All stories by David Dewitt on BroadwayStars

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Theater Interview/Preview: Dan O’Brien — The Playwright as Documentarian by David Dewitt

It’s not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O'Brien's "True Story: A Trilogy" represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.

SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PM
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Theater | Westchester: Review: At Penguin Rep Theater, Lonely Neighbors Bust a Move by David Dewitt

The isolated characters in “Dancing Lessons” by Mark St. Germain, one with severe Asperger’s syndrome, are challenged by their limitations.

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Friday, August 5, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: Review: ‘Midsummer,’ an Urban Fairy Tale, Comes to Hartford by David Dewitt

TheaterWorks stages a sweet, fast-paced production that comes off as an urban fairy tale.

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Arts | Westchester: At Westchester Broadway, Suede Shoes and Prison Blues by David Dewitt

“Million Dollar Quartet” explores the day that four country music legends were in the same studio at the same time.

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Sunday, July 3, 2016

Arts | Westchester: Review: Two Shakespeare Plays, but With Fewer Deep Voices by David Dewitt

The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, in Putnam County, offers two plays, one traditional and one with a modern twist.

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: Review: ‘Art’ and ‘Red’ in Repertory at Westport Country Playhouse by David Dewitt

The richest vein running through these two plays about painting is what they say about men and how heavily ego figures into their lives.

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Arts | Westchester: In Hudson Stage’s ‘Animals Out of Paper,’ Hearts Unfolded by David Dewitt

A play uses the art of origami to ferret out some intriguing truths about love.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: Review: ‘Cymbeline’ at Yale Repertory Theater by David Dewitt

The director Evan Yionoulis stages a production of a fine Shakespearean mess that bends genders in addition to twisting genres.

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Friday, February 26, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: The Tomb Is Never Far Away in This Gray ‘Romeo’ by David Dewitt

Life merely plays on the stones of death in this tale of the star-crossed lovers, with a pit of pebbles like a grave at their feet.

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Saturday, February 13, 2016

Arts | Connecticut: ‘The Moors’ at Yale Rep: Flights of Fancy and Tales of Deceit by David Dewitt

From the stuff of dreams, “The Moors” at Yale Rep, a new comedy, is a play of deceit and revelations.

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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Theater | Connecticut: Review: ‘Measure for Measure,’ a Comedy of Contradictions by David Dewitt

A six-actor production of Shakespeare’s dark comedy about life’s complexities and contradictions is playing at the Long Wharf Theater.

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Monday, November 9, 2015

Theater | Connecticut: Review: ‘A Wonderful Life’ an Adaptation of a Frank Capra Film by David Dewitt

The Goodspeed Opera House’s adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic Christmastime film, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” sets the original’s existential struggle to music.

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Theater | Westchester: In a New Town, Hudson Stage Presents ‘Other Desert Cities’ by David Dewitt

Audiences have followed Hudson Stage Company’s move to Armonk from Briarcliff Manor; “Other Desert Cities” is its third production.

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Theater | Westport: Review: In ‘Bedroom Farce,’ Love and Other Jokes by David Dewitt

A production of an early Alan Ayckbourn comedy at the Westport Country Playhouse delivers big laughs and a few insights.

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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Theater | East Haddam: Review of ‘La Cage aux Folles’ at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam by David Dewitt

“La Cage aux Folles” may be campy, but it succeeds because it celebrates that most traditional of values: love.

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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Theater Review: A Review of ‘My Name Is Asher Lev’ at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point by David Dewitt

“My Name Is Asher Lev,” a play based on the novel of the same name by Chaim Potok, continues through Aug. 2 at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, N.Y.

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: A Review of ‘And a Nightingale Sang’ at the Westport Country Playhouse by David Dewitt

In Britain during World War II, a working-class family keeps calm and carries on.

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Theater Review | Westchester: Review: ‘Small World’ Pits Disney and Stravinsky in Duel of Ideas by David Dewitt

The play, at Penguin Repertory Theater in Stony Brook, imagines Walt Disney debating Igor Stravinsky part of the creative process that produced “Fantasia.”

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Friday, April 24, 2015

Theater Review | Westchester: Review of ‘Outside Mullingar’ in Armonk by David Dewitt

“Outside Mullingar,” by John Patrick Shanley, a 2014 nominee for the Tony Award for best play, is being presented by the Hudson Stage Company.

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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Theater Review | Connecticut: Choosing to Do Good, ‘Once Upon a Time’ by David Dewitt

Brecht’s “Chalk Circle” explores the strong temptation of virtue despite the pull of expediency.

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Friday, March 13, 2015
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Movie Review: ‘NOW’ Chronicles a Traveling Production of ‘Richard III’ by David Dewitt

“NOW” follows Kevin Spacey and his fellow actors in a production of “Richard III” that is staged around the world, from Beijing to Brooklyn.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Movie Review: Even at Home, All Their World’s a Stage by David Dewitt

Various issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Movie Review: ‘Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,’ Directed by Henry Jaglom by David Dewitt

Various issues unfold for a family of actors in “Just 45 Minutes From Broadway,” a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.

SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 09:23PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 15, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic