Archive for January, 2008
≡ Cops
Cops-
By Terry Curtis Fox
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Directed by Stephen Jarrett
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Presented by American Century Theater
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Reviewed by Steven McKnight
News flash! Police officers can be complicated, flawed, and even corrupt human beings at times. While that revelation may not strike you as particularly compelling or controversial, it had more force in 1976 when Cops, the new production at American Century Theater, was first staged. Absent that impact, the audience is left with an earnest and professional production of a flawed play that, while containing moments of humor and tension, ultimately amounts to a misfire. (more…)
≡ Tony Roberts
A Conversation with Broadway Vet Tony Roberts
≡ Ella
Ella-
By Jeffrey Hatcher
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Conceived by Rob Ruggiero and Dyke Garrison
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Presented by Arena Stage
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Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
A Tisket, a Tasket– only the marvelous vocals of Ella Fitzgerald could turn a children’s play song about losing a yellow basket into a scat-wielding marvel and only the unassumingly delightful Tina Fabrique could make it swing. In this upbeat, sassy production Ella, at the newly revamped temporary home of Arena Stage, Ms. Fabrique hits her stride channeling the energy and pizzazz of legendary jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald with enough bee-bop to shimmy across the innovatively designed new stage.
≡ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
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(30 Plays in 60 Minutes)
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Written, Produced and Directed by the Neo-Futurists
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Presented by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
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Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Well. Ten-minute plays, five-minute plays, and now … this. Is it possible that in this brain-ADDled age, thirty plays in sixty minutes could sink through our consciousness, make us laugh, make us think?
Could five gifted actors, seeped in the art of improvisation, bring us to emotional satori, to catharsis and consciousness, with art which averages two minutes in duration?
≡ The Glorious Debut of NY Theatre Buzz
by New York theatre pundit Richard Seff*.
A new year has begun. But theatre folk have never lived by the calendar - no, it’s The Season that counts. It begins June 1st and ends here in NY May 31st each year. So all of us theatre aficionados are right in the middle of the current season, the first half of which was full of surprises. (more…)
≡ Inkwell Stages January New Play Festival
The Inkwell, a new theater company dedicated to developing new theatrical works in the District of Columbia, kicks off the new year with The Inkubator Festival 2008, a new-play festival at the H Street Playhouse from January 5 to 28. (more…)
≡ Brad Oscar and Diego Prieto
- by Joel Markowitz
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Recorded by Gene Dickerson
≡ Barry Williams
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by Joel Markowitz
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Recorded by Gene Dickerson
Dec 30th — Actor Barry Williams spoke with us after the closing performance of Growing Up 70s at The Theatre at HA! in NYC. Barry talks about the cast and selecting songs for Growing Up 70s, as well as his theatrical career, including his Broadway and DC productions, and his Sirius Radio program Totally 70s. Finally, Barry gives us a preview of his next project: the musical review Married Alive! Listen here
≡ My Fair Lady
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My Fair Lady -
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
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Music by Frederick Loewe
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Directed by Trevor Nunn and Choreographed by Matthew Bourne
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Produced by Cameron Mackintosh/National Theatre of Great Britain at The Kennedy Center
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Reviewed by Steven McKnight
In an era when plastic surgery is routinely used to sculpt face and body, it seems positively quaint that a young woman’s primary dream of self-improvement would involve elocution lessons. Yet the plight of the flower girl Eliza Doolittle at the hands of her mentor/tormentor Henry Higgins possesses timeless charms that are beautifully displayed by the current My Fair Lady revival now playing at the Kennedy Center. (more…)
