Thursday, February 7, 2019
The brevity of political satire's shelf life tends to rival that of a tray of supermarket eggs, but it seems one of the quips penned by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for the book of thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFriday, February 1, 2019
With a proliferation of pimps, drug dealers and muggers saturating Times Square, business on Broadway was struggling during much of the 1970s, with theatres frequently left empty for long st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMWednesday, January 30, 2019
'We can't talk about him, there's not enough time.' That's the quick explanation given to the audience as to why there's nobody portraying Michael Anthony, described 'as a bassist with a gol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMMonday, January 28, 2019
Flying in the face of the dreadful 21st Century practice of making extreme cuts and revisions to classic musicals by deceased authors in the belief that they would offend contemporary sensib…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMSunday, January 27, 2019
To those who knew her, Alice Trillin was highly regarded as an educator, author and film producer. But to millions more who never met her, she was the women that her husband, humorist Calvin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMThursday, January 24, 2019
In this business we make movies. American movies. Leave the films to the French.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
'Free speech is an acoustic art. It wasn't meant to go electric,' Colin Quinn explains in his very funny riff on contemporary American discourse, RED STATE BLUE STATE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMMonday, January 21, 2019
'Before I walk in the room, I remember who I am,' explains rising hotshot negotiator Sarah in Helen Banner's new drama. 'I'm American. And I'm a woman, an attractive woman, divorced, success…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AMThursday, January 17, 2019
During the first year of his presidency, after violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia during a protest involving white supremacists, many of whom were displaying Nazi symbols and sl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
One of the great opportunities afforded to playgoers at The Public Theater's annual Under The Radar Festival is the chance to see how theatre companies from other countries address the same …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMIf the majority of Broadway ticket-buyers valued great acting as much as they valued celebrity, Marin Ireland would have been an above-the-title, name-in-lights star a long time ago. Certain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
When I was little, my grandmother would sing songs to me that she told me freed slaves, says Pharus Jonathan Young, the central character of Tarell Alvin McCraney's emotionally thick coming-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04AMSunday, January 6, 2019
At the commencement of MINOR CHARACTER, New Saloon's offering at the Public Theater's 2019 Under The Radar Festival, actor Madeline Wise stands downstage center, faces the audience and, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMMonday, December 31, 2018
Sure, Broadway is traditionally known for its glitz and glamour, but New York audiences have never shied away from socially relevant theatre, either. And while controversial issues are more …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Though there's nary a mention of snowfall or jingle bells in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, the abundance of joy and good clean humor, not to mention some terrific voices, in the New York Gilbert …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMTuesday, December 25, 2018
The humorous set-up for the new musical at The York, Christmas in Hell is a bit of an old chestnut, but bookwritercomposerlyricist Gary Apple makes it sing nicely.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMSunday, December 23, 2018
Raise your hand if you consider yourself to be a trustworthy person. Those of a cynical nature might consider that a hapless request to aim at a New York audience, but sincerity is the key t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMSaturday, December 22, 2018
Shorty after midnight, on Christmas Day of 1914, a German soldier whose name is now lost to history committed what might be the most subversive act in all of modern warfare. He walked, unarm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMMonday, December 17, 2018
In a city where hundreds of theatre productions are produced every year before audiences who encourage artists to experiment beyond the norm, it takes a lot for a play in New York to be rega…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Without knowing any better, one might easily mistake the new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for a revival of a classic Golden Age Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06PMThe inherent problem with trying to craft a book musical around a score made of previously-existing hit songs is that the lyrics rarely match the charactersituation specifics enough to keep …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
It was fifteen years ago when over forty million people tuned into the season two finale of 'American Idol' to see Rubin Studdard win the crown over runner-up Clay Aiken. This reviewer wasn'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
The lack of visible doors in our view of the home of the title character of Heather Raffo's drama of an immigrant Christian Iraqi family in America, Noura, appears more and more to be a symb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMMonday, December 10, 2018
It was over fifty years ago when designer Boris Aronson famously let a large mirror hang from the set of CABARET, forcing audience members to see their own reflections to bring home the poin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMSunday, December 9, 2018
For the past five holiday seasons in a row, savvy New York playgoers have been filling the upstairs parlor of East 4th Street's Merchant's House Museum for a warm and intimate evening of Chr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMThursday, December 6, 2018
The audience loudly booed at the end of last Saturday night's preview performance of the new Broadway offering based on Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 film classic N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34PMMonday, December 3, 2018
From the moment the houselights dim and the music cranks up on The Cher Show, Broadway's newest bio-musical, the message is clear. Surrender to the fabulousness ahead and brace yourself for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04PMSunday, December 2, 2018
Since family-friendly entertainments tend to dominate the holiday performing arts scene, it's especially cheery that for the past nineyears that scandalous crew called Company XIV has been o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMFriday, November 30, 2018
If there's such a thing as subtlety in the world of The Illusionists, that band of touring magicians that have frequently been making Broadway their winter home, it's evident in their latest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
'If you have to choose between family and flying, I hope you would choose the flying,' a father tells his children as the lesson behind a bedtime story involving an angel and a woodcutter. '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMYes, in the world of Tom Stoppard post-coital pillow talk can be a debate about human consciousness and whether or not altruism truly exists. After all, nobody said anything about THE HARD P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33AM 
