This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Edmund Gwenn-s famous quip -Dying is easy, comedy is difficult- seems particularly apt this year when discussing the world-s first great comedy writer, ...
“To offer you ‘greetings,’ fellow demesmen, is now old-fashioned and worn out; but I do say, ‘Wazzup!’ for turning up here so eagerly, so painstakingly, and so energetically, back me up now, in the ...
Aristophanes gets an MT makeover in South London. The Frogs, his comedy telling the tale of Dionysos’ journey to Hades, was freely adapted by Burt Shevelove 50 years ago and supplemented by Nathan ...
Like Here We Are, this adaptation of the Aristophanes comedy of the same name is an inventive concept mired by a messy production history, having begun life as a revue performed at Yale University in ...