Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Comedy is an art, and it isn’t easy. What some find amusing, others barely snicker at. Humor comes from wordplay and language, action, innuendo and exquisite timing. We can all agree on th…
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It’s December 17, 1957, and we are in the audience for the taping of the last Nat King Cole show. Cole was the first African-American to host a variety show and it was groundbreaking. Alth…
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“Old Friends” is the perfect musical for lovers of Stephen Sondheim music. The show is a tribute to Sondheim who died in 2021, leaving behind an unparalleled musical legacy. There are mo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:01AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Sometimes I attend a show with preconceived ideas, having heard or read about it. However, I knew nothing about “Real Women Have Curves,” never having read Josefina Lopez ‘ novel or se…
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Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman I am unabashedly a Jonathan Groff fan and enjoyed his work in “Spring Awakening,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:51PMSunday, May 4, 2025
John Proctor is the Villain At the end of Arthur Miller’s classic play, “The Crucible,” protagonist John Proctor refuses to lie, even to save his own life. Overwhelmed by what he is be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:43AMThursday, May 1, 2025
In 1890, Oscar Wilde wrote a story about a young handsome man who has his portrait painted. He then makes a Faustian bargain, trading his soul for the picture to age, wrinkle and grow ugly i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:57PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Set in a struggling barbershop in Harlem,in the 1950’s, “Ceremonies in Dark Old Men” by Lonnie Elder III focuses on the family of Russell B. Parker (a fine Norm Lewis) and his adult ch…
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Floyd Collins “Truth is stranger than fiction” goes the old expression, and some of the most intriguing stories come directly from the headlines. In the early 1920’s many men explored …
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If you are expecting one of your favorite TV shows, complete with its competitive divas and love stories in the new version of SMASH at the Imperial Theatre, you might be disappointed since …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:18PMThursday, April 17, 2025
Broadway is always looking for a family friendly musical, one with kid and tourist appeal, and this season the musical is “Boop! The Musical.” Few young people know Betty Boop, the anima…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:26AMMonday, April 14, 2025
If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is pac…
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If you’ve seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of “GlenGarry Glen Ross,” forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don’t compare the present cast to A…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:48PMThursday, April 3, 2025
The phrase “the sins of the father are visited upon the son” suggests that parents’ actions can severely impact their children. In the new adaptation by Mark O’Rowe of Henrik Ibsen�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:08AMThursday, March 20, 2025
Composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson died before achieving success. He posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking musical “Rent”. The mu…
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How would you react after a terrible personal tragedy? Would you slip into a deep depression? In the new musical “Redwood” directed by Tina Landau at the Nederlander Theater, Idina Menze…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:01AMMonday, February 24, 2025
It’s hard to imagine our mothers’ lives when they were young women. What were their plans, goals, dreams? Do they have regrets? This is the premise of Bess Wohl’s new play, Liberation,…
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It’s not easy for an adult to learn a new language. If you ever tried, you will connect with the characters in “English” the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play for Drama by playwright Sa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:25PMMonday, January 13, 2025
Some Broadway musicals are classics, revived over and over again. And then there are the divas, the performers who create the starring roles. If you are lucky enough to see them, you will wi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:36PMWednesday, January 1, 2025
The Board of Directors of Eureka Day school, a private school in upscale Berkeley, California, prizes inclusivity above all else. So no issues will be resolved without complete agreement. �…
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Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is considered a ‘problem’ play with its ambiguous tone, shifting from humor to dark elements in the person of one of the central characters, …
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Photo by Julieta Cervantes So much theater is about family dynamics where we often recognize ourselves and our families on stage. However, sometimes we are relieved that it is NOT our family…
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How far would you go to retain your youth? Theater and film are replete with tales of women attempting to stay young. If the woman is Maddy Ashton, an egotistical narcissistic performer, one…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:01PMThursday, November 21, 2024
With his raspy gravelly voice and broad smile, trumpet-player Louis Armstrong has become an iconic figure. Yet his story is much more complex than that. The new Broadway bio-musical, “It�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:03PMMonday, November 18, 2024
When people need to recharge, they take a nap or have a cup of coffee or a piece of chocolate. When the charming Helper Bots in the different quirky new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending” nee…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:17PMSaturday, November 16, 2024
Is there anyone who doesn’t know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the young star-crossed lovers? The challenge for a director, then, is how to retell the story to appeal to a younger audienc…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:13AMWednesday, November 6, 2024
The chemistry between Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher is charming, and that’s the most compelling reason to see the new play “Left on Tenth”. The autobiographical play by noveli…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:38PMThursday, October 31, 2024
In “Gypsy” three strippers explain the key to success by singing “You Gotta Get a Gimmick.” Lately that seems to be the theme of Broadway revivals. The goal is to differentiate the s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:05AMFriday, October 25, 2024
Vladimir Putin is an intriguing figure and last spring, he was one of the two main characters in playwright Peter Morgan’s play “Patriots.” This season, a second show by Erika Sheffer …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:22PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
We grow up, seek partners and then we die. That’s the storyline of “Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”. There’s very little cutesy and kitschy about the play which begins in 1901 in Grove…
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