The Westchester Guardian – July 3, 2014 edition
EYE ON THEATRE: Revival of Revivals By JOHN SIMON
Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles and Alan Cumming as Emcee in Cabaret. The current mounting of “Cabaret” has rightly been dubbed the revival of a revival because it re-creates the most recent revival of the musical, which transferred to Broadway from London. It is co-directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshall, with the latter also choreographing. So the hit 2004 …
EYE ON THEATRE: Of Cripples and Crossdressers By JOHN SIMON
The Irish theater has thrived on its characters’ eccentricity, sometimes based on outlandish individuality, sometimes on mere benightedness. Yeats was the chief exception; other playwrights mostly followed this proven recipe. Otherwise put, whereas in sophisticated comedy protagonists are smarter than the rest, in typical Irish comedy they are more conniving, more absurd or just more loony. Out of this tradition …
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