It’s a brand new day for New Jersey, thanks to Broadway director John Rando’s latest hit The Toxic Avenger. John Rando will always be remembered for his Tony winning staging of one of my favorite musicals – Urinetown. [Read more...]
Toxic Avenger’s John Rando
June 11, 2009 By 1 Comment
It’s a brand new day for New Jersey, thanks to Broadway director John Rando’s latest hit The Toxic Avenger. John Rando will always be remembered for his Tony winning staging of one of my favorite musicals – Urinetown. [Read more...]
Actor David Marks dead at 49
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Veteran comic actor David Marks, a Helen Hayes laureate for his performance as an uncanny handyman in Arena’s Briar Patch, died in his Washington home last Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 49. [Read more...]
Lincolnesque
June 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A delusional janitor, believing he is Abraham Lincoln, helps write speeches that inspire a political campaign. In lesser hands, this premise would run sitcom thin. [Read more...]
Cyrano de Bergerac
June 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
Usually, the success of Cyrano de Bergerac depends upon the perfomance of the actor playing the French swordsman with the heart of a poet and the prodigious proboscis. Yet in the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s quality outdoor staging of the classic work, [Read more...]
Mummy in the Closet: The Return of Eva Peron
June 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In this impressive GALA-commissioned musical, composer Mariano Vales saturates us with ardent Argentinian soul music which transitions from tango, to salsa and waltz in perfect synchronization
Looped
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Fans of Rhoda Morgenstern look out, because Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead is not your mama’s Rhoda. Harper achieves the affect and mannerisms of the husky-voiced contrary star past her prime and gives life a big kick in the pants. [Read more...]
The Tonys shine on Signature, 33 Variations and Next to Normal
June 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last night’s Tony Awards reflected that Washington’s influence on American theatre is being felt in New York. Pre-broadcast, Eric Schaeffer accepted regional theatre’s highest recognition, [Read more...]
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Philanthropist and Theatre World Awards
June 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
August Wilson accomplished miracles when he completed his 10 play cycle covering the African American experience over the 20th century. [Read more...]
A Sleeping Country
June 5, 2009 By 1 Comment
Unlike garden variety sleeplessness, the sinister version of insomnia featured in A Sleeping Country is so devastating to the brain and well being, that it has a name, is genetically transferred through generations, and carries a death sentence. [Read more...]
The Glass Menagerie
June 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There is a special atmosphere created when Helen Hayes winner, Jim Petosa, conducts a production and this Glass Menagerie at Olney Theatre is no exception. [Read more...]
