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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] This Just In: Signature Announces Sondheim Award

Posted by Rick Sincere in October 7th 2008    under: Signature Theatre, Sondheim, aggregated, musical theatre      

This news release from Signature Theatre in Arlington just became available about 35 minutes ago:Signature Theatre to Honor Stephen Sondheim at Gala Benefit in April Theatre to pay tribute to composer by establishing annual ‘Sondheim Award’ …

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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] Revisiting ‘The Fix’

Posted by Rick Sincere in August 10th 2008    under: Metro Herald, Politics, Satire, Signature Theatre, aggregated, musical theatre      

Leslie Carbone brings our attention to this quotation-cum-apologia from failed Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who explains how he fell from the hair-perfect heights to the hair-shirt depths:”I went from being a senator, a young senator…

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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] ‘The Visit’ - The Serrated Edge of Morals

Posted by Rick Sincere in May 30th 2008    under: Metro Herald, Signature Theatre, aggregated, musical theatre      

I saw Kander & Ebb’s new musical, The Visit, at Signature Theatre in Arlington on Wednesday night. This is my review, prepared for The Metro Herald in Alexandria:Serrated Edge of Morals:Kander & Ebb Provoke with ‘The Visit’ at SignatureRic…

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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] A Look Back at ‘Over & Over’

Posted by Rick Sincere in April 10th 2008    under: Broadway, Kander and Ebb, Metro Herald, Signature Theatre, aggregated, musical theatre      

In my previous post, which was primarily a review of the new production of The Happy Time at Signature Theatre in Arlington, I mentioned in passing — as did a cheeky Fred Ebb — Over & Over, the musical version of Thornton Wilder’s 1940s play, The…

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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] A Worthy Revival at Signature Theatre

Posted by Rick Sincere in April 10th 2008    under: Kander and Ebb, Metro Herald, Signature Theatre, aggregated, musical theatre, photoblog      

A few years before his death, lyricist Fred Ebb — who would have been 75 years old this past Tuesday, April 8 — wrote to artistic director Eric Schaeffer of Signature Theatre in Arlington. In what proved to be a prescient note, Ebb’s letter of May 6…

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[Rick Sincere News and Thoughts] ‘Glory Days’ Heads to Big Stem

Posted by Rick Sincere in March 28th 2008    under: Broadway, Signature Theatre, aggregated, musical theatre      

Glory Days, the new musical that was reviewed here a few weeks ago, is on its way to Broadway.According to Jane Horwitz in Wednesday’s Washington Post:Signature Theatre’s “Glory Days,” the coming-of-age musical set on a football field, is moving to Bro…

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