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Category: Broadway
Show Boat by Franchesca Zambello at The Kennedy Center Opera House
Angela Renée Simpson as Queenie (center, in pink dress) and the company of Show Boat. Photo by Scott Suchman. It is always an odd experience seeing an old time Broadway show revived for today’s cynical modern times. The 1927 production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Show Boat is widely credited as being one […]
The Mountaintop by Katori Hall at Arena Stage
Bowman Wright as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater’s production of The Mountaintop March 29-May 12, 2013. Photo by Scott Suchman.“How can you preach against something you’ve never tried? Only sinners can be great preachers.” Playwright Katori Hall’s Olivier Award-winning drama The Mountaintop has come to […]
Mary T. & Lizzy K. Lincoln done right.
Playwright and Director Tazewell Thompson has directed over two dozen productions at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage. With the current popularity of all things Lincoln it was only natural that people would start exploring other aspects of the popular President’s life. Mary T. & Lizzy K. is the story about the relationship between Mary Todd Lincoln […]
Concert Review (Washington DC): National Symphony Orchestra’s Broadway Rocks at Wolf Trap, July 6 2012
As the song from Grease goes, “Summer sun, something’s begun, but uh-oh those summer nights.” While many in Washington, DC melted under the record two-week heat wave, some of us thought it’d be a good idea to spend some time outdoors at Washington, DC’s famous outdoor Amphitheater, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts.
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man Shines on Broadway
Every four years in America there is this little thing called The Presidential Elections. Every year I find myself more and more frustrated at the lack of change in our political culture. Go back 40 years and every election cycle boils down to the same three or four topics –Sex, Abortion, Taxes, and sometimes War.
Broadway’s Seminar with Alan Rickman is a show Critics can’t help but Love – even Michelle!
If there ever was a play that is Critic Proof and destined to win a boatload of Tonys it is Seminar by writer Theresa Rebeck and directed Sam Gold. In the opening scene it’s clear that this show is one that anyone who has created anything can relate to. All the characters are broad cliches, […]
Restaurant Review (NYC): Triomphe, a fitting name for one of NYCs Finest French Restaurants
Looking for a pre/post Broadway meal that is close to all the shows, but slightly off the beaten path? Try Triomphe. This upscale, intimate little French restaurant is just what the doctor ordered. Fast, friendly service in a romantic environment. The restaurant, located at 49 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036, is a […]
Ann Marie Houghtailing is a Renegade Princess
After watching, the Off-Off Broadway play, Renegade Princess, I’ve come to the sad conclusion that I have lived a pretty boring, drama free life. Ann Marie Houghtailing’s one-woman show is poignant, hysterically funny and always interesting. Her dry humor is a cross between Diablo Cody and Tina Fey. […]
Michelle on Broadway: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess!
The classic 1935 George Gershwin Opera Porgy and Bess returns to Broadway at The Richard Rodgers in a lavish new production. The show features surprisingly amazing performances by David Alan Grier as Sporting Life and Norm Lewis at Porgy. What sets Porgy and Bess’ place in history is that it’s one of the earliest operas […]