Another hit for the invaluable Mint Theater

Temporal Powers - The Mint's production of Teresa Deevy's long ignored play is certainly a cure for those in search of a good yarn . . .

south pacific not quite the big thrill in London

South Pacific- a largely British cast needs extra concentration to maintain the American accents, in song as well as voice. . .

Bluebird - Simon Stephen's beautifully written, tenderly sad play has finally crossed the Atlantic. Too bad that audiences here have been given such a short time to see it, especially since it stars the lauded actor Simon Russell Beale . . .

It's sold out  but there's a standby line 

Book of Mormon tix = hot auction item

Tickets  for  The Book of  Mormon  are fetching astronomical    prices  and  savvy fundraisers  have  not overlooked  the  hotter than hot  show's  potential  for  raising  big bucks.  
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Debrorah  Graussman,     recently put together one  of  the  best    fund raising  galas  I've  ever  attended  to  raise  money  for   the Lenox, Mass  based   Shakespeare & Company's    widely  respected  education  program.    The enterprising  and talented Graussman   arranged  to  bus  a  bunch  of   Broadway  babies   to  spend  their   "off"  Monday  night  performing  (pro bono)   at  the  company's  filled to the brim   Founders Theater. 

To  add  to the $50,000  already  collected  from  ticket  sales,  Graussman   joined  host  Chip Zien  on  stage and  launched an auction  for 2  prime   Book  of  Mormon  tickets  for a  Saturday  matinee.  The   bidding was  brisk  and   the  winner  ended up shelling out $1900.  

Broadway in the Berkshires was so smartly organized, deliciously entertaining and indeed as close to a night on the Great White Way as you could get. Chip Zien was a delightful host who not only delivered lots of laughs  and  also performed, as did Graussman.

 It was an evening of non-stop highlights such as Brian Charles Rooney's hilarious multi-persona (female as well as male) medley of Broadway hits, and a thrilling dance solo by young Peter Mazurowski, one of the three young actors currently starring as Billy in Billy Elliot.

The  way  this evening was  organized could serve as a master class in ow to run a benefit that truly delivers  what it promised. With a trio of musicians that included the Boston Symphony Orchestra's chef cellist, Owen Young, who could ask for anything more? 

Bio of the Wendy Wasserstein we THINK we knew--

Wendy and the Lost Boys- Julie Salamon's "can't put it down" biography of Wendy Wasserstein. . .

Charles Bush's zinger-filled serio-comedy

Olive and the Bitter Herbs - A superb cast has been entrusted with the difficult burden of speaking a lot of funny lines while also behaving either irresponsibly or reprehensibly in Charles Bush's new play

A bad day for pit musicians in this new musical. . .

Jessica Tyler Wright, Malcolm Gets, Lauren Molina in Ten Cents A Dance

Ten Cents a Dance— John Doyle's actor-musician take on Rodger and Hart's songbook in its American premiere at Williamstown

Ret is back

Rent- the iconic musical's original director Michael Greif has attended to the show's needs with marked discipline as well as with some newly motivated impressions. . . .

Beautiful Cate Blanchett in beautiful Uncle Vanya

Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh in Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya- the Sydney Theatre Company's very special production of Chekhov's play at the Kennedy Center

an ultra-intimate theater experience

Sarah Lemp in HotelMotel

HotelMotel-two plays in site specific setting for 20 viewers at a time only . . .

An Early less hopelessly sad Glass Menagery

The Pretty Trap- there is the prospect of a happy ending in this early one-act version of The Glass Menagerie.

To be or not to be in a lower east side parking lot. . .

Hamlet In The Park(ing) Lot- an urban setting with unanticipated noises, but it's free.