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Pride and Prejudice

November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Colin Firth is—and will always be—Mr. Darcy. But one does have to move beyond the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, albeit reluctantly.  [Read more...]

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Equivocation

November 29, 2011 By 2 Comments

Equivocation is a six-course meal of a play, not turkey and stuffing but some rarer and darker bird, with sides of squashed hopes, whipped religious feelings and humiliation pie – and yet, somehow, leavened with a yeasty and salty wit. [Read more...]

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Hirschfeld On Line

November 29, 2011 By 1 Comment

Set aside a month or two to absorb this book. It isn’t that it is extremely lengthy, its just 350 pages measuring 9″ by 12″. But most pages should be viewed and contemplated as a separate experience. If you rush through you will miss a great deal as the magic of a Hirschfeld drawing is how its simplicity carries so very much meaning. Hirschfeld had a wonderfully observant eye and he was incredibly skilled and highly imaginative in his use of a line to communicate he saw. [Read more...]

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Romeo and Juliet

November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

At the opening of the third production in Synetic Theater Company’s Silent Shakespeare Theater Festival ‘Speak No More’ I thought to myself, how can they top the muscular, driving ambition of their Macbeth? Or the sinuous, mind-blowing staged metaphor of the central spine of Othello (Never has jealousy been made so seductive or so evil.)  The evening did not diminish the other two productions, but this Romeo and Juliet is breathlessly youthful, deliciously sensual, and, as usual with Synetic, when the fights come, they kick ass! [Read more...]

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Cyber weekend for theatre lovers

November 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Theatre lovers haven’t been left out of the cyber super sales weekend. [Read more...]

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The Rough-Faced Girl

November 26, 2011 By 1 Comment

Synetic’s distinct style of telling stories through movement, fabric and mime is all over this touching and effective Native American tale of a young girl scarred by fire, who develops her own sense of self worth and beauty.  The tale focuses on two sisters making their way through life dealing with tragedy, unexpected twists, unanticipated turns, and dollops of delight and wonder. [Read more...]

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The Unequivocal Bill Cain

November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Telling the truth – then and now. An interview with the author of Equivocation 

Equivocation, opening next Monday at Arena Stage, is an unusual play and its author is an unusual playwright. In the play, Robert Cecil, spymaster to King James I, commissions William Shakespeare – here known familiarly as “Shag” – to write a play about the Gunpowder Plot, an unsuccessful effort to dynamite the House of Lords during the State Opening of England’s Parliament. [Read more...]

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A Broadway Christmas Carol

November 23, 2011 By 1 Comment

The earlier and earlier onset of the holiday season, marked by 24-7 Christmas radio and Santa greeting you at CVS in early November, is enough to drive a sane person underground until December 26th. However, despite the onerous onset of “Christmas Creep”, the yearly retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol somehow never goes out of style.

MetroStage puts their own stamp on Dickens’ tale with A Broadway Christmas Carol, a kinetic, toe-tapping holiday confection of a revue, featuring a talented trio of performers and clever Dickensian style parodies of Broadway show tunes.

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City of Angels

November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut is to be commended for unearthing City of Angels, a 1989 hit Broadway musical that is rarely done. It’s a very different sort of musical, with a jazzy score by Cy Coleman who has said: “I wanted to present real jazz as opposed to pastiche or the kind of choreographed jazz I’ve written for other shows. By real jazz I mean music whose rhythmic phrases you can’t describe but that when you’re snapping fingers to it, you say ‘this swings.’” [Read more...]

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The Legend of Buster Neal

November 23, 2011 By 1 Comment

For many young men in our favorite dramas, self-discovery means finding a way out from under the shadow of the father. But when strong, silent Dad shifts from the shadows to center stage, we get to climb the branches of the family tree that are less frequently grasped. [Read more...]

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