For the runup to the Tony Awards on Sunday, ArtsPaper’s Hap Erstein takes a series of looks at the shows up for Broadway’s highest honors: Act One — Just as marijuana is thought of as a gateway drug to harder stuff, Moss Hart’s autobiography Act One is surely responsible for getting many a young would-be theater artist hooked on the stage. The memoir of an impoverished kid … [Read more...]
The Hapster Awards, 2009 edition
Producers, who will accept any award, covet them. Actors, who probably do not realize they are rarely complimentary, list them in their program bios. What are they? The annual Hapster Awards, given for achievement -- usually “dubious’ -- in theater during the past year. So here are the 2009 Hapsters (Sorry, times are tough and we couldn’t afford envelopes): Best Play about … [Read more...]