Sunday, June 26, 2011

A Masterful 'Master Class' Brightens the Post-Tony Season

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Tyne Daly.  Photo by Joan Marcus Normally, the weeks following the Tony Awards are a down time for new productions on Broadway, a s...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Idle Thoughts About the 2011 Tony Awards Show

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Frances McDormand: Dressed for the Red Carpet? Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan? I generally do not indulge in the ann...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Welcome to the Magical World of Tony Kushner's 'The Illusion'

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Amanda Quaid, Peter Bartlett, and Finn Wittrock Here’s a trivia question for you. What do these two plays have in common: ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

And the Envelope, Please: Announcing the 2011 ProfMiller Kudos Awards

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In the spirit of the theater community’s annual awards season, I bid you welcome to our own ProfMiller Kudos Awards for Outs...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

An Obscure Rock Band with Mythic Roots Becomes the Stuff of Compelling Musical Theater

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As the decade of the 1960s was coming to a close, an oddball rock group known as The Shaggs briefly appeared on the scene. By most ac...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

Tonys, Yes, But Don’t Forget About Off-Broadway

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Now that the Tony Award nominees have been announced and everyone else is busy picking at the list and making their predictions,...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

PETER and ALICE: Reconnecting With My Inner Child

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Adam Chanler-Bedrat (Peter) and Christian Borle (Black Stache) When I wrote recently about the highly acclaimed production of War Ho...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Jerusalem: Into the Woods with Mark Rylance

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Mark Rylance as "Rooster" Byron If you decide to check out the production of Jerusalem , the ponderous and meande...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The People in the Picture: The Wrong Music and Messy Storytelling Mar a Potentially Moving Story

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A tender moment from 'The People in the Picture' Here’s a quick quiz: Say you were putting together a musical abo...