Richard Seff, Greg Anthony, Roger Anderson, and Peter Flynn on polishing their musical SHINE! for NYMF Many of our readers know Richard Seff as the columnist of ‘NY Theatre Buzz’ here on DC Theatre Scene, but what many of you don’t know is that Richard Seff is a playwright, and, in the case of SHINE! […]
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch join A Little Night Music
When Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch agree to return to Broadway for a spell, it doesn’t much matter in what. If you’re a theatre nut, as many of us are, you leave your cozy fire and hop on down to the Walter Kerr Theatre where they’ve both roosted for a while.
Wife to James Whelan
The Mint Theatre is housed in a black box in an office building on West 43rd Street in New York. It’s not a particularly inviting space, yet it continues to enrich our seasons by uncovering little known plays, by investigating their histories, and often bringing back plays that failed commercially, connecting them to research that […]
Secrets of the Trade
Jonathan Tolins is a gifted playwright who has stayed pretty much in his own personal backyard in tackling his issues of the day. The Twilight of the Golds introduced him to me seventeen years ago when it featured Jennifer Grey on Broadway for a short run.
The Grand Manner
Not many who are around today ever saw the legendary Katharine Cornell on stage, for she retired in 1961. At that time, her husband Guthrie McClintock passed away, and she would not work without him, as he’d directed everything she’d done on the New York stage. I, however, did catch her act on several occasions, […]
The Addams Family
Send in the clowns – Don’t bother, they’re here. They are all at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway where they are working overtime to make The Addams Family the laugh riot that it almost is.
The Glass Menagerie
I’m sorry to say I neglected this Roundabout revival of Tennessee Williams’ first success earlier, because it is closing in several days, and you should know about it. It opened in very late April at the off Broadway Laura Pels Theatre and its notices were smashing. Now I add my small voice to those glowing […]
Another Part of the Forest
The Peccadillo Theatre’s production of Lillian Hellman’s Another Part of the Forest is a corker of a melodrama filled with colorful dialogue and well plotted one-upsmanship throughout, worth making the effort to see it.
That Face
The production is impeccable, beautifully cast and directed by Sarah Benson. In addition to Ms. Robins’ honest and searing performance as Martha, her son Henry is beautifully played by Christopher Abbott with tremendous force and conviction.
Red
Watching paint dry in John Logan’s Red, is anything but dull; it’s totally fulfilling. Alfred Molina is stunning as Mark Rothko.
The Metal Children
Adam Rapp is an Obie award winning playwright and director, and he would appear to freelance, for his plays have been done at A.R.T., the Rattlestick Players, The Bush in London, at Playwrights’ Horizons and the Flea. I’ve heard good things about his work, most recently about Red Light Winter,
Speaking with the Winners at the Drama Desk Awards
I was warned by the press representative that the press room at The Drama Desk Awards was going to be a “zoo.” Nothing prepared me for the battling photographers, the screaming of “Can you please move to the right? Can you please move to the left? Can you move to the center?” and the pushing […]