Entries from August 2008 ↓

Tlaloc Rivas’s realization of Tennessee Williams’s play Summer and Smoke is incisive and moving; there are only a few performances left and if you’re a fan of great American drama I highly recommend that you see it. Rivas has said that he wanted to approach this play, first seen on Broadway some 60 years ago, as if it were new, or at least a newly discovered work; this he has done, along with his excellent collaborators, who have shone light on some of the less appreciated aspects of this less familiar work by one of America’s finest playwrights.

Christmas arrives ahead of Thanksgiving on Broadway this season. “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” has announced it will officially open November 23 — four days before Thanksgiving. Preview performances for the stage version of Berlin’s celluloid classic begin November 14 at the Marquis Theatre. No word yet on who will be in the cast, but the production will be directed by Walter Bobbie. “White Christmas” features a book by David Ives, who adapted Mark Twain’s farce “Is He Dead?” for Broadway…

?The New Electric Ballroom? affirms Enda Walsh?s growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

?The New Electric Ballroom? affirms Enda Walsh?s growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

Taking Questions: Benjamin Chesluk will answer City Room readers’ questions about the development of Times Square and its implications for other cities around the world.

Haley Joel Osment will be making his Broadway debut in David Mamet?s ?American Buffalo.?

Nicky Silver, a bit less angry, is back with a new play, ?Three Changes.?

The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare?s ?House of Blue Leaves? after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.

Lincoln Center Theater will present Horton Foote?s ?Dividing the Estate? this fall at the Booth Theater.

Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival?s inspiriting production of ?Cymbeline.?