Kaufman play closes circle for DTF season
- August
- 20
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Sometimes you can take it with you. For Larissa Goldberg, 21, an intern last year at the Dorset Theatre Festival who is making her professional acting debut this season in their current production of “June Moon,” a comedy written by George Kaufman, her role of Edna represents in a way the closing of a circle.
“The [...]
New Star Theatre Chief Debuts With Broadway Revue
- May
- 11
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“A Salute to Broadway” is an event with multiple purposes. First of all, it is a concert fundraiser for the Star Theater Co. Second, it’s a retrospective of last season’s musicals. Third, it’s a preview of musicals planned for the next season.
But the fourth purpose may be the most critical one of all —- it [...]
The Harder They Come: How Britain picked up the reggae beat
- March
- 14
The original 1972 film, which starred Jimmy Cliff as a young singer hustling in poverty-stricken Jamaica, illuminated the harsh conditions in the ghettos of Kingston, where many of the inhabitants sought to earn a crust through the city’s vibrant music culture.
The immortal songs in the movie, such as Cliff’s street-tough title track, are ripe for [...]
Please wake me when Ms. Theron arrives
- March
- 14
*How is Jane Fonda different from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush? Fonda went to Vietnam.
*Why don’t Episcopalians participate in orgies? There are too many thank-you notes to write.
*My cat Pitsy likes this one: Where do you find a cat with no legs? Right where you left it.
Cat mysteries
Pitsy’s favorite plaything [...]
Honolulu’s Chinatown is now a hot spot
- March
- 11
When dancing lions snaked through the streets of
Honolulu’s Chinatown last month, it was in celebration of Chinese New Year, an event feted here annually for generations.
For the celebrations welcoming the Year of the Rat, thousands of visitors descended upon this 20-square-block area. And most continued to party long after dark.
Today, Chinatown is a vastly different [...]
Duncan Sheik in concert
- February
- 8
How often can you say the highlight of any concert was the musical-theater montage? Wait how often can you say there even was a musical-theater montage at a concert?
It says much about Duncan Sheik’s career progression that his saccharine breakout hit “Barely Breathing” was the least interesting number in an [...]
High School Musical: Curtain up on a class act
- February
- 3
Seeing as the 31-date national tour had seen advance sales of %26pound;9 million pounds, the dates promised to be the hottest tickets in town.
The High School Musical fans of Bromley though, were not going to be eclipsed. Over an hour before the performance began, on the main pedestrianised street that runs through town, men [...]
Jo Brand: Me? Singing? I couldn’t get arrested?
- February
- 3
“Once I was offered a part in a Lynda La Plante series about comics - it was a character based on me. I didn’t get the part. I didn’t get myself. I think that’s a real indication of how bad I am.”
Constabulary duty: JoBrand as the police sergeant in The Pirates of Penzance
Jo Brand, [...]
Sheik breathes life into Broadway
- February
- 1
It was a spring awakening for Broadway, for young theatergoers . . . and for Duncan Sheik.
“Spring Awakening,” a revolutionary musical written by Sheik and Steven Sater in response to the Columbine massacre, has galvanized young audiences like nothing since “Rent.” Sheik not only earned two 2007 Tony Awards and a Grammy nomination, he now [...]
Humanity held hostage Tom Sutherland and Terry Anderson
- January
- 25
As fellow Beirut hostages Tom Sutherland and Terry Anderson sat bound to a wall in near- total darkness year after endless year, they told stories to keep each other alive. Their captors could chain their bodies, but they could not chain their minds.
Anderson, the Associated Press war correspondent, helped Sutherland picture how a [...]
