HeyJaredMarks & Vincentelli
A theater podcast hosted by critics Peter Marks and Elisabeth Vincentelli.
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Everything You STILL Wanted to Know about “Les Miz”* (*And We’re Here to Tell You!) (opens the original)
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“Les Miserables” may be a war horse, but dang, that old thoroughbred is spry. The musical by Claude Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil and Herbert Kretchmer opened in London in 1985 (after being birthed in Paris) and two years later, on Broadway. As new productions are springing up across the country, we turned to Powell, who has staged “Les Mizzes” all over the world, to talk about his history with the show and about its bottomless appeal.
The naked truth? “Garry Starr Classic Penguins” is a stripped-down hoot. Let clown king Damien Warren-Smith explain. (opens the original)
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I saw Damien Warren-Smith perform his 80-minute hit show last month at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — a show that epitomizes the spirit of fringe. Here, we talk about the clown tradition that the British born, Australian-bred Warren-Smith champions, in a show he built around the titles of Penguin Classic books. It’s a conceit that you really have to hear more about to fully appreciate. And Warren-Smith unravels it all here.
Broadway in the wild? Edinburgh on the Fringe? Elisabeth and Peter go on festival adventures. (opens the original)
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Summertime means that we pack our carry-ons, explore exotic destinations and then talk about our trips — as we do in this episode for our beloved paying subscribers. Unlike European countries, the U.S. doesn’t do summer theater festivals, at least not on a huge scale. (A quick second of silence for the dearly missed Lincoln Center Festival.) Peter went … Read more
"Birthright" is the summer's hottest play. Also the most controversial. (opens the original)
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Is there a provocative button that our guest Jonathan Spector doesn’t like to push? Mind you, this makes him sound like David Mamet or something, which is very much not his style. Jonathan’s play “Eureka Day,” which won the Tony Award for best revival last year, was about the debate around vaccines at a Bay Area school in the middle of a mumps outbreak.Now he’s back with “Birthright,” at MCC Theater through Aug. 23, about six people who met on a birthright trip to Israel (some knew each other be
Why did Arena Stage force out Hana Sharif? (opens the original)
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Once again a Washington, DC, institution is in trouble, but unlike with the Kennedy Center, this time the call came from inside the house. We welcomed Nicole Hertvik, editor-in-chief of DC Theater Arts, for her take on what’s unfolded at the storied Arena Stage, which artistic director Hana Sharif left in what appears to be acrimonious circumstances — the New York Times announced the news on June 26. <a href="https://dctheaterarts.org/2026/07/05/at-arena-stage-artists-and-staff-describe-a-workpl
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