Wednesday, March 9, 2022
When was the last time you smiled for two hours? Were you wearing a mask? Under their masks, audiences at the Winter Garden Theater are grinning broadly eight times a week. Despite any criti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:35PMFriday, February 25, 2022
For many audiences, Phylicia Rashad will always be the elegant unflappable TV wife/mother/lawyer in The Cosby Show. She came into their homes every Thursday like a welcome friend. After the …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:04PMThursday, February 17, 2022
Lynn Nottage must be the hardest-working playwright in New York, having written three shows for the Fall 2022 season. First was Clyde, a terrific show about ex-convicts and second chances. D…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:40PMThursday, February 10, 2022
A viewer should be prepared for intense theater when attending a Eugene O’Neill play. If the show is “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” she should be ready for a lengthy assault on her…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:35PMThursday, January 27, 2022
It’s been almost 25 years since the 1997 release of the first Harry Potter book. Its young readers have grown up, gotten jobs and now have families of their own. Do the Harry Potter charac…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:11PMFriday, January 21, 2022
Only Stephen Sondheim could have taken a motley group of would-be murderers and made them sympathetic and funny. At one time, a musical about killing presidents would have been controversial…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:07AMThursday, January 13, 2022
It felt strange to be attending a show last Saturday night instead of sitting in front of the television waiting for SNL to begin. Fortunately, the play was “The Search for Signs of Intell…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:40AMSunday, December 26, 2021
By now, everyone associated with musical theater has written a tribute to legend Stephen Sondheim who died Nov. 26, 2021 at age 91. Productive until the end, Sondheim died while working on a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:09PMFriday, December 17, 2021
First let’s get rid of the elephant in the room- Rob McClure, hardworking star of Broadway’s “Mrs. Doubtfire” is NOT Robin Williams who created the 1993 movie role. However, he doesn…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:30PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
“What’s your justification?” demands the director, prodding his actors to consider their characters’ motivations in the play “Trouble in Mind.” Playwright Alice Childress had her…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:17AMFriday, December 3, 2021
For some, food is merely sustenance; for others, it is an art form. And for the former convicts who work at Clyde’s, a truck stop in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the perfect sandwich may of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:26PMMonday, November 29, 2021
Siblings can be a blessing. It’s even nicer when they live nearby. In “Morning’s at Seven,” the revival of Paul Osborne’s play at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, they are a little …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:57PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Photo credit: Joan Marcus We have a conflict in America. While it is built on the shoulders of immigrants,and the Statue of Liberty stands tall in New york harbor, our policies discourage im…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:34AMSunday, November 21, 2021
A group of characters gather at Laine’s boarding house. They are running away from something or to something. It is 1934 in Duluth, MI, ( actual birthplace of Bob Dylan) and people are sti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:24PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
The playwright George Bernard Shaw must have been a feminist long before the movement became popular. He used his plays to decry the few opportunities for women and observed how they were be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:14PMMonday, November 15, 2021
One young man rejects a scholarship to MIT so he can stay home to care for his mother and younger siblings; he’s Depression. An older Nigerian man shares knowledge and tales from his yo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17AMMonday, November 8, 2021
If I had a product to sell, I’d hire comedian /actress Jackie Hoffman to be my spokesperson. With her rubbery face and perpetually dour expression, she’s believable. She would never lie!…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:28PMWednesday, October 27, 2021
The playbill for Bertolt Brecht’s play The Mother suggests immediately that the drama at The Performing Garage will be unique. Brecht himself noted that the aim of the play is not to enter…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:42PMSunday, October 24, 2021
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was the climax of the subprime mortgage crisis, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, involving more than US $600 bi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:54PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
Ruben Santiago-Hudson was raised by his grandmother. So he did what any talented theater person would do-he wrote a play about her! “Lackawanna Blues” is Santiago-Hudson’s paean to his…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:14PMFriday, October 8, 2021
To many,“Six the Musical” was the show that was mere hours away from opening night when Broadway shut down in March 2020. A smash hit in London’s West End, the show had already created…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:47PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Language plays a significant role in “Pass Over,” the play by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, whether through repetition, ambiguity or cultural references. It begins with the title referring…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:13PMMonday, July 26, 2021
“I don’t remember Christopher Lloyd,” said the woman sitting behind us in the outdoor theater. “Jim from the TV show Taxi,” we reminded her. “Oh, the crazy one.” For some, Lloy…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:45AMWednesday, July 14, 2021
It almost felt normal. Although we had to wear masks to enter the theater and show proof of vaccination to get our seats, we were actually in an Off-Broadway theater sitting next to other pa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
In the 1970’s, Harvey Milk, a gay charismatic politican, was assassinated for being openly homosexual. Using him as a pivotal character, Jerry James, Laura I. Kramer, Ellen M. Schwartz, an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:41PMSunday, April 11, 2021
Full disclaimer: I am a John Cullum fan, so when I read that he was doing a one-man show tracing his long career, I looked forward to it. Filmed earlier this year and recorded with pianist J…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:43AMSaturday, March 20, 2021
In her landmark book On Death and Dying, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross details the five stages of grief. Approaching it on a personal level in The Year of Magical Thinking, writer Joan Didion shares…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:05AMMonday, March 15, 2021
It has been over a year since Broadway theaters shut down, putting tens of thousands of people out of work. As more people are getting vaccinated and restaurants, gyms and bars are increasin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:58PMMonday, December 28, 2020
Everything old can be new again with creativity. The question is how to make the traditional relevant and, more importantly, how to attract paying viewers. John Caird and Paul Gordon collabo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:31PMWednesday, November 11, 2020
It was a different kind of Halloween this year-no New York’s Village Halloween Parade, no house parties, not even a lot of trick or-treaters. Many houses posted signs saying “no candy, s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:58AMTuesday, October 13, 2020
One of the controversial campaign issues this election year is immigration and the Zoom show “American Dreams” deals with the thorny issue head on. By participating in a game show, th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:32PM 
