By AARON KRAUSE What are some “gifts” that you’ve brought to dark, anxiety-inducing times, places, or situations? Perhaps you smiled brightly while visiting a lonely, scared person forced to spend quarantine alone because she has no family or friends. Maybe another gift was your warm, re-assuring voice. Or, perhaps your gift was as simple as […]
Actress Dame Diana Rigg, a renowned English performer who played roles such as Emma Peel in The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at age 82. In addition to these roles, the late stage and screen actress (July 20, 1938-Sept. 10, 2020) portrayed James Bond’s wife in the 1969 film On […]
By ALAN SMASON A theatre reviewer in a pandemic? Sounds crazy, no? But here in New Orleans with no shows to see, I’ve become more than that. I’ve assumed new roles as a director, a stage manager and in the grand tradition of Bialystock and Bloom, a producer. How all of this intersected with the […]
By ALAN SMASON As the seconds ticked by to display a 2:00 a.m. CDT time on the computer, it was easy for me to imagine the sounds of a million click booms on TV remotes across the nation. The date was July 3, 2020, a full year before the previously announced release date of Hamilton: An […]
The 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which had been postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then rescheduled for Sunday, May 31, only to be postponed again due to the emerging protests and violence touched off by the notable deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, were finally announced on Saturday, June 13. The […]
By HARRY DUKE, originally published in NORTH BAY BOHEMIAN What is the point of reviewing theatre? If you had asked me that question 90 days ago, my answer would be to provide potential audience members some information with which they could make informed decisions on which of the numerous North Bay productions they might choose […]
By AARON KRAUSE “It’s about finding the courage to reach each other during the darkest and most difficult times,” said the winner of a national new play award for her piece, How the Light Gets In. From her description, it sounds like playwright E.M. Lewis penned her award-winning play yesterday. But as timely as the […]
(NEW YORK) – Tony Award Productions announced the postponement of the 74th Annual Tony Awards on March 25. The show slated to be presented live on the CBS Television Network has been scheduled for Sunday, June 7. Prepared on behalf of the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, the statement announced the event set for […]
BOCA RATON, FL. — Hopefully, sooner rather than later, Coronavirus will disappear. Then, the media may choose to highlight “unsung heroes” in the battle against the virus. Specifically, these are people who, as part of their jobs, had to potentially expose themselves to the bug in order to protect the public’s health. However, these folks […]
By EDWARD RUBIN Surprise of all surprises, the 1969 movie “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” thanks to The New Group and Pershing Square Signature Center, is back in the news again—this time, not as a film but as a play with music. Cleverly directed by Scott Elliott, from a book by Jonathan Marc […]