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Alec Baldwin's 'Orphans' to close on Broadway
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The play "Orphans" has been orphaned on Broadway. Producers said Monday that Lyle Kessler's play starring Alec Baldwin will close May 19 after 27 previews and 37 regular performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The play earned Tom Sturridge a best lead actor Tony Award...
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Crudup and Hensley to join McKellen, Stewart
Updated: Mon, May 6, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart will get some high-caliber help onstage this fall — Tony Award winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley. Producers of the upcoming Broadway revivals of Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" said Monday that...
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Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98
Updated: Sun, May 5, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98. Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner,...
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'Other Desert Cities' at Arena Stage
Barbara Mackay
Published: Sun, May 5, 2013
The final production of Arena Stage's 2012-2013 season is an intense, funny drama about generational conflict, political turmoil and familial survival. Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" takes place in the well-appointed Palm Springs home of a conservative, wealthy ex-actor, ex-politician...
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Critics' Circle names 'Matilda' top musical
Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Drama Critics' Circle has voted "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" as best play and "Matilda: The Musical" as best musical. The circle on Friday also handed out special citations to the New York City Center's "Encore!" concert series, to the Soho Rep for a...
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Review: Mike Bartlett waves red flag with 'Bull'
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — British culture encompasses a governing body whose members regularly holler insults at one another, so it seems not unreasonable for edgy British playwright Mike Bartlett to transfer that heckling behavior from Parliament to a hideous microcosm of a modern office — darkened...
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'Ghost-Writer' at Metro Stage
Barbara Mackay
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
MetroStage's final play of the 2012-2013 season is a witty, wry, enigmatic comedy by Michael Hollinger that muses on the process of writing, from the inception of idea to the choice of punctuation. A light-hearted homage to the novelist Henry James and his relationship with his typist, Theodora...
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