Report from ShowBiz Expo
April 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
For the past two years, I have attended the ShowBiz Expo at The Hilton in New York City. Like everyone else there – actors, writers, filmmakers, designers, producers, directors, the press, marketing firms, and so many vendors and exhibitors selling headshots, dental whitening, theatre training [Read more...]
The Old Settler
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
What a difference a decade makes! Let alone two or three. The attraction slowly growing in The Old Settler – between a fresh-faced young man of 29 and a downcast spinster of 55 – pushes a few love taboos, [Read more...]
60 Miles to Silver Lake
April 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Top Pick! – I’m sure some people remember those car rides to and from elementary school every day where the parents struggled getting even the littlest details about the day from their young ones, and sometimes the children had some unexpected advice for their parents. [Read more...]
The Seven Ages of Mime
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s rare that a theatre experience succeeds in reaching seemingly effortlessly across the ages. Happenstance Theatre’s The Seven Ages of Mime, plying the ancient art in an hour of poetic silence, laugh-out-loud slapstick and historical storytelling, [Read more...]
Joel Markowitz – getting discovered
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Joel Markowitz is always discovering new talent, and now media sources are discovering him. His DCTS column, Theatre Schmooze, is packed with performer news and views and he has done scores of interviews for DCTS, sitting down with stars and newcomers alike. Recently, Joel added a monthly preview column on BroadwayWorld to his busy to-do list. [Read more...]
Triumph of Love
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Triumph of Love is the Tina Fey of musicals—smart and sexy.
Those who prefer some brains with their bong-chica-bong-bong will revel in Olney Theatre Center’s goofy and gossamer-light production, directed by Clay Hopper with an appreciation for the old slap and tickle. [Read more...]
On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Skip the fall down Wonderland’s rabbit hole and check out this bizarre yet unique look at time travel through the eyes of demure but adventurous Victorian ladies.
(l-r) Tiffany Fillmore as Alex, Leigh Jameson as Mary and Natasha Staley as Fanny. (Photo:Stan Barouh
On The Verge, or The Geography of Yearning as staged by Jackson Phippin is chock full of good things. [Read more...]
Public Enemy
April 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Tommy Black, unemployed, miserable and depressed, has been cowering in a room in his mother’s house watching Jimmy Cagney movies, temporarily safe from the bullies and bullets of 1980s Belfast. Eventually, having absorbed some of Cagney’s swagger, he emerges, [Read more...]
La Cage aux Folles
April 20, 2010 By 4 Comments
This miracle musical from the pens of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein, based on a French play by Jean Poiret, first landed on our shores in 1983 with a cast headed by George Hearn and Gene Barry. It returns now in a revival which was conceived and born in England at the Menier Chocolate Factory [Read more...]
Searching for Gabriela
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Writers, one could argue, wield the most power out of any of us, since they build and destroy worlds with the flip of a pencil, the turn of a new idea. In Sybil R. Williams’s new play for the In Series, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral speaks more humbly of her craft. “The people walking on the road, they leave me their stories,” she murmurs, “and I pick them up where they fell.” [Read more...]
