Thursday, March 17, 2016
If you like your shows with glorious music in the air and a dollop of schlag atop the café viennois, you are sure to float away from your visit to She Loves Me on a silver-laced cloud.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:04PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Steven Pasquale (center) in The Robber Bridegroom.
Photo: Joan Marcus
For ninety minutes of banjo-twangin',
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PMThursday, March 10, 2016
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams give frenzied, uncompromising performances as a pair of irremediably-ruined souls frozen by a bubbling mix of guilt, retribution, revenge and what seem to …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PMTuesday, March 8, 2016
There is likely some type of audience for a way over-the-top camp-pop pastiche musical, and let us hope they find their way to the Nederlander. For everyone else, though, this "disaster…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PMSaturday, March 5, 2016
The only distressing element about Hungry, the initial installment in Richard Nelson's new trilogy about the Gabriel Family of Rhinebeck, NY--a philosophical, political and round-the-block n…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31AMThursday, March 3, 2016
Too many playwrights, nowadays, seem content to take an idea and stretch it out into some type of extended plot. Hnath has demonstrated, in both of his plays this season, that he has plenty …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:19PMThursday, February 25, 2016
The Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has offered a series of diverse and astounding star performances in films. Thus, he is not just another movie star stopping over on Broadway f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Dot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:03PMFriday, February 12, 2016
Michael Potts and LaChanze in the Encores! presentation
of Cabin in the Sky. Photo: Joan Marcus
There's "honey in...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:56AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
An unruly teen from the Irish tenements of the Bronx is transplanted to a white-bread Catholic prep school on a hilltop in New Hampshire, where his braggadocio, bluster and petty-thievery th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PMThursday, February 4, 2016
Dear olde Miss Austen, who died in 1817 uncelebrated and unknown (her books having initially been published anonymously), is said to have enjoyed playing at theatricals in the family living …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:13PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Linda Lavin in Our Mother's Brief Affair. Photo: Joan Marcus
A character steps out of character, just before the first act...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Hello, Dolly!--which turned fifty in 2014--is coming back to the lights of 44th Street (or thereabouts) in the spring of 2017, with the outsized title role essayed by the outsized Bette Midl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Michael Frayn's Noises Off, when it premiered back in 1982 in London (with Patricia Routledge) and when it opened in 1983 at the Atkinson (with Dorothy Loudon), was farce comedy par excellen…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PMThursday, December 24, 2015
We go back Into the Woods to compare and contrast four major recordings of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine fairytale musical. Which one should you own?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Danny Burstein in Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Joan Marcus
Fiddler on the Roof is back on Broadway, and--wonder...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26PMThursday, December 17, 2015
What more need be said? It is, yes, as good as you've heard. What a shame that the ticket situation will keep it out of the reach of the general theatergoing public for another year or thr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:46PMMonday, December 14, 2015
f you put three computer monitors on a dining room table talking to each other, how will you know when the play is over unless someone comes along to shut them down? That's one of the questi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple. Photo: Matthew Murphy
In one of the more notable turnarounds in recent Broadway history,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Michael C. Hall in Lazarus. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
"Is there an end to it?" someone cried out an hour into the new musical at...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PMThursday, December 3, 2015
The unpredictable kismet that Broadway producers face deigns that sometimes you end up with something brilliant that no one, alas, wants to see. Contrarily, you sometimes come up with a dec…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
One of the biggest musical hits of the century, thus far, tells of American do-gooders who go to Uganda and -- in the face of a corrupt and lawless evildoer -- teach the natives to read, wri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Parnell takes a sociological approach, kind of; Gerrard gives us what we might call a show tune approach, which is at once less realistic and more rambunctiously funny.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMSunday, November 15, 2015
James Carpinello (center) in Incident at Vichy. Photo: Joan Marcus
Arthur Miller--who would have turned 100 on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PMThursday, November 12, 2015
His words caught the public fancy -- such phrases as "my huckleberry friend," "one for my baby and one more for the road," "hooray for Hollywood," and the immor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
British actor Mark Strong is making his Broadway debut as Eddie Carbone in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:17PMMonday, November 9, 2015
In Dada Woof Papa Hot, Parnell combines characters we know pretty well -- and a situation we know pretty well -- in a manner which makes it all seem fresh, involving and convincing.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:34PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Mark Strong in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
British actor Mark Strong is making his...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:04PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Rehearsing my plays is a really different experience, for actors, than most plays. I think it was the actor Matt Maher, of The Flick, who said something like "it's like playing in a ver…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:13AMSunday, November 1, 2015
All your favorites are there. William, Harry, Kate, even the ghost of Diana, who roams the halls at night like one of the three weird witches of Macbeth. Charles faces his dilemma like Ham…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:29PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
We playwrights are always mentioned in the listings and reviews. This is not about us. We think the stage managers and sound and lighting and set and costume designers we work with are just …
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