REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When the musical adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel, Ragtime, hit Broadway in January 1998, an almost manic anticipation of the show's opening was dampened by critics such…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Not since Victor Borge's one-man show, Comedy in Music has piano playing brought so much humor to Broadway. Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt's mixture of comedy and…
BY CARY GINELL David Mamet's play November closes this weekend, just prior to the end of the mid-term election season, and it is just about as laughable (see our review in…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Let me state at the outset that I am not a fan of tampering with classics. There has been a penchant of late to succumb to…
BY CARY GINELL The play Twelve Angry Men is being presented this weekend by the Oak Park High School Drama Department in a production directed by Allan Hunt. Hunt, however,…
BY CARY GINELL Dark Heart of Poe continues its run this weekend as it moves from the Elite Theatre Company, where it was performed in the round, to the Simi…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Undecided on what to do for Halloween? Well, forget about all those faux haunted houses and neighborhood ghost tours. Pack a valise, hop a train to…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL What would happen if Archie Bunker got elected president? David Mamet's 2008 play November, which continues at the Elite Theatre Company through November 2, attempts to answer…
BY CHRISTANNA ROWADER This past May, I played Rapunzel in Into the Woods for 3-D Theatricals, and Rufus Bonds Jr., who was assistant directing, was brought in to play Coalhouse…
BY CARY GINELL Today, we present the first installment of an interview with Andrew David James, director of Dark Heart of Poe, an amalgam of Poe's famous short stories and poems,…