Monday, April 17, 2017
From ABIE'S IRISH ROSE to LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and beyond, the conflicts that occur when future in-laws meet for the first time have been a traditional source of comedy for both stage and scre…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54PMFriday, April 14, 2017
When J.T. Rogers' fascinating play about the power and beauty of human interaction and diplomacy, OSLO, premiered Off-Broadway this past July at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, it w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:31PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
I'm old enough to be your ancestor, the 61-year-old gentleman scoffs to his 28-year-old overnight guest who, after meeting on a dating site called Gaydar, suggests that something of permanen…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:54AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
A great difference between the Broadway theatre of today and that of the 1950s, the decade when William Inge emerged as an important American playwright, is that the public couldn't see the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:02AMFriday, April 7, 2017
The recently completed Off-Broadway run of Penelope Skinner's fictional dramatic comedy LINDA embraced the efforts of a 55-year-old feminist of the cosmetics industry who fought to have her …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03PMThursday, April 6, 2017
Noel Coward was 39 years old when he played the lead role of Garry Essendine, a famous actor fearing for the future of his career as he enters middle age, in the premiere production of his r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Bursting with joy isn't exactly a phrase commonly used to describe the exceptional directorial work of Pam MacKinnon. The woman who guided the premiere of Bruce Norris' tensely comic CLYBOU…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06PMMonday, April 3, 2017
All the context you'll need to deal with at the Lyceum's latest offering, Britain's Mischief Theatre import, THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG, is right there in the title. Forgoing pesky details li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:24AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
The town council of Gander, Newfoundland has unanimously voted against an application to clear land adjacent to the community's historic airport for the construction of a Trump Hotel and Cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
It's no secret to theatregoer's that the frenetically paced, multi-character solo plays by Obie-winner John Leguizamo have provided far more insight into Latin-American history and culture t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMMonday, March 27, 2017
After her breakout Off-Broadway production of INTIMATE APPAREL and a Pulitzer Prize for her brutal depiction of rape as a weapon of war in RUINED, Lynn Nottage has been well established as o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36AMSunday, March 26, 2017
The authors who wrote the books for even the most successful Broadway musical comedies of the 1920s and 30s often get a bum rap for the flimsiness of their plots and the nonsensical nature o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMFriday, March 24, 2017
The helicopter is real this time, as is the Asian heritage of the leading man, as Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil's MISS SAIGON lands at the Broadway Theatre once more. Laurence C…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
As patrons enter the Mitzi Newhouse for Sarah Ruhl's newest clever and quirky comedy, HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE, they're greeted by set designer David Zinn's rendering of a smart and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:12PMSunday, March 19, 2017
Who is she Where did she come from These are questions likely to pass through the minds of Off-Broadway's regular attendees while witnessing Jo Lampert's stellar performance as the title cha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32PMFriday, March 17, 2017
By the time Arthur Miller's THE PRICE hit town in 1968, the playwright had already established himself during the 1940s and 50s as one of America's greatest dramatists with classics such as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
At the beginning of The Debate Society's premiere production of THE LIGHT YEARS written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, developed and directed by Oliver Butler we're told that Arcturus, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03AMSunday, March 12, 2017
'Look for the helpers,' Fred Rogers would say. 'When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMOne of the great things about live theatre is its lack of permanence. In film, the words, directorial choices, performances and other artistic contributions all exist as an unchangeably whol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Five years ago, playwrightcomposerlyricistperformer Ethan Lipton stood on the stage of Joe's Pub as the central character of his solo musical NO PLACE TO GO, explaining the choices he had to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Straight cisgender teenage boys looking to lose their virginity are generally accepted as a staple of coming-of-age comedies that make movie theatre box offices hum. But when it comes to the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
When Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's classic musical thriller Sweeney Todd THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET opened on Broadway in 1979, Harold Prince's production was of grand operatic p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
It's not exactly a spoiler to note that the closing scene of Penelope Skinner's wonderfully absorbing and issue-oriented dramatic comedy, LINDA, has the title character, a successful marketi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMFriday, March 3, 2017
'I'm almost twenty-nine years old and no one has ever told me they love me,' says the sweet, funny and open-hearted Jordan during a monologue that opens the second act of Joshua Harmon's gid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMThursday, March 2, 2017
A night out at David Mamet's tense and terse new play, The Penitent, now getting a hard-edged premiere by director Neil Pepe via Atlantic Theatre Company, isn't so much an observance of huma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
You can't say that playwrightdirector Will Eno doesn't go out big with his new piece, WAKEY, WAKEY. Just before curtain calls, an extra-bright video montage, set to The Olivia Tremor Contro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMListening to the original Broadway cast album of Jerry Herman's 1969 entry, DEAR WORLD, it's almost unimaginable to think you're hearing the score of a show that shuttered on Broadway after …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillism masterwork 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' the authors explore how 'the art of making art' can be less about applying paint to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThough the brilliant musicals that composer John Kander created with his late lyricist partner Fred Ebb frequently tackled dark and violent issues CABARET, CHICAGO, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMThursday, February 23, 2017
'We're dealing with some fairly old and ancient material, so maybe let's trust it to be really wise and meaningful, okay' asks a character acting as a kind of host at the beginning of Brande…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
When tragedy strikes a community, after the initial shock and the effort to neutralize the situation, there's always a strong desire to return to normalcy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36AM 
