YAYYYY! I was very disappointed while I was in Europe to discover that Britney Spears would be touring in the States while I was in London and go to London as soon as I returned to the states. But, as I secretly hoped for and suspected, she's doing another leg of her CIRCUS Tour, this time, coming to Madison Square Garden, and I am the happy little ( Read more... )

...........OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/130338-August_Osage_County_to_End_Broadway_Run_June_28

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Twelfth Night!

t's 1:30am, and I just had a couple of drinks, so this won't be eloquent, but I know if I post nothing now, I may never get to it.

Overall, it's a nice time, mostly entertaining, but it just doesn't live up to what I thought it could be. Generally speaking, the set isn't too imaginative, the costumes don't seem to flatter most (... ( Read more... )

As much as I've been picking on the American theatre lately, you will NEVER get something like this out of the British theatre. The British, generally speaking, are technically so much more proficient, but when I think about shows like this and Rent, for example, and I realize they are terribly flawed, sometimes a bit trite, I am fine with that ( Read more... )

Tonight one of my friends and I went to see Ruined, which apparently just won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, but of course, I didn't know any of this or anything about the show until after she picked up my ticket for me. Anyway, a great piece of writing; I think Lyn Nottage is a very talented writer, judging from this and Intimate Apparel. Yet, I ( Read more... )

Okay, kidding.

Silly as it is that this is what I have to say after returning from London, I just read an article from The New York Times in which Michelle Obama gave a speech in New York in favor of the support of the arts during difficult financial times. Well, brava, isn't that special? When I saw this, I thought back to London, where admission ( Read more... )

In the past two days I have seen Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, and Dame Judi Dench all on the West End stage. McKellen an Stewart were TOGETHER on stage in Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Dame Judi was surrounded by an extraordinary cast in Madame de Sade. How 'bout THAT? That alone is practically worth a trip to London.

It seems as though the some of the best and worst things I've seen in London so far may be of the very same show. The Donmar West End production of Twelfth Night was a deeply moving, charming, clever, masterwork production of one of Shakspeare's greats. Yet, I often say, "Well, Twelfth Night is such a damn good play, it practically impossible to ( Read more... )

Okay, last time I posted this, it was a lie, because I didn't realize that I still had one more paper after it. But NOW, I have officially finished the last paper I will ever have to write in my life! Yaaaaaaay! I'm freeee!

Today is 13 years since Rent opened on Broadway. I'd have thought, looking back at my entries from past years, I would have written something every year about Rent on this day, given my inclination to write about it so much in the past, but I never did before. I suppose now that it's closed the sentimentality of today has increased quite a bit. All ( Read more... )