Category: Theater

>I continue to be amazed by the number of visitors this blog is getting from people who want information about, or who want to…

>I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that the new Mel Brooks musical, Young Frankenstein, was set for tryouts in Seattle and will open…

>Although I would like to write for the stage, I doubt that I have a musical in me, and certainly nothing like “The Producers”…

>The new season at American Shakespeare Center‘s Blackfriars Playhouse has begun. The four shows in the repertoire for Summer and Fall are Romeo and…

>That certainly was a fun night at the theater. Lately, all the performances I’ve been to at the Blackfriars Playhouse have been well-attended (it’s…

>I hadn’t seen a show at the Blackfriars Playhouse since the fantastic opening night performance of Cyrano de Bergerac in March, but Saturday night…

>Since the Blackfriars Playhouse opened in 2001, I’ve been to nearly every play performed there by the American Shakespeare Center’s resident and touring companies….

>Today’s performance of The Brats of Clarence at The Blackfriars Playhouse marks the end of the American Shakespeare Center’s 2007 Actors’ Renaissance Season. I…

>Last night I saw the American Shakespeare Center’s production of Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass, the fifth and final play in ASC’s…

>John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi is just about as bloody as it gets in the theater (other than full-blown battles). Not only do…