Subject:

James Lapine

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2013

    Passion Returns: My Review

    The 1994 musical Passion--with a score by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine--was an adaptation of the 1981 Italian film Passione d'Amore, about a sickly, unattractive woman who fixates on a handsome soldier in 19th Century Italy and wills him to love her back. I loved the movie because th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    Annie Review: Has The Sun Come Out?

    Little Orphan Annie's adventures charmed America as a comic strip from 1924 all the way to 2010, thanks to curly hair, undrenchable optimism, and catchy expressions like "Leapin' lizards." Decades after the character's inception, Annie the musical brightened a bleak time in the '70s with its own cu ... More >>

  • Theater

    August 15, 2012

    Into the Woods: The Disenchanted Forest

    This time, the Public does Sondheim in the Park

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2012

    Into The Woods In Central Park: My Review

    Into The Woods--the 1986 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine show about fairy tale characters coming together and learning lessons--is being done in the woods of Central Park in a gimmicky but vigorous production directed by Timothy Sheader with codirection by Liam Steel. The show has always basically be ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 8, 2012

    Happily Ever After?

    Amy Adams stars in Into the Woods

  • Voice Choices

    May 23, 2012

    YE OLDE JAMBOREE

    Shakespeare in the Park gets country

  • Theater

    February 26, 2008

    Three Plays Just In From London

    A gimmicky Macbeth, a chilly Sunday, a graceless Grace

  • Theater

    August 28, 2007
  • Theater

    March 6, 2007

    March Mildness

    Kline's Lear goes for rationality; Molina's Katz makes madness unreasonable

  • Art

    February 27, 2007

    Lear Window

    Kevin Kline prepares to scale the mad king's heroic heights and war-torn politics

  • Columns

    September 20, 2005
  • Theater

    September 20, 2005
  • Theater

    February 8, 2005

    Hard Core Orthography

    Like many of the words its characters spell, Spelling Bee seems to have no particular use

  • People

    January 18, 2005
  • Theater

    October 22, 2002
  • Theater

    May 7, 2002
  • Theater

    January 18, 2000
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