Monday, 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 08:33PMSunday, October 1, 2017
The beloved and classic premise of an idealistic teacher determined to reach out and help a classroom full of troubled and disrespectful students 'Up The Down Staircase,' 'To Sir, With Love'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
While Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious drama from 2000, FUCKING A, enjoys an excellent new production at Signature Theatre, across the lobby of their multi-stage center, her more sensitive 1999 e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMSunday, September 24, 2017
It wasn't long after Mary Martin took her first Broadway flight as Peter Pan that Ann, the central character of Sarah Ruhl's sometimes-whimsicalsometimes-philosophical new drama took her own…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMThursday, September 21, 2017
For over forty years, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players have been Gotham's go-to company for high-quality GampS productions produced with full choruses and orchestras in the traditio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41AMMonday, September 18, 2017
British playwright Simon Stephens scored big his first time on Broadway, taking the 2015 Best Play Tony Award for THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME two years after receiving …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' may have served as the initial inspiration for Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious 2000 drama, FUCKING A, but, especially in director Jo Bonney's chilling …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMFriday, September 8, 2017
'All the world's a stage And everybody's in the show. Nobody's a pro.' Those words, sung at the opening of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery's thoroughly enchanting musical adaptation of Sha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMWednesday, September 6, 2017
Snuggled at the curve of a quiet little Greenwich Village side street, the quaint and historic Cherry Lane Theatre is a perfect spot to engage in a quiet little drama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMSunday, September 3, 2017
While the underrepresentation of women playwrights in contemporary American theatre remains an important issue, the Mint Theater Company, those invaluable specialists in rediscovering intere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMFriday, August 25, 2017
Harold Prince, who has been honored with 21 Tony Awards for his seven decades of achievements as a Broadway producer and director, did not write one word nor compose one note of the 17 music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMTuesday, August 22, 2017
It doesn't take long before Nancy Opel starts tearing your heart out as the title character of the new musical, Curvy Widow.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
'If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn't do anything to change it, would you still want t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMSunday, August 13, 2017
When this reviewer first critiqued Lucas Hnath's clever and intriguing A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, he envisioned much discussion being provoked over the fact that a new Broadway play that debate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
After Florenz Ziegfeld spent the early decades of Broadway's 20th Century 'glorifying the American Girl,' a young composerlyricist named Jerry Herman spent a good hunk of the second half sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Red, white and blue bunting is draped across a stage left box at the Belasco Theatre because, as Michael Moore explains at the beginning of his more-or-less solo Broadway performance, THE TE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Given her distinguished career that includes such significant works at PAINTING CHURCHES, COASTAL DISTURBANCES and PRIDE'S CROSSING, a new play by Tina Howe is certainly a noteworthy event.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMSunday, August 6, 2017
New York City wasn't exactly the most magical place for a child to grow up in back in 1975. Crime and poverty rates were inhumanely high and when the city begged for federal assistance, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
It was fifty years ago that The Summer of Love attracted throngs of lunatics, lovers and poets to New York's Central Park in a free-spirited embrace of life's passions and pleasures. That s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Connoisseurs of American musical theatre wishing to make a point about the genre's ability to dramatize even the most unlikely of subjects often cite examples like SWEENEY TODD's vengeful ba…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48AMSunday, July 23, 2017
Even if you've never heard a note sung by Ella Fitzgerald and if that's the case, you should stop reading this review immediately and look up some of her recordings on YouTube Andrea Frierso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMThursday, July 20, 2017
Though your ticket says you're seated at The Public's Anspacher Theater, don't be surprised if once director Sam Gold's jaunty mounting of Shakespeare's Hamlet shifts into gear, you find you…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
A folk-singing black man with an optimistic view of America looks back at our nation's history of angry white people finding no better way to cope with their grievances than by firing a gun …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
In December of 2015, shortly before her excellent drama SKELETON CREW opened Off-Broadway, playwright Dominique Morisseau essayed an article for American Theatre titled 'Why I Almost Slapped…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMSunday, July 9, 2017
After PARAMOUR, last season's ambitious but underwritten attempt to incorporate their world-class circus arts performers into a book and score Broadway musical, Cirque du Soleil returns to t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMFriday, July 7, 2017
While it's not unexpected to have the title character of a musical based on Henry Fielding's infamously bawdy 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling be introduced to the audience w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMSunday, July 2, 2017
As America's great playwrights go, Horton Foote, who passed on in 2009, just shy of his 93rd birthday, was perhaps the most understated of them all. In a prolific career that involved golden…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMFriday, June 30, 2017
After thirteen years and eighteen directing credits for major Off-Broadway companies such as Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard, Lincoln Center Theatre and The New York Theatre Workshop, another…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
The newest offering at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater features a beautiful dreamscape depicting a woman in a small boat being guided through swelling ocean waves by a friendly face pain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMSaturday, June 24, 2017
The recent Signature Theatre revival of Suzan Lori-Parks' VENUS, based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, depicted a 19th Century African woman who was subjected to exploitation because…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMFriday, June 23, 2017
Ronald Reagan was re-elected president, the first human baby conceived by artificial insemination was born and the Tigers won the World Series, but for much of the world, the public percepti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24AM 
