If Mother Teresa could see us all now, wondering how to play our parts, she might remind us that we can do no great things, only small things with great love. But more often than not in The Saint Plays, that great love gets channeled into the small things themselves.
Archives for September 2010
Adventure Theatre adds Harry Connick, Jr.’s new musical The Happy Elf
When Adventure Theatre’s Artistic Director Michael Bobbitt was offered the chance to premiere the stage adaptation of Harry Connick Jr,’s animated Christmas classic The Happy Elf, he didn’t hesitate to add a second holiday show. “How could I say ‘no’ to something like that?” said in a phone interview. To do so – Adventure Theatre […]
The Great Game: Afghanistan, Part 3
The Great Game, Part III – 1996-2010, Enduring Freedom Of all the moments of history, the one we understand least is the present. Thus The Great Game, Part III – 1996-2010, Enduring Freedom is wrapped in an amorphous unease, much as our current presence in Central Asia is. We know how the British and Soviet […]
Sondheim on Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim is a man well worth knowing. Warm, witty and wise in his public persona, with a catalogue of songs and shows of high quality. PS Classics’ two-disc recording can be the introduction you need.
The Great Game: Afghanistan, Part 2
“I’m not really here for the theatrical entertainment,” a friend of mine said as we settled in to watch Part II of The Great Game. “I’m here because I think I ought to know more about Afghanistan than I do.” Virtue is always rewarded; we were about to see the most entertaining of the three […]
MAE
Now playing at Flashpoint’s tiny Mead Theatre Lab, MAE — billed as a “full length play with music”— is playwright Kathryn O’Sullivan’s lighthearted though occasionally somber riff on the life and good times of legendary entertainer Mae West. Directed by Paul Awad, the play itself is spotty. But it’s frequently redeemed by an astounding performance […]
El Caballero de Olmedo
How can a hero be so blind to the palpable warnings encircling him; so deaf to his own instincts? Lope de Vega, the Spanish Shakespeare, shows us the answer through Alonso, the title character from one of his masterpieces, El Caballero de Olmedo (The Knight from Olmedo.) The knight believes he is invincible because of […]
The Tenth Man
The Tenth Man is considered a curiosity in the catalog of the great writer Paddy Chayefsky, lacking the gritty realism of his famous early teleplays such as the classic “Marty” (later an award-winning film) or the sharp satiric edge of his later screenplays such as “Network” and “The Hospital”. This dramatic-mystical-comedic-romantic-fable about the exorcism of […]
Making their musical Shine!
Richard Seff, Greg Anthony, Roger Anderson, and Peter Flynn on polishing their musical SHINE! for NYMF Many of our readers know Richard Seff as the columnist of ‘NY Theatre Buzz’ here on DC Theatre Scene, but what many of you don’t know is that Richard Seff is a playwright, and, in the case of SHINE! […]
The Great Game: Afghanistan, Part 1
Is there any place in the world as remote to us as Afghanistan? We have been there nine years now, the uneasy guest of an uneasy host, and still we see the nation as through a glass darkly. The characters which we read about in our blogs and newspapers seem like knaves or lunatics,
Fringe shows – not just for summer anymore
Some Capital Fringe shows which found enthusiastic audiences in last summer’s festival are staging brief comebacks this fall. John Feffer’s solo show Edible Rex, the play in which three very different men answer the question – “How far would you go for the perfect meal?”, opens Friday, Sept 24th for 5 performances at Warehouse Theater. […]
Glimpses of the Moon
Pop, fizz, deliriously good. Mash up the sensibilities of Gatsby and Thoroughly Modern Millie; pour over jazz-kissed show tunes laced with interesting harmonies (John Mercurio); stir in a witty book and lyrics (Tajlei Levis) — especially dazzling when cross-talking lyrics float on the intricate score; and before you can say, “Gilded Age” or “Roaring Twenties,” […]