Thursday, March 26, 2015
Since the place was reborn in 1979 under the direction of the new Radio City Musical Hall Productions, the Spring Spectacular has been reliably perky, friendly, and leaning towards mass-mark…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PMSunday, March 8, 2015
The Audience gives us Ms. Mirren, but is likely to be a one-shot arrow. The star's performance is more than enough to carry the day, and carry the play, to surefire success; while Elizabeth …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:24PMThursday, March 5, 2015
The nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:30PMThe nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:30PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
The nether realm, as constructed in Jennifer Haley's eighty-minute drama The Nether at MCC, is a demon world of evil and imagination.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:44AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Arnie Burton, Rick Holmes, Kelly Hutchinson and Liv Rooth
in David Ives' Lives of the Saints. Photo: James Leynse
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
The show has been impeccably staged by Thomas Kail, Miranda's colleague from In the Heights, with choreography from that show's Andy Blankenbuehler. For theatergoers who admired but didn't …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PMSunday, February 15, 2015
This month's column looks at Richard Linklater's new classic, "Boyhood" as well as a long-vanished 1942 drama centering on jazz and swing, "Syncopation."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 1, 2015
This week we listen to the cast recording of Sting's short-lived Broadway musical The Last Ship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 25, 2015
This month's column looks at John Lithgow and Alfred Molina in "Love Is Strange," Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story," and the Jackie Gleason/Carol Channing &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Yes, this is obviously going to be another one of those actors-play-the-instruments affairs, which have become dime-a-dozen since John Doyle did it in 2004 with Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. In t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:59PMSunday, January 18, 2015
This month's column discusses "Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design" and Martin Short's "I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 11, 2015
This week's column follows Kristin Chenoweth as she goes home to Oklahoma for a concert and looks at a lost and unproduced Ivor Novello musical rescued after 60 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
Joey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of Dying for It apparently got an enormous lift from the actor in the role, which d…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:25AMJoey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of <em>Dying for It</em> apparently got an enormous lift from the actor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:25AMSunday, January 4, 2015
This month's column looks at Matthew Warchus' new movie "Pride"; Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight"; the new Blu-ray release of Dustin Hoffman's &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 28, 2014
This week's column looks at the various cast recordings of Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 21, 2014
This week's column discusses the soundtrack recording of the NBC television event, "Peter Pan Live!" featuring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
This was a relatively strong year; where the canker gnaws, as good old blimey slimey Captain Hook might say, is in the musical department.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:18PMSunday, December 14, 2014
This month's column visits a few academic works written about Bernstein's On the Town, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Lionel Bart's Oliver!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 7, 2014
This month's column visits Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" and a 10-movie collection of film noir.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 30, 2014
This week's column offers suggestions for holiday gifts from the 2013-14 theatre season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 23, 2014
In this week's column, we discuss the Library of America collection of 16 American Musicals; Judi Dench's picture scrapbook of her life "Behind the Scenes"; and the vocal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 21, 2014
New York theatergoers with an adventurous spirit -- or mainstream theatergoers unafraid to venture off off Broadway when recommendations warrant -- are being rewarded this month with special…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:57PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Why can't they just do Broadway musicals the way the authors wrote them in the first place? is a not infrequent cry along the Rialto. If a show was a hit, if a show is a classic, why do mode…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29PMSunday, November 16, 2014
To tell you the plot of this mysterious ghost play -- anything more than that Man brings Woman to the cabin and they eat two bites of trout -- or to even discuss the dramatis personae, is to…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PMThis week's column discusses studio recordings from Broadway's Mary Testa and Michael Starobin, an anthology from songwriter Scott Alan and this year's edition of "Carols fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
The Band Wagon, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Osnes, opened at City Center. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMonday, November 10, 2014
This is the master's earliest professionally-produced musical; that is, it is his earliest musical to receive a professional production, albeit 40-odd years later.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:02PMSunday, November 9, 2014
This month's column looks at the long-running talk-show "The Merv Griffin Show," which was based in the heart of the theatre district throughout its formative years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Show Boat — in a grand semi-staged version featuring a large cast and an even larger orchestra — is back in town at Avery Fisher Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM 
