Articles filed under Theater
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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 86Mar 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 ...
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Van Dyke marks 'Poppins' reunion: 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'Mar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES -- Dick Van Dyke may be 82, but he can still get 14 syllables into a single word. Van Dyke sang "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" on Monday night at the G...
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'Carter's Way' doesn't hit all the right notesMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Like a composer weaving together multiple melodies to create a symphonic poem, playwright/director Eric Simonson weaves together several themes in "Carter's Way." This ...
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Greasy Joan's modern flair enlivens MoliereMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The mission of Greasy Joan & Co. as expressed in rhyme, involves re-imagining classics for contemporary times. For its first foray into the oeuvre of Moliere, the compa...