Let’s get this party started!
Let’s get this party started!
My favorite theatrical experiences leave me with the exhilarating rush of wonder that accompanies a brain wrapping itself around a trailblazing piece of art, a feeling that can actually be summed up in the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s preferred acronym’d nomenclature.
ONE of the many subjects explored in Dangerous House — rising star Jen Silverman’s new play, marking her return to the Williamstown Theatre Festival after last summer’s superior two-hander The Roommate — could serve as a potent enzyme to catalyze a compelling drama.
Write All Nite’s been all quiet on the news front of late.
Comedy might be the hardest genre to review.
I want to see Kathleen Marshall’s The Royal Family of Broadway.
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In his bio for his new musical Half Time, choreographer-cum-director extraordinaire Jerry Mitchell particularly highlights his two past pieces of Tony Award-winning work: the most recent Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles, and the runaway hit Kinky Boots.
In the second act of Half Time, Donna McKechnie delivers what’s basically a modern-day version of her Tony Award-winning solo performance of “The Music and the Mirror”, right on down to the mirrors serving as her backdrop.
It’s considered a faux pas in critical circles to suggest how a show could improve.