Michael Stebbins had to grow up, but lately he’s been thinking about the boy who never did. Peter Pan’s undying, almost mythic legacy led Stebbins, the Producing Artistic Director at Rep Stage, to read more deeply into the works of J. M. Barrie. It was here that he discovered Mary Rose, a chilling and powerful […]
Archives for November 2012
Killing Words (Palabras Encadenadas)
This one-act psychological thriller starts up with a video confession from an on-stage projector. What is chilling is the matter-of-fact way Ramon (Antonio Delli), in a full-faced close-up, tells us in a hushed voice, how he killed an old woman. “….I feel no remorse, not the slightest feeling of guilt. Nothing…..I strangled her…..She was old […]
Reviews: The sun comes out for Annie, and revisiting Rob McClure as Chaplin
There were two Sandys in town last week — there was the mongrel who attaches himself to Annie Warbucks in Annie at the Palace and of course there was the hurricane that attacked Broadway, Coney Island, the Rockaways, most of New Jersey, Staten Island and southern Connecticut.
Ro Boddie – at home on stage and now television
The rest of the country is starting to notice Ro Boddie.
All This Intimacy
If men were angels, Ty Green probably wouldn’t have gotten three women pregnant in one week. But men aren’t angels, and I suppose even a desultory poetry professor can manage a wild few nights from time to time.
Mary Rose
The current Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is a captivating prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that speaks of the effect of lost mothers on little boys and even unloved, scalawag pirates. We all know about lost boys and puckish fairies from Peter Pan, but a 1920 Barrie play, Mary Rose, goes deeper into […]
All My Sons
Strange that a play with the credentials of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is not produced nearly as often as some of its much better known “contemporaries.” It won the New York Drama Circle Critic’s Award in 1947 beating out O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and received Tony Awards for best author and best director (Elia […]
Signature Theatre honors Broadway’s Hal Prince with Sondheim Award
Legendary Broadway director/producer Harold “Hal” Prince will receive the fourth annual Sondheim Award from the Arlington, VA-based Signature Theatre, the company announced yesterday.
Mia Chung on writing You For Me For You
Mia Chung’s new play You For Me For You, opening this week, kicks off Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s “Free The Beast” campaign: a ten-year commitment to producing 25 world-premiere plays. Chung’s new play is a poignant look at the unique and insular life of contemporary North Koreans. A graduate of Brown University with an MFA […]
The New York theatre scene after Sandy’s exit
Hurricane Sandy caused a rare 2 day shutdown for Broadway theatres starting Monday, Oct 29. Despite a massive blackout, and the closure of mass transit and tunnels, actors, stagehands and house staff managed to open the theatres on Wed, Oct 31st. DCTS writer Susan Galbraith’s meeting in New York was canceled due to the […]
The Rest of the Story: A Life Completed
The late Arthur Laurents was a truth teller. The plays he wrote portrayed his honest view of life. The productions he directed sought to find the truth in the plays they performed. His book “Mainly On Directing” focused on the importance of truth in the theater. His autobiography, “Original Story By,” was filled to overflowing […]
Molly Smith’s ‘loverly’ My Fair Lady
– This is a two part look at the new production of Lerner and Loewe’s masterpiece musical My Fair Lady at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. – It was only a matter of time before Molly Smith got to My Fair Lady. In recent years, Smith’s productions of classic, American musicals […]