I caught a matinee of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this week, and as I watched young Nick Jonas prancing about as J. Pierrepont Finch in the current Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows master work, I suddenly had a revelation about the recent and current Broadway scene.
Archives for January 30, 2012
No Rules takes a new look at Peter Pan
Actors playing Peter and Wendy give us their takes on the new play No Rules Theatre Company is getting ready to open the world premiere of Peter Pan: the Boy Who Hated Mothers with John Evans Reese as Peter and Megan Graves as Wendy Darling. John answered a few questions for No Rules – which […]
Jennifer Nelson on directing Necessary Sacrifices
Jennifer L. Nelson is the Director of Special Programming at Ford’s Theatre, and the director of their most recent production, Necessary Sacrifices. This new drama — the fourth commission by playwright Bill Hellesen for Ford’s — examines a series of historic interactions between Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, who both find themselves at extraordinary moments in their lives and […]
Elephant Room
Think back to that oddball uncle who always showed up at your birthday party with a trick up his sleeve. You remember him. Loud blazer, toothy grin, something not quite right about his hair. But he could pull coins from your ear, guess the card in your hand, and make a dollar bill whole again. […]