– Will Gartshore has been nominated seven times for a Helen Hayes Award and received two awards, each for musical theatre performances. – If someone has just told you that they don’t go to the theatre, take them. Take them to a brilliant piece of theatre. It never fails.
Archives for April 10, 2012
Announcing the DCTS Helen Hayes Awards 2012 series
Beginning today, look to DC Theatre Scene for a new series of articles all about this past season’s shows, featuring many of DC’s most well-loved theatre artists. The series, called Helen Hayes Awards 2012, will run throughout the next two weeks leading up to the night of the awards on Monday, April 23rd. We start […]
Out Of My Dreams – Oscar Hammerstein II
The search for a full understanding of the life and works of Oscar Hammerstein II might well begin with this twelve-song disc, but it certainly won’t end here. Indeed, the disk will serve only to whet an appetite, not satisfy it.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
How sad, and stirring, to observe the author counting the coins of his childhood. I am sure some playwrights wonder, as they tally up days gone by, whether a crisis is costly enough to pay off on the page as good drama. But Eugene O’Neill, that sad master, gave us something priceless using only a […]