Monday, April 23, 2012
Jesus certainly isn't underrepresented on Broadway right now. A revival of Godspell, an early Stephen Schwartz musical, came to town in the fall, and now spring brings Jesus Christ Superstar…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:34PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Blockbuster Hollywood movies aren't the only ones getting the musical-theater treatment. Once, a quirky, warmhearted little Irish film that was the surprise Oscar winner for 2007's Best Orig…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 06:36PMMonday, April 2, 2012
I was a college student when Lost in Yonkers was on Broadway and remember well the outcry when it beat Six Degrees of Separation for the Tony and Pulitzer. The current Actors Company Theatre…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:07AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Arthur Miller's masterpiece of American family drama, Death of a Salesman, can’t have too many Broadway revivals. And happily the current one, directed by Tony winner Mike Nichols and star…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:35AMTuesday, March 6, 2012
When I read that Githa Sowerby hid her gender for the original production of Rutherford & Son, which was attributed to "K.G. Sowerby," I was glad to be living in 2012 and not 1912. Times hav…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 01:27PMFriday, February 17, 2012
Margaret Edson's playwriting career consists of just one work. But what a miraculous endeavor Wit is. The winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, it's a carefully crafted, minimalist study of an …
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:19AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
The Roundabout Theatre Company has dug up a gem from 1984, The Road to Mecca, which richly explores the lives of three lonely characters caught between fear and the path to fulfillment. Gord…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:00PMFriday, February 3, 2012
The saga of former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair gets dramatic treatment from one of his former colleagues, Gabe McKinley, whose latest play, CQ/CX, is on the boards courtesy of the A…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 01:39PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Writer-director (and Pittsburgh native) Robert Cucuzza plucks August Strindberg's Miss Julie from the "classic" stage and drops it back into the experimental-theater arena, where it began, w…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 12:13PMThursday, January 5, 2012
Alan Jay Lerner once vowed he'd never write another original musical. His greatest successes—notably the book and lyrics of My Fair Lady—had come from adapting stories created by others.…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 08:31AMFriday, December 23, 2011
The end of the year also ushers in the end of the annual Brits Off Broadway series, which had me making repeated trips to 59E59 for Neighbourhood Watch, an enjoyable new comedy by Alan Ayckb…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:29AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Cititour.com is a nifty little website that's kept me off the streets the last few years by giving me the opportunity to review some of Broadway's seasonal offerings. This fall's harvest has…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:06AMSaturday, December 3, 2011
Alan Rickman, the steely British actor who snarled his way through the Harry Potter films as Professor Snape takes on his new role with "delicious ferocity."
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 08:54AMFriday, December 2, 2011
Carla Ching sets Hansel and Gretel adrift in NYC in her evocatively titled The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness, a darkly enchanting fairy tale, from Ma-Yi Theater, that unfortunat…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:56PMThursday, November 17, 2011
"... a dazzling, eclectic, high-energy song-and-dance fest that demonstrates why Jackman live is only slightly less addictive than cocaine."
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 10:36PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Steven Boyer delivers a deliciously attuned performance as a shy teenager and the devil puppet who comes to control him in Hand of God, a new, and uneven, play by Ensemble Studio Theatre Yo…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 04:26PMThursday, November 3, 2011
A.R. Gurney's 1974 play Children takes place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, and under the auspices of the sure-handed TACT, it's aged quite well.
SOURCE: Blank New World at 09:08AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Audiences are being lured to The Mountaintop by the star wattage of Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. But Katori Hall…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 05:51PMMy first journalism job was at Back Stage, which asked current and former colleagues for reminiscences for its 50th anniversary. Mine--about halfway down the page--involves Jane Alexander, …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:20AMMonday, October 3, 2011
I had never heard a newspaper's front-page story referred to as "the wood," until Time Out assigned me to review a play with just such a title. The Wood is described as a "no-holds-barred" a…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 09:05PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
There's no sating Broadway's appetite for Stephen Sondheim. In the last five years alone we've seen revivals of A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story…
SOURCE: Cititour.com at 08:50PMThursday, September 22, 2011
Leave it to the New York Neo-Futurists--with a just little help from Eugene O'Neill-- to turn stage directions into an engaging evening of theater, with a title that's nearly as long as the…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:09AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
The Off-Off Broadway theater company Partial Comfort Productions scored a slew of accolades last year with A Bright New Boise, a play that was more solid and satisfying than many produced by…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:59AMFriday, August 19, 2011
It was good to see Christopher Durang and Neil LaBute in fine form in the first installment of Summer Shorts 5--although they were the longest bunch of shorts I've ever seen at the annual e…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 09:51AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Sheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMSheila Schwartz's overly talky drama about three notorious political figures benefits from colorful performances and an excellent multimedia design.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe talented playwright discusses her new biodrama at the Public Theater about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThis stark, tense, and brilliantly acted deconstruction of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life is a provocative evening of experimental theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AMThe acclaimed actor discusses working on Broadway's The Merchant of Venice and his upcoming film projects.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM 
