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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 it was a night to remember, I’m going to impose on you to let me share it with you. [Read more...]
Isn’t it Romantic?
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 King Cole: King of Cool, Malary mixes old school technique with a modern flair for just the right classic touch. [Read more...]
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 in this backstage interview with Joel Markowitz. [Read more...]
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 able to report that Rehab is among the top five of the Forbiden shows which first appeared in l982. [Read more...]
Closet LandSomething 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 the need. It’s a disturbing piece of theatre that receives a solid and mostly involving production by the Molotov Theatre Group. [Read more...]
Miss Nelson Is Missing!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 entertaining production offers a wonderful family theatre opportunity for the holiday season. [Read more...]
The Violet HourI 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 just seen. What I have just seen is very good – a sizzling, thoughtful, provocative drama by the prolific author of Bal Masque. [Read more...]
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. [Read more...]
Grey GardensStudio 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 the labels of madness and eccentricity. And as goes the old saying, eccentricity doesn’t run in the Beale family of East Hampton … it gallops. [Read more...]
Dublin CarolConor 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 and authentic in every touch, even down to the Aer Lingus coffee mug. [Read more...]
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