Like the best musical theatre composers, Jason Robert Brown externalizes the minutest — though no less significant — inner emotions, bringing them to the fore through soaring songs whose elevated registers match the extremity of the dissected feelings.
The Royal Court’s here, and these Brits have some things to say, mostly damning, about men.
Radio plays are back, baby!
Unlike a lot of other aspiring journalists with moral idealism coursing through their fingers, I usually don’t like to criticize the work of elder scribes.
Continue reading “Suddenly, Seymour is Here to Provide You Sweet Misunderstanding”
Every time I see a one-person play, it’s hard not to evaluate the form as a whole through the prism of each individual take on it.
Comedy might be the hardest genre to review.
I want to see Kathleen Marshall’s The Royal Family of Broadway.
Continue reading “A Royal Family in Search of Broadway Majesty”
Leave it to The Civilians to create the greatest program note…ever?
And now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming: the big finish to my Cyprus Avenue trilogy!
Continue reading “A Walk on the Pedantic Side Up ‘Cyprus Avenue’”
