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A Time To Kill

A TIME TO KILL. A New Courtroom Drama. Based on the classic bestseller by John Grishman, adapted for the stage by Rupert Holmes at the Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York. A TIME TO KILL is a new play adapted by Rupert Holmes from the first novel of John Grisham (1989). It has also been made into a film (1999) with Kevin Spacey, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson. This is a classic Broadway commercial venture and the reason I went to see it. It is a courtroom drama and has all the sensational twists and turns of that…

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Stories I Want To Tell You In Person

STORIES I WANT TO TELL YOU IN PERSON by Lally Katz in Joe’s Pub at the Public Theatre, New York. Crazy isn’t it? Life? Here I am in New York and I discover that Lally Katz is going to give a one night performance of her one person monologue (comic stand-up routine(?)) at Joe’s Pub, which is a cabaret space in the Public Theatre building way down town, at 9.30pm, on Sunday night. She follows, into the space, the monologist, Mike Daisey (he, of the notorious, THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS monologue – Sydney Opera House Concert Hall),…

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The Nose

The Metropolitan Opera presents Dimitri Shostakovitch, THE NOSE at the Lincoln Centre. How could one not take notice of these names, all on the same “bill’ and not want to see what they have all concocted: The Metropolitan Opera, Dimitri Shostakovitch, William Kentridge, Valery Gergiev, Nikolay Gogol and Yevgeny Zamyatin? Plus, for us Australians: Alexander Lewis (Who? – the young Australian tenor. Son of Michael Lewis, I think). THE NOSE is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and the Opera National de Lyon. It was first presented at the Metropolitan Opera, in 2010, in this wonderful staging…

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The Glass Menagerie

THE GLASS MENAGERIE was Tennessee Williams’ first success on Broadway. It was in 1944, and catapulted Mr Williams into the rarefied sphere of iconic artists, which he ably affirmed again and again, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1948, Pulitzer Prize) and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1955, Pulitzer Prize) were to come. Laurette Taylor, the original interpreter of Amanda, in that production, built a legendary aura around that role, and it has been, subsequently, the object for actors of a certain age, to pursue. On my last visit to New York I saw the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of THE…

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The Winslow Boy

Roundabout Theatre Company presents the Old Vic production of THE WINSLOW BOY by Terence Rattigan at the American Airlines Theatre, 42nd Street, New York. This production of Terence Rattigan’s THE WINSLOW BOY was originally seen at the Old Vic in London last year, directed by Lindsay Posner. In the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production, Mr Posner once again directs, utilising the London designs for Costume and Set by Peter McIntosh. The acting company is all new. The play has not been revived on Broadway since its original production in 1947. There have been two films made from the material – the…

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The Temperamentals

Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane, Martian Entertainment present THE TEMPERAMENTALS by Jon Marans at the New World Stages, New York. “Temperamental” was an American slang word for homosexual in the 40’s and 50’s. THE TEMPERAMENTALS by Jon Marans is a play about the men who formed the Mattachine Society in 1950, in Los Angeles. It was one of the earliest homophile organizations in the United States, probably second only to Chicago’s short-lived Society for Human rights,1924. As you can see, well before the turning point of the Stonewall Riots in New York, the GLBT community. This play is then a type…

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