How, one wondered, would British playwright Richard Bean, whose hilarious farce One Man, Two Guvnors made a star out of James Corden, create something as funny for Americans out of the British game of snooker? He hasn’t, as it turns out. No, “The Nap,” Bean’s sophomore effort on Broadway, is not as soporific as its […]
Archives for September 29, 2018
Review: Bernhardt/Hamlet. Janet McTeer as Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet
At the very end of Bernhardt/Hamlet, a new play on Broadway by Theresa Rebeck, we see an actual 1899 film clip of the renowned 19th century actress Sarah Bernhardt on stage, in the role of Hamlet, dueling. Perhaps the clip is meant to drive home that the play we’ve just seen, about Sarah Bernhardt deciding […]