Monday, November 12, 2012
The Roundabout is offering us some very large scale productions this season, and Cyrano de Bergerac at the American Airlines Theatre is certainly one of them. Edmond Rostand wrote it in 1897…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
There were two Sandys in town last week — there was the mongrel who attaches himself to Annie Warbucks in Annie  at the Palace and of course there was the hurricane that attacked Br…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
TACT (The Actors’ Company Theatre) has put together a fine cast to breathe life into Brian Friel’s Lovers which had a decent 150 performance run at the Music Box and the Beau…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, September 24, 2012
Eighteen months ago, The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway, thus knocking out the rumor that the Broadway musical was a dead form, and that we were all doomed to have nothing but revivals, p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
I’ve been trying to figure out why Lisa D’Amour decided to call her new play Detroit, as the Playbill clearly tells us the play is set in “a first ring suburb of a mid-size…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2012
Jonathan Bank at the Mint Theatre continues to unbury bits and pieces of our theatrical heritage as he continues his successful leadership off this unique off Broadway company. Some of his r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The new musical Chaplin just opened on Broadway without much fanfare, and there was not much buzz in the air about it. Its original writer, Christopher Curtis – book (later joined by T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
The Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos, has been trying to clarify its mission since Mr. Lamos replaced Joanne Woodward as guide at thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
Laughter is back on the great white way, a little west of Broadway in a bandbox of a theatre called the 47th Street, just west of 8th Avenue. The master satirist Gerard Alessandrini …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:41AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
59 E 59th Street Theatre is home to an organization called Throughline Artists whose mission it is to preserve the traditions of the theatre for the next generation by providing opportunitie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
It’s always nice to have Horton Foote’s people around, particularly in Manhattan, to which they bring color, wisdom and wit of a different sort than that usually doled out in our…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
Marvin Hamlisch died on August 7th, and left the world of music diminished by much. He was only 68 years old, and was, as always, neck high in the preparation of new works. I met him in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Just when I thought they’d revived about all the decent musicals from the golden age, along comes Charlotte Moore’s Irish Repertory Company to deliver this smartly pruned and art…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
Mary Chase was an accredited playwright when her Harvey opened at the 48th Street Playhouse in late 1944. The second world war was still raging, light hearted musicals like Follow the Girls …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Jim Morgan, the Producing Artistic Director of the literally underground York Theatre Company at St. Peter’s Church on Lexington Avenue, has the look of a truly contented man. His open…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
Three West End musicals. All hits. All very different. Let’s start with the first of three that I saw the last week in June. That would be Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical now…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
During my recent 8 night visit to London, I was able to have a look at 5 very disparate offerings in the West End, which is how the British spell “Broadway”. I saw two of the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Lincoln Center 3 series has been offering new writers an introduction via a series of productions at its Laura Pels Theatre underground at the Lincoln Center Theatre complex. But the lon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2012
In the 1940s and 50s there were any number of plays dealing with the Axis, which was our enemy in World War II. Some of these plays  were hits (There Shall Be No Night, A Bell For Adano, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
Each year at this time if you listen carefully, you can hear the hoots and howls ranging from “We was gypped” to “How can you ignore the brilliantly reviewed originator of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
May 11th marked the 47th anniversary of the opening of a Broadway musical by a new songwriting partnership, brought together by a Broadway agent working on his first big show, and introducin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:29PM[SHARE]The Second Stage Theatre has brought New York a charming light soufflé of a play to remind us that spring is here and that balmy spring weather is just around the corner. Olivia Thirlby …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:08AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
They might have called this show A LITTLE BITTA THIS, A LITTLE BITTA THAT. I don’t know the way in which it was formed, but there is a vague connection to Oh, Kay! a hit from 1926 when…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
The New York Theatre Workshop in the East Village is known for its eclectic taste. Recently it housed the one – man play An Iliad by Dennis O’Hare.In the fall of 2010Â I witne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 1, 2012
In 1990, the screenplay of “Ghost” earned an Oscar for its author, Bruce Joel Rubin. The film was a crowd pleaser, and that made it instantly eligible for the “let’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
We owe the Brits a great debt for gifting  us with the bombshell called Tracie Bennett. The slim actress/singer, who would appear from her photo to be a contemporarily coiffed blonde, has…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
Richard Bean, prolific British playwright, has landed with a bang with this, his first export to American shores. A great success for two seasons at the National Theatre in London, a transfe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
I was certainly alive during the reign of Joseph Alsop as a syndicated political columnist, but the truth is he and his writings never attracted me, so I approached David Auburn’s play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The interior of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway is decorated to the nines with bunting, campaign photos; hoopla music is playing over the speakers; the management wants you to know…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
There’s been some controversy about the slowly growing trend of presenting plays with characters originally conceived as white being played by actors of color. The recent all black cas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Disney-Hyperion published a novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson with this title, and it climbed to the NewYork Times best seller list. Disney Theatrical Productions president Thomas Schum…
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