Hirschfeld Rocks
Al also recognized how rock music had changed. “The Seventies was also a time when rock theatricality was bigger than Broadway theatricality,” he said in 1999. “Those rolling lights-and-sound shows […]
Al also recognized how rock music had changed. “The Seventies was also a time when rock theatricality was bigger than Broadway theatricality,” he said in 1999. “Those rolling lights-and-sound shows […]
I love getting my theater news from MOJO—The Music Magazine. It’s an important British rock mag, renowned for its mix of historical articles and reviews of current releases. Recent issues […]
A Vincent D’Onofrio monologue about how he’ll never play his dream role, Blanche DuBois in Streetcar, is part of a new collaboration the actor’s done with composer Dana Lynn. The […]
So School of Rock is becoming a stage musical, which will premiere a year from now or so. About time. Musicals with pre-teens in major roles have become a noble […]
The Art of Asking, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help By Amanda Palmer (Grand Central Publishing, 2014) I tore through Amanda Palmer’s self-help memoir about […]
Ran an item recently about Connecticut-raised Simpsons scribe Mike Reiss going on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast and not mentioning that his new play Comedy is Hard was at the Ivoryton Playhouse. Well, […]
Wrote a preview squib for the Hartford Courant website about the Nov. 24 Quintron & Miss Pussycat show at Cafe Nine. But there’s much more that can be added, thanks […]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in previews for its Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre. I have memories of the original Off Broadway production, and composer Stephen Trask was […]
In honor of These Paper Bullets!, Rolin Jones’ “modish rip-off of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing” which ended its run at the Yale Rep yesterday (April 5), here’s a […]
These Papers Bullets! (at the Yale Repertory through April 5; see review here, more reviewy stuff here, preview here) is the latest, but far from the first Fab Four-fueled […]