Playwright A.R. Gurney has made a career chronicling the waning traditions of upper-class WASPS. First there was the formality of the dining room and, in 1989’s Love Letters, he wrote of a lifelong relationship as seen through the dying art of correspondence. He takes us back to a time — not that long ago — before e-mail or text messages, when people sat down, pen in hand, and … [Read more...]
Maltz gets puckish charm of ‘Joseph’ just right
The name Andrew Lloyd Webber does not bring to mind light comic romps as much as it does overblown musicals with operatic pretensions. But back in 1968, as an exercise for a prep school, he and lyricist Tim Rice devised a frothy entertainment from an Old Testament yarn, built of tongue-in-cheek songs in anachronistic pop styles. The show is Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor … [Read more...]