From Shakespeare’s Richard III to Albee’s George and Martha, the theater is crowded with some rather unlikeable protagonists. The Boys Room at Victory Gardens Theater adds another mean main man to the stage.
For many years, this week's guest for The Weekly Guide was probably part of your weekend routine. Julia Sweeney was a regular on Saturday Night Live in the '90s.
In May 2010, the New York critics clobbered Cirque du Soleil's first attempt at creating a Broadway show, the stupefyingly juvenile and out-and-out vulgar "Banana Shpeel," which the Cirque folk billed as a throwback to vaudeville.
“The Merry Widow” is about the basic things in life, says choreographer Ronald Hynd: “Sex, money, commitment, and love. They don’t have to go in that order. That was rather crass, the order I put it.”
Seven of the greatest acting teachers in America conducted a two-hour tutorial last Friday (Feb. 4) for the benefit of the American Theatre Critics Association, holding its annual winter meeting in New York City.
