Thursday, 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 03:30PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Tony nominee and "Smash" star Jeremy Jordan brings his solo show "Breaking Character" to 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
There is enough in the characters and the dialogue -- even in the costumes, with some actors drifting on wearing basketball sneakers -- to tell us that Father Comes Home is a play of ideas a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:09PMSunday, October 26, 2014
This month's column discusses John Lahr's new, comprehensive biography "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" and Allen Shawn's "Leonard Bernstein: An A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
There is an interesting and potentially important musical contained within The Fortress of Solitude, the new piece from Michael Friedman, Itamar Moses and Daniel Aukin at the Public.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PMSunday, October 19, 2014
This month's column looks at the Emmy Award-winning HBO version of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart;" the first-ever complete release of the well-remembered s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Playgoers who haven't walked away from a Broadway musical beaming since before they can remember should head over to Times Square for On The Town, the 1944 musical which introduced Leonard B…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:05PMMonday, October 13, 2014
This Big, alas, seems just as unengaging as the Broadway version; given the lack of orchestral accompaniment, it is even less entertaining.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:03PMSunday, October 12, 2014
This week's column discusses the first complete recording of Jerome Kern's 1933 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" musical, Roberta.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09AMThursday, October 9, 2014
You will not likely find anything funnier onstage, just now, than Nathan Lane in the opening scene of Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play. Lane, as a humble off-Broadway actor turned top-tie…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:12PMSunday, October 5, 2014
Alex Sharp in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Photo: Joan Marcus
There are plays that entertain,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43PMThis week's column discusses Marisa Michelson's Tamar of the River, along with a notable newly-discovered full recording of West Side Story.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Mid-period Stoppard -- that is, the work of the acclaimed Czech-born British playwright in his fifties and early sixties -- brought forth a remarkable series of intricate, thought-provoking-…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PMSunday, September 21, 2014
This month's column discusses the new, Eighth Edition of Stanley Green's "Broadway Musicals Show by Show;" Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick and&nb…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, September 18, 2014
This playgoer's memory of A. R. Gurney's Love Letters -- the 1988 two-character play consisting of letters between an upper crust boy-turned-man and girl-turned-woman, performed without memo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:08PMSunday, September 14, 2014
This month's column looks at Zero Mostel in Richard Lester's motion picture version of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum;" the classy film adaptation of Terre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy is rude, raucous, vulgar and gloriously funny. It's a happy sign when established not-for-profits like Playwrights Horizons can offer such outspoken fare as mainst…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:29PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Two-time Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole, who has starred on Broadway in 42nd Street and Grey Gardens, opened her new solo show at 54 Below Sept. 8. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMSunday, September 7, 2014
In this week's column, we listen to Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, the 1967 Richard Rodgers television musical Androcles and the Lion and an album of forgotte…
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This week's column visits the new CD "David Campbell Sings John Bucchino."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
John Lithgow in the Shakespeare in the Park production of King Lear. Photo credit: Joan Marcus
Put Daniel Sullivan (director...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:07PMSunday, August 3, 2014
This week's column explores a collection of films by Jacques Demy and the classics "A Hard Day's Night" and "The Big Chill."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 31, 2014
New Yorkers have a rare chance, through August 10, to see a full-cast production of David Edgar's intriguing Pentecost.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:21PMIn a monthly roundup of cabaret and nightlife, some of Broadway's biggest names opt for more intimate affairs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMIn a monthly roundup of cabaret and nightlife, some of Broadway's biggest names opt for more intimate affairs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 27, 2014
This week's column visits the recording of the Broadway production of Violet.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
On a Friday afternoon in Vienna in 1938, fourteen-year-old piano prodigy Lisa arrives on the trolley for her lesson to discover that Mahler Street has suddenly been renamed Meistersinger Str…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:15PMSunday, July 20, 2014
This month's column discusses Helen Krich Chinoy's new book about The Group Theatre; Jeffrey Sweet's 50th anniversary celebration of The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; a book…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMThis month's column discusses Helen Krich Chinoy's new book about The Group Theatre; Jeffrey Sweet's 50th anniversary celebration of The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; a book…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 17, 2014
Elaine Stritch, the Broadway icon who defined theatrical life on and off stage, died July 17 at the age of 89. Playbill.com looks back at the irreplaceable veteran with our retrospective of …
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMEncores! Off-Center concludes its 2014 season with Pump Boys and Dinettes, starring Hunter Foster and Katie Thompson.
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