Archive for the ‘Theater’ Category
“Good Girls Only,” The Rehearsal Club Musical – an Interview with the Author of the Book, Charles Leipart
40 mins. While at the present moment the fur continues to fly over a small plot of Manhattan real estate, 45 West 53rd Street, on which the inscrutable, but oddly appealing former home of the American Folk Art Museum stands, few people remember a former occupant of the land, the Rehearsal Club, which, as it [...]
Ann, Written and Performed by Holland Taylor, at the Lincoln Center Theater
Ann written and performed by Holland Taylor directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein sets by Michael Fagin costumes by Julie Weiss lighting by Matthew Richards sound by Ken Huncovsky; projections by Zachary Borova wig design by Paul Huntley production manager, Peter Fulbright production stage manager, J. P. Elins general manager, 101 Productions Ltd. Lincoln Center Theater [...]
More United Solo Performances: Award-Winners Grace Kiley and Tim Collins, as well as Heather Ehlers and John Jiler
With one hundred productions spread over five weeks, I rather doubt that anyone has seen all of the United Solo Festival. After the sessions I previously reported on, I returned for one show I didn’t want to miss, Tim Collins’ On the Outskirts of Everything and Heather Ehlers’ Spin, and later for the final weekend, [...]
Chaplin the Musical, at the Barrymore Theatre
Chaplin Barrymore Theatre Rob McClure – Charlie Chaplin Jim Borstelmann – Alf Reeves Jenn Colella – Hedda Hopper Erin Mackey – Oona O’Neill Michael McCormick – Max Sennett, Charlie Chaplin Sr., McGranery Christiane Noll – Hannah Chaplin Hayley Podschun – Mildred Harris Zachary Unger – Young Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan Wayne Alan Wilcox – Sydney [...]
The Third United Solo Theater Festival at Theatre Row off Time Square: a Chef, Self-Help Sleazoids, and a Spirited Gal from Texas
October and November are now firmly established as solo theater season in New York. United Solo, now in its third year, has grown by one third—to over 100 performances over a five-week period, from October 11 to November 18, 2012. Artistic Director Omar Sangare has been one of the leaders in solo theater for many [...]
Birthday Bashes Abound in the Big Apple: Garrison Keillor at 70 and Barbara Cook at 85
It isn’t often that two luminaries of the entertainment world publicly mark major milestones in the same week and city. Yet such was the case last week in New York: on Tuesday, Garrison Keillor reflected upon seven decades of life in a special appearance with the New York Philharmonic, and on Thursday, Barbara Cook celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday in Carnegie Hall, exactly one week in anticipation of the actual day.
Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf returns to New York…via Chicago
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee Booth Theatre, New York Cast: Tracy Letts – George Amy Morton – Martha Carrie Coon – Honey Madison Dirks – Nick Todd Rosenthal’s wonderfully disheveled living room set for the new Broadway production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a preview of emotional upheaval [...]
The Gore Vidal Memorial, as I saw it…
Most writers fall in love with their words. They greet changes to the text, particularly of a published work, with the blank astonishment of a mother confronted with criticism of her first-born child. This cannot be said of Gore Vidal, who died in Los Angeles at 86 on July 31st. I remember sitting in early [...]
