A word in the deaf ears of Oscar Eustis, the new artistic director of the Public Theater:
When you produced Macbeth in Central Park last summer, your claim that it was a timely war play for “our divided and war-torn nation” was made, I can only imagine, in the spirit of over-exuberance. The theme Read More
was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline playing the mad king.
“[O]ff limits to all but a Read More
was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline playing the mad king.
“[O]ff limits to all but Read More
It’s a joy to report the outstanding success of Shockheaded Peter at the Little Shubert Theatre on 42nd Street. In its wonderfully inventive essentials, this magical show is everything we love most about theater, everything theater can be in its imaginative right mind.
I first raved about Shockheaded Peter when it was briefly in town Read More
Another day, another revival. Stephen Sondheim’s 1987 Into the Woods , a fairy tale for adults, sort of, has returned to Broadway and we are glad, sort of. Without doubt, the show has two or three of the loveliest-and best delivered-songs we could wish to hear. But there’s a but.
Mr. Sondheim has written edgier, Read More
The new, improved version of The Diary of Anne Frank has opened on Broadway, packaged like any commodity. It’s better! It’s different! It’s more Jewish!
But why, 40 years after it was first produced on Broadway, has it been revived? The question is far from frivolous. We ask it all the time about revivals of Read More
