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...Broadway gig will mark the first theatrical run of NOTION, the music notation and playback program that his company introduced in April...
...Jarrett, daughter Lori Jarrett (the company's CEO) and son-in-law Ram Sethuraman (director of the company's board) got VirtuosoWorks off the ground could make its own opera--not off-Broadway but offshore. It's a tale about the possibilities and perils of outsourcing. It begins in the 1980s, when Jarrett, a music professor, created MusicPrinter Plus, a program to compose music onscreen and play it back on a synthesizer. He updated his program to eliminate the need for a synthesizer, allowing users to write music, then play and conduct it, all on a laptop. Jarrett's daughter...
...Anyone worried that Broadway has no room for anything but tourist-friendly comfort food could only marvel at the arrival of this hair-raising drama from McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane). A writer of sadistic children's stories is thrown into prison on suspicion of committing a string of grisly child murders, in a play so intense and disturbing that some critics (and many in the audience) tried to pass it off as a comedy...
...Albee's Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Tonys certified the restoration of his career. The international success of his 2001 play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles...
...Broadway has become so reliant on unearthing old musicals (there are four running right now) that it could be a zombie movie - The Night of the Singing Dead. Truth is, the old shows were better, including some that had short runs or none at all. Fortunately, there's a crusading archival interest (fomented by the City Centers Encores! series) to put on concert versions of neglected antiques, and a wealth of performing talent to give them life. This year I saw two terrific concert productions: one modest, one large, both grand. The 1968 Darling of the Day had a lovely...