Friday, April 15, 2011
Stephen Sondheim ponders his accomplishments, his way of working, and the form and future of the American musical
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:13PMFriday, April 8, 2011
The past two weeks were book-ended by a pair of deluxe Broadway musical revivals: The first, of Frank Loesser's How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, opened with a B+ (it's now c…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 05:54AMSaturday, March 26, 2011
Critics are bowing down before The Book of Mormon, the hotly anticipated, reportedly sweetly irreverent new Broadway musical from South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Avenue Q's Bobby…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 02:40PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Tanya Saracho’s success writing plays about Latino culture has earned her acclaim and opportunities to explore wider themes for more diverse audiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMSaturday, March 19, 2011
The biggest news on Broadway over the past two weeks was a show that didn't open, again: Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, as anyone not living under a rock knows by now, will shut down for a m…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:48AMSaturday, March 5, 2011
There was no contest in the past few weeks, a busy time with some strong showings: Invasion!, Jonas Hassen Khemiri's topical satire, sailed to the top spot with a resounding A. (This Play Co…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 03:37PMMonday, February 21, 2011
It was the best of times and the worst of times for theatre beyond Broadway this past week, with three wildly divergent shows (two way out in Brooklyn) coming out on top, each with an A-: Ge…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:50AMSaturday, February 12, 2011
At long last, Spidey was weighed and found wanting, with everyone from the Times to Time Out, and critics from coast to coast, savaging Julie Taymor's ill-starred arachnoid musical. The near…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 05:44AMSunday, February 6, 2011
This week Off-Broadway, critical favor shone on three very different revivals: Irish Rep's mounting of Brian Friel's monologic drama Molly Sweeney was greeted with near-unanimous huzzahs, fo…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:55AMSaturday, January 29, 2011
Daniel Kitson's solo piece may have had the least promising title in ages--The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church--but this odd, funny import from the U.K. (already closed) got the only …
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:38AMSaturday, January 22, 2011
Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s “Knickerbocker Holiday” and “Lost in the Stars” — entirely coincidentally — are back for concert readings in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:59PMSaturday, January 15, 2011
The new year started slowly with A Small Fire, Adam Bock's metaphorical family drama, which divided critics between rapturous and disappointed for a B grade. And the season took a positive s…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 07:51AMWednesday, January 5, 2011
Among other milestones, 2010 was the year that StageGrade was officially born (after gestating for more than a year as a blog called Critic-O-Meter). Since our launch took place in April, we…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 08:22AMSunday, December 12, 2010
While Broadway's 2010 openings ended weeks ago, theaters beyond the Great White Way haven't slowed down a bit, and the critical horse races have been no less fierce. At the top of StageGrade…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 02:14PMMonday, November 29, 2010
Designing costumes for Broadway’s The Pee-wee Herman Show
One night back in 1977, Paul Reubens, a wiry sketch comic at the Los Angeles improv company the Groundlings, came up with the …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:11PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
This week the blood flowed, of both the stage kind and the metaphorical kind, with the sole Broadway opening, the quirky Norwegian comedy Elling, posting its closing notice after just nine p…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:45AMSaturday, November 20, 2010
The highs and lows were extreme this week on StageGrade. It began with a stark contrast: an A for the acclaimed Broadway transfer of last summer's Central Park hit, The Merchant of Venice st…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 06:25AMFriday, November 19, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
After a few weeks of mixed reviews and rocky receptions on and especially Off-Broadway, this past week offered a crop of shows in the B-and-above range. If there were an applause-o-meter, th…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 01:57PM 
