Sunday, February 11, 2018
When the subject of New York City Center Encores comes up among musical theatre enthusiasts, the conversation almost invariably steers to what shows they should be presenting in their series…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
In the second act of Terrance McNally's fact-based drama, Fire and Air, the legendary dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev privately examines the technique of a young dancer he may consider as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMIn the second act of Terrence McNally's fact-based drama, Fire and Air, the legendary dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev privately examines the technique of a young dancer he may consider as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:00AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
In last season's GROUNDHOG DAY, the exceedingly charismatic Andy Karl was given the unenviable task of playing out a romantic comedy as a thoroughly despicable character. Now, in Greg Pierce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:47AMSunday, February 4, 2018
Sentimental stories of adults returning to their childhood homes to face the demons of the past after achieving success far, far away are a staple of popular entertainment, and though Ngozi …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Audiences and critics alike swooned over relatively unknown Leslie Uggams when she made her Broadway debut starring in Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Arthur Laurentsand Jule Styne's progressive…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMThursday, February 1, 2018
With the past year bringing in a new administration with a new Secretary of Education, the national awareness of how overworked, undercompensated and financially burdened America's public sc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AMThursday, January 25, 2018
All too often, the word dated is misguidedly used to diminish the impact a play of a bygone era can have on contemporary audiences. Take, for example, the puritanical attitude towards pre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15AMSunday, January 21, 2018
As the ground-breaking theatre troupe Split Britches - which they founded with former member Deb Margolin in 1980 - Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver have been challenging both gender norms and the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:09AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
Fear not, all you American playgoers whose comprehension skills usually require a few minutes of ear adjustment whenever a production from Britain or Ireland crosses over with its native cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMFriday, January 12, 2018
'So what the hell is this,' John Lithgow quizzically quips to the audience at the outset of his Broadway solo stint.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Savvy playgoers attending British lip-sync artist Dickie Beau's RE-MEMBER ME at this year's Under The Radar Festival will notice that when a recording of Michael Douglas, playing Broadway di…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMTuesday, January 9, 2018
That old adage that if men got pregnant, abortion and reproductive health would be fully funded by the federal government gets quite a workout in playwrightdirector Robert O'Hara's wild gend…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Be careful about expressing your admiration for certain artists during Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's hard-edged solo play, HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC. Though the audience is encouraged to eng…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:08AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Ninety-nine years before television producer Aaron Spelling first invited viewers aboard 'The Love Boat,' Gilbert and Sullivan made good on their promise of shipboard romance with their endu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:49AMThursday, December 28, 2017
Boris Karloff... Peter Boyle... Shuler Hensley... and Robert Fairchild. One of these things is not like the others.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMThursday, December 21, 2017
Sure, HAMLET may be William Shakespeare's dramatic masterpiece, but when pining for some romantic comedy, it's hard to beat Twelfth Night.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Fans of trained actors filling Broadway houses with the richness of their unamplified voices not to mention those who believe electric lights are overrated have reason to rejoice. Shakespea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMFriday, December 15, 2017
It may not be as well-known a holiday tradition as seeing the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, but for the fifth straight year, the Summoners Ensemble Theatre's delightful presentation of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:46AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
When you consider the number of years that humans have been the dominant species on this planet, it was a comparatively quick burst of industrialization that set up the very real dilemma of …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:51AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Despite its provocative title, and despite a game effort by director Scott Elliott's ensemble cast, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's fact-inspired drama DOWNTOWN RACE RIOT, is a bit of a bore.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Before every performance by The Public Theater's Mobile Unit, the audience is reminded of Joseph Papp's credo that the plays of William Shakespeare belong to everyone. The theatre pioneer cr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:16AMThursday, December 7, 2017
Feel free to lavish director Tina Landau with a flood of praise for spinning seaweed into gold with SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, the hyperactive new musical based on the long-running Nickelodeon a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
While there's nary a mention of global warming or human-made climate change in Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens', captivating and joyous Caribbean story-theatre musical ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48AMSunday, December 3, 2017
Don't be fooled. That familiar-sounding melody played at the top of Matthew Lombardo's hilariously subversive WHO'S HOLIDAY is not Welcome Christmas, the joyous chorale from the beloved t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:50PMFriday, December 1, 2017
Donald Trump hadn't even won his first Republican primary when Henri Becque's comedy of sexual liberation, LA PARISIENNE, created such an uproar at it's 1895 Paris premiere. But while the c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:03AMThursday, November 30, 2017
They say communication is the key to a successful relationship. They also say there's such a thing as overdoing it.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:22AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
For over a decade, the unquestionably brilliant directorchoreographer Austin McCormick's Company XIV has been dazzling audiences with unexpected wonders.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18AMSunday, November 26, 2017
The almost completely circular, arena style seating of Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater makes it a perfect venue for The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe's 2017 Pulitzer finalist drama about …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
Though the teenage girls at the center of Jocelyn Bioh's endearing and poignant SCHOOL GIRLS OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY all have wonderful qualities that should be appreciated and nurtu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:23PMThursday, November 23, 2017
With the audience seated family style at several long tables, director Andrew Neisler seats the actors at elevated places around the perimeter. As they talk across the room to each other, i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:30AM 
