A huge stage experience in a very small venue
The Broadway season so far has been the standard mix of star vehicles (the just-closed “A Steady Rain” with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig) and prestige revivals from abroad (the transfer of a London...
View Article‘Orphans’ has a home for another six weeks
Hartford Stage artistic director Michael Wilson got some great news earlier today — his staging of the nine-hour Horton Foote epic “The Orphans’ Home Cycle” has had its run extended for another six...
View ArticleThe Tony Awards, or: Grading New York theatre on the curve
The American Theatre Wing is a great organization and like most other stage fans I enjoy watching the group’s televised Tony Awards telecast (CBS will be airing the show tonight at 8.) It’s fun to see...
View ArticleA late report on Annalee Jefferies in ‘Suddenly Last Summer’
Thanks to the vagaries of U.S. regional theater — and the movement of director Michael Wilson from the Alley Theatre in Houston to Hartford Stage — Connecticut audiences have been lucky to see the...
View Article‘Bountiful’: Cicely Tyson refreshes Horton Foote classic
The Horton Foote tale “The Trip to Bountiful” has become one of the Texas writer’s most popular and enduring works, starting as a TV drama more than 50 years, making a transfer to Broadway a few years...
View ArticleBad Movies We Love: Brando & Redford in ‘The Chase’
If you want to stump your friends with a trivia quiz ask them to name the movie that co-starred Marlon Brando and Robert Redford. There’s a reason that many people have never heard of the movie in...
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