Karen Oberlin: The Wizard of Words: The Wit and Wisdom of Yip Harburg - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE
Concentrating on the lyrics of E.Y. Harburg, Karen Oberlin encountered two obstacles -- one of her own devising and one inevitable.
Concentrating on the lyrics of E.Y. Harburg, Karen Oberlin encountered two obstacles -- one of her own devising and one inevitable.
The charming, deftly comic musical at South Coast Repertory brings new energy to an 1851 play.
The lyricist, with her longtime collaborator Adolph Green, worked on some of the most celebrated musicals of the American stage and screen.
In "Engaging Shaw," a romantic comedy featuring four razor-sharp tongues, George Bernard Shaw moves from philandering bachelor to married man.
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Andrea Marcovicci doesn't sugarcoat the unhappy life of the lyricist Lorenz Hart in her new cabaret show devoted to the songs of Rodgers and Hart at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel.
The first women to become professional playwrights in the English-speaking world were canny and resourceful but above all indomitable
* * * out of four
A wildly popular theatrical twist for the holidays.
So many divas: 32 in Alan Palmer's one-man show. That's about 2.7 minutes per diva.
SHAKESPEARE wrote a heroic, patriotic play called "Henry V" - but, being the wise, broad-minded bard he was, he included in it some very unheroic, unpatriotic common soldiers and let them sp…
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush give magnificent performances in one of the most pleasurable movies in years, Joe Morgenstern writes. Plus, "Tangled" has body and sheen.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists," is being given a spirited, intellectually and theatrically robust production in Williamstown Theatre Festival's CenterStage.
'Little Shop of Horrors' comes to Ahmanson
Interviews with Alan Menken and screenwriter Charles B. Griffith.
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It is a relief to report that the new Globe production of Shakespeare's drollest comedy can count among its virtues a winning Benedick, in the form of the obscenely charismatic Billy Campbell, and a charming Beatrice, played by Dana Delany in her first Shakespearean role.
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The performers adopt both the best and the worst traits of divas in their show at the Julia Miles Theater.
A level of garage theater so unfettered as to suggest divine intervention distinguishes "The Phacts of Life," playing Thursdays at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Renberg Theatre to screamin…