Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Baltimore Sun ' s review stated: "The creators of Clue, the Musical have...found a way to improve the game". [2] It then ran at the Organic Theater in Chicago in April 1996, again directed by DePietro. [3] Clue opened Off-Broadway at the Players Theater on December 3, 1997, and closed after 29 performances and 17 previews. [4]
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written", [1] it presents the fictional American town of Grover's Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens.
Notable American versions include a co-production by American Folklore Theatre (co-founded by Fred Alley) and Skylight Opera Theatre (2002), which featured Phyllis Somerville as Hannah, the West Coast premiere at Laguna Playhouse (2002), which won the OC Award for Best Musical, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival production in 2006, which was ...
Of the west coast production, Hollywood Progressive wrote “Grumpy’s upbeat music is in the Broadway musical tradition of hits such as, say, The Pajama Game … unexpectedly heartwarming, moving and at all times, highly enjoyable.” [25] The Los Angeles Times demurred, suggesting the result was "a considerable loss of the movie's warmth ...
The play was adapted as a television movie in 2002, with Daniel Craig as Heisenberg, Stephen Rea as Niels Bohr, and Francesca Annis as Margrethe Bohr. The movie substantially cuts down the script of the play, eliminating several recurring themes, and most of the material that established the community of scientists in Copenhagen.
The theatre's owner, David Mirvish, said, "I'm not giving up on Leopoldstadt. I'm determined to present this magnificent play in Toronto sometime in the future when it is safe to do so." [21] Originally scheduled to run through March 2023, the Broadway run was extended to July 2023. [22] The production played its final performance on July 2 ...
The Broadway version of the play fared a little better with the critics than the original production had, earning mixed reviews. Curtain Up commented: "Good as they are the Wings residents can't transform Waiting in the Wings into the first-rate play it never was (the English production was a flop which persuaded Coward's long-time companion ...
The play was first performed at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in the 2015 Humana Festival of New American Plays, directed by Mike Donahue. In 2016, it was performed at the Florida Studio Theatre. [3] [4] In 2017, the play was performed at the San Francisco Playhouse from May 23 to July 1, directed by Becca Wolff. [5]