A Dangerous Method
December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s one of history’s greatest ironies: The pioneering psychologists, those men and women who first stepped foot onto the vast expanses of our subconscious minds, were themselves not exactly the tightest screws. Although according to “A Dangerous Method,” they might very well have given some pretty damn good screws. [Read more...]
Chinglish
December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here we have a comedy, a first, dealing with meeting the needs of the USA and China when doing business together. In Chinglish, David Henry Hwang’s play, a smalltime American business man is visiting a small company in Guiyang,China in an attempt to get a contract for his sign company to produce signs in English that are accurate translations of their Chinese originals. [Read more...]
The Lion King
December 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
When one mentions The Lion King, a succession of impressive numbers may come up, if the crowd is right. Take, for instance, 7, as in the 7th longest running Broadway musical in history. Or 70, as in 70 global theatre awards won. Fifty-four million audience members. Two hundred puppets. Twenty five types of wildlife. One very dedicated cast and crew. [Read more...]
Hairspray
December 14, 2011 By 5 Comments
It takes a tough man to be a tender drag queen. And local television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis does Edna Turnblad’s cha-cha heels and bazooka-sized bra proud in Signature Theatre’s radiant, ecstatic production of Hairspray, the 2006 musical about Baltimore in the segregated early 1960s that mixes racial integration with teen dance party syncopation. [Read more...]
Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Those who think of Chicago-based improv troupe The Second City as nothing but overpriced comedy workshops and “Saturday Night Live” auditions will be in for a strange awakening when they walk into Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies. [Read more...]
You, Nero
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A few times every season, assertions mount that there seem to be no more original story ideas out there. With Hollywood beginning production on the sixth “Fast and Furious” movie, it’s tempting to believe them sometimes. [Read more...]
Look, I Made a Hat
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Stephen Sondheim’s second volume of “Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany” titled “Look, I Made a Hat” has arrived just in time for either giving as a gift during the holiday season or sitting and reading during any time off a theatre lover has in a busy holiday month. [Read more...]
Holland Taylor on bringing Ann Richards to Washington
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When the call is for a smart, elegant, sophisticated woman who knows how to slip in a punch line, the answer is Holland Taylor. The star of stage, film and television found her match in the feisty star of Texas politics, Governor Ann Richards. [Read more...]
Much Ado about Floyd King and Ted van Griethuysen
December 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
Floyd and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with the Bard
Actors Floyd King and Ted van Griethuysen are mad about the Bard. They have nothing but good things to say about Shakespeare and not just because they are long-time members of the Shakespeare Theatre Company and teach at its Academy for Classical Acting.
Hugh Jackman – Back on Broadway
December 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
There are several Hugh Jackmans. The most familiar perhaps is the X Man “Wolverine,” but that hairy ape has little to do with at least four other Jackmans on display in this event. There is the beautifully produced baritone, the one who can sing the leads in Kiss Me, Kate, Show Boat, Oklahoma! or just about any other musical play of near or far vintage. Then there’s the crooner — the Sinatra Jackman who can whisper in your ear and, man or woman, make you squirmy. [Read more...]
