Jean-Paul Sartre said that Hell was other people. He didn’t know the half of it. For what Hell could be fresher than a pub full of academics with the teensy-weensy specialty of Scottish border ballads, locked in on a snowy evening?
Archives for November 2012
Bring It On: The Musical
Amanda Green and Lin-Manuel Miranda ought to sue. I have no idea whether or not their lyrics are first rate because I still haven’t heard them, even though I was there at a recent matinée of Bring It On, the lively and good looking musical at the St. James. It purports to be about two […]
Bruce Dow on being Bottom
Actor Bruce Dow had a confession to make. “I never thought I’d do Bottom.”
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
This musical, based on Charles’ Dickens final, unfinished novel, enjoyed a run of over 600 performances in 1986-7 but has only popped up here and there intermittently these past 25 years. Leave it to the Roundabout, ever vigilant, to scoop it up from limbo. I recently flayed the good folks there for what I found […]
From Mulan to Eliza Doolittle. Manna Nichols on her new starring role
– This is a the second in our 2 part look at the new production of Lerner and Loewe’s masterpiece musical My Fair Lady about to open at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. – The last time audiences in Washington saw Manna Nichols, she was performing as a proud Chinese girl […]
You For Me For You
North Korea. There are probably immediate connotations associated with this Asian country with a storied past. The Korean peninsula, bordering Russia, China and the Sea of Japan, was once an empire. After early times of isolation, and annexation by Japan from 1910 to the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two separate, […]
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie
Joy comes from a number of places. Nostalgia, while not joyful in and of itself, can bring a certain quiet excitement. Especially for a time long removed, a time before cell phones, before constant Internet access, before 24-hour news cycles. A time when people hitchhiked around the country and made ends meet by picking apricots […]
Grace
The new play, Grace, at the Cort on Broadway, is a revelation. For starters, it makes it clear that Paul Rudd is far more than a dimple and a charming smile. The lad can act, and though he’s hinted at that before in London in Long Day’s Journey into Night, and Off-Broadway in The Shape […]
Evita – 2012 Broadway Revival recording
Every week, the box office at the Marquis Theatre in New York’s Marriott Marquis pulls in another $1 million (or more) for the current revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock-ish bio-musical of Eva Perón.
Rorschach announces its 2012-13 season
Rorschach Theatre will be conjuring one classic and one modern myth in its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last Monday.
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Roundabout is offering us some very large scale productions this season, and Cyrano de Bergerac at the American Airlines Theatre is certainly one of them. Edmond Rostand wrote it in 1897 and it was inspired by the adventures of the real “Cyrano” who romped around France in the mid seventeenth century during the reigns […]
STC’s next – get thee to the tavern for Scotland Fringe hit Prudencia Hart
A taste of Scottish culture and an extraordinary journey can be washed down with an ice-cold beer, courtesy of a traveling troupe of actors who will perform in one of D.C.’s popular bars.