How busy Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was last week! The first four cars I saw while walking around had license plates from Indiana, South Dakota, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Of course, the reason for the congestion was the 150th anniversary of the famed ...
“My name is Evan Goldman” are the first words said by the leading man of 13. Here, at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, the line is stated unequivocally by Erick Patrick of Olathe South High School in Olathe, Kansas.function ...
Whenever composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince set out to do a musical, they were always on the lookout for ingredients that would be new, fresh or even groundbreaking. For A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, their elegant 1973 Tony-winner, ...
They fly through the air with the greatest of ease: those daring young actors currently appearing in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of The Little Mermaid. Out in Millburn, New Jersey, plenty of performers have been hooked to wires and ...
Thirty is usually the first birthday that any of us dreads. Twenty-nine year-old Jonathan Larson did as well in 1990 – especially because he’d been trying to get a foothold on Broadway for years and he seemed to be getting nowhere. “I’m older ...
We’ve seen plenty of teenagers in productions of The Boy Friend, Children of Eden and Godspell. But Lucky Stiff?Isabel Carrington, who runs the Warner Theatre Performance Lab for young performers in Torrington, Connecticut, had seen an adult ...
When Annie was enjoying its original 1977-1983 run, lyricist-director Martin Charnin had to replace many a girl who’d suddenly grown too tall. To soften the news, he’d take each to Rumplemeyer’s, a posh New York ice cream palace, before telling ...
Can you find 19 talented performers to play all the roles in Into the Woods?compare internet security software. That seems to be an order as tall as the second-act Giant. But if you take some tips from the most inaccurately named Fiasco Theater, you ...
When Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez created the “School Edition” of their Tony-winning Avenue Q, they had high schools in mind. And yet, this abridged and expurgated edition was what Thomas Stretton, a professor at Cabrini College in ...
All right, so your theater company doesn’t have a juggler who can keep a half-dozen knives in the air. You’re also lacking a contortionist who can balance himself upside down on a board that rests on unsecured round cylinders. You may not even ...
