Category Archives: musical
Review: Godspell
The principal joy of Godspell is the richly tuneful score by Stephen Schwartz, featuring the huge hit “Day by Day”. Godspell was his first hit, and really put him on the musical theatre map. This new Broadway revival certainly does … Continue reading
Review: Rent
When Rent first opened I was freshly transplanted to the East Village from the Midwest. I arrived weeks before it opened, and was mildly curious about this edgy little musical playing at the New York Theatre Workshop. I didn’t go, … Continue reading
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News: Performances Begin Tonight for “Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws”
I am proud to announce that the New York premiere of Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws by Tennessee Williams and directed by yours truly Jonathan Warman, will begin performances tonight Thursday, October 27, at 10pm, at The Club at La MaMa, … Continue reading
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CD Review: Death Takes A Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday (music and lyrics by Maury Yeston) draws on Albert Casella’s 1924 Italian play La Morte in Vacanza about the Grim Reaper (Kevin Early) taking human form to spend a weekend at a lakeside villa where he … Continue reading
Photos from the Provincetown run of “Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws”
Tickets for the New York run can be purchased at lamama.org
News: I’m directing “Jeffrey Dahmer Live” at FringeNYC
Photo Credit: Dixie Sheridan This August, I will be directing Avner Kam’s Jeffrey Dahmer Live at FringeNYC. Jeffery Dahmer Live combines personal stories and hummable songs as it explores disturbingly mundane and human behind the extreme actions of the infamous … Continue reading
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News: Announcing the Full Cast of my production of Tennessee Williams’s “Now the Cats with Jewelled Claws”
As I reported earlier, Mink Stole and Everett Quinton are set to star in the production I’m directing of one of Tennessee Williams most wildly creative plays, Now The Cats With Jewelled Claws. Casting has been completed for the upcoming … Continue reading
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Review: Zarkana
Cirque du Soleil is at it again, this time taking over the legendary Radio City Music Hall for Zarkana, an acrobatic rock opera. The story follows Zark, a magician who has lost his powers – and the love of his … Continue reading
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