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 12:43PMThe 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 this …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMLaughter 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 has …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:41AM59 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 01:06PMIt’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 10:52AMMarvin 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 09:05AMJust 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 06:56AMMary 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 08:01AMJim 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 06:54AMThree 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 p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AMDuring 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 them …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AMThe 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 08:13AMIn 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, To…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AMEach 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 01:51PMMay 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 01:29PMThe 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 an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:08AMThey 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 12:19PMThe 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 2010 I witness…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMIn 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 06:52AMWe 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 i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMRichard 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 06:44AMI 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 11:13AMThe 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 08:31AMThere’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 06:14AMDisney-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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:59PMBruce Norris, the author of Clybourne Park, must be Chicago’s best known secret, for it is in the Windy City that the Steppenwolf Theatre has premiered six of his previous plays, begin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMAndrew Lloyd Webber is returning with a vengeance. His Phantom of the Opera sizzles along in its 25th profitable year at the Majestic, his revived Jesus Christ Superstar set up shop at the N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:22AMDon’t let the title of Amy Herzog’s play 4000 Miles put you off. My first impression after hearing it was that it was probably another play about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40AMIn a New York time before mine, there was something called “The Round Table” and it consisted of scalawags and wits who bonded between 1919 and 1929; a group of bright wags who…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AMLet’s face it, on entering the New York Theatre Workshop to see Dennis O’Hare’s adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, I was unprepared. All I remembered of my long ago quick…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:20PMI’ve written about the work of the Actors Company Theatre (TACT) before, and here I am again to report to you on Neil Simon’s Lost In Yonkers which is the company’s spring …
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