When The Lion King debuted in the fall of 1997, Julie Taymor revolutionized Broadway with the use of puppetry in the show. Last spring puppetry moved to a new level on the New York stage with War Horse. In the show, which came to the U.S. from London, won 5 Tony Awards, including Best Play [...]
21Dec11
War Horse
12Mar11
Making the Boys
Crayton Robey’s documentary Making the Boys covers far more than the genesis of the play and movie versions of Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking The Boys in the Band. It’s also a look at Crowley’s life and a time capsule of gay history from the 60s and 70s. Crowley started in the entertainment business working on the [...]
An incredible performance from Olympia Dukakis anchors the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of the 1963 Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. Dukakis plays Flora Goforth, an American window who has retreated to her home in the Italian mountains to write her memoirs and to die. She has a small group of [...]
16Aug10
Canned Ham
Tom Judson has had an interesting journey. He’s composed for movies, TV (as diverse fare as MTV and Sesame Street. He’s toured the country in the Broadway musicals Cabaret and 42nd Street. And in the middle of one of those tours he was discovered, at age 42, by Chi Chi LaRue who made him into [...]
11Aug10
Slap & Tickle
Slap and tickle is something that happens somewhere between flirting and foreplay. In this case Slap & Tickle is also the name of a new play by David Parr that’s playing at The Provincetown Playhouse. This caught our eye because it’s directed by David Drake, a writer and actor we’ve seen in The Night Larry [...]
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Hamlet is the sun. Hamlet is the sun? What? Welcome to Romeo & Hamlet, written by R. Jonathan Chapman and Kevin Stefan using a mix of their own words, original Shakespeare lines as well as altered Shakespeare text like the above. The [...]
22Mar10
Next Fall
Geoffrey Nauffts’s Next Fall is an extraordinary piece of work that tackles many deep issues in its just over two hour running time. The show spans a five year relationship between Luke, someone with deeply held Christian believes, and Adam, a non-believer. From their first breakfast together Luke’s faith in God is an issue. Adam [...]
