found myself needing to hit the YouTube buttons to have another look at some of the sketches he and Elaine May performe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
I bring you my first double header, as play after play opens off Broadway, courtesy of the dozen not-for-profit theatres that have firmly established themselves. LOST LAKE by David Auburn Lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
This is a little bonus notice, because it was a rare showing of Stephen Sondheim’s very first musical, written when he was in his early twenties. Twin brothers Julius and Philip Epstei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
The winter winds have just begun to blow, yet spring has arrived at the City Center on West 55th Street, where The Band Wagon is making a lot of people happy. Unfortunately, this version wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tom Stoppard is back on Broadway . His Indian Ink is playing at the Cort Theatre and now the Roundabout has produced his 1982 success The Real Thing as part of its season at the American Air…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
Sarah Ruhl is a writer of imagination and considerable experience. The Lincoln Center Theatre has presented two of her early plays, The Clean House and In The Next Room (The Vibrator Play), …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
We always have high hopes when a gifted writer from one field chooses to drop in on another. Scott Fitzgerald tried it (The Vegetable), so did Henry James (Guy Domville). Ernest Hemingway wr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:16AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
From the moment Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced begins, we are intrigued. Set in designer John Lee Beatty’s upper east side Manhattan apartment, even the scenery speaks to us. The set ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2014
The 100th Musical in Mufti is about to open at the York Theatre, which is a gem of a small space buried under St. Peter’s Church on 54th Street and Lexington Avenue. This very useful s…
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