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Theater Review | 'Girl Crazy': Home on the Range and on the Stage

It’s probably best to check your wits at the saloon door to enjoy “Girl Crazy,” the Gershwin musical from 1930 that opens this year’s Encores! series of concert musicals at City Center. Trying to bring serious engagement to this scattered romantic romp ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ana Gasteyer,  George Gershwin,  Ira Gershwin,  Jerry Zaks,  Becki Newton

Theater Review: Beyond Electricity, Toward Female Emancipation

Alert the authorities. Shocking sexual acts are taking place on the stage of the Lyceum Theater, right in the heart of the Broadway theater district, so recently scrubbed free of all smut and seeded with lawn chairs. Acts involving three people at a ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Benjamin Franklin,  Michael Cerveris,  Lincoln Center Theater,  Chandler Williams

Glitter and Be Essential

A WARNING to sticklers for strict narrative: this column is a blatant mashup. Contemporary pop fans will understand the terminology, but for others say, those more likely to attend to the musings of theater critics some explanation might be required. ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barbara Cook,  Kristin Chenoweth,  Billy Idol,  Neil Diamond,  Dionne Warwick

Theater Review | 'What Once We Felt': When Women Rule, Things Are Just as Complicated

In the future foreseen in “What Once We Felt,” a new play by Ann Marie Healy that opened on Monday night at the Duke on 42nd Street, men are extinct, but Maker’s Mark is still readily available. Ellen Parker, left, and Mia Barron deal with a world ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ellen Parker,  Caryl Churchill,  Lincoln Center Theater

Theater Review | 'Or,': All They Need Is Love (and Freedom and Theater)

Luminaries of 17th-century England are resurrected and made to do the frug in “Or,” a playful, funny and inventive comedy by Liz Duffy Adams now playing at the Julia Miles Theater. The fruging is figurative, obviously. The pioneering female writer ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tom Stoppard,  Virginia Woolf

Theater Review | 'The Lily’s Revenge': The Bridegroom Wore Eye Shadow, Petals and Lime Fishnet

Arguments in favor of gay marriage have taken many forms, from snappy phrases stretched across muscle T’s to miniature musicals on YouTube, op-ed pieces and learned essays. (My favorite, from a poster at a protest march: “We Can’t All Marry Liza ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Liza Minnelli,  Taylor Mac

Theater Review | 'The Understudy': When a Star Takes a Turn Awaiting a Star Turn

Nobody does exasperated like Julie White, the Tony-winning actress (“The Little Dog Laughed”) currently fabricating bountiful laughs from a sumptuous display of strained nerves in “The Understudy,” a scattershot backstage comedy by Theresa Rebeck that ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Julie White,  Justin Kirk,  Mark-Paul Gosselaar,  Mary-Louise Parker,  Jeremy Piven

Some Plays Can Twinkle Without Stars

WE live in a blockbuster age, when bigger is widely assumed to be better, or at least more important. Despite the clear failures of banks deemed too big to fail, it appears regulation will not stem the flow of steroids in the financial industry. The ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Douglas Thompson,  Facebook Inc.,  Neil Simon,  Virginia Woolf,  Kate Gosselin

Theater Review | 'Nightingale': Redgrave Uncorsets a Relative Long Gone

Lynn Redgrave explores the life of her maternal grandmother through the prism of her own in her reflective new solo show, “Nightingale,” which opened Tuesday night at City Center, courtesy of Manhattan Theater Club. Sound cozy? Well, any expectations ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, International Herald Tribune,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lynn Redgrave,  Manhattan Theater Club,  Natasha Richardson,  Michael Redgrave,  Rachel Kempson

Theater Review | 'Eclipsed': Prisoners of War and Sex in Liberia

NEW HAVEN Subjugation and corruption are the grim options available to the women of “Eclipsed,” a new play by Danai Gurira (“In the Continuum”) at the Yale Repertory Theater here. Set in 2003 during the Liberian civil war, the play focuses on four ...

From CHARLES ISHERWOOD, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Yale Repertory Theater,  Danai Gurira,  Charles Taylor,  Liesl Tommy,  Bill Clinton

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