392 stories from The Wicked Stage
This may be an unconventional use of my blog, but it's come to my attention that a friend has a block of good orchestra seats for this coming Saturday night's performance (June 25 at 8 pm) o…
There's a lot of Shakespeare coming our way this summer--more than the usual Central Park fare, what with Lincoln Center importing the Royal Shakes for a four-show rep next month.But a quick…
Still not up for a ton of post-conference blogging (yet). Here are some bits and pieces:Oregon Shakes has a broken theater.The Taper's Michael Ritchie: "Fuck subscribers. I'm so tired of sub…
I've got much to blog about, after a week in my old L.A. stomping grounds and four days of the TCG conference...but while I catch up with a week's worth of emails and StageGrade etc., please…
I'll be traveling next week, mostly for this conference you may have heard about. I leave you with the strong recommendation to catch Tanya Saracho's Enfrascada, a Clubbed Thumb production, …
This should be interesting: The LA Times will host a panel discussion on my pet subject next week:Is Los Angeles a "theater town"? New York. Chicago. Seattle. San Francisco. For many, tho…
I can't be objective about LA Times theater critic Charles McNulty. He's one of the nation's finest theater critics; I think that was clear well before he won the Nathan. But I did campaign …
"I once saw Stephen Sondheim, at the press opening of a Coleman show, nearly fall out of his seat with delight at an unexpected modulation."-Michael Feingold, writing about the Cy Coleman r…
Been buried. Two links to explain why, and still more for your reading pleasure:The StageGrade Critics Tony Poll 2011: A lot of Mormons, a lot of strong male performances.A preview of Kate F…
In honor of Dylan's 70th, and because I just reckoned with another Midwestern Jewish artist's relationship with Brecht, it's worth revisiting this juicy piece by Jason Zinoman after Chronicl…
I was underwhelmed by the current revival of Anything Goes, but I found Sutton Foster riveting; like Kelli O'Hara or Raul Esparza, or any of her overqualified generation of musical theater t…
Seen on Nassau Blvd. in Greenpoint this morning.
Though he's a bit shrill about it, Eric Alterman has done due diligence in taking apart the politics part of Andrew Ferguson's fawning piece about David Mamet's "conversion" to the right (wh…
Roughly once a quarter I write about Broadway shows for the Catholic journal America, and though I wish I had seen the relatively amazing Jerusalem and the surprisingly (to me, at least) sha…
photo by Sara Krulwich/New York TimesI enjoyed the premiere of Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen's Shaggs musical back in 2003, so I'm especially happy to see it finally make it to New York with…
"Lynn Nottage may well be the one black playwright of whom it cannot be said that she amassed her many awards on her race and gender." -John Simon, reviewing By the Way, Meet Vera StarkIf I …
Must a play be universal or ageless to be great? Doesn't theater, that most ephemeral of art forms, really live only in the moment and space of a particular performance? Do we watch theater …
