Sun, March 21, 2010

New York Theater Around the Web

 

All About Me Review: Dame Edna, Michael Feinstein as Sonny and Cher

Posted 2 days, 12 hours ago

“It’s not about you,” the actress playing the stage manager scolds the two feuding stars of “All About Me,” Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage. “It’s about them,” she says, pointing to the audience. “They want a show.”

“All About Me,” which has now opened at the Henry…

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Looped Review: Tallulah Ends Up Oprah

Posted 6 days, 12 hours ago

Tallulah Bankhead, the quotable and oft-caricatured sultry-voiced star whom Valerie Harper is playing in “Looped,” was the inspiration for both Cruella de Vil in “101 Dalmatians” and Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire”; indeed, Tennessee Williams is said to have asked her to…

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Miracle Worker Review: Accessible, Engaging, Endangered

Posted 6 days, 20 hours ago

To judge whether there is an audience for “The Miracle Worker” the first-ever Broadway revival of the 1959 play about the awakening of Helen Keller, let’s look at the numbers: as many as a million adults in the United States who are both deaf and blind; 20 million or so who are

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