Rob McClure on playing Mozart in Amadeus
February 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Rob McClure is a performer who can do it all. He’s a puppeteer – spending many years pulling the strings in Avenue Q. He’s a hysterical physical comedian, leaping around while playing the flaming Carmen Ghia in The Producers and Charlie Chaplin in a new musical. Through March 6th, Rob is playing the manic genius – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. It’s not surprising to me that critics are raving about his performance as the child-like and annoying Mozart. [Read more...]
Director Seth Rozin on Silverhill
October 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Director Seth Rozin talks about InterAct Theatre’s production of Silverhill
Part 2 of a series of chats with Philadelphia directors.
Before I plan a trip to Philadelphia, I always check to see if InterAct has a show running. This weekend, 6 members of The Ushers and Broadway Bound Meetup will be heading to Philly with me for a theatre-filled weekend. I can’t wait to introduce them to the brilliance of InterAct’s productions by attended their new production of Silverhill. I asked Director Seth Rozin to tell us about the production. [Read more...]
Richard Stafford directs Curtains
October 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Part 1 in a series on Philadelphia directors from
Curtains, SilverHill, Macbeth, and The Three Penny Opera.
It’s one of my favorite Kander and Ebb musicals and I’ll be seeing the final performance of Curtains at the intimate Walnut Street Theatre on October 24th. Last year I loved Walnut’s production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and was impressed by the work of director Richard Stafford, so I was delighted to hear that he was back at The Walnut to direct Curtains. [Read more...]
DC’s Sherri L. Edelen and Joe Calarco receive Philly Theatre’s highest honors
October 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
Helen Hayes Award winners Sherri L. Edelen and Joe Calarco Receive Barrymore Awards for their work in Philadelphia Theatre Company’s The Light in Piazza
The 16th annual Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre in Philadelphia were presented by Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, on Monday, October 4th at the Walnut Street Theatre. [Read more...]
Mark Jacoby on playing Tevye
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mark Jacoby on playing Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s Fiddler on the Roof.
It was so nice to get a second chance to interview Mark Jacoby as he was “Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum-ing” through the role of Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s stunning production of Fiddler on the Roof. Mark talks about what he brings to this famous role, and why the show is still so popular more than four decades later after it opened on Broadway. [Read more...]
Jeffrey Coon on playing Georges Seurat
June 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Report from Philadelphia: Jeffrey Coon in the role of Georges Seurat in The Arden’s Sunday in the Park with George.
It’s always an honor and pleasure to watch Jeff Coon perform. He can do it all - musicals, plays, and children’s theatre. He has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard on the stage. A staple in the Philadelphia theatre community, Jeffrey Coon is now portraying painter Georges Seurat in Arden Theatre Company’s sumptuous production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George. [Read more...]
Walter Charles celebrates 40th year on stage in Philly
June 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
What can you say about a man whose career has spanned over four decades with no end in sight? Walter Charles is a rare breed! He’s charming, is constantly working, and is respected so much by his peers. DC theatergoers were fortunate to see Walter’s work as Herr Schultz in his Helen Hayes Award nominated performance in Arena Stage’s 2006 production of Cabaret. [Read more...]
Opening new ROOMS in Philly
April 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s starting to make the regional theatre rounds, new productions are popping up, and there are no happier people than composer Paul Scott Goodman and his wife Miriam Gordon, who composed and co-wrote the book of the musical ROOMS a rock romance. DC audiences and critics loved the MetroStage production of the show, [Read more...]
Hugh Panaro gets into Fagin makeup
December 10, 2009 By 2 Comments
He played the Artful Dodger when he was 15, and now actor Hugh Panaro is in his backstage dressing room, transforming himself into Fagin in the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of Oliver as he schmoozes with Joel Markowitz. Listen as he applies his prosthetic nose, makeup, beard, warts and wig to create the face of the older, crochety mentor of Dickens’ den of thieves. [Read more...]
Sherri L. Edelen and Matthew Scott in Philly’s The Light in the Piazza
December 1, 2009 By 3 Comments
Joel Markowitz met with actors Sherri L. Edelen and Matthew Scott just before the Sunday, November 22nd matinee of The Light in the Piazza at Philadelphia Theatre Company. [Read more...]
