Thursday, 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 02:30AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS which really could be called Home For Christmas since that's the only holiday mentioned is a 90-minute concert starring three vocalists who first gained fame by winni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:05AMSunday, November 19, 2017
Though her aggressive style of dishing out insults has earned her the title of standup comedy's Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli comes somewhat closer to being the Empress of Empathy in her co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:35PMLike the city where it was born and nurtured, the American musical play differs from similar stage entertainments because it was developed by a combination of cultures merging into a unique …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:05AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
When David Henry Hwang's 1988 Best Play Tony-winner M. BUTTERFLY, inspired by the romance between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Peking opera singer Shi Pei Pu, who the Frenchman didn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMThursday, November 16, 2017
When John Leguizamo's poignant, provocative and, yes, downright hilarious LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS premiered at The Public Theater in March of this year, a country that was created by white …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Sex is sex and rape is rape. That's the cut and dry explanation we often hear nowadays. And while there are obvious instances where any reasonable person would determine that rape has occu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PMSunday, November 12, 2017
To watch New York stage treasure Everett Quinton engaged in his classic brand of silliness - or, to be more accurate, ridiculousness - is just as fulfilling a cultural experience as watching…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMFriday, November 10, 2017
If there were any concerns that David Yazbek and Itamar Moses' exquisitely melodic and introspective musical, THE BAND'S VISIT would have lost any of its understated beauty while moving from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMThursday, November 9, 2017
he sudden act of violence that occurs early on in on Julia Cho's urgent and sensitive drama OFFICE HOUR, is certainly not unexpected. The opening scene sets up the audience to be prepared f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMTo give credit where it's due, Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer-winning STRANGE INTERLUDE is perhaps the best play imaginable about women's sexuality that could have been written by a 35-year-old A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Back in 1931, when the firm Kaufman, Ryskind, Gershwin amp Gershwin had the novel idea to infuse that stodgy old musictheatre entertainment, the Broadway operetta, with the jauntiness of sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
As anyone who has ever seen A CHORUS LINE will tell you, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger's screen classic THE RED SHOES has been tantalizing young dancers with dreams of ballet stardom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33AMFriday, November 3, 2017
To the average working stiffs among us, money is a tangible thing. We can count it by the number of dead presidents in our wallets and the reasonably manageable digits in our modest portfol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18AMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Date movie would be too tepid a phrase to describe director Tom Gustafson's sizzling film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's tensely erotic 1993 musical drama, HELLO AGAIN. The term f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
If the spot-on hilarity of first scene of directorplaywright John Patrick Shanley's THE PORTUGUESE KID could be replicated for the play's remaining three-quarters, this review would be happi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06AMSunday, October 29, 2017
When Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMThursday, October 26, 2017
As societies in post-apocalyptic stories go, the one envisioned by playwright Zoe Kazan in her insightful relationship drama AFTER THE BLAST, seems to have it pretty good.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
The term 'alternative facts' wasn't part of the popular lexicon when Stephen Adly Guirgis' superb drama of public morality and personal convictions, JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN premiered in 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48AMSaturday, October 21, 2017
It was thirty-five years ago when FORBIDDEN BROADWAY's genius creatorlyricist Gerard Alessandrini first collaborated, so to speak, with Tony-winning composerlyricist Maury Yeston. That's wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMFriday, October 20, 2017
'We opened for an eight-week limited engagement and could not give a ticket away for three weeks.' That's how Harvey Fierstein described the giant leap of faith that, in 1981, brought a t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMThursday, October 19, 2017
When their current engagement at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club concludes this weekend, members of the Belarus Free Theatre will return to their homeland, where they and their audience me…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMWednesday, October 18, 2017
To describe Diana Oh's newest performance art installation as the pep rally that precedes the dismantling of the patriarchy is by no means a knock on her vibrantly raucous mixture of glitter…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Playwrightdirector Aaron Mark has a habit of leaving audiences in the dark. Not that his plays are especially hard to grasp, but the author who specializes sending chills up and down spines…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMMonday, October 16, 2017
I will be in Hell because I don't love my mom, the central character of Max Posner's comedic drama THE TREASURER causally admits to the audience with unemotional matter-of-factness.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMSaturday, October 14, 2017
Regarded by The Public Theater's artistic director Oskar Eustice as a resident company of the Astor Place venue, Elevator Repair Service's niche has always been productions with a clear focu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
When J.B. Priestley's absorbing and poetic drama, Time and the Conways premiered on the West End in 1937, you couldn't blame London audiences if they felt a bit wistful observing the playwri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54AMTuesday, October 10, 2017
For over twenty years, artistic director Dan Wackerman's Peccadillo Theater Company has specialized in mounting handsome productions of infrequently revived Broadway fare of notable pedigree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
It may have been underestimated how popular TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS would prove to be when it opened at The Public's Shiva Theater last November. Actorplaywright Nia Vardalos' warm, funny and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMIf director Alexandra Spencer-Jones' intention was to stage an erotic word ballet that finds beauty in the well-chiseled male form through highly-stylized acts of choreographed violence, the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMMonday, October 2, 2017
To say that there are no dramatic highs and lows in Amy Herzog's touching new drama, Mary Jane, is by no means a criticism. It's more of a recognition of the beautifully understated naturali…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PM 
