And a splendid product it is.
Lloyd Richards, Mr. Wilson's long-time director, has given "Seven Guitars" a mostly splendid production with five of the seven actors I saw last year in the play's premiere production, directed by Walter Dallas, at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
Barry Edelstein, the Old Globe's new artistic director, said in a statement that he was excited to begin his tenure with the show, which "brings together many of the things that are central to the Globe's identity: a classic text, the vibrant energies of the musical theater, a sumptuous and splendid production and a creative team of the first rank in the American theater".
The Blu-ray of "The Passenger" — one of a number of deluxe, high-definition opera videos that have lately come on the market — records a thoughtful and mostly splendid production.
The Blu-ray of "The Passenger"—one of a number of deluxe, high-definition opera videos that have lately come on the market records a thoughtful and mostly splendid production.
The BBC archives are stacked with these gems; I'm currently listening to Maggie Smith in a splendid 1985 production of Wycherley's The Country Wife, considered too obscene to stage in its original form for 200 years.
The restless dreamer is a minor character, and I suppose you could say that his nightmare — if that's what it is — is an exceedingly minor event in the so-far splendid production of nine interconnected dramas by Foote, from the Signature Theater Company and Hartford Stage.
Charles Isherwoodd called "Murder for Two," starring Jeff Blumenkrantz, above, far left, with Brett Ryback, a "nifty mystery musical comedy," and recommended "the utterly splendid production" of "Good Person of Szechwan," Brecht's serio-comic fable about the difficulty of doing good in a corrupt world, with the "magnetic" Taylor Mac, top right.
I can't help but admire a play of such cleverness and ambition, especially in this splendid production.
This splendid production makes sure that, vicariously, we do, too.
