Like Dahl’s famous peach, this larger-than-life production teems with fun. A bit of genre anxiety robs the story of some of the stage magic it deserves, but there’s still plenty to savor in Imagination Stage’s reinvention of a well-loved classic.
Archives for April 8, 2013
The Mountaintop at Arena Stage
Arena Stage’s co-production of The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life raises the question of whether to judge a production on how you feel when the curtain falls or the next day.
Opera based on Cather short story next up for Urban Arias
The world premiere of Paul’s Case, an original opera based on a Willa Cather short story, will be UrbanArias’s next production, opening April 20th, the company announced today.
Kinky Boots
The Golden Age of musicals on Broadway has been over for several years now. I think on that we are all agreed (by “all” I mean those of us who were around to revel in it, to appreciate it). Little by little, the standards for what makes a great musical have slipslid to the point […]
Mary T. and Lizzy K. extends to May 5
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due to popular demand, the world premiere play Mary T. & Lizzy K., written and directed by Tazewell Thompson, will add another six performances, extending the nearly sold-out run to May 5, 2013.
LBJ play wins Steinberg prize; CATF debut is second place
All the Way, a story about Lyndon Johnson’s frantic efforts to win passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, has won the 2013 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award and $25,000 for playwright Robert Schenkkan, the American Theatre Critics Association announced Sunday night at the Humana Festival.