Few things make theatre audiences more tense than dead bodies. Well, make that dead bodies played by live bodies, since it’s rare to see a fake dead body pass muster on stage. Why bother, when you have willing actors ready to look so believably, humanly dead? A corpse has the power to set us rigid […]
Archives for March 9, 2011
McNally-revised Pal Joey heads up Kennedy Center Season
The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its fifteen-production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McNally, as well as touring productions of current Broadway hits Memphis, Billy Elliot: The Musical, The Addams Family and La Cage aux Folles. Cate Blanchett’s Sydney Theatre Company […]
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Billy (Charles Johnson) is just like you. You have a J.D., an M.D. or a PhD in Political Science; Billy has a PhD in Horribleness. You hunger for a position with those powerful K Street lobbyists or that white-shoe law firm; Billy longs to join the Evil League of Evil. You have someone who you […]