Jets And Sharks Bring Curtain Up
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 24, 2008
To publicise the opening of its new theatre, Alleyn’s School in Dulwich staged one of the most critically acclaimed musicals of the twentieth century, writes Mark Campbell.
The Michael Croft Theatre is named after the founder of the National Youth Theatre and a former teacher at the school. It’s a spacious, high-ceilinged venue, ideally suited to [...]
Budget Crunch Brings Down The Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 1, 2008
The company that stages musicals at the outdoor Iroquois Amphitheater will move this summer to the Kentucky Center.
The relocation of shows produced by Broadway at Iroquois formerly Music Theatre Louisville is not due to weather concerns. The decision is the result of an economic storm that has forced the arts organization and the city to [...]
Community Theaters Raise Curtain On New Seasons
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
Every year smack dab in the middle of hurricane season Treasure Coast community theaters raise their curtains on another season of mirth, merriment and musicals.
This week finds two of the area’s oldest theatrical establishments, Stuart’s Barn Theatre and the Vero Beach Theatre Guild, treading the boards with a pair of plays that combine comedy, pathos [...]
Curtain Comes Down With a Musical Classic
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on July 21, 2008
A doyenne of the local stage bows out with an alfresco production of one of the classics of musical theatre, writes Alan Cookman
COLE Porter’s sparkling musical comedy Kiss Me Kate is hardly a show which tugs at the heart strings.
If there are moist eyes in the stalls, they can usually be blamed on tears of [...]
Curtain to rise on Spotlight Players South Pacific
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Temescal Canyon High School Spotlight Players invite Canyon Lakers to spend “Some Enchanted Evening†in Bali Ha’i as the group performs one of the greatest musicals of all times, “South Pacific,†by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Critics have called the Tony-winning musical “South Terrific†and, despite the harsh realities of WWII, audiences are guaranteed to fall in [...]
The West End isn’t facing the final curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 14, 2008
This buzzy, caffeine-addicted British impresario ought to be on top of the world. Two of her Broadway productions - Tom Stoppard’s Rock’ n’ Roll and the old farce Boeing-Boeing - have just been nominated for 10 Tony Awards in New York, the US theatre’s equivalent of the Oscars.
A host of other Brits have also been [...]
Another lovely day in the park
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
NEW YORKæometimes they say it’s best not to look behind the curtain, not to get too close to the source of the magic.That’s what I was thinking recently after marvelling at the performances given by Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell in the revival of Sunday in the Park With George that’s currently dazzling Gotham audiences.Evans [...]
Dramas Get Attention And Give Musicals A Run For Their Money
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 1, 2008
For at least 25 years, the premier commercial theater district in the country has been dominated by musicals. Such serious dramatists as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams were once represented on Broadway marquees, but the straight play was pushed to the margins during the final third of the last century.
As the audience base shifted from [...]