DC Theater Review: Signature Theatre’s ‘Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes’

Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb, DJ Diplo, and singer/songwriter Ryan Tedder have all signed up to live-stream performances from home this weekend as part of a new fundraising concert.

Diplo, Barry Gibb, Ryan Tedder, Lauv, Charlie Puth, Die Antwoord, and many more have joined Twitch Stream Aid, a 12-hour charity stream kicking off this Saturday, March 28 at 9:00 AM PST on twitch.tv/twitch co-presented with Amazon Music. The livestream will benefit the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization. (See the full lineup in the poster below.)

While a string of incoming Broadway and off-Broadway productions remain in limbo awaiting a significant shift in the coronavirus pandemic before announcing revised plans, Lincoln Center Theater has moved its two major spring openings to the fall. The new Broadway musicalFlying Over Sunsetwas scheduled to have its first preview March 12, the night that theaters were shut down, with an official opening originally set for April 16 at LCT's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

By Ted Johnson

"It's the coolest shit that's going to drop in 2020"

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By David Robb

By David Robb

In David Lean’s 1945 film of Noël Coward’s ghostly comedy “Blithe Spirit,” Margaret Rutherford memorably embodied the role of local spirit guide Madame Arcati — but she was given a run for money by her surrounding players. These days, the balance has shifted.

Jeffrey Seller, the producer whose penchant for Broadway long-shots paid off with Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights and Hamilton, less so with The Last Ship and The Cher Show,looks to have a new hit ready to go — only this time he's backing familiar material. Fly, which just opened at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego for a monthlong tryout, is yet another take on the adventures of Peter Pan, Wendy, the Lost Boys and Captain Hook.

By Jill Goldsmith

No disrespect to Bob Dylan, one of the greatest songwriters in modern American music, but hearing his tunes sung by the melodious voices in Girl From the North Country is a revelation — the second time even more than the first. Moving to Broadway after a hit 2018 run at the Public Theater, this brilliantly conceived project from Irish writer-director Conor McPherson could be called the anti-jukebox musical.

Some people think Bob Dylan’s music is depressing — and in “Girl From the North Country,” Conor McPherson makes the case by setting more than twenty of Dylan’s songs into a surprisingly sturdy narrative about the residents of a seedy boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota, at the height of the Depression in 1934.

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Loose Women star Stacey Solomon isn't keen on letting trolls interrupt her morning routine.

There’s a lot of tsuris in Richard Greenberg’s witty and quite wonderful “The Perplexed,” — at least for the older generation of characters on this 10-actor cast. In this new play now making its bow at Manhattan Theatre Club, they’re struggling madly with changing times they can’t fathom, family wounds that won’t heal and a posh wedding that no one particularly wants — except perhaps for the off-stage, wicked, ancient billionaire whose palatial home is the setting for the event.