Performing Jonathan Tolins’s Streisand-centric fable live and online, Michael Urie hits it out of the park
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The Feingold Column: My Recycled Repertoire, and Why (Barrie’s ‘Admirable Crichton’)
I have a notion for what might be a four-play repertory season. The title most likely to be recognized is the British specimen, James M. Barrie’s ‘The Admirable Crichton.’
Intermission Talk: Outrageous Slings and Arrows
The exceptional Canadian series, set at a facsimile of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, is re-released just in time for us to savor it
Intermission Talk: One Man, Two Guvnors, Your Screen
National Theatre Live brings James Corden and his Tony-winning performance into your home
Intermission Talk: Bob Avian’s Fleet-Footed Show-Biz Memoir
The choreographer-director recalls his active career, including the Michael Bennett years
The Feingold Column: Songs to Write Plays By–Part 2
The simplicity, even the banality, of a popular tune can be the arresting feature that gives a play its strength
Intermission Talk: About the Alan Jay Lerner-Kurt Weill “Love Life”
An influential, pioneering concept musical from 1948 which lost its way
Intermission Talk: How Broadway Singing Fell Prey to Pop Music’s Excesses, and Why There’s Hope
On keeping singing in musical theater about storytelling, rather than showboating
Intermission Talk: An Actors Fund Benefit, And Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
The jolly tone and theater-centric focus of the old Rosie O’Donnell Show is charmingly recaptured on line for an awfully good cause
Intermission Talk: About Mack & Mabel
The inauspicious origins of the ill-fated Jerry Herman/Michael Stewart musical, recently revived at City Center