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    22 Mar 2012 | 3:23 pm

  • STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALK

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    16 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    THE TALK just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below

  • May 16 Matinee of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Welcomes One-Millionth Audience Member

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    Andrew Gans
    16 May 2012 | 1:38 pm
    Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark welcomed its one-millionth audience member at the May 16 matinee performance at the Foxwoods Theatre.

  • The Best Man, Starring John Larroquette and James Earl Jones, Receives Second Broadway Extension

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    Broadway.com Staff
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    The Tony-nominated revival of Gore Vidal's political drama The Best Man has been extended for a second time at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. Starring two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, Tony winner John Larroquette, Eric McCormack and five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury, The Best Man was originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through July 8. Directed by Michael Wilson, the production will now run through September 9. The Best Man is the story of two political candidates, Secretary William Russell (Larroquette) and Senator Joseph Cantwell (McCormack) who…

  • STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALK

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
    16 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    THE TALK just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below
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  • STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALK

    16 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    THE TALK just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below

  • STAGE TUBE: Mitt Romney Gets SWEENEY TODD Treatment

    16 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    With the 2012 election coming up in November, political parodies are everywhere, and it's about time that some gave the race a Broadway twist. In the video below, Roy Zimmerman puts a different spin on SWEENEY TODD with 'Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wallstreet.'

  • Photo Flash: First Look at OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES!

    16 May 2012 | 2:33 pm
    The new off-Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES will begin performances on Tuesday May 1 and open on May 20 at The Westside Theatre 407 West 43rd Street. BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below

  • THE BEST MAN Extends Again Through September 9!

    16 May 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Producers of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidals THE BEST MAN have announced that the critically-acclaimed production, which was originally scheduled to play through July 8, 2012, has been extended a second time, now through Sunday, September 9, 2012. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling 212 239-6200.

  • Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of THE NORMAL HEART National Tour!

    16 May 2012 | 1:55 pm
    Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater produces the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramers The Normal Heart, directed by George C. Wolfe. Wolfe, who directed the shows sold-out Broadway engagement last season, mounts the professional D.C.-area premiere of this production, which features returning Broadway cast members Patrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane, among others. Presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, The Normal Heart runs June 8-July 29, 2012 in the Kreeger Theater.
 
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  • The Best Man, Starring John Larroquette and James Earl Jones, Receives Second Broadway Extension

    Broadway.com Staff
    16 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    The Tony-nominated revival of Gore Vidal's political drama The Best Man has been extended for a second time at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. Starring two-time Tony winner James Earl Jones, Tony winner John Larroquette, Eric McCormack and five-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury, The Best Man was originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through July 8. Directed by Michael Wilson, the production will now run through September 9. The Best Man is the story of two political candidates, Secretary William Russell (Larroquette) and Senator Joseph Cantwell (McCormack) who…

  • God Save Her! Celia Keenan-Bolger Shows Off Her Sock Monkey, Fake Teeth & Pet Rock Backstage at Peter and the Starcatcher

    Broadway.com Staff
    16 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    Two-time Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger is one-of-a-kind, so it seemed only fitting that the actress would have a dressing room filled with knickknacks and keepsakes as eccentric as she is. The 2012 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner is currently playing Molly, a rough and tough teen girl on a mission to save the world, opposite Adam Chanler-Berat and two-time Tony nominee Christian Borle in the Peter Pan prequel Peter and the Starcatcher. Keenan-Bolger invited Broadway.com to her backstage home away from home to give us an inside look at her five favorite things, starting with a…

  • Watch Ellen Barkin and NeNe Leakes Go Head to Head in the Extended New Normal Preview

    Broadway.com Staff
    16 May 2012 | 12:54 pm
    The new NBC comedy The New Normal has released a hilarious extended preview that gives fans a clear insight into what they can expect from the new Ryan Murphy sitcom. Starring The Book of Mormon’s Andrew Rannells and Broadway vet Justin Bartha as a gay couple trying to have a baby via surrogate, the show also features no-nonsense Tony winner Ellen Barkin as their surrogate’s homophobic and racist grandmother, as well as Real Housewives and Glee star NeNe Leakes as Rannells' assistant. Earlier, fans got a glimpse of Rannells and Bartha's characters, but check out this…

  • She’s One Ferocious Mother! Check Out Linda Lavin in the New Lyons Poster

    Broadway.com Staff
    16 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    Best Actress Tony nominee Linda Lavin may appear mild-mannered in Nicky Silver’s acclaimed comedy The Lyons, but make no mistake, she is one ferocious beast! As Rita Lyons, Lavin casually discusses the time she bought a gun with intent to shoot her husband, sincerely asks if her grandson may be “a little bit retarded” and nags her son so much he makes up an imaginary boyfriend—all while managing to look completely fabulous! Check out the new poster for Broadway’s The Lyons in which Rita (Lavin) goes head to head with an actual lion. (We think the king of the…

  • Eve Best on Nurse Jackie, Loving NYC & Getting Strangled Onstage in London's Duchess of Malfi

    Matt Wolf
    16 May 2012 | 12:43 pm
    Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime's Nurse Jackie. Now the 40-year-old English star is now back on home turf, taking the title role in the electrifying Old Vic revival of The Duchess of Malfi, John Webster’s Jacobean bloodbath. The sparkling star spoke to Broadway.com one recent afternoon about surviving awards season, deciding where is home, and putting up with being strangled on stage eight times a week. You’re starring on…
 
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  • STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALK

    16 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    THE TALK just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below

  • STAGE TUBE: Mitt Romney Gets SWEENEY TODD Treatment

    16 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    With the 2012 election coming up in November, political parodies are everywhere, and it's about time that some gave the race a Broadway twist. In the video below, Roy Zimmerman puts a different spin on SWEENEY TODD with 'Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wallstreet.'

  • Photo Flash: First Look at OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES!

    16 May 2012 | 2:33 pm
    The new off-Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES will begin performances on Tuesday May 1 and open on May 20 at The Westside Theatre 407 West 43rd Street. BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below

  • THE BEST MAN Extends Again Through September 9!

    16 May 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Producers of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidals THE BEST MAN have announced that the critically-acclaimed production, which was originally scheduled to play through July 8, 2012, has been extended a second time, now through Sunday, September 9, 2012. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling 212 239-6200.

  • Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of THE NORMAL HEART National Tour!

    16 May 2012 | 1:55 pm
    Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater produces the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramers The Normal Heart, directed by George C. Wolfe. Wolfe, who directed the shows sold-out Broadway engagement last season, mounts the professional D.C.-area premiere of this production, which features returning Broadway cast members Patrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane, among others. Presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, The Normal Heart runs June 8-July 29, 2012 in the Kreeger Theater.
 
 
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  • A look at the musicals eyeing 2012-13 Broadway runs…

    vrigsbee
    16 May 2012 | 12:42 pm
    Now that this season is officially over, we thought it worth taking a look at the shows who have announced Broadway runs for the 2012-13 season. First up is an adaptation of Bring It On with music by Tom Kit of Next to Normal and Lin-Manuel Miranda of In the Heights. This show has been touring the country after opening to so-so reviews in Los Angeles, making changes in preparation for its Broadway run. Likened to Lysistrata Jones, which only enjoyed a limited run on Broadway and Legally Blonde, a film adaptation that lived a much longer Broadway life, the show is hoping to avoid the pitfalls…

  • 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award Winners

    vrigsbee
    15 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
    The Outer Critics Circle Award winners have been announced. The ceremony will be held on May 24 at 4 PM. The winners are: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL Bonnie & Clyde Newsies Once Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY The Lyons One Man, Two Guvnors Seminar Stick Fly OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY Blood and Gifts The School for Lies Sons of the Prophet Tribes OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL Death Takes a Holiday Lucky Guy Play It Cool Queen of the Mist OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Newsies Nice Work If You Can Get It Once Queen of…

  • 2012 Theatre World Awards Winners

    vrigsbee
    8 May 2012 | 3:20 pm
    The 2012 Theatre World Award Winners have been announced! Tracie Bennett – End Of The Rainbow Phillip Boykin – The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Crystal A. Dickinson – Clybourne Park Russell Harvard – Tribes Jeremy Jordan – Bonnie & Clyde Joaquina Kalukango – Hurt Village Jennifer Lim – Chinglish Jessie Mueller – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Hettienne Park – Seminar Review all of the nominees for this year’s awards. What do you think were the best productions, performances and designs from this season on Broadway?

  • 2012 Tony Award Nominees

    vrigsbee
    1 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    BEST MUSICAL Leap of Faith Newsies Nice Work If You Can Get It Once BEST PLAY Clybourne Park Other Desert Cities Peter and the Starcatcher Venus in Fur BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL Lysistrata Jones, Douglas Carter Beane Newsies, Harvey Fierstein Nice Work If You Can Get It, Joe DiPietro Once, Enda Walsh BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE Bonnie & Clyde, Frank Wildhorn and Don Black Newsies, Alan Menken and Jack Feldman One Man, Two Guvnors, Grant Olding Peter and the Starcatcher, Wayne Barker and Rick Elice BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY Arthur Miller’s Death of a…

  • The Reviews for Leap of Faith are In…

    vrigsbee
    27 Apr 2012 | 7:27 am
    Reviewers must have been running, not walking, out of the theatre to write these extremely  scathing reviews. For them, Leap of Faith is the biggest blunder of the season. They found that even the normally capable hands of the show’s lead, Raúl Esparza, who had, until now, seemed unable to do any wrong, and the talented song-writing team of Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, the story felt so confused, desperate and flat as to leave NYTimes reviewer Ben Bratley decreeing: “Leap of Faith is this season’s black hole of musical comedy, sucking the energy out of anyone who gets…
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  • "Newsies" Dances Its Way Into Your Heart

    jan@broadwayandme
    16 May 2012 | 7:02 am
    To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign, it’s the dancing, stupid.   The floor-shaking production numbers in which a supercharged ensemble of male dancers buck, wing and stomp their way across the stage of the Nederlander Theatre are the biggest reason that audiences are cheering Newsies, the new Disney musical that is one of the biggest hits of the spring season. The New York Times reports that there are “425 leaps or jumps, 372 turns and pirouettes, 133 kicks, 11 tumbling passes and 62 flips” in the show.  And it’s such a thrill to see…

  • Special Edition: The Ticket Giveaway Winner

    jan@broadwayandme
    14 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    Maybe the question was simple but my guess is that readers of B&Me are just a theater savvy bunch cause everyone who wrote in got the right answer (the Carnegie Deli) to the question:  What is the unofficial clubhouse for old Jews who tell jokes?  So I printed the names out and put them all in a bag and my husband K did the honors of picking one out.  The winner for two tickets to the new show Old Jews Telling Jokes is Jason Laks.  Congratulations to him and thanks to all of you who participated.  It was fun and I hope we can do it again.

  • Another Look at the Season's Biggest Transfers

    jan@broadwayandme
    12 May 2012 | 6:55 am
    So many shows opened in the final weeks of the theater season that officially ended on April 26 that I’ve had to scramble to catch up with all of them. There were 14 new shows on Broadway in April alone  (I just saw the final one on my list last night) and maybe a half dozen more off-Broadway.    There simply aren’t enough Wednesdays and Saturdays for me to tell you what I think about each one.  Luckily, I saw a few of the big Broadway shows when they played off-Broadway and I talked about them then. And since this is an unbelievably busy weekend for me (yes, I do have…

  • Why "Death of a Salesman" Will Never Die

    jan@broadwayandme
    9 May 2012 | 6:22 am
    My friend Doug came to New York last month to celebrate his birthday with some fellow theater lovers, including my buddy Bill and me.  Sometime during the evening, well into our cups, we all started debating which play is truly the Great American Play.  There were strong candidates:  Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County, August Wilson’s entire 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle. …

  • The First-Ever Broadway & Me Ticket Giveaway

    jan@broadwayandme
    5 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    Ethnic humor can be a tricky thing.  But anyone who's gone to the website Old Jews Telling Jokes will tell you that it can also be a very funny thing.  Now, some of those classic comic stories are being told on onstage as the new show Old Jews Telling Jokes began previews this week. Since my friend Dan Okrent is one of the show's creators, I won't feel comfortable reviewing it when it officially opens on May 20 but I feel fine telling you that it's happening.  And Dan and his marketing team have made it possible for me to do even more than that.  They've given me a pair of…
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  • A Different Kind of Mother's Day Outing

    11 May 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Honor your mom by honoring the fight for women's rights. This Sunday one of my buddies is the producer behind a unique experience:Mosaic: Voices of Women's SuffrageThere's tea, a light lunch and a performance of this work honoring the women who fought for our basic rights last century.Learn more, and buy tickets, here.

  • Review: Cirque du Soleil's Latest Touring Show, TOTEM

    26 Mar 2012 | 3:33 pm
    I saw TOTEM under the big top in San Jose a couple of weeks ago, and reviewed it here.Spoiler Alert: OMFG, I LOVED IT.Seriously, best one since 1990's Nouvelle Experience. Let's face it, you can never outshine your first!)Read the review, or just head online to get your tickets with a 25% discount! Here's the info from the horse's mouth:Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring production TOTEM has hit San Jose, and friends of The SF Bay Area Theatre Blog can now receive 25% off select performances in seating categories 1-3!Cirque du Soleil is pleased to announce that it has returned to San Jose…

  • Cirque du Soleil San Jose discount...expires tomorrow night

    3 Feb 2012 | 7:42 pm
    I love Cirque du Soleil, so here's a special Valentine's Day offer from them that apparently expires tomorrow.Buy one you ticket for TOTEM in San Jose and get another ticket for free*!TOTEM opens on March 2 at the Taylor Street Bridge in San Jose. I am going to a preview on the 1st and am very excited about it!Claim this offer, which ends at 11:59PM tomorrow, at the following link (no additional promo codes needed):http://tinyurl.com/BATheatBlogVday*Some restrictions apply. Must become a Cirque Club member, with free subscription, to take advantage of offer. Service and delivery fees apply to…

  • The Jerry Herman Salon at 42nd Street Moon, starring Faith Prince!

    22 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    This coming week may I suggest a little entertainment for your calendar?42nd Street Moon is the theatre on whose board I serve, and they are doing one of their composer salons this Thursday night. Jerry Herman is the man behind Mame, Hello Dolly, and Mack and Mabel among others.Faith Prince is a Tony-winning actress who burst on the Broadway scene with her Adelaide in Guys & Dolls, opposite Nathan Lane.These salons are both full of lovely singing from talented performers, but also come with a bit of history and story-telling around the featured composer. Herman is still alive and both…

  • Woodminster Theatre announces their season

    20 Jan 2012 | 8:29 pm
    And here it is, their 46th season at the outdoor amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park:Fiddler on the Roof, July 13-22, 2012What else is there to say? This is a perennial favorite for most musical theatre companies.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, August 10-10, 2012Sondheim's first Broadway show as lyricist *and* composerCats, September 7-16, 2012The first time they've gotten the rights to perform this one.Season ticket sales are open now, with individual ticket sales starting on March 1st.And by the way: They haven't held auditions yet, so if you're interest they're…
 
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  • Nothing Can Touch This

    Scott Miller
    15 May 2012 | 3:12 pm
    This is one of my favorite moments in our creative process. Everything up to now has been hard work. First off, I hate teaching music, but somebody's gotta do it, right? And we really don't have the budget to hire someone else to do it just because I don't want to. And then once that's done, blocking the show is the hardest part of my job as director, the most intensely creative. With some shows, a lot of the blocking is really obvious, but other shows take decoding and deconstructing to figure out how they should look and move. It's by far the hardest mental work in the process. And during…

  • I Could Make the Chicks Dance

    Scott Miller
    9 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    I often rave about our choreographer Robin Berger's work – and so do the critics – but I rarely get the chance to talk about why she's so great and why her work fits New Line so perfectly. Robin has been choreographing for us since The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 2003. She's also choreographed New Line's productions of Reefer Madness, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Urinetown, High Fidelity, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Spelling Bee, The Wild Party, Evita, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Cry-Baby. What makes her work special, and distinct…

  • louder, faster, funnier, deadlier, more, more, choices upon choices...

    Scott Miller
    4 May 2012 | 2:09 pm
    People often ask me why we repeat shows. We've done it several times in our twenty-one seasons -- Assassins (1994, 1998, 2008); Hair (2000, 2001, 2008); Bat Boy (2003, 2006); and now High Fidelity (2008, 2012). When I get that question, I always respond, "Would you ask the Symphony why they repeat Beethoven's Ninth? Would you ask a classical theatre company why they repeat A Midsummer Night's Dream?" We repeat shows because we think there's more to discover there. And High Fidelity is proving my point for me yet again. Initially my plan was to recreate my staging from…

  • It's No Problem

    Scott Miller
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:17 pm
    High Fidelity was treated really badly in New York. It was given a clueless, money-centric production and greeted with (mostly) shallow, condescending reviews. I'll grudgingly stipulate that the fault for those shallow reviews might not lie entirely with the reviewers -- after all, it must have been tough to tell there was such a great show beneath that tricked-out, fast-and-furious mess of a production on Broadway. But Broadway critics are supposed to be the best at what they do, right? Shouldn't they be able to recognize strong material poorly executed? I think the critics' real…

  • Number Five with a Bullet

    Scott Miller
    23 Apr 2012 | 3:01 pm
    I wrote in an earlier blog post about discovering High Fidelity. My love affair started with the songs of course. But as I've said before, a great score is necessary but not sufficient. What's even more important is a great script. When I finally got to read the High Fidelity script, it instantly spoke to me. I could immediately see it in my head. I really understood how it worked. The same was true with Love Kills and Cry-Baby, but that doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes it happens later, as it did for me with both Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. Sometimes I just have to stay…
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  • Tony Award Predictions- Part 3

    djdan1079
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:58 pm
    by: Dan Mason (@djdan1079) We are just about 12 hours away from the announcement of this year’s Tony nominees, and in the final installment of this series, we will make predictions for which shows will be competing for musical theatre’s highest honor. Best Revival of a Musical There seems to be an overall consensus that Follies, Evita, Porgy and Bess, and Jesus Christ Superstar are all shoe ins for the awards this year. The first three I can understand. But why is JCS so deserving of a nomination?? The show was panned by the New York Times at both the Canadian engagement and in…

  • The Original.

    stagedtl
    30 Apr 2012 | 5:31 pm
    My pal (who is a typical bloke) has seen Les Miserables thirty-seven times. He even traveled to Budapest to see it. When he talks about Les Mis he goes into a sweet trance; reciting factoids like the alphabet and all the different cast combinations like his family tree. But his obsession is mild. Some people go every week and are sure to sit in the same seat. There are Les Mis dictionaries, ‘What character are you?’ quizzes and even purity tests to work out just how addicted to the musical you are. People go slightly funny over it. And they have done for twenty-seven years. I wanted to…

  • Girls' Rehearsal: MTS Summer Cabaret

    Tom Shore
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:28 pm

  • Boy's Rehearsal: MTS Summer Cabaret

    Tom Shore
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:48 pm

  • Guest blog from choreographer Daniel Gwirtzman

    rochestercityballet
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:47 pm
    We asked Mr. Gwirtzman to write a blog for us on the genesis of his iconic work Encore. He has set excerpts of this work on the company dancers for the upcoming Dance Mix performance.  Here is what he contributed: Rochester City Ballet has asked me to think about the genesis of Encore. A fitting thing to do as the dance celebrates its fifth year anniversary this June! Premiering as an 85-minute, full ensemble scripted show at New York’s Joyce SoHo in 2007 Encore began with a solo I developed for myself in 2005 called Character. Set to Louis Armstrong’s rendition of the Basin…
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  • Review: A MODEST SUGGESTION by Martin Denton

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Apple Core Theatre Company makes a significant contribution to the current season with their presentation of Ken Kaissar's absurdist satire A Modest Suggestion. Kaissar, born in Israel, educated at Carnegie-Mellon and Columbia and currently making his home here in New York, has written a play that is both clever and smart: it's sharp, witty, and enormously provocative, in the tradition of Ionesco and (early) Woody Allen.

  • Review: SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES by Ed Malin

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Self-hatred has greatly influenced the four male lead characters in Del Shores' play Southern Baptists Sissies. They may very well have remained where they grew up, in Dallas ("the buckle of the Bible belt"), were it not for their sexuality. In later life, they sometimes miss the church that offered them so much hope when they were young.

  • Review: THE PERIPHERALS by Martin Denton

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Peripherals, The Talking Band's new musical/rock concert/performance art work, written and composed by company co-founder Ellen Maddow, is a celebration of the impulse to make art on your own terms, an exploration of an eclectic mix of forms and ideas, and a dizzyingly satisfying showcase of the astoundingly varied talents of its seven onstage performers. It is a delightful good time, more rewarding and nourishing than pretty much any mainstream music theatre event I've seen in quite some time--proof, if it's needed, that the work being done on the periphery of NYC's theatre world is…

  • Review: TAKE WHAT IS YOURS by Ed Malin

    9 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    It is 1917. Alice Paul has been arrested for leading her group of women in picketing the White House. Two generations after Susan B. Anthony's efforts, they still want the vote. They carry signs with quotes from President Woodrow Wilson about the need to spread democracy around the world. They question why he does not spread democracy at home. Meanwhile, Alice is on a hunger strike and is politely harassed by a psychiatrist ("The Man") for making such demands on the government during wartime. After all, if the suffragettes are given special status as political prisoners, it would…

  • Review: THE RUNNER STUMBLES by Paul Hufker

    9 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Runner Stumbles is at its essence a story of forbidden love encased in a murder mystery. Loosely based on real events (the details of which sound fascinating), a priest is accused of killing a nun in his parish and we follow him through a sequence of trial scenes, present-day jailhouse visits, and flashbacks. The idea is of course to piece the story together for us, bit-by-bit. And while I've been informed that Milan Stitt's drama appeared successfully on Broadway in 1976 (running for about six months), I'm not certain the play has aged very well.
 
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  • Must Reads

    12 May 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Greg Sargent: Obama comes out, and makes historyKeith Boykin: Blacks Won't Abandon Obama Over Gay MarriageJason Horowitz: Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents Amy Davidson: Mitt Romney, Bully

  • President Obama's Weekly Address - May 12, 2012

    12 May 2012 | 11:29 am
    Congress Must Act on "To-Do List"

  • President Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

    9 May 2012 | 2:12 pm
    Via Think Progress - President Obama: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me…

  • Romney Proves Himself To Be A Pandering Coward

    8 May 2012 | 7:10 pm
    Leadership takes guts. Leadership takes balls. Leadership means occasionally having to make a tough decision and stand up for what you think is right. And so far, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has shown none of those leadership qualities. Why else would he let a comment about trying President Obama for treason go without comment at one of his own town halls?Now, I do believe Mitt Romney when he says that he disagrees with the woman who made the treason comment while asking a different question. But why is it that it took someone else to actually ask the question of Romney? Why…

  • Maurice Sendak Dies at 83

    8 May 2012 | 8:20 am
    NY Times: Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.The cause was complications from a recent stroke, said Michael di Capua, his longtime editor.For those who grew up with Where The While Things Are, which I think are a vast majority of us, this is a sad day. But I'll leave you with a smile on…
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  • Cromer's RENT isn't afraid to get dirty

    HighC
    10 May 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Leave it to David Cromer to make me question all the Rent-related eye-rolling I’ve been engaging in since the late 90′s. Most theater-lovers seem to have a solid opinion on how they feel about Rent, regardless of whether or not they’ve actually experienced it. I was no exception. For some reason, I always felt conditioned to... Read more »

  • "Hamlet" - Writers' Theatre

    OBIC
    7 May 2012 | 12:18 pm
    Writers’ Theatre announces casting for Hamlet by William Shakespeare directed by Artistic Director Michael Halberstam  Cast features Scott Parkinson in the title role with Shannon Cochran, Michael Canavan, Timothy Edward Kane, Larry Yando, Ross Lehman, Kareem Bandealy, Liesel Matthews, Julian Parker, Witold Huzior and Billy Fenderson  September 4 – November 11, 2012  Glencoe, IL– Writers’ Theatre opens its 21st Season with William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, directed by... Read more »

  • Tony Award Nominations 2012

    HighC
    1 May 2012 | 10:12 am
    TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS... Read more »

  • 2012 Emerging Theater Award

    HighC
    27 Apr 2012 | 12:22 pm
    LEAGUE OF CHICAGO THEATRES ANNOUNCES Theatre Seven of Chicago AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2012 BROADWAY IN CHICAGO EMERGING THEATER AWARD CHICAGO (April 27, 2012) – The League of Chicago Theatres announces Theatre Seven of Chicago as the recipient of the 2012 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award. Theatre Seven of Chicago will receive a... Read more »

  • 2012 Drama Desk Nominations

    OBIC
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:54 am
    The Drama Desk Award nominations were announced this morning, and Chicago favorite JESSIE MUELLER has been nominated for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Check out the full list of Drama Desk Award nominees.  ... Read more »
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