Stephen Cole and David Krane on the musical The Road to Qatar!
January 31, 2011 By 3 Comments
Direct from its world premiere at Lyric Stage, Irving, Texas in October 2009, where it won the coveted Best New Play or Musical award from the Dallas-Fort Worth Drama Critics Forum, The Road to Qatar! began previews on January 25th at The York Theatre in NYC. [Read more...]
Black Watch
January 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Leave aside your opinions, your analyses, and your political positions, and come join the Black Watch as they go to the sweltering deserts of Iraq, and look war in the face. [Read more...]
The Carpetbagger’s Children
January 30, 2011 By 1 Comment
The past and present don’t collide in Harrison, Texas so much as they come to an uneasy truce. In the early years of Reconstruction, when townsfolk feared and distrusted the southern migration of Union families, the challenge to overcome the recent past was steep indeed. A few decades later, swept up in the industrial boom of another, bigger war, the tenant farmers in agricultural towns like Harrison began to fear that the values of their small-town present were slipping into the past. [Read more...]
Let’s get Klingon
January 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
WASHINGTON SHAKESPEARE TO REPRISE THE BARD IN KLINGON FOR BBC
TaH latlh heglu’meH. That is the question. In Klingon! And to answer it, acclaimed British actor Stephen Fry (“Wilde“, “Blackadder”, “Bones” to name a few and occasional guest on the BBC hit motor show Top Gear ) will perform a scene from Hamlet in Klingon here next month. [Read more...]
Stomp
January 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
The long running, award winning percussive hit, Stomp, has returned with a bang to the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 30. The show is a spectacle of percussion, movement and visual comedy, with no spoken dialogue, that takes the audience on an eye-opening journey of how music, rhythm and dance can develop by using everyday “musical instruments” like paper bags, metal paint cans and plastic tubs. You will be dancing in your seat to the energizing pulse of Stomp. [Read more...]
The New York Idea
January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Atlantic Theater Company has enriched us with productions of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and Spring Awakening, both of which moved on to acclaim on Broadway. For these and other productions like Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, the company has been recipient of Lucille Lortel and Tony Awards, and it is among our city’s most highly prized and praised theatrical institutions. In its 23 years of operation, currently under the artistic leadership of Neil Pepe, it has mounted 125 plays, all of them with distinction. [Read more...]
Cymbeline
January 27, 2011 By 2 Comments
Cymbeline‘s disparate themes and credulity-stretching plot have always posed serious challenges to any director willing to take it on. That’s one of the reasons it’s not often staged. Case in point: Shakespeare Theatre’s new production of Cymbeline, now playing at the Lansburgh, is the very first time they’ve mounted the play in their long and storied history. [Read more...]
Mirandy and Brother Wind
January 26, 2011 By 2 Comments
The long awaited world premiere musical Mirandy and Brother Wind at Adventure Theatre is a gem of a show with an excellent cast, exciting new music and a piercingly creative story. Patricia C. McKissack’s original tale of a spunky young girl who tries to capture the wind as her dance partner to win a special contest is both a Caldecott and Coretta Scott King award winner, and a new musical waiting to happen. The story comes to life in the creative hands of Michael Bobbitt, who helped adapt the script, and we are all the better for it. [Read more...]
Tynan
January 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
Sex and theater criticism are not synonymous. Although the majority of ink-stained wretches clean up well, it is a rare occurrence for theatergoers to whistle appreciatively under their collective breaths and say “Wow, now there goes a gorgeous hunk of critic.”
Dangerous sex appeal is classically the provenance of the actors onstage, the stray Svengali-like theater head or magnetic director. Not the critic. [Read more...]
Seussical, The Musical Off-Broadway Cast Recording
January 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There is more than one way to skin a cat – or, in this case, a Cat in the Hat. John Yap’s marvelous JAY label from England captures the bright, lively, nearly-floating sound of the Off-Broadway production of a musical that seemed satisfyingly full-throated and jazzy but somehow nearly symphonic when it debuted on Broadway. [Read more...]
