Mescal to bring Frecknall-helmed STREETCAR to Broadway?
Dec 5
2024, 04:54:07 PM
There are currently more than 3000 people ahead of me, and I figure that, at the rate the queue is moving, I’ll probably reach the front sometime in the middle of tonight’s performance of Eureka Day (which I’m going to), and I’ll lose my place and have to start all over again tomorrow.
No offense to anyone who is frustrated by how slowly the queue is moving, but I almost wish it would move so slowly I don’t reach the front until I get home after tonight&ls
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Name a song from a musical you were sorry to lose in its film version as well as one you were happy to gain.
Oct 25
2024, 09:49:33 AM
Sorry to lose “Long Before I Knew You” from Bells Are Ringing.
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Cate Blanchett to star in THE SEAGULL at the Barbican Theatre in London
Oct 9
2024, 09:32:43 PM
east side story said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Cate’s Blanche is still the best performance I’ve ever seen an actor give on stage. I’ve been chasing that high for 15 years, now lol"
I had a ticket to that production at BAM, woke up sick the day of the performance, and decided to lie down a bit before leaving to attend the show. I ended up waking up about an hour into the performance, at home, and have never forgiven myself for missing that one. That pr
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ShowScore format change
Sep 18
2024, 04:21:03 PM
Thanks, xoxobwayjohndoe! The Mezzanine app looks promising, I just created an account.
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ShowScore format change
Sep 18
2024, 11:10:02 AM
Melissa25 said: "It seems that alerts from anyone you follow are also gone. This takes the fun out of the "socialness" of the site.”
Two more “anti-social” changes I just noticed: They have taken away the ability to click on a reviewer’s name if you read a review you like (or dislike) and want to see all the other reviews that person has written. And when I look at reviews I have written, I can still see how many “helpful” votes a review got, but I can no longer see who gave the “helpful”
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THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA by Jez Butterworth to open at the Broadhurst this fall
Aug 5
2024, 03:14:54 PM
I’ll answer my own question. Today I got email from MTC announcing that they have added The Hills of California to this season’s schedule. The email said to call or email if you have already bought a ticket, so I called the subscriber services line to ask what they’re going to do for me. I was told they will refund a proportionate part of the cost of my subscription, which comes to $113. When I said, “So I’m screwed because I have already spent $215 on a ticket?”, the guy laughed and said he had
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THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA by Jez Butterworth to open at the Broadhurst this fall
Aug 3
2024, 08:19:38 AM
I’m an MTC subscriber and had already bought a ticket to The Hills of California (and I’m sure many other MTC subscribers have also done so). I haven’t had any notification from MTC about this yet, but I hope they’re planning to do something to compensate subscribers who end up with two tickets to the show.
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Metcalf stars in Hunter’s LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD at Steppenwoolf, directed by Mantello
Jul 19
2024, 11:19:58 AM
Charles Isherwood gives the play a very favorable review in today’s Wall Street Journal. I can’t post a link because I only have the print edition, but Isherwood calls the play “one of his [Samuel D. Hunter] finest”, and raves about the performances by Laurie Metcalf (“Ms. Metcalf, as always, gives a performance of layered textures and rock-steady truthfulness”) and Micah Stock (whom he calls “terrific”).
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Quick London Question: Player Kings (Ian McKellen) or London Tide
Mar 30
2024, 10:39:13 AM
“Short story”? The National Theatre’s website says London Tide is based on Our Mutual Friend. That’s a full-length novel (my copy is more than 800 pages long).
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Peter Marks leaving Washington Post
Mar 1
2024, 04:09:31 PM
The WaPo has posted a job opening for a new theater critic:
https://washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpostcareers/job/DC-Washington-TWP-Headquarters/Theater-Critic_JR-90274642?
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Peter Morgan's PATRIOTS heading to Broadway?
Jan 16
2024, 11:23:36 AM
Will Keen, who played Putin in the London production of Patriots, will be Iago in a production of Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s just announced 2024/2025 season (no specific dates yet, just that it will be sometime in the October 2024-March 2025 season). That unfortunately makes it look like he might not be available to do Patriots on Broadway.
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Favorite Solo Shows?
Nov 4
2023, 05:20:36 PM
Full Gallop (Mary Louise Wilson as Diana Vreeland)
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Michael Gambon on stage
Sep 28
2023, 05:50:02 PM
I saw him in what I think were his only two stage appearances in New York: Skylight on Broadway in 1996 and All That Fall (Beckett), with Eileen Atkins, at 59E59 in 2013. Also saw him in The Unexpected Man (Yasmina Reza), also with Eileen Atkins, in London in 1998. (Alan Bates and Eileen Atkins were the cast when The Unexpected Man played at the Promenade off-Broadway in 2000; I’m still kicking myself for having missed that.)
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London Recommendations
Aug 14
2023, 07:25:42 PM
C4b2a3b said: "Thank you all so much for your recommendations!
I got tickets to Operation Mincemeat. I think we'll also get tickets to Guys and Dolls and Cabaret.
Seating question for G&D: We're planning to sit in the stalls. Since I don't know how to post a picture of the seats available, should I get tickets where the band will be to our right? Or the opposite side where the band will be to our left? Also there are tickets directly across the b
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Primary Trust - Roundabout
Jun 2
2023, 09:40:38 AM
There’s a rave review from Charles Isherwood in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s behind a paywall, but this will give you an idea: “Ms. Booth’s writing has a clarity, simplicity and bloom that are increasingly rare in contemporary plays … thanks to the humanity that suffuses the entire production, there isn’t a trace of the artifice that could tip the play into saccharine territory. It’s a moving story, clearly and effectively told, only
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Sorkin and Sher to revive CAMELOT for Broadway
Apr 11
2023, 11:51:32 PM
SusaninBaltimore said: "Will someone please confirm after or during the show tonight that Jordan Donica has indeed returned?"
Jordan Donica was in the show tonight.
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Icke's THE DOCTOR Starring Juliet Stephenson at the Park Avenue Armory
Apr 11
2023, 03:31:24 PM
Thank you, Taffy! I just did the same thing (called the box office and had them reassign my seat over the phone). Much better than letting them decide where I would want to be relocated.
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MERRILY will transfer next fall!
Apr 4
2023, 09:39:18 AM
dramamama611 said: "Looks like no shortage of peeps willing to pay though!
Yikes, even my crappy seats (rear mezz) are now 50 bucks more expensive."
And mine (rear orchestra) is $100 more expensive ($299 instead of the $199 I paid)!
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MERRILY will transfer next fall!
Mar 26
2023, 09:38:13 AM
bear88 said: "Not sure what the fees are, as that seems to have fluctuated.”
I find it curious that they now seem to be baking the “service fee” into the face price of the ticket. When I bought my ticket last week, the face price was shown as $199. In addition, I paid a “service fee” of $19 and an “order processing fee” of $3, making my total cost $221. I took a quick look at the website just now, and the face price of seats
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ART's The Wife of Willesden
Mar 4
2023, 09:22:19 PM
Also at BAM, April 1-16.
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