Performing Arts
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Gift's take on Judas has hard edges, but tender heartMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Gift Theatre's "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" clocked in at 2 hours, 40 minutes. They were the speediest nearly 3 hours I've experienced in the theater in some time. ...
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'Sweet Charity,' sweet indeedMar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Everyone knows the "showstopper," the number that so delights an audience, they can't stop applauding. Most musicals count themselves lucky to have one. Drury Lane Thea...
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Awakening to self-acceptanceMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "A Man of No Importance" put a smile on my face. It lasted the better part of Bailiwick Repertory's enthusiastic revival of the chamber musical by the "Ragtime" trio of ...
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Pared down 'Carousel' gets to the heart of the matterMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - The scant whimsy that Court Theatre's gracefully unadorned "Carousel" evokes comes in the form of a small, gilded horse suspended above John Culbert's sparse, wood-plank...
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Intimate 'M. Butterfly' succeeds on many levelsMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly" is many things. A masterful deconstruction of Puccini's masterwork, "Madame Butterfly," Hwang's smart, multilayered play is also a cle...
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'Match' doesn't light up stageMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - From the title of the play you expect to see something incendiary. Unfortunately, Stephen Belber's "Match" fails to fully ignite. The problem with the mystery/relationsh...
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Theater briefsMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - What's new Redmoon Theatre's latest spectacle -- a Depression-era tale about a man reflecting on his life -- incorporates original gospel and folk music as well as the c...
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On stageMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Man's best friend In the midst of his mid-life crisis, Greg adopts Sylvia, a frisky female "dog" who upsets his marriage to Kate, in A.R. Gurney's romantic comedy "Sylvi...
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Director unfazed by farce's difficultyMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Theatre Wit artistic director Jeremy Wechsler is serious about comedy. That's a good thing, because the comedy he's currently directing, "Feydeau-Si-Deau" (which opened ...
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Commanding British actor Paul Scofield dies at age 86
Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - LONDON -- Paul Scofield, a commanding stage and screen actor indelibly stamped on filmgoers' minds as the doomed philosopher-statesman Sir Thomas More in "A Man For All ...