Topic: Jan Maxwell

Aviation and people in freefall figure prominently in two Off-Broadway productions.. . Beau Willimon's "Spirit Control" gets off to a bangup start...

Wings

When Emily Stilson (Jan Maxwell) performed her wing-walking stunts in the 1920s, she was tethered to her plane with a discreet cord. As Arthur Kopit implies in his one-act play, Wings, being unable to express yourself through words is something like being ...

2010 Tony Award predictions

Most years, we stand behind our annual Tony predictions, and we've scored high in the past. Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Alfred Molina, Red 40% Denzel Washington, Fences 27% Liev Schreiber, A View from the Bridge 25 ...
2 strikingly different musicals dominate star-laden Tony nominationsTwo strikingly different musicals, "Fela!" and "La Cage aux Folles," dominated the star-laden 2010 Tony Awards nominations."Fela!" — the innovative Afro-beat biography of Nigerian superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti — and "La Cage aux Folles" &#8212 ...

The Royal Family

Watching the velvet-robed, octogenarian Rosemary Harris glide like a swan over the glistening pond of The Royal Family, George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's farce about theater people, one might be tempted to mutter something to the effect that they just ...