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Archives for September 2010
Early extensions announced for Signature and Woolly shows
With the new season barely under way, two shows have already announced extensions based on high box office demand. Could it be that we are seeing early indicators for a season of full houses and maybe even some hard-to-get tickets?
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch join A Little Night Music
When Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch agree to return to Broadway for a spell, it doesn’t much matter in what. If you’re a theatre nut, as many of us are, you leave your cozy fire and hop on down to the Walter Kerr Theatre where they’ve both roosted for a while.
Something You Did
The times, they stay the same. For thirty long and lonely years the brilliant Alison Moulton has lived the bleak, unchanging life of a maximum security prison inmate. Her crime: lending a hand – and possibly some supplies – to her young activist friends for an anti-war bombing in downtown New York, which resulted in […]
Broadway’s Jill Paice in Chess at Signature
If you were not a fan of Jill Paice when you walked into Signature Theatre’s production of Chess, you surely became one after watching her powerful performance as Florence. Jill burns up The Max every time she steps on the stage, and when she sings Florence’s songs – it’s sheer ecstasy!
Imagine This – CD and DVD
Imagine this: you’ve written a musical that you think has great music. It has been recorded and performed in concert, but can’t quite get a full staging because people say the book is weak and the lyrics banal. What to do? How about writing another musical with a different lyricist and a different librettist about […]
Page to Stage: It’s big, it’s free, it’s all weekend long
While some head for the beaches, actors, directors and theatre goers know the place to be this Labor Day weekend is the Kennedy Center, for the 9th annual Page to Stage new plays and musicals festival.
Cherry Smoke
When I say that the chameleon Tim Getman has revealed yet another unexpected side of himself, I’m not just referring to the drastic change in hairstyle. For Cherry Smoke, he’s sporting a head buzzed to the scalp – a look that goes well with the lock-jawed sneer on his face through much of this moody […]
Dinner with Friends
Playwright Donald Margulies has a way of building emotionally charged moments that begin benignly, even innocently, and then before you know it—bam, right in the kisser. His Dinner with Friends playing at the Olney Theatre Center does just that,
The Side Show interviews
Shelly Work, Amanda Rife on playing Daisy and Violet Hilton, and David Gregory on directing Side Show at Teatro 101 Whenever I hear that Side Show is being produced in our area, I find a way to see it. I was so impressed by Teatro 101’s production of Violet, (which I recently named as one […]
Chess, Cold War meets hot rock
Chess is Cold War meets hot rock. It’s a tour de force of intelligence, emotional intensity and intrigue (political and personal), sporting a jaw-dropping score with music by ABBA’s Benny & Bjorn (Mama Mia!) and lyrics by Tim Rice (Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar among his impressive catalog of hits).