Terry Teachout's Satchmo in DC

Satchmo at the Waldorf - This DC production features the gifted actor Craig Wallace who gives an uncanny impersonation of Louis Armstrong's posture . . Read Mor

The Fringe Awards are in

The posting of  the Fringe Awards  concludes  Curtainup'[s   Fringe  coverage--
www.curtainup.com/fringe16.html

Groundhog Day:, a screen to hit stage musical in London

Groundhog Day As they launched Matilda six years ago, Tim Minchin and Matthew Warchus started planning another musical venture based on the movie Groundhog Day. . . .

Our Fringe Review page keeps growing. . .

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15 Villainous Fools | Amelia and Her Paper Tigers | American Strippers | The Arkadina Project | At the Crossroads: Music for Faust | Cabtivist | ChipandGus: A Comedy with Balls | Colorblind'd | Debriefing | Dementia Americana | The Further Adventures of... | The Gorges Motel | A History of Servitude | Humorously Horrendous Haunted Hideaway | The Intriguing Engagements of Frances and Meg Cheatham, Ladies Of Society | Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway | A Microwaved Burrito Filled With E. coli | Miss | Mother Emanuel | Mr. Yunioshi | Mrs. Schrodinger's Cat | Pryor Truth | Pucker Up and Blow | Qaddafi's Cook | The Radicalization of Rolfe | Richard III (A One Woman Show) | Seeger | Sheila and Angelo | SUPER! | The Sutherby Triplets | The Theatre Made in Paradise | Till Birnam Wood | To Protect the Poets | Tribulation: The Musical | Walken on Sunshine | W.E.B. Du Bois: A Man For All Times

A Berkshire World Premiere musical-: Broadway Bounty Hunter

Broadway Bounty Hunter - world premiere musical with Annie Golden as Annie Golden, zany but lots of fun Read More

Mark Morris's Mozart Dances back in NY buoyed by live musical accompaniment

Mark Morris  Mozart Dances  back in New York after 10 years. .www.curtainup.com/markmorrislc16.html .

The Mint Theater still tiimely production of A Day By The Sea well worth your time

A Day by the Sea - The Mint has done it again, given theater goers a chance to experience a play in which not happens except a lot of well developed characters revealing their lives, and life in general's complexities through consistently smart dialogue that still resonates. . . Read More

Sondheim rarity, Allegro, gets nice London production

Allegro Thom Southerland's insightful production of this musical rarity from Rodgers and Hammerstein gets its first London showing ever. . . . Read More -

Don't miss Theater Close Up's new season

 The wonderful Theater Close-Ups  is back for another season of  filmed replays  of Off-Broadway plays.  The new season begins with  The  Woodsman   www.curtainup.com/woodsman16.html    

See our  film and tv page  for  news about   this  and  other  stage- related    films and  tv shows.
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Curtainup's Fringe coverage coverage continues. . .

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August 24, 2016 Update

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15 Villainous Fools | Amelia and Her Paper Tigers | American Strippers | The Arkadina Project | At the Crossroads: Music for Faust | Cabtivist | ChipandGus: A Comedy with Balls | Colorblind'd | Debriefing | Dementia Americana | The Further Adventures of... | The Gorges Motel | Lunt and Fontanne: The Celestials of Broadway | A Microwaved Burrito Filled With E. coli | Mr. Yunioshi | Mrs. Schrodinger's Cat | Pryor Truth | Pucker Up and Blow | The Radicalization of Rolfe | Richard III (A One Woman Show) | Sheila and Angelo | SUPER! | The Sutherby Triplets | The Theatre Made in Paradise | Till Birnam Wood | To Protect the Poets | Walken on Sunshine

Tribes gets yet another fine production in the Berkshires

Tribes - Nina Raine's powerful play lives on at Barrington Stage Read More

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The sweet smelll of success for Sweet Charity Revival

The  New Group's  revival of  Sweet Charity has  extended   for 2 weekseven before  its  November opening.  See our  annotated  Off-Broadway listings for details  and  other shows  on the horizon
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Quartet- old age more charming and light than depressing

Quartet - The Sharon Playhouse rounds out its season with light summer fare that's a tribute to those who embrace life even as it fades.

Curtainup Fringers' postings so far

2016 Fringe Festival Omnibus Page

15 Villainous Fools | Amelia and Her Paper Tigers | Cabtivist | The Radicalization of Rolfe | Richard III (A One Woman Show) | SUPER! | The Sutherby Triplets | The Theatre Made in Paradise | Till Birnam Wood | To Protect the Poets | Walken on Sunshine

Curtainup's omnibus fringe page continues to grow

Our Fringe 2016  omnibus  page  continues to growwww.curtainup.com/fringe16.html

The Two Gentlemen. . .gets perfect productgion in Lenox

The Two Gentlemen of Verona - A perfect production of the Bard's comedy at the Tina Packer Playhouse Read More

And No More Shall We Part-- more serious than light summer fare at Williamstown

And No More Shall We Part - Playwright Tom Holloway explores the consequences of, "To Be or Not To Be," and is not afraid to confront mortality. Read More

Curtainup's Fringe coverage continues. . .

our Fringe coverage  continues and will be picking up some 50  postings  before it ends
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Meryl Streep adds a new chapter to the remarkable Florence Foster Jenkins story

 The tone deaf  diva's  remarkably long  concert career  has also had a remarkable  after life--  most  currently  as  a  star-studded movie  headed  by the  always remarkable Meryl Streep
www.curtainup.com/movitalk.html#Florence

Our Fringe 2016 coverage has begun. . .

Our coverage of  the 2016  Fringe Festival has begun with  The Radicalization of Rolfe . . .
www.curtainup.com/fringe16.html#Rolfe

A lively revival of Jelly's Last Jam in DC

Jelly's Last Jam - Credit for how entertaining this revival of George C. Wolfe's musical about Jelly Roll Morton is the way Director Matthew Gardiner pulls the show together. . . Read More

Troilus & Cressida in the Park: top notch cast and direction

Troilus And Cressida - Daniel Sullivan reinforces the anti-heroic themes of Shakespeare's text throughout the evening, debunking chivalric ideas and stressing the futility of war.

Newton's Cradle a big NYMF winner

Newton’s Cradle took home  the most awards from the New York Musical  Theater Festival.    To read my review  click the Newton's Cradle  header  at       nymusicfestival2016.html 

Wendy Waserstein's American Daughter couldn't be timelier

An American Daughter - Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter seems just as fresh and even more timely this pre-election season than it did twenty years ago; perhaps even more relevant as the first serious female presidential candidate stands before the media's withering glare. Read More

Alice In Black and White- interesting but flawed biographical play

Alice In Black And White - A biographical play about a little-known photojournalist that would probably work better as a documentary.

Cry Havoc! enthralled our Berkshire critic

Cry Havoc! - Shakespeare & Co's Bernstein Theatre can barely contain the energy of Wolfert's stunning one-man show Read

Engagements--Lucy Teitler's engaging play about the dark side of romance

Engagements - Lucy Teitler invites you to see the darker side of romantic relationships and how marriage commitments can be undone in a wink.

Newton's Cradle, impressively conclues our NYMF coverage

Our New York Musical Theater Festival review coverage: Newton's Cradle . . .Nickel Mines . . . Lisa and Leonardo. . .Children of Salt. . . Icon. . .Scythe of Time .. . First Church of Mary. .

Summer Shorts 2016, Series A a t Curtainup

Summer Shorts 2016, Series A - The first half of this year's Summer Shorts festival features one-act plays by Cusi Cram, Neil LaBute, and A. Rey Paramut

The men on these boats are women

www.curtainup.com/menonboats16.html

Cats the critic-proof show is back

Cats. . .Back on Broadway - choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler makes brings new visual excitement to this critic proof mega-hit that now puts Andrew Lloyd Webber's name on three Broadway marquees