Sunday, November 11, 2018
Reviewed by Judd Hollander“Extraordinary the tricks that memory plays”, a character exclaims in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. One would be hard pressed to find a truer state…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:04AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe true strength of a classical piece of theatre is its ability to be re-imagined without losing those elements which made it special in the first place. Case in p…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:32PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderA feeling of despair lurks just below the surface in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur. This seldom-seem Tennessee Williams drama, which had its initial New York run …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:32PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderWhat do you do when the one thing you’ve always counted on is suddenly yanked out from under you? This is the question posed in Sharr White’s new political…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 02:18PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderBig Brother is no longer simply watching. He’s now taking an active role, in everything. So suggests the musical Be More Chill at The Pershing Square Si…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 10:04PMTuesday, July 31, 2018
A Surrealistic Journey Well Worth TakingReviewed by Judd HollanderDid you ever have a dream where different elements from completely separate parts of your life - a current love, a place you…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:48PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderEach of us during the course of our lives will meet, work and interact with numerous people on an almost daily basis. Yet in the end, we'll never really know many o…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:04PMSunday, June 3, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderChoosing to die with dignity when your body is falling apart is a hotly debated topic. But what happens when one's entire family agrees with that decision, only to …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:54AMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderIn this world of message musicals and important themes, it’s nice to know that every so often a vehicle comes along whose only purpose is to offer a good ti…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:54PMReviewed by Judd HollanderLike an immense series of interlocking puzzle pieces, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night inexorably charts the downfall of a family which has …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 07:48PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderOne can't be helped out of a bad situation unless they are first willing to help themselves. A tenet for anyone suffering from substance abuse, and also when it com…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 10:54PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderDirector Simon Stone's reinterpretation of Federico García Lorca's Yerma is, quite simply, one of the best shows of this or any other theatre season. Enj…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:39AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
A Good Idea Taken Too FarReviewed by Judd HollanderIn the world of tabloid talk shows, few are more famous, or infamous, than "The Jerry Springer Show". A place where relationships, question…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 07:26PMSaturday, February 17, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe McKittrick Hotel, home to such artistic triumphs as Sleep No More and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, has another winner with their latest offering, Flig…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:15AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderFor the last quarter of a century, the appeal of the Encores! series at New York City Center has been the opportunity for audiences to see little known, or long for…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:12PMSaturday, February 10, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderIt’s great to have a best friend when you’re a child. Someone you can tell secrets to, watch television with, and just hang out together. But as one grows …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:24AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderShadows of the past run long and deep, and breaking free to find your own way is not as easy as it may seem. A point Adrienne Kennedy makes clear in her absolutely …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:23PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderA theatrical documentarian gets pulled into his own subject in The Undertaking, now at 59E59 Theaters.After working on various projects for the investigative t…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:38AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Reviewed by Judd HollanderIf "sleep is freedom", as one character points out in Enda Walsh's Ballyturk, then it follows that ignorance is bliss and knowledge offers an awareness that can be …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:16PMFriday, December 29, 2017
Reviewed by Judd Hollander"I don't know how to want less", exclaims Hazel (Deborah Findlay) in Lucy Kirkwood's dystopian drama The Children. This Londontransfer currently having its North Am…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:24PMFriday, December 22, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderEach person’s life touches others, often in the most unexpected ways. It’s a lesson learned by George Bailey in the 1946 film “It’s A Wonderful Life", and g…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 03:06PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderJust because one person has an opinion of how they stand in a cultural context, doesn't mean people with different social perspectives share that same opinion. This…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 06:54PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderFor the record, the Grinch did not pat Cindy Lou Who on the butt during that long ago Christmas Eve, nor was she possibly three years old at the time the two first …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:36PMThursday, November 23, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderBilly Crudup gives a powerful performance in David Cale's Harry Clarke. A one-man play about the realizations and pitfalls that come with self-discovery, now at the…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 09:36PMSunday, November 12, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe birth pangs of the New York Shakespeare Festival, particularly its conflicts with the New York City Parks Department and city planner Robert Moses are the stuff…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 01:04PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderSatire may be what closes on Saturday night, as playwright George S. Kaufman once said, but that was certainly not the case for the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical O…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 10:36AMSunday, October 29, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe breakdown of the status quo can be tough on those who've lived by it for so long. An issue Brian Friel examines in his 2005 dramaThe Home Place. The work having…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 11:24AMSunday, October 15, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderElevator Repair Service, known for taking literary classics and adapting them to the stage - with results ranging from somewhat interesting to completely astonishin…
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:54PMFriday, October 6, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderOne of the more provocative dramas to hit the Off-Broadway stage in recent years is the U.K. import, A Clockwork Orange. A transfer of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 08:48PMSaturday, September 30, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderThe subtext to the question "when did you grow up" is "when did you stop being a child"? A question explored in Sarah Ruhl’s bittersweet drama For Peter Pan …
Linked From Stage Buzz at 12:54PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Reviewed by Judd HollanderWhat if you knew exactly how your life was going to turn out, and there was absolutely nothing you could do to change it? One woman finds herself in exactly that si…
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