Last Chance Harvey

by Richard Seff
Seff Goes to the Movies
I’ve always loved the movies, but this column is supposed to stick to the buzz about theatre. Today I’m going to ask your indulgence because I was lucky enough to be invited to a premiere screening of Last Chance Harvey, and as that rarely happens to me, and [...]

Isn’t It Romantic?

Isn’t it Romantic?
Written and directed by David Hunter Koch
Music Direction by William Knowles
Produced by MetroStage
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson

No one this side of the Blue Note or the Algonquin Hotel delivers a silver-plated lyric like Jimi Ray Malary.  Just as in prior MetroStage hits, Ellington: The Life and Music of The Duke and Nat [...]

Faith Prince and Richard Thomas

The two actors talk about Terrence McNally’s new play Unusual Acts of Devotion
by Joel Markowitz
It was closing weekend of a play which Broadway stars Faith Prince and Richard Thomas have both opened and continued working on during its five week premiere at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. You can feel their deep friendship for each other [...]

Forbidden Broadway and The Seagull

by Richard Seff
Gerard Alessandrini, creator, writer and director of the Forbidden Broadway series of small revues designed to skewer the Broadway of its current season, has announced that the series will end.  The latest, called Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, will be the last. If this turns out to be true, it’s good to be [...]

Closet Land

Closet Land
By Rhada Bharadwaj
Directed by Lucas Maloney
Produced by the Molotov Theatre Group
Reviewed by Steven McKnight
Something about this season of holiday cheer and good will makes me seek out edgier fare.   Closet Land, an intense psychological drama involving a government operative’s harsh interrogation of an author whose children’s books allegedly contain subversive messages more than fills [...]

Miss Nelson Is Missing

Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Based on the book by Harry Allard
Book, music, & lyrics by Joan Cushing
Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
Produced by Imagination Stage
Reviewed by Steven McKnight
Miss Nelson Is Missing!, a hit children’s musical that made its world premiere at Imagination Stage in 2001, has returned to delight a new generation of children.  This enchanting and [...]

The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour
By Richard Greenberg
Directed by Mark Krikstan
Produced by 1st Stage
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
I want to talk to you about something very serious. But because you have engaged me here to review theater, and not to discuss cultural problems generally, I must save these remarks until later, and first tell you about what I have [...]

Kimberly Gilbert

An interview with actress Kimberly Gilbert appearing in Woolly Mammoth’s production of Boom
by Joel Markowitz
Boom, the three actor Peter Sinn Nochtrieb comedy, shifts into high gear with the performance of Kimberly Gilbert.

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens
Book by Doug Wright,
Music by Scott Frankel,
Lyrics by Michael Korie
Based on the documentary by David and Albert Maysles
Directed by Serge Seiden
Produced by Studio Theatre
Reviewed by Gary McMillan
Studio Theatre’s Grey Gardens is a beautifully rendered and wonderfully off-kilter production of this Off Broadway-to-Broadway cult musical. Wealth and ZIP code are often the determining factors between [...]

Dublin Carol

Dublin Carol
By Conor McPherson
Directed by Jack Sbarbori
Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company
Reviewed by Steven McKnight
Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol consists of three scenes set in the office of assistant funeral director John Plunkett (John Decker) in Dublin on Christmas Eve.  The office is a nice creation by set designer Jack Sbarbori, just cluttered enough to be convincing [...]

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