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It's safe to say that Eugene Lee wasn't intimidated by "The Fantasticks," the wee show etched in theatrical lore as the world's longest running musical. After all, the 70-year-old set designer had won Tony Awards for "Candide,"...
Birmingham's David Bintley thrills to Einstein while Cardiff's Ann Sholem channels glam-rock and Glenn Miller How would David Bintley's career have developed if he hadn't become director of Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1995? By...
It's 20 years since Dustin the Turkey first sidled on to The Den, having been won by Zag as a booby prize in a golf tournament. Zig and Zag were unimpressed with the talkative and ghoulish-looking bird, and intended to eat him...
Great Quick-Change Illusionist Arturo Brachetti – Stunning Magic! Be bedazzled by the Brilliant Brachetti as he brings a hundred characters to the stage changing in the blink of an eyelid. If there is one variety show that must...
Iréne Theorin (Ariadne), Lyubov Petrova (Zerbinetta), Nathan Herfindahl, Corey Evan Rotz, Greg Fedderly, and Grigory Soloviov, in Ariadne auf Naxos, Washington National Opera (photo by Karin Cooper -- see more pictures )...
By DAVID A. ROSENBERG Hour Theater Critic One tiny thing is terribly wrong with "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at Goodspeed Musicals. It ain't funny, although, at the performance caught, some audience members...
The film is classic Gilliam - imaginative brilliance tempered by moments of incoherence - and Ledger's performance is disappointing. It's many things: a Baroque morality play with Dickensian and Gothic overtones, a little bit...
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company performs amid ruins of Patapsco Female Institute Y ou've got to admire the mix of imagination and chutzpah behind the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, which last year tried out the concept of an...
Sadler's Wells, London EC1 Christopher Wheeldon launched his ballet company Morphoses in 2007, when he was resident choreographer with New York City Ballet. It was a calculated shake-up of his safe, comfortable life. "The first...
They say "tomayto"; we say "tomahto". They respond positively to smooth PR; our hackles rise at the same sales talk. They like to believe ballet dancers live the life of a Ralph Lauren photoshoot; we're reassured to see ours at...
