392 stories from The Wicked Stage
Coming out the gate into 2013 a little buried under deadlines, not least for next week's staged reading of The Passion of Ed Wood, my long-gestating musical with Justin Warner (deets here).
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(photo by Scott Landis)
Incredibly busy at the moment, but I'll take a moment to point you to my latest review, of a particularly high-profile Broadway property:There's a classic bit of advi…
If Lincoln improves upon reflection, it is partly because it inspires reflection at all. That may sound like a low bar"there are plenty of subpar entertainments that may get stuck in our hea…
Katori Hall recently gave the keynote at TCG's recent Fall Forum, which I didn't get a chance to attend, so I'm glad to see that the speech is now up on the TCG blog.
It's worth listening t…
Hartmere and Intrabartolo (photo by Linda Lenzi)
In 2000, a scrappy little rock musical"sorry, "pop opera""called Bare became a sensation in the confines of Hollywood's Hudson Theater, the …
From the sleep-deprived depths of daddy leave, I come to you with a ticket giveaway offer: two tickets to Lincoln Center's revival of Clifford Odets' boxing drama Golden Boy, which will star…
C Lavrov and Sasha K Tuzova in an illustration from TEATP
Writing a feature on CSC's new production of Ivanov gave me the enviable homework of reading this lesser-known, infrequently seen C…
This past week my little family grew by one, so I'll be on official daddy leave for the next month or so, not only from American Theatre but from this blog (more or less).
I leave you in th…
Playwright Katori Hall on the cover of the October issue
This blog is still an indispensable platform for some of my thoughts about the theater and related arts, but it's hardly the only, a…
L.A.'s best stage director, Bart DeLorenzo, is profiled in LA Stage Times, in advance of his production of Cymbeline at A Noise Within:Earlier in DeLorenzo's career"particularly, he says, th…
Sarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, David Schwimmer, and Amy Ryan in Detroit (photo by Jeremy Daniel)As much as I share Charles Isherwood's love for Playwrights Horizons, which in so many ways …
Joy Zinoman; photo by Todd FransonMy friend and colleague Isaac Butler has said repeatedly of Joy Zinoman, the founding artistic of D.C.'s Studio Theatre, that she saved his life (something …
David Rakoff, 2010 (Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)I had no intention of wading into the tragedy-vs.-comedy mini-debate that Terry Teachout started last week with his W…
I wasn't a great lover of the recent Soho Rep Vanya, as regular readers of this blog know, but I remain a fan of nearly everyone involved, including actor Reed Birney, whose lovely interview…
The site of the original enchantment I must have been 11 or so when my dad pointed out the cover of the Scottsdale Progress's weekend arts section: the Scottsdale Center for the Arts would b…
The happy occasion of Keen Co.'s revival of the Sondheim outtake anthology Marry Me a Little is a fine excuse to trot out this novelty, which not enough people have heard: a demo of the titl…
At least that's the way I read this quote from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator:Watching a movie is almost like falling asleep into the movie. You get taken away by the movie and you…
"Old songs are more than tunes, they are little houses in which our hearts once lived."-Ben Hecht
photo by Mark Von Holden/Getty Images North AmericaHad the pleasure recently of meeting and chatting with the very busy director Daniel Aukin, a new play specialist formerly of Soho Rep, now…
"There is no real world/We live side by side/And sometimes collide""Everything But the Girl
I don't recall exactly how it started, but I've become one of The Sondheim Review's regular reviewers, and the winter issue will contain my evaluation of the current Shakespeare in the Park …
"I hate that word blogIt sounds like a large accumulation of snot""Melissa James Gibson, This
Blanchett and McElhinny in the Sydney Theatre Company production; photo by Lisa TomasettiSo I've now seen three Uncle Vanyas in as many months. Which takes the gold? If you count length of r…
Going deep into the astonishing new Dirty Projectors' album.Maybe this is why there aren't more theater practitioners doing criticism."If I expect them to build an ethical iPhone, then I had…
On HowlRound today, Sherri Kronfeld brings fresh passion and (seeming) common sense to an age-old debate (or at least one that's been raging as long I've been in the arts journalism racket).…
