Hair

Yay! More rock musical Hair for you! The Shakespeare in the Park production at the Delacorte Theater has extended its limited engagement to Sept. 7. It was originally set to run until Aug. 17. Then last week the Public extended it until Aug. 31. Now, there's an extra week to get your dose of peace, love and those hott Hair boys.  read more »

Bryce Ryness, 27, was born nearly two decades after hippies danced in the mud, but the lanky actor looks like he just stepped out of Woodstock. With sun-streaked, dirty blond hair to his shoulders, earthy sandals and blue and purple polish on his nails, Mr. Ryness said his role as a member of the Age of Aquarius tribe in the Public Theater’s staging of Hair came to him “pretty naturally.”

The California babe played Roger, the H.I.V. positive poet, in the 2006 national tour of Rent, and was nominated for an Ovation Award for his lead role in a West Coast performance of Floyd Collins.  read more »

The Public Theater’s smashing new revival of Hair (1967) in Central Park is a joy from beginning to end. It’s just the best, though fans of South Pacific (1947) might not agree with me.

I felt about Lincoln Center’s loving revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific that while the audience seemed to be in heaven, I was in a retirement home. But Hair is different. Hair is my South Pacific.

“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”—to give its glorious subtitle—was the first show I ever saw with performers onstage who were my own age. It’s the musical that spoke directly to my 1960s generation, though there’s another particular affection I have for it: For reasons nobody’s ever been able to figure out, Hair’s stoned hero—Claude Bukowski from Flushing, Queens—likes to pretend he’s from Manchester, England.  read more »