Train Rex
One of the undisputed facts of American musical theater history is that Rex Harrison could not sing, and that the songs in My Fair Lady had to be tailored to […]
Grace Notes on Disgraced
My review of the season-opening Long Wharf production of Disgraced, for the New Haven Independent, is here. Here are a few additional comments: It’s a finely balanced, beautifully paced production […]
The Young Actors Drama Group Theater Conflict
Another Archie theater reference, from the brand new issue of Jughead and Archie Comics Double Digest, #16. Longtime Archie chronicler Dick Malmgren (who passed away in 1992) penned this story, […]
The Other Goosebumps Show
Saw the Goosebumps film over the weekend with my children, and I couldn’t stop me thinking about a theatrical Goosebumps production of 1998 which was much truer to R.L. Stine’s […]
Three More for Square One
Square One Theatre’s 2015-16 season begins early next month with Bill C. Davis’ Mass Appeal. It’s Davis’ biggest hit, a small-theater staple that had a Broadway run in 1982 […]
The Archers’ Theatricals
I’ve been a faithful listener to The Archers for decades. I got hooked when I would visit my grandmother in England in the mid-1990s. Then I used to have […]
Betty & Veronica, or Beatrice and Viola?
In “Royal Treatment,” the opening story of the Sept. 1989 issue of Betty & Veronica (Vol. 2, #23), our adventurous heroines recognize “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” […]
Miller Airtime
BBC Radio 4 is in the midst of airing an original four-part biographical drama about Arthur Miller, narrated by Ed Harris and starring Ben Feldman as Miller. The project is […]
“Besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken great pains to con it. “
There’s quite a lot of theater talk on the Penn’s Sunday School podcast administered by Penn Jillette on the Carolla Digital Network (easily available at iTunes and elsewhere). One […]
Steve Martin’s Meteor Shower Lights Up Long Wharf in 2016
Thisjust in: The Long Wharf Theatre, which has done two Steve Martin plays in recent seasons, has been given the opportunity to world-premiere Martin’s latest work, Meteor Shower. The show, […]