Seattle Shakespeare Company launches their 20th anniversary season with the uber-Shakespeare classic, "Hamlet". I'll admit I was hesitant to go see it. "Yet another production of 'Hamlet'." But, this production with its "less is more" mentality is a near note perfect production and one to be remembered for years to come.
Seattle Shakespeare Company launches their 20th anniversary season with the uber-Shakespeare classic, "Hamlet". I'll admit I was hesitant to go see it. "Yet another production of 'Hamlet'." But, this production with its "less is more" mentality is a near note perfect production and one to be remembered for years to come.
The Colony Hotel, which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as 'probably the best place for cabaret on the planet' - announced a star-studded, 10th anniversary season of the hotel's celebrated Royal Room, featuring headliners straight from Broadway and the most sophisticated nightspots in Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Manhattan.
The Colony Hotel - which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as 'probably the best place for cabaret on the planet' - announced a star-studded, 10th anniversary season of the hotel's celebrated Royal Room, featuring headliners straight from Broadway and the most sophisticated nightspots in Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Manhattan.
Tony Award winner Faith Prince will be recording a live CD during her stint at Palm Beach's Royal Room at the Colony Hotel from April 13-16. This will be the performer's fifth engagement at the Royal Room.
Tony Award winner Faith Prince will be recording a live CD during her stint at Palm Beach's Royal Room at the Colony Hotel from April 13-16. This will be the performer's fifth engagement at the Royal Room.
The opposites attracting plot is probably as old as romantic comedy itself, but even if Rooms: a rock romance follows familiar paths, the Paul Scott Goodman (book/music/lyrics) and Miriam Gordon (book) two-person musical is such a buoyant, funny and upbeat affair that the clichés of the story are conquered by the cleverness and exuberance with which the story is told. Under Scott Schwartz's swift and breezy direction, the 90-minute one-act scoots the audience along on an immensely enjoyable ride.
Penned by a pair of downtown revue writers (Betty Comden and Adolph Green), composed by a wunderkind New York Philharmonic conductor (Leonard Bernstein), choreographed by a Ballet Theatre soloist (Jerome Robbins) and originally directed by musical comedy master George Abbott, there's never been a musical on Broadway that mixes highbrow and lowbrow with such a wondrous cacophonous clash as On The Town.
Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Tuesday, March 17, 2009.
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