Mary Lincer

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Review: PARADISE BLUE at Studio Theatre

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

A superb troupe of five actors and a great trumpet player (Michael A. Thomas) do everything in their toolkit to realize Dominique Morisseau's significant play, Paradise Blue, about a Detroit jazz club caught in the post-World War II "urban renewal" which tampered with Black neighborhoods and lifestyles in American cities nationwide. They are substantially upstaged and undermined by director Raymond O. Caldwell's "concept" that a play about a jazz club ought to be set in a jazz club.
Review: ON YOUR FEET! at St. Mark's Players

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Mario Font has directed a lively production of the 2015 jukebox/autobiographical musical On Your Feet!. It's the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan's lives and careers as they evolved from local Miami, Cubano musicians in the 1970s and 80s into crossover artists, and then into internationally recognized, Grammy-winning superstars.
Review: BAD BOOKS at Round House Theatre

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Get Access To Every Broadway StoryUnlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email:Existing user? Just click login. The American Library Association (ALA) has just posted its latest list of books that have been "challenged"; Round House Theatre's trenchant production of Sharyn Rothstein's Bad Books "celebrates" Library Week by revealing how censorship can negatively spiral and fake free speech has consequences.
Review: YOUR NAME MEANS DREAM at Theater J

1 month ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Get Access To Every Broadway StoryUnlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Nowadays and in the near future, androids apparently dream of a great deal more than electric sheep, according to José Rivera's accomplished two-hander, Your Name Means Dream at Theater J through April 6.
Review: THE AGE OF INNOCENCE at Arena Stage

2 months ago | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence was published about a week before she was able to vote for the first time in 1920. The following year, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Now, playwright Karen Zacarías has adapted Wharton's complex tragedy of manners into Arena's elegant, 3 hour production ably directed by Hana S. Sharif.
Review: PATTI LUPONE: A LIFE IN NOTES at Strathmore

Feb 7, 2025 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

In the late 1960s (in her late 60s), cabaret étoile Mabel Mercer added the utterly goofy "Wait 'til We're 65" (by Lerner & Lane) to her sets; when she was well past 50, Barbara Cook began including Harper & Zippel's wildly funny "The Ingenue" to her shows, simultaneously sending up her rivals and ageism.
Review: DEATH ON THE NILE at Arena Stage

Dec 9, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

With Ken Ludwig's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Arena Stage's new Artistic Director, Hana S. Sharif, debuts as Director. The sumptuousness of the production may not quite balance with the slightness of the script, but as amusement during the holiday season, Death on the Nile offers fine performances, the fun of puzzling out a mystery, and stunningly beautiful visual elements.
Review: A HANUKKAH CAROL, OR GELT TRIP! THE MUSICAL at Round House Theatre

Dec 1, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

Charles Dickens wouldn't get it, but he's not the audience for the world première of A Hanukkah Carol, or Gelt Trip! The Musical.
Review: SUMMER, 1976 at Studio Theatre

Nov 17, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

In his 90 minute one-act Summer, 1976, playwright David Auburn describes and explores female friendship and how and why it operates. In 1976, when most of the play takes place, feminism had not yet fully extricated women from the centuries-old male notion that all women must needs be competitors and rivals, but it had come a long way. And that's one of the elements that makes Summer, 1976 absorbing; Kate Eastwood Norris and Holly Twyford are the other two, unrivalled elements.
Review: PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC at Theater J

Nov 5, 2024 | broadwayworld.com | Mary Lincer

In an elegant coincidence (or a charming conspiracy by the theatre gods), DC audiences will be able to see two absolutely engrossing plays about Jewish family life in 20th and 21st century Europe, back to back: Tom Stoppard's Tony award-winning Leopoldstadt next month at the Shakespeare Theatre and Joshua Harmon's Drama Desk award-winning Prayer for the French Republic through November 24 at Theater J.