Tuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:50PMMonday, October 26, 2015
"You really have to look at the whole picture and see whose story is being told, in terms of geography, gender, class, race. I also think a big problem is not doing work that's experim…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:21AMSunday, October 25, 2015
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Cassie Beck, Sarah Steele and
Arian Moayed in The Humans. Photo: Joan Marcus
Stephen...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Broadway audiences clamoring for dance-happy musical comedy, with an emphasis on tap-tap-tap, need look no further than the Helen Hayes where Dames at Sea provides two hours-worth of shuffle…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in Ripcord. Photo: Joan Marcus
Put David Lindsay-Abaire, Holland Taylor,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:44PMMonday, October 19, 2015
The York Theatre Company, the determined, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-a-musical group in the basement of a church within the Citicorp Center, has rolled up their sleeves and -- with great …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:10PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
An American theatergoer in London can always be sure to find an intelligent modern-day adaptation of a world drama classic or two. At present, both the National and the Almeida have success…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:04PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
You realize that this is not junk-food theatre; this is keenly-contrived and impeccably-crafted comedy of high order.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:49PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Imelda Staunton in Gypsy. Photo: Johan Persson
Ethel Merman. Angela Lansbury. Bernadette Peters. Patti LuPone. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:36AMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51. Photo: Johan Persson
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British crystallographer...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:24PMFriday, October 9, 2015
The cast of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
Martin McDonagh--the British/Irish author of such mordantly...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:24AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
The trouble with "Razzle Dazzle," Michael Riedel's new book about Broadway, is that from the first page--on which a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:53PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Megan McGinness and Paul Alexander Nolan in Daddy Long Legs.
Photo: Jeremy Daniel
Playgoers might have trepidations...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:15AMSunday, September 27, 2015
Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie in Spring Awakening.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:40PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Samuel "Biff" Liff
April 14, 1919 - August 10, 2015
Everybody on Broadway knew Biff, or wanted to know Biff.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:39AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Plays about religious philosophy can be mighty dry and uninvolving, not only to outsiders but to people of the faith in question as well. Playwrights Horizons' newest offering -- The Christ…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PMSunday, September 13, 2015
A comedy about drag queens might have a somewhat limited audience. The Legend of Georgia McBride, though, is not so much a comedy about drag queens, but a comedy which incorporates characte…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:30PMFriday, September 11, 2015
"Joy Ride: Show People & Their Shows" by John Lahr
The American drama critic John Lahr has been writing about the theatre and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:29AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Those of us who watched the actress Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) as she slipped into prominence--with...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:55AMThursday, August 6, 2015
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Lin Manuel Miranda
in Hamilton. Photo: Joan Marcus
"I am...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:01PMFriday, July 31, 2015
From 1927 to 1931, six major Broadway composers were born: (in order of appearance) John Kander,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:55PMMonday, July 27, 2015
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
The Absolute Brightness of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PMMonday, July 20, 2015
We now have another Awake and Sing!, this time at the Public. But there is a major difference. This is a production of the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO). The cast consists…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:22PMThursday, July 16, 2015
The authors and producers seem to be very much in earnest in this anti-slavery, pro-faith tale of the mid-18th century. They provide something of a history lesson, based on the life, adventu…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Penn Jillette and Teller in Penn & Teller On Broadway. Photo: Francis George
Penn Jillette and the mononymous Teller...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Shows for Days is closer, in style and genre, to Joseph Stein's 1963 adaptation of Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing. But that play--which launched the acting career of Alan Arkin and the direct…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Thirty-five years to the day after the first performance of the long-running Broadway musical 42nd Street, almost two hundred alumni gathered last night to celebrate. The David Merrick/Gowe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:09PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Jonathan Groff and Aaron Lazar in A New Brain. Photo: Joan Marcus
Theatergoers with a keen interest in dramatic,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:46PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
How do you describe a play that is so surprising -- and so excellent -- that you don't want to give readers an idea of what they are in for?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Playwright Joshua Harmon burst into view in 2012 with Bad Jews, one of those plays that sounds like a bad idea but turns out to be very good.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:55PMMonday, June 15, 2015
The play itself, an LCT3 offering at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow playhouse, turns out to be an intriguing, challenging evening of theatre.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PM 
