Forbidden Broadway-The Next Generation Gerard Alessandrini’s 37 year-old franchise is something like the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree: not as big, bright, or cheery as [...] November 17, 2019
The Report – Adam Driver Stars as a Crusading Senate Staffer The original title of the film was The Torture Report, but the second word was eliminated, perhaps because even after all these years, [...] November 15, 2019
The Things They Carried– A Tour de Force “Fifty years later and I still haven’t finished working it out…every now and then I’m reading a book or…and I see the man I [...] November 14, 2019
Druid Shakespeare: Richard III This is an aesthetically wonderful production. Splendid punk-meets-Elizabethan Costume by Francis O’Connor (excepting Richard’s striped [...] November 14, 2019
Valerie Lemon – The Jane Froman Songbook: A Song in My Heart Sixteen years ago, Valerie Lemon had a vivid dream in which, opening a Victorian oak door, she was greeted by a woman in a deep blue gown [...] November 13, 2019
Todd Murray: Don’t Blame Me…for falling in love with you Todd Murray is a leading man. It’s easy to imagine him as Emile de Becque (South Pacific) or Billy Bigalow (Carousel). The artist not [...] November 10, 2019
One Discordant Violin – Chronicle of A Music Dream Our hero begins with an allegorical Joseph Conrad story leaving one with the discomfiting thought that life “didn’t have to be this [...] November 9, 2019
A Chorus Line at Arlington’s Signature Is the Must-See Holiday Event When it opened in 1975, A Chorus Line was viewed as one of the greatest musicals ever to hit Broadway. More than four decades later, a new [...] November 9, 2019