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James Marino, Michael Portantiere and Jan Simpson review Pacific Overtures @ Classic Stage Company, The New Group’s production of The Whirligig, Seven Spots on the Sun @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Mint Theater Company’s production of The Lucky One. We discuss the controversy surrounding an Oregon production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Shoebox Theatre director Michael Streeter.
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
Peter Filichia is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, “The Great Parade”, available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.
James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
BroadwayStars
Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
Michael Portantiere is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, Everything Sondheim and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.
Matt Tamanini | Twitter
MATT TAMANINI is BroadwayWorld’s Senior TV and Film Critic and the host of the “Some Like it Pop” podcast, which is available on iTunes and Stitcher. You can connect with Matt on Twitter at @BWWMatt.
Jan Simpson | Facebook | Twitter
Broadway & Me
JAN SIMPSON is Co-director of the Arts and Culture Journalism program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, and also writes for TDF Stages and American Theater.
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Reviews:
JS: Pacific Overtures @ Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, through June 18, 2017
MP: The New Group’s production of The Whirligig @ Signature’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street, through June 18, 2017
JS: Seven Spots on the Sun @ Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place, through June 4, 2017
JS + MP: The Mint Theater Company’s production of The Lucky One @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, through through June 25, 2017
— Off Broadway Reviews – The Lucky One: Theatre Review by Michael Portantiere – May 18, 2017
Discussion:
Playbill: August Wilson Assails Colorblind Casting
NYT: Barlett Sher to Direct “Porgy and Bess” at the Met in 2019-2020
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Music:
Two selections from PORGY AND BESS, from the recording of the Houston Grand Opera production that played on Broadway in 1976
1-01 Introduction – Jasbo Brown Blue
2-11 Oh, I Can’t Sit Down
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