From Patrick Marber's "Howard Katz" to the Met and more
Chris Durang Seriously Adrift/Middle-Eastern Hustler at NY Theatre Workshop/Howard Katz Self-Destructs!/Bad-Dad Frank Lloyd Wright/Williamsburg Hustler at the Cort/Spanish Play No Play/Marcel Proust Re-cycled!/6969 at 59E59/Trio of Female-Abuse Dramas: Do Women Search for Losers & Abusers?/Malta & Venice: Two Jews by Murray Abraham/Art-Nouveau Fashion-Show at Madras House!/All Fall Dead in Journey's End/Tennessee Williams' Bird Sings Again/Friel's Gaelic-as-English Translations/Exchanging Souls wih a Kiss!/Rent in Washington Heights!/Gutenberg--From Wine-press To Printing-press!/Audience Blood-bath in Evil Dead!/John Neumeier's Death in Venice at BAM/New Regime at Met Opera/Peter Gelb Wants Opera-as-Theatre/Heartbreaking Eugene Onegin/Dynamic Simon Boccanegra/Magical Anna Netrebko in Puritani/Julie Taymor's Met Flute: Mozart Meets The Lion King!/Marta Eggert & Two New Performance-spaces at Manhattan School/Gerard Mortier to City Opera--Salzburg & Paris Come to Lincoln Center?/Billy Forsythe at BAM: Iraq War Is Bad/Alice Aloft at New Victory/Falun Gong Saluted at Radio City Music Hall/Richard Foreman's New Ontological-Hysteric Cult-Work at St. Mark's/Jeff Denman's Cabaret Showcase: Jazz Turns. By Glenn Loney.

End of 2006: A Look Ahead--A Look Behind
Chimney-Sweep Season: Check out Chenoweth's Ella in Apple Tree & Bert in Mary Poppins!/Julie Taymor's Magical Zauberflöte!/Dr. Charcot & Female-Hysteria: Marat/Sade Revisited!/Russian Intellectuals Foment Utopian Revolution at Lincoln Center!/New York Gays Vanish at City Center: Regrets Only!/Stand-Up for The Vertical Hour?/Closeted-Gay Korean Dad in Durango/American Pilot Crashes in Muslim-Territory!/No Dust in Clean House!/Blowing Your Own Horn in Company!/Voysey Patriarch an Enron-Crook!/Post-Modernist Hedda Smashes Løvborg's Laptop!/O'Neill's Ape in Close-Quarters!/Suddenly, Blythe Danner as Mrs. Venables!/Brodie & Nixon Both in Their Primes?/Is Lane Right for Butley?/Standing Still in the Station: Two Trains Running/Magical Russki Twelfth Night!/Stop The Grinch!/Christine Ebersole Outstanding as Double-Beales!/Frank Wedekind Sings Again—Post-Lulu!/Dylan & Tharp Don't Click!/Tower Records Closes: Also High Fidelity!/Woody Allen Strikes-Out at 59E59!/Judy Garland Lives Again in Irish Rep's St. Louis World's Fair Musical!/Les Mis Revival Miserable/Ed Harris Salvages Wrecks/Martha Clarke Creates Kaos Down on East Fourth.

Cyrano de Bergerac. See: Festival Time North & West: Shakespeare and Shaw.

2006 Festival-Time North & West: Shakespeare & Shaw!
Shakespeare Festivals North by Northwest: Stratford-Canada & Ashland-Oregon, Bernard Shaw Celebrated in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Toronto Lord of the Rings Sings!, Arms & the Man: Chocolate-Time!, Colm Feore's Curious Coriolanus, Nightmare-Gothic Duchess of Malfi, Bryan Bedford's Foppish London Assurance, Colm Feore's Creepy Fagin in Oliver!, Much Ado Benedick Old Enough To Be Beatrice's Dad, Marvelous Marco as Oregon Cyrano, OSF's Bus Stop: Greyhound Doesn't Stop in Ashland Anymore, Merry Wives Reduced To Broad Buffoonery, Betrayals in Milan: Two-Timer in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Arthur Miller's Crucible Witch-hunts Still Resonate, High Society: Cole Porter & Philip Barry No Blend, Magic Fire in Peronista Argentina, Ashland Earnest Better than BAM Redgrave Import, Anne Frank in Ashland, Portland: New Theatre, New Season, Back in NYC: LaBute's Some Girl(s) at the Lortel Is Some Play, Kotis' Pig Farm More Bloody Fun than Inishmore!, Greenberg's House in Town Set on Millionaire's Row, Frank Wedekind Sings at the Atlantic, Central Park Woods Come To Dunsinane in Delacorte Macbeth. By Glenn Loney.

Theresa Rebeck's "The Scene."

Humana Festival at 30
Humana Festival's 30th Birthday!, Lee Blessing Wins Big: Steinberg, ACTA Award & $25,000!, Jane Martin Takes On Bushie-Spying, Small-town Men in Fine 18th Century French Finery: Fund-raising Is a Drag!, Outside the Box with Joseph Cornell, Natural Selection: Theme-Park Ethnics, Rebeck's Scene: Self-destructive Loser, Actor Implodes, WW II Vet Finally Returns'in 1949!, Three Mailboxes in Suburbia: Sovereignty, Low: Rha Goddess in Psychotic Rapper Monodrama, New Museum-Hotel Crammed with Contemporary Artworks!, Louisville Slugger Mini-Bats Seized at Airport! By Glenn Loney.

Poster for Mozart Year at La Scala

IATC to Torino
As a member of the European Theatre Union--composed of city, state, and federally-subsidized theatres from all over the European Union--the Teatro Stabile and the City of Turin invited theatre notables and delegates from many lands. They also generously extended this hospitality to IATC: the International Association of Theatre Critics. This made it possible for several Americans--including Glenn Loney and his professorial colleague, the playwright Mario Fratti--to share in the productions, Pinter-papers, and general festivities. By Glenn Loney.

Peer Gynt to Joe Orton and More
Robert Wilson's Fantastic Peer Gynt, Hitler in New York, God Committee: Have a Heart, 18th Century Comedy Marries Oscar Wilde at Public Theatre, Stephen Lang as Gung-ho Marine Officer, Julia Roberts Shines in Three Days of Rain, Condi Rice Look-Alike in Stuff Happens, Awake & Sing, Ye Who Dwell in the Bronx, Carl Orff in Alice Tully, Get Well with Lisa Kron, Mr. Sloane Not So Entertaining, Casting-Call for Show-People, Blood & Gore in Inishmore, Blanchett's Glacial, Regal Hedda, Dreadful Dad in Festen, Why Not Publish Joe Orton's Letters?, Amy Irving & Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, Assembly-Line Trio-logue at Cherry Lane, Threepenny Opera: Shock & Awful, Fragments of Sophocles at CSC, Ring of Fire: Johnny Cash on the Line, Sandra Bernhard Sings Again, Sidd: Buddha Sings, Lifelong Learning with Marta Eggerth at 93, Flamenco in Bernarda Alba's Casa, George M. Cohan, Not Cohen, Landscape of the Guare, Jackie Bouvier [Kennedy-Onassis] on Stage in Grey Gardens, 60 Years of Tonys. By Glenn Loney.

From Pajama Games to Heddatrons
Garcia Lorca Returns from the Dead/Co-op Board Overthrown/Ibsen Deconstructed/Almost Maine Almost Made It/Apartment 3A Is Haunted!/Handel's Hercules in San Quentin Prison/Down the Rabbit Hole/Elective Affinities in Red Light Winter/Buried Alive in Fake Scots Gothic Drama/Dark at the Top of the Stairs in Barefoot in the Park/Rose Franken Recalls WW II GI Homecomings: Soldier's Wife/Mrs. Warren Returns/Brilliant Quijote Stage-Spectacle at Repertorio EspaÃ±ol/Harry Connick, Jr. Takes Off Pajama-Top/Seven Hip-Hoppers Against Thebes: Aeschylus Made Relevant To Semi-Illiterates/Richard Foreman Bonds Boring Videos with Ontological Fantasies/Not Easy Being Gay in LDS Utah: Mormon Boy's Confessions/Foul-mouthed Lenny Bruce Lives Again/Susan Sontag's Modern Parsifal/All's VERY Well That Ends Well.

Odd Couples, Seascapes, Women in White and more
Clyde Griffiths Sings /Bill Dudley's Revolving Concave Projection-Shells Make Magic for Woman in White/Little Dog Laughed: Can Hollywood Make an Honest Film About Gays? Don't Ask!/Chris Durang Reincarnates Miss Witherspoon/Dog Sees G-d: Is Charlie Brown Gay? Brokeback Mountain at Columbine High?/Chita Rivera a Dynamic Dancing Dervish/Rosemary Harris in The Other Side, Laying Out Corpses: Why?/Lane & Broderick OK as Odd Couple/Albee's Seascape: Odd Couple of Giant Talking-Lizards Refute Intelligent Design!/Bus-Ticket to Bountiful for Lois Smith, and Perhaps a Tony as well?/Nighthawks & Big-Band Sound at 59E59!/Bravura Gabriel Byrne in O'Neill's Poet/Didi & Gogo: You're wasting your time Waiting for Godot: He's not coming!/Celebrating Harold Pinter at the Atlantic/Judy Kaye Punishes Vocal-Folds as Florence Foster Jenkins/Oprah's Color of Purple Is Riot of Colors, But Short on White/Aussie Duo Terrific in Overpass-Dropped Stones/Synge Sings in Riders to the Sea at Manhattan School of Music. By Glenn Loney.

Ellen Karas as "Hilda"

Jersey Boys to Hilda and More
Johann Sebastian Bach Wins Leipzig Organ-Audition!, Brilliant Patti Lupone Makes Both Vocal & Instrumental Sondheim Music, Soldier's Play Even Better Second Time Around!, Frankie Valli Sings Again!, Tourette's Syndrome as Musical Inspiration!, Dawn Powell's Posthumous World Premiere!, Magical Ping Chong Cathay!, Meryl Streep's Daughter Mamie as Precocious 4-Year-Old!, No Zagat-Rating for 5-Course Love, Miracle in Central Park: Not at Public Theatre, Beowulf Sings & Sings, Wendy Wasserstein on Third!, Blood-soaked Labyrinthine Massacre, Very French Servant-Problems: Hilda & Trapped, Flee from Manic Flight Reaction, Other Ayckbourns Better Than Absurd Person Singular, Look-Alike Bobby in RFK, Hispanic Stereotypes in Latinologues, Celebrating Goldfadden & Yiddish Theatre, Charlie Chaplin's Grandson Outstanding Mime in Bright Abyss!, Lavish Maoist Ballet: Raise the Red Lantern, Isabelle Huppert in Two-Hour Stupor of Depression: 4.48 Psychose, Boisterous All-Male Winter's Tale, Mouse Queen Meets Lion King, Give Me Shelter, Little Prince Flies into Lincoln Center. By Glenn Loney.

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