The only question for many hardened theater types is how many awards "The Producers" will win.
Other theater types, including the director Scott Ellis ("The Waverly Gallery") and the actor John Slattery ("Betrayal"), chowed down all around.
Otherwise, yes, Louis Malle's film is 110 minutes of two white male Manhattan theater types sitting around talking.
In this spring season rich with high-profile revivals, Erik Piepenburg asked several theater types to come up with their own perfect revival.
The original Emily Shaw's, which thrived in a golden age of piano bars and dry martinis, drew theater types and swells from far and wide for musical soirees.
Neither man ever really left the stage, which makes one wonder: don't old theater types ever simply buy a condo somewhere and retire?
— Laurie, Oregon A. I do think that as musical theater types (and also for plays) have evolved, colleges are looking for types that reflect today's librettos.
"Urinetown," a musical spoof of Brecht and other serious theater types, is about to transfer to Henry Miller's Theater on West 43rd Street after a sold-out Off Broadway engagement.
Right after their last New York show, I tweeted that their performances have inspired me more than any theater of the last 10 years, and received a number of replies from theater types implying some kind of sacrilege on my part.
The title of the new play at La MaMa E.T.C., "The Cherry Orchard Sequel," may set off the cringe reflex: isn't that the kind of thing theater types think up during boozy cast parties?
