Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com

Monday, April 1, 2013

Good People not so good in Philly

Philadelphia
 Good People
Good People - At the Walnut Street Teater this award winning play comes across more sitcom than humorously gritty and real. But as Abe Lincoln (probably erroneously) is credited with saying: People who like this sort of thing wwill find this the sort of thing they like. . .

London theater: Something old/something new on

The Low Road- Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris's third play at the London Court is an epic, sprawling "fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism" . . .



 Before the Party
Before the Party - Written in the late 1940s by Rodney Ackland, but based on an ealier short story by Somerset Maugham. It was a hit in London's West End and is revived by Matthew Dunster at the Almeida in a witty production. . . Read More