Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Say thanks to whomever you say thanks to, for we have a new playwright among us. His name? Jeff Talbott, and he is the recipient of the first ever Arthur Laurents-Tom Hatcher Award, which ho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Jonathan Bank runs a pretty tight ship over there at the Mint Theater Company, one of our off-Broadway treasures. In the most unpretentious of black box theatres on the third floor of a 43rd…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AM[SHARE]I don’t usually cover the Cabaret world, but as Michael Feinstein and Linda Eder have both graced Broadway stages on their career trajectories, I thought you might like to know how the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sondheim’s Follies is back on Broadway, and in this time of earthquakes, hurricanes and political chaos, that’s a good thing. Set in 1971, for two and a half hours it permits us …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 3, 2011
This import from the National Theatre in London, at the Beaumont Theatre in LincolnCenter, is more an experience than a play, and as such it’s a hum-dinger. As a play it is less th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2011
A weekend motor trip through Western New York state and Connecticut brought me to Ithaca where a new comedy by Tim Pinckney was having a world premiere at the newly refurbished Hangar Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:16PM[SHARE]Yes, Tyne Daly as "Maria Callas" is the primary reason to see this smashing revival of Terrence McNally's play Master Class at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Friedman Theatre on Broadway. But …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2011
Alberto Casella's play, as re-written for the American stage by Walter Ferris for the Shuberts of Broadway, produced in 1929, is rarely if ever revived. It is set in 1921 in the palazzo …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AM[SHARE]Friday, July 1, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) continues to make me question that I was valedictorian at PS 139 once in the long ago. I usually leave theatres in which hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2011
It pains me to say it, but the new Spidey musical, which finally came to rest at the Foxwood Theatre on 42nd Street after a very tough start, should more aptly be called Spider-Man: Turn off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2011
The Roundabout is offering Donna Murphy to its audiences for a run in a new musical with book and lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart, with music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. Ms. Dart is a best …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2011
A long long time ago (December 5, 1941) a small thriller called Angel Street opened on Broadway, and it had one thing in common with The Motherf**ker With The Hat, in that both plays' plots …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2011
A perfect example of the well-made boulevard comedy of the early twentieth century has been resurrected by Jonathan Bank and his lovely company of players at the Mint Theatre on the third fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
I have no argument with the general consensus among the critics I've read about Jerusalem, the well intended and occasionally powerful play by Jez Butterworth, which has crossed the Atlantic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Joe Mantello as Ned and John Benjamin Hickey as Felix (Photo: Joan Marcus) The theatre continues to dispense its magic in mysterious ways. Before visiting the current Broadway revival of Lar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2011
It's an intriguing title, no? Short and sweet, if a little hard to distinguish among This, Doubt, Proof, Contact et al, and equally difficult to probe for meaning. But early on in th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
It's always with fear and trepidation that I approach a revival of a classic Broadway hit of the 1940s or 1950s because some of them were head and shoulders above the crowd in their own time…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2011
I've been thinking a lot lately about the transitional phase that the Broadway musical is currently enjoying, or suffering, depending on your personal viewpoint. It's not always easy to real…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Lynn Nottage's Ruined won the Pulitzer Prize and a slew of other honors a couple of seasons ago [and just opened at Arena Stage]. Her Intimate Apparel was also acclaimed in its Roundabout pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:17AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
I'm sure you've read by now that this original musical by the creators of “South Park” Â and Avenue Q is the first offering of the New York season to enjoy unanimous raves from…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2011
I don't know who first said "let's make a musical out of the hit movie "Catch Me If You Can". Let's assume it was Margo Lion, the producer, Jack O'Brien, the director, or Marc Shaiman, the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
The very wise Roundabout Theatre management, and the very gifted director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall decided to lift some Cole Porter gems from their sources and plop them down in the m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2011
If you're the sort of theatre goer who enjoys taking old plays off the library shelf, dusting them off, having a look at what went down well in past decades, New York has a grand assortment …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 27, 2011
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson died March 23, 2011, at the age of 73, on the eve the opening night revival of his work Hot l Baltimore at Chicago’s Steppenwolf The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
It's interesting and informative (and fun) to revisit some of the classical musicals. A new director, new stars, even a new scenic design can alter our memory of it, or allow us to share it …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2011
A perfect cast in a fine play under the direction of a seasoned professional and usually all will be well. Actually it's better than "well"Â at the Samuel J.Friedman Theatre where the Man…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Charles Busch as playwright has a most distinctive voice. It is somewhere between Kaufman and Hart, George Abbott, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Mel Brooks, Charles Ludlam and S.N.Behrman. His…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2011
Richard Seff, on vacation, leaves the beach to see the West Side Story touring company The Broward Center of the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale is currently presenting the recent revival …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, February 11, 2011
Not a very appetizing title, this. Matthew Lopez, the playwright, was unknown to me. “Men of a Certain Age” is the TNT hit TV series in which André Braugher co-stars, yet …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 8, 2011
A.R. Gurney has written over 40 plays and I'll wager he's had more use of perhaps 6 characters than any playwright in history. This prolific playwright is in the Alan Ayckbourn/Neil Simon cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 6, 2011
This is a tough review to write because this 90 minute one-act musical comes to the York Theatre from a successful run in Texas. It is in the form of a Crosby-Hope "Road" movie, which is…
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