Interview with Christopher Durang (from the City Paper Archive)
The Philadelphia Theatre Company is presenting Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (previews begin March 21st, and the show runs through […]
DF Reviews Tales from Red Vienna at MTC, New York (March 2014)
You will see nothing sexier or more arresting this season than the first five minutes of Tales from Red Vienna. In a […]
DF City Paper Review – The Lady from the Sea (EgoPo, 27 February 2014)
EgoPo Classic Theater may be Philadelphia’s most intellectually bracing company. Artistic Director Lane Savadove builds seasons around specific playwrights and ideas, consistently […]
10 Theatre Experiences That Changed My Life
A feature on PLAYBILL-ON-LINE that I particularly enjoy offers Broadway actors an opportunity to share, in pictures and a few words, some […]
Julianne Moore Loves To Cry. (But Why Do We Love To Watch?)
Recently, in an enjoyably snarky Facebook conversation about movies, I mentioned that there were two things I remembered about THE HOURS: Nicole […]
DF City Paper Review: True West (Theatre Exile, 13 February 2014)
There’s the west of American Mythology, a place of open spaces, big dreams, and limitless possibilities. Trail-blazing heroes came there and discovered […]
DF Reviews Little Me at Encores (9 February 2014)
Hooray for Encores Great Musicals in Concert! Musical theatre aficionados will almost certainly know about this project, but for those who don’t […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Spring 2006)
Ahhh…ahAhahAhahAh! That’s Tarzan’s voice you hear, bringing to a heavy landing the corporate musicals season of ’06-’07. Others included the vampirical, schmaltzy […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Summer/Fall 2004)
What’s up (and what’s coming) this season…. BARBARA COOK’S BROADWAY (Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse, 65th and Broadway). The […]
RIP: Maximilian Schell, Philip Seymour Hoffman
When I heard on Saturday that the great actor and director Maximilian Schell had died, I planned to write something. I waited […]
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