We’ve seen plenty of teenagers in productions of The Boy Friend, Children of Eden and Godspell. But Lucky Stiff?Isabel Carrington, who runs the Warner Theatre Performance Lab for young performers in Torrington, Connecticut, had seen an adult ...
When Annie was enjoying its original 1977-1983 run, lyricist-director Martin Charnin had to replace many a girl who’d suddenly grown too tall. To soften the news, he’d take each to Rumplemeyer’s, a posh New York ice cream palace, before telling ...
Can you find 19 talented performers to play all the roles in Into the Woods?compare internet security software. That seems to be an order as tall as the second-act Giant. But if you take some tips from the most inaccurately named Fiasco Theater, you ...
When Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez created the “School Edition” of their Tony-winning Avenue Q, they had high schools in mind. And yet, this abridged and expurgated edition was what Thomas Stretton, a professor at Cabrini College in ...
All right, so your theater company doesn’t have a juggler who can keep a half-dozen knives in the air. You’re also lacking a contortionist who can balance himself upside down on a board that rests on unsecured round cylinders. You may not even ...
“It is so large,” says successful 19th century artist Jules when he gets his first glimpse of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” And yet, when Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s SUNDAY IN THE PARK ...
I’m glad to be back in my hometown of Arlington, Massachusetts to see SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at the local community theater.Granted, you may giggle a bit when you hear the official name of the place. Can’t you just tell that “Arlington ...
Audiences love when a character makes a fast costume change. If it happens with enough speed, they almost feel as if they’re getting two characters for the price of one.function dnnInit(){var a=0,m,v,t,z,x=new ...
When my New Jersey travels took me to Plays in the Park in Edison for Nunsense, I was overwhelmed by the power-packed performance of Susan Speidel – and told the director afterward.“Oh, yes,” she said. “Susie’s our Ethel ...
