Jennifer Simard knows she's funny
Peter Schumann's "manic creative energy" was on full display last month when Bob Morris visited the Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vt. Schumann, the theater's 89-year-old artistic director, has been baking bread, painting, directing — basically working with "wild abandon, trying to squeeze it all in," his son Max noted. The theater is going strong and so is Schumann, but what will happen when he is gone? |
In the jukebox musical "Once Upon a One More Time," Jennifer Simard is nailing her comedic take on Cinderella's evil stepmother. She finds value in seeing "how small you can make something and achieve a big result," she told Juan A. Ramírez. How does she approach her comedic roles? "It's what the character is not getting — what they are frustrated about — that's funniest," she said. |
A Broadway play about the behind-the-scenes struggles during the making of "Jaws" will certainly delight fans of that Hollywood blockbuster. But Jesse Green wasn't won over, writing in his review of "The Shark Is Broken": "Were it not for its curious meta-story, the play would be little more than a pleasant diversion: 95 minutes of bloodless, toothless, Hollywood-adjacent dramedy." |
Across the pond, Alexis Soloski was on a mission: Figure out how the wild but true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme was transformed into "the feel-good West End musical of the summer." It's called "Operation Mincemeat," and the theater collective behind it decided that some of the really crazy stuff had to go — even if it was historically accurate. |
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