Results tagged “neilsimon”

Let's just get this out on the table: producing Neil Simon's The Odd Couple is playing it safe. It's not that I don't love the play—I do—but so does everybody else. (Except for, I don't know, maybe August Strindberg, but he's dead and he doesn't count. On the other hand, Neil Simon might quite enjoy Strindberg and Helium.) And so just putting the play up on your marquee or season brochure is more or less a guarantee of your success, meaning I'm not entirely sure why Walnut Street Theatre invited me to review their production of the popular play.

This week's quote made us giggle a bit. It's from Roland Barthes: "For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture." Now, on with the listings! (And sorry about the lack o' listings last week.)

This week’s quote comes from Stella Adler, who said “The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.” Meanwhile, we’re sorry we didn’t have any listings for you last week. If you’ll recall, we were having some server issues. But they’re better now, and here we are to catch you up. Now, on with the listings!

This week's quote has been extracted from a much longer one by Sarah Bernhardt that reads: "The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions." Now, on with the listings!

The answer, of course, is applause. This week's quote comes from the musical . In this scene, a group of gypsies relate how difficult their lives are, but say the payoff is in the applause. We're sure the actors in the productions below would agree. Now, on with the listings!

stuck in our heads all week. The featured quote is from the gluttonous Little Red Riding Hood. Now, on with the listings!