With the concept of “winter” an increasing memory, here is overview of all that’s coming to New York stages this spring!
All tagged John Doyle
REVIEWS: “The Cradle Will Rock” and “The Lehman Trilogy”
From The Great Depression to The Great Recession, I take a look at a musical and a play that are now unwittingly in conversation with each other some eighty years and fifty blocks apart, from “The Cradle Will Rock” downtown at Classic Stage Company to “The Lehman Trilogy” uptown at the Park Avenue Armory.
REVIEW: Oscar Hammerstein’s “Carmen Jones” at CSC
Classic Stage Company presents the first major revival of Oscar Hammerstein’s “Carmen Jones” in an intimate, small-scale production by John Doyle; the music is magnificent and the voices gorgeous, but this 1943 opera-to-musical experiment doesn’t hold up. Catch the MetOpera’s “Carmen” instead.
REVIEW: “As You Like It” in Identity Crisis
Lovers of Shakespeare looking for a droll if-uninspired jaunt might enjoy this production of "As You Like It", otherwise skip this ill-conceived and ill-executed adaption, and wait for a better production by director John Doyle.