Entries from July 2008 ↓

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.

The pimps and whores and crooked cops of Melvin Van Peebles?s show reign uptown in a lively Classical Theater of Harlem production.

Sande Shurin, an acting coach and director, and her husband, Bruce Levy, converted a two-acre property in Woodstock, N.Y., into an actors? retreat.

Sande Shurin, an acting coach and director, and her husband, Bruce Levy, converted a two-acre property in Woodstock, N.Y., into an actors? retreat.

This is one cool show: though the piece doesn’t gel into an entirely cohesive and satisfying whole, the component elements of Heistman are sensationally well crafted and executed. Conceived and directed by Gabriella Barnstone and created and performed by her company el gato teatro, Heistman takes us, mostly, inside the psyche of its title character, a man who has holed himself up with hostages following a botched attempted armed robbery of a bank (think Dog Day Afternoon).

Easy Outs has been lost for more than 30 years; Russell Dobular and EndTimes Productions deserve major kudos for finding it. It’s a hilarious, smart, and still timely satire by Chip Keyes about a young man named Alphonse who, in 1969, decides to dodge the draft and move to a "small neutral peace-loving country" (that he read about in National Geographic) to become a simple craftsman. The play is in need of some editing, though, and the production is somewhat scattershot.

A new production of Lerner and Loewe?s ?Brigadoon,? which was scheduled to play in Boston this fall before a Broadway opening, has been postponed.

The Cape Playhouse has not altered its schedule of short runs with minimal time between shows.

Mr. Little?s many newspaper articles and books chronicled developments in the theater from the 1950s to the ?70s.

A revival of the musical “Guys and Dolls” will open on Broadway in the spring of 2009 at the Nederlander Theatre, the producer Howard Panter announced Tuesday. The show will be directed by Des McAnuff and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo. The most recent Broadway revival of the Frank Loesser musical closed in 1995. “Guys and Dolls” had its premiere on Broadway in 1950. In 1955, director Joseph Mankiewicz made the musical into a movie starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, and Frank Sinatra…