Sunday, May 4, 2025
The American Musical which Broadway has been said to invent has passed away. The current season on the main stem has just ended as award season selects its winners for the summer tourist se…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:22PMSaturday, April 19, 2025
Carolyn Bowman (Mathew Murphy) In an attempt to attract new audiences to new plays and musicals, a pattern has begun to emerge. Shows are being conceived by a new generation of producers, wr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:45AMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Who would have believed that at last a musical comedy called BOOP would arrive on Broadway late in the season (April 6) just in time to deliver an Easter gift that saves us from the doom …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:02PMThursday, April 10, 2025
Out of a great mess of a family, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has fashioned a new play dealing with a celebratory birthday dinner at the very conventional looking home of Claudine Jas…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:22PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
Out of the nightly CBS talk show which once filled our radio and later our television listening hours, the 21st century has moved in early and finally taken command of the vast audience that…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:38PMFriday, November 22, 2024
Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are now co-starring in this flashy and stylish new musical, playing the two nasty “frenemies” who were played in the non-musical movie by Meryl Streep and…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:16PMSaturday, October 26, 2024
The James Earl Jones Theatre on West 48th Street (once called The Cort) has put out its newly-refurbished welcome mat to a new rom/com by Delia Ephron based on her best-selling memoir. It�…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:42PMSunday, October 20, 2024
An odd quirk about the Playbill program that is notable–there is no listing of the songs’ titles and no mention of why. I suspect Lloyd Webber felt that his melodies were constant; they …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:32PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
The management at New York’s Lincoln Center has brought into its spacious Beaumont Theatre a flashy new production called McNeal by the highly regarded Ayad Aktar whose plays Disgraced a…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:46AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
The new Broadway season begins with this two-character play from Jen Silverman who is a “they/them” playwright, novelist, and screenwriter; and they seems to have had productions every…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:05PMFriday, 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 04:21PM 
