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On Wednesday night I attended Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, the immersive Russian-indie-rock musical fashioned from a section of War and Peace; I'm reporting on the pie…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:38AMThe Public's new dance-club sensation Here Lies Love is pretty much as great as it's been cracked up to be (no. 2 on StageGrade, no less!), even if its retelling of the rise and fall of…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:37AMOn this day in 2007, I posted the following review excerpt: “Radio Golf” is a formulaic work that illustrates why [August] Wilson was not, in the end, a great artist: his approach to e…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:44AMSeeing it all before him (@Bettman/CORBIS) Among the theatrical heavyweights I've had the pleasure to interview is America's greatest living playwright, Edward Albee. It was in 2008, and th…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:18AMThe playwright's 'Dying City,' now at Rogue Machine Theatre (and the new 'Teddy Ferrara' in Chicago), examines the damaged and what damage follows. NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustl…
Linked From Los Angeles Times at 01:05PMHe's only one had one other L.A. production previously (Four at Celebration Theatre), and one high-profile premiere at nearby South Coast Rep (On the Mountain), both in 2005. But now Christo…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 11:43AMMy old friend and boss at the Downtown News, Jack Skelley, used to insist that classical music should be played loud, and I took him to mean not only that he had a taste, as I did, for noisy…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:50AMThe Lisps et al in an earlier incarnation of Futurity In this final installment of my three-part interview with César Alvarez (here are part 1 and part 2), we talk about the future of mus…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:48AMPart 1 of my interview with The Lisps’ César Alvarez went into some detail about his bands’ show Futurity, which originated in 2009, played at ART and at the Walker Center last year, an…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:22AMLike Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s Passing Strange, The Lisps’ Futurity features the band that wrote the show onstage performing the show, and as such it provided Exhibit A—literally, as i…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:26AMRooting around my back pages, I happened to come across a 2004 post about a number of religion-themed shows I'd seen at the time in L.A. (Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God, the Very Merry Un…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:35AMKwame Kwei-Armah has written a play inspired by “A Raisin in the Sun” that is being staged in repertory with “Clybourne Park” at CenterStage in Baltimore under the umbrella title “…
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMHow big of a deal is it that Baltimore's biggest theater has at its helm a Brit, and not just any Brit but Kwame Kwei-Armah, the London-bred son of Afro-Caribbean immigrants from Grenada? If…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 09:22AMTom Hanks and Maura Tierney in Lucky Guy (photo by Joan Marcus) The Tom Hanks/Nora Ephron romance, which brought them so much success with romcoms onscreen, has continued even after Ephron…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 08:47AMI just learned that Christopher Shinn's extraordinary three-character two-hander Dying City will get its L.A. premiere in the capable hands of Rogue Machine Theatre—a troupe whos…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:32AMphoto by Paul Kolnik This is something of a genre by now, the not-quite-believer's Passion play: from The Last Temptation of Christ to Corpus Christi to The Gospel According to th…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:34AMIf Eliza Bent's new play The Hotel Colors hits the ear at an odd angle, that is by design: When we hear the play's six Italian characters, holed up together in a tatty hostel in Rome, u…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:31AMIn the last installment of my long interview with Stew and Heidi Rodewald (here's part 1, and here's part 2), we talk more about Shakespeare, why Homer was a bluesman, and how the theater wo…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 07:01AMphoto 2012 by Stephen P. Marsh In this second installment of my talk with Stew and Heidi about rock and theater (part 1 here), we get deeper into the divide between the two, and talk about …
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:24AMIf you made a list of the singer/songwriters whose work pointed them toward the theater, let alone made them seem likely to have a Broadway show built around them, let's be honest, would Ste…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:37AMMy recent post on why I depart from the chorus of hallelujahs for Matilda led the paper of record to ask me to write about my (relatively) lonely position (though I see that Feingold ha…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 11:53AMA writer reflects on what it’s like not to agree with popular opinion, prompted by his lukewarm response to the much-celebrated “Matilda.”
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:25AMA passage from We Are Proud To Present a Presentation etc. in which one actor coaxes another into the right emotion for a scene. I don't usually get the chance, or at least I seldom take…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 05:50AMJackie Sibblies Drury, whose latest play is running in Providence, R.I., is a playwright of the moment for creating works that are collaborations by actors, a director and a writer.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PMA human moment at last (photo by Joan Marcus) It’s hard to wear a smile and a sneer at the same time, but Matilda the Musical sure does try. This new British import is both day-glo bright…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 06:58AMNOTE: Next week I'll see Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park for the third time, after taking it in on Broadway and at Woolly Mammoth, when I visit Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE, where they're doing the …
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 01:15PMAt the heart of religion are mystery and terror; peace, joy, gratitude, and forgiveness, it seems to me, are byproducts of, responses to, our encounters with the divine, which is maybe just …
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 05:51AMThis is why I love the theater, or keep coming back to it, in any case: It holds my attention like nothing else. It may be my age, and it most certainly has to do with the multi-screen age w…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 05:46AMI got a lot of response to Sunday's post on the future of arts journalism—encouraging words, actionable ideas, quibbles. I should acknowledge the response of Bitter Lemons, the site that g…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 08:06PMWhen I opine and argue about the state of criticism and arts journalism, as I have often in this space and which I had occasion to do last week on HowlRound, I realize I speak from a po…
Linked From The Wicked Stage at 05:06PMin Light My Fire at Teatr.doc This time last year, thanks to the generosity of the Center for International Theatre Development, I was in Moscow to cover the Golden Mask festival, a sort …
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