In today’s Wall Street Journal I talk about the shows, directors, performers, and theater companies that made the strongest and most favorable impressions on me in the year just past.
Among those mentioned:
• Best new play: Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat
• Best revival: Classic Stage Company’s The Cherry Orchard
• Best musical revivals: Porgy and Bess at Chicago’s Court Theatre and Show Boat at Connecticut’s Goodspeed Musicals
• Best Shakespeare revival: Amanda Dehnert’s Julius Caesar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Performer of the year: Chicago’s Carrie Coon
To find out what and who else delighted me in 2011, go here.
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Carrie Coon talks about the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in which she appeared earlier this year. The production, directed by Pam MacKinnon and also starring Tracy Letts, is scheduled to transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2012:
Archives for December 23, 2011
TT: The sound of hope
Laura Newell plays the solo harp interlude from Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols:
TT: They don’t make Christmas specials like they used to (III)
Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, starring Geraldine Page, directed by Frank Perry, and originally telecast on ABC Stage 67 in 1966. Capote is the narrator and wrote the teleplay:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey