Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Directing Coward
In November of 1986, legendary acting coach Ada Brown Mather sat down with Roderick Cook at Westside Arts Theatre to discuss his affinity for acting, directing and presenting the words and work of Noël Coward. During this interview Cook covers his relationship with Coward the man, the unlikely circumstance under which Cook’s hit [...]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Tom Viertel
Producer of Hairspray and Gypsy.
Prolific producer Tom Viertel, who with his partners Richard Frankel, Steve Baruch and Marc Routh have been responsible for such shows as The Producers, Hairspray, and the John Doyle-directed Company and Sweeney Todd, talks abut producing on Broadway and the pending closing of the long-running Hairspray. He relates [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
While negativity in theatre reviews is hardly anything new, and I’m relatively sanguine about it after a decade as a press agent, I was struck over the weekend by the unanimity of the condescension on display in reviews of a new Off-Broadway show, Flamingo Court. The production, apparently set in a Florida development, is [...]
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
For those who spend the majority of their theatregoing time in Broadway venues, its extraordinarily refreshing to see work in a rawer, less production-heavy style. The current production of Black Watch at St. Ann’s Warehouse, an impressionistic drama about a Scottish regiment in Iraq offers exactly such perspective. While video is employed and [...]
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I regret that The Wall Street Journal doesn’t allow me to link you to the full text of Peggy Noonan’s Saturday “Declarations” column, because it has a number of provocative comments about the source of today’s creative arts. While jumping off from a brief dissection of a likely fictitious piece of war reportage from The [...]
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