Friday, July 5, 2024
After 30 years of devotion and much love for this marvelous institution, this will be my final report. The management has for three years ignored my request for a change of seat location. I …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:56PMWednesday, June 26, 2024
On a fine evening in late June with a hundred celebrants in the Green Room at Yotel on 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, I was with my partner, Christian Foy, and two friends– the cartoonist To…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:19PMTuesday, June 18, 2024
Chip Zien and Judy Kuhn (Joan Marcus) I was unable to attend an early performance of this grand finale to the 2024 season, but I did catch it just before it finished its brief run on June 1…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:40AMWednesday, May 29, 2024
This is an odd column for me, as I reviewed this play by Amy Herzog in 2017 when it first appeared in the smaller venue of the New York Theatre Workshop on East 4th Street where it had wel…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:33PMSunday, May 26, 2024
Playwright Amy Herzog has given us her version of Ibsen’s masterful play of the same name that remains set in late 19th Century Norway; but it is as though it was first conceived yesterday…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:10PMSunday, April 28, 2024
I’ve been privileged to be one of the few survivors of the 1966 opening of this landmark musical when its original production opened on Broadway. I was then a young theatre agent represent…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:43PMFriday, April 19, 2024
There are classical themes that seem to interest and attract playwrights in each succeeding generation. Certainly Shakespeare was aware of the class distinctions of his time in urban England…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:32PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
There is a note in the Playbill for Corruption the current occupant of the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in Lincoln Center. It’s by the play’s author J.T.Rogers and in it he tells us that his…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:09PMFriday, March 29, 2024
This elaborately titled musical is based on a novel of the same name by Sara Gruen which was a best seller and served as the source of a film with Reese Witherspoon and others. It’s now be…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:48PMSunday, March 24, 2024
In the beginning, there was the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Same title as the musical which is based on the book–a runaway best seller. A consortium of over twenty producers (investors) join…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:50PMThursday, March 7, 2024
The New Group is offering us a play called The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seaver. Directed by Scott Elliott, it is now running at The Signature Pershing Square Theatre on West 42nd Stree…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:52PMSunday, February 4, 2024
In the glorious days, a star like Ethel Merman, Gwen Verdon, Alfred Drake, or a favorite of mine, Chita Rivera (whom we just lost), could lift mediocre material to the level of entertainment…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:43PMMonday, January 22, 2024
I spent some time in Sarasota in January as the Asolo Repertory Theatre is celebrating its 65th season. The Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein has announced an ambitious collection …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:07PMThursday, December 28, 2023
What we have here on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a consortium of over FIFTY “producers” who gathered together to sponsor a musical comedy–something to which they could t…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:15PMThursday, December 21, 2023
The dazzling company of 24 gifted singers, dancers, and actors under the remarkably inventive direction and choreography of Josh Rhodes have brought to the St.James Theatre on 44th Street a …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:06PMMonday, December 18, 2023
A series of conflicting dates meant I had to wait until December 17 to see this musical at the Classic Stage Company where it opened in October and was extended to run through December 17th.…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:04PMMonday, December 11, 2023
This musical tribute to director/choreographer Graciela Daniele is beautiful to look at and mostly delightful to know. It was created musically by Michael John LaChiusa for Daniele–his goo…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:51AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
This s a tough review to write because this new musical at the Public Theatre is a prime example of what has happened to Broadway as we approach the middle of the 21st century. Thi…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:34AMMonday, November 27, 2023
A visit to the Abingdon Theatre, a compact Off-Broadway Theatre on 42nd Street, felt to me like a visit to help an acquaintance through the very difficult final days of the life of the famil…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:13PMWednesday, November 22, 2023
Ossie Davis is an actor and playwright–born in 1917–whose long career in theatre began in 1939 after his graduation from Howard University. He eventually made his Broadway debut in Jeb i…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:24PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Theresa Rebeck is a prolific, award winning playwright whose new play deals with an eccentric elderly gent who is an obsessive hoarder.We meet him as the curtain rises on his apartment where…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:21PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
I had worked with Director Peter Flynn a number of times, both as an actor and as author when he staged two workshop productions in New York of a musical to which I’d written the book. I�…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:19AMSunday, November 5, 2023
In 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart took hold of John O’Hara’s original book, borrowed its title character, and brought to Broadway a somewhat cynical musical named for its central…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:16PMMonday, August 14, 2023
This comedy by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon is currently running at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. It serves as a good example of the current trend of new work being presented by a consor…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:09PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
The cover of the playbill for The Cottage, now playing at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, is most promising. It is a painting of an English country cottage burgeoning with a group of wa…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:20PMSunday, July 9, 2023
There was once a play called The Days of Wine and Roses by J.P. Miller, and in 1962 it was filmed starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Now, sixty years later, Adam Guettel has written musi…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:26PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
I watched Oscar Levant on tv–primarily on the Jack Paar Show where he was an almost permanent guest, so popular were his many visits. Paar himself loved to chat with him about the mos…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:44PMMonday, May 8, 2023
The original production of this British musical is one I thoroughly enjoyed when i saw it in 1960. The New York City Center has now offered it to us again in its “Encores! series for a b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:13PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Just as I was about to write off this season on Broadway’s Musical Theatre Scene after many months of second rate offering in that category—shows that are so busy catering to rock and o…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:18AMMonday, May 1, 2023
David Auburn’s play breaks new ground opening with two women seated at the ends of a large table but facing us, the audience. Each individually recalls how their very dear friendship bega…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:28PMSunday, April 30, 2023
This musical tribute to “the city that never sleeps” is a love letter now running at the St. James Theatre on West 44th Street. It has some imperfections as does the city it celebrates; …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:58PM 
