In this installment, Stacy shares some memories about his performance as King Lear, and on the differences – as well as one big similarity – between Lear and Falstaff. The answers might surprise you. – DL
Archives for April 2014
The Thousandth Night
A simple tale about how tales are often more than simple, Carol Wolf’s The Thousandth Night at MetroStage is an enjoyable little punch to the gut.
The Most Happy Fella at Encores!
I’m doing this article on Frank Loesser’s master work even though it was performed as part of the NY Encores! season for only seven performances, and if you didn’t see it this past week, you won’t be able to. It closed as scheduled on April 6th. I’m hoping it will be recorded, and if it […]
Jack Marshall on producing the primal scream of the 50s and more works from the great American century
There are a lot of theaters in and around this city. Many have identities and missions that overlap, or that may even be seen as indistinguishable from one another. The American Century Theater (TACT) is not one of those theaters. Its mission is crystal clear. It does American plays written in the 20th century. If […]
Gunderson’s I and You wins $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA Award at Humana Festival
Lauren Gunderson, whose I and You played at Olney Theatre Center to significant critical and audience success, has won the prestigious Steinberg/ATCA award for that play, the American Theatre Critics announced Saturday night at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The award identified I and You as the best new play produced by regional theater […]
red, black, and GREEN: a blues (rbGb)
Some artists you can trust to bring their artistry to new heights, and that no matter what they do, it will be an electrifying and exuberant experience. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of those artists. Featured as part The Kennedy Center’s Collaboration with the Hi-ARTS/Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Joseph’s red, black & GREEN: a blues serves up […]
Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain Tonight!
As an unemployed actor six decades ago, Hal Holbrook starting digging through Mark Twain’s written words in order to fashion a staged interview in which the “father of American literature” (as William Faulkner deemed Twain) would come to life. From the interview, the event evolved into Mark Twain Tonight! in which one author’s distinctive humor […]
Win tickets to Washington Ballet’s Peter Pan
We have two pairs of tickets to Washington Ballet’s upcoming production of Peter Pan.
Camp David
Talk about your surreal moments. At the world premiere Thursday night of Lawrence Wright’s Camp David, a dramatization of the 13-day contretemps in 1978 between President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin, you watched Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn sitting in the audience watching younger versions of themselves onstage.
Denzel Washington and company shine in A Raisin in the Sun
When this Lorraine Hansberry drama first appeared on Broadway in 1959 it created a stir, for it was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on the main stem. Later that season Ms. Hansberry became the youngest American playwright, the fifth woman and the first African-American to win the Drama Critics Circle […]
Arguendo
I respected Arguendo more than I liked it. From a technical perspective, it’s near flawless. Four fine actors (Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Susie Sokol, and Ben Williams) play the nine justices of the 1990 Supreme Court in a mix and match fashion that lets them stretch different muscles as each of several justices, regardless of […]
All the Way
Broadway is moving closer to returning to the days of 25 actors filling a stage, of Street Scene and The Green Pastures and You Can’t Take It With You, and this one plays out in suggested settings in Washington, Atlantic City, Atlanta, Mississippi and in corners and corridors of the White House. With the help […]