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re: Michael Riedel /New York Post: May 16, 2008
May 16
2008, 10:16:21 AM
I wonder what the other ties were...
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re: Riedel: Riedel Determined to Kill 'Country'
Apr 23
2008, 10:44:25 AM
"And believe me when I say that I've got "The Country Girl" in my sights."
Wow... that's a threat...
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re: Kiss of the Spider Woman vs. Ragtime (March Madness, Quarterfinals, Gam
Mar 31
2008, 08:12:47 AM
Ragtime
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re: NOVEMBER Reviews
Jan 17
2008, 10:35:14 PM
Brantley's review is up:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/theater/reviews/18nove.html
" I suspect that people who tittered uneasily during the recent Broadway revival of the Mamet masterwork “Glengarry Glen Ross” are guffawing with side-slapping gusto during this production, which also stars Dylan Baker (as the president’s lawyer) and is directed by Joe Mantello. Maybe it’s because there’s a dearth of new scripted television comedy.
But even more, I think, “November” allows mainstream theatergoers to feel comfortable with Mr. Mamet in a way they haven’t before. After all, with George W. Bush’s own poll status bidding fair to rival “Gandhi’s cholesterol numbers” (as the play puts it), and headlines regularly promising new accounts of bad behavior in high places, much of America is on the same cynical page when it comes to national politics. The first glimpse of the Oval Office (rendered for the stage by Scott Pask) is enough to set off giggles.
“November,” which portrays Mr. Lane’s character, Charles Smith, as an unpopular president up for re-election, might have been an act of daring four years ago, when Mr. Bush was running for a second term. But in the twilight of his executive tenure, the American presidency has become a fish in a barrel for everybody’s target practice.
Despite the thick swarm of obscenities that are de rigueur in a Mamet play, there’s nothing remotely shocking about “November.” If the play had been acted in the old Mamet tradition of louts stewing broodingly in homicidal rage and exasperation, it would probably be more unsettling when the president disgorges racist, sexist and xenophobic diatribes.
But, hey, it’s Nathan Lane playing the president. Everybody loves Nathan, with his leprechaun smile, semaphore eyebrows and “how-sweet-it-is” inflections. People wind up rooting for Charles Smith even at his nastiest, the same way they once rooted for Carroll O’Connor as Archie Bunker or W. C. Fields as W. C. Fields."
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re: THE LITTLE MERMAID Reviews
Jan 10
2008, 11:28:02 PM
Check again. It worked for me.
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re: THE LITTLE MERMAID Reviews
Jan 10
2008, 11:24:23 PM
Brantley is up:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/theater/reviews/11merm.html
Ouch.
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re: Understudies of opposite gender
Jan 10
2008, 10:58:14 PM
I think one of the Young Cosettes in Les Mis usually understudies Gavroche. In the revival, Carly Rose Sonenclar understudied Gavroche. In the original, Lea Michele, Daisy Eagan, and others all understudied the role.
Edit: Updated to include revival information.
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re: THE LITTLE MERMAID Reviews
Jan 10
2008, 10:45:49 PM
The Brantley quote is from The Little Mermaid's page on the Times's website--the links to the full review aren't up yet.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/gst/theater/tdetails.html?id=1154674519658
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