Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Jean-François Regnard is not a name that has been on everyone’s lips in recent years. But leave it to comic playwright David Ives to resurrect him and use one of Regnard’s plays…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMMonday, April 21, 2014
As you enter New York’s Circle in the Square, you are faced with the stage floor transformed into a small cabaret in which a jazz trio is entertaining some 30 or 40 people seated at ta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AMI had the feeling, while watching the new Susan Stroman-Woody Allen musical, that it might have been conceived during something like the following conversation: SS: “Woody, I’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMFriday, April 18, 2014
Moss Hart’s autobiographical “Act One” was an instant best seller when it was published by Random House in 1959, and it has remained in print ever since. The book was cri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
It is so extraordinary to see the name of one man above the title of a show, listed as Producer. Unless that man is Cameron Mackintosh, the Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, David Merrick of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Will Eno’s oddball play is a surprising last minute addition to the very rich ’13-’14 Broadway season, as it arrives starring four excellent actors who will help it find an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
I’m doing this article on Frank Loesser’s master work even though it was performed as part of the NY Encores! season for only seven performances, and if you didn’t see it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMMonday, April 7, 2014
When this Lorraine Hansberry drama first appeared on Broadway in 1959 it created a stir, for it was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on the main stem. Later that se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:28AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Broadway is moving closer to returning to the days of 25 actors filling a stage, of Street Scene and The Green Pastures and You Can’t Take It With You, and this one plays out in sugges…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMMonday, March 31, 2014
David Grimm, the author of this new three act play, has had other works produced at the Rattlestick, the Public, at Hartford Stage and in La Jolla among the Regionals. He is a seasoned p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:09AMMonday, March 10, 2014
Charles Busch is a gifted writer of comedies that have light hearts and he writes them with nimble fingers. By that I mean they are gossamer — lighter than air, they invite you to join…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMStephen Sondheim’s master work has been seen on Broadway in revival several times, and in a movie starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Onstage it has attracted the likes of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMFriday, March 7, 2014
There is an old French proverb that translates into “the more things change the more they stay the same.” The Bridges of Madison County, the romantic musical drama at the Schoenf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:31AMMonday, March 3, 2014
The Mint Theatre is minting some gold this month, as it brings us the American premiere of a little known John Van Druten play from the early 1930s. LONDON WALL is its name, which is the add…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Molière (real name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was the mid-seventeenth century French fellow who liked to poke fun at virtually everyone who lived in his time. He ridiculed hypochondriacs, m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AMMonday, February 10, 2014
I’ve not written of the Encores! series before, though it’s been entertaining New Yorkers for twenty consecutive years since 1994. It was intended to be a series of staged read…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:37PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
The York Theatre Company, an attractive beehive producing unit, is buried two levels below the ground in the Citicorp Building on East 54th Street just off Lexington Avenue. In addition to m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Anthony Reilly and Rosemary Muldoon live on neighboring farms in the Midlands of Ireland. Their story is set in time by author John Patrick Shanley, as “recently”. As played by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven has long been the home of world and regional premieres of new plays by interesting authors, carefully screened and considered to be on the brink of major …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Be warned. The Roundabout Theatre Company has mounted such an effective production of Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic drama Machinal (originally a Broadway entry in the 1928-29 seas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AMMonday, January 13, 2014
This musical bio of song writer Carole King might have been called BEAUTIFUL – On Broadway, for though it purports to show us Carole King and her music, the musical includes half a doz…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:05PMThis musical bio of song writer Carole King might have been called BEAUTIFUL – On Broadway, for though it purports to show us Carole King and her music, the musical includes half a doz…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
The Irish playwright Conor McPherson has written several excellent plays, and at least four of them have made the journey to New York, establishing him as a major contributor to our scene. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27AMFriday, December 20, 2013
Pastiche is back in town, settled in for a run on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Some brave and disparate talents got together with a 1907 novel by Roy Horniman, already used as the so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Amanda Peet is an actress with impressive credits on stage (Awake and Sing), on screen (“Something’s Gotta Give”, “Igby Goes Down”), the TV series “Studio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMI’ve never been a late-night type so I’m not too familiar with the cabaret scene in New York. And I’m not the one you’ll see walking down the street with wires plugge…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMMonday, December 9, 2013
The Lincoln Center Theatre has assembled a vast company of more than 20 actors, and allotted an equally vast budget to its spectacular production of the perennial favorite Macbeth. Our mos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45AMTerrence McNally is one fortunate fellow. He was quoted in an interview on Playbill.com as having said that he’s been blessed with a happy home life, and the privilege of working a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24AMFriday, December 6, 2013
I was fortunate enough to catch Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the final years of their long running tandem Broadway careers. They were able to elevate lesser plays like O Mistress Mine, I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMFriday, November 29, 2013
The name Dennis Kelly didn’t register with me when I noted it in the playbill to his play Taking Care of Baby, which the Manhattan Theatre Club is currently presenting off Broadway. I shou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMMonday, November 18, 2013
International stage star Mark Rylance has offered us a holiday season treat by bringing us his remarkable Shakespearean double header of Richard III and Twelfth Night. He’s packed his …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM 
