Thursday, July 17, 2014
Encores! Off-Center concludes its 2014 season with Pump Boys and Dinettes, starring Hunter Foster and Katie Thompson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:30PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Pageant -- the 1991 off-Broadway hit about a beauty contest, with the six contestants played by male actors in dresses and wigs -- was a clever, rowdy, dazzlingly funny and quirky musical. …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMSunday, July 13, 2014
This week's column looks at Nice Fighting You, a celebration of work by award-winning composers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, July 6, 2014
This week's column continues visiting the 1936 version of the landmark musical Show Boat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, July 3, 2014
In a monthly roundup of cabaret and nightlife, some of Broadway's biggest names opt for more intimate affairs.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Encores! Off Center featured a one-night-only concert presentation of Randy Newman's Faust July 1 as part of its summer lineup. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:30PMSunday, June 29, 2014
This week's column visits the 1936 film adaptation of the landmark musical Show Boat.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Encores! Off-Center launched its 2014 season June 25 with Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM!, starring Tony winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, as well as "Smash" st…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:01PMSunday, June 22, 2014
This week's column visits the cast recordings of various productions from the 2013-14 Broadway season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Jane Lynch, known for her role as the hilarious and wicked villain Sue Sylvester on the hit TV show "Glee," took the stage at 54 Below for her solo cabaret debut. Playbill.com was …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThursday, June 19, 2014
There was only moderate hollerin' from the audience at the Monday night preview of Holler If Ya Hear Me, the Tupac Shakur jukebox musical at the drastically altered Palace. We could hear the…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
Nadine Malouf in The Who and the What, photo credit: Erin Baiano
A 32-year-old writer, with no husband but a Harvard...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:23AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Much Ado About Nothing with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, under the direction of Jack O'Brien beneath the stars at the Delacorte in Central Park. What doesn't sound enchanting about that?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:26PMSunday, June 15, 2014
This month's column visits "Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures, 1949-2013," a collection of work by award-winning composer Sheldon Harnick.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Staging the play is the always interesting Sam Gold, who has been known to work wonders when he has wonderful material -- but this is not the present case.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:50PMSunday, June 8, 2014
This month we watch the 1955 television adaptation of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus, Douglas Sirk's '50s melodrama "All That Heaven Allows," the Howard Hawks western …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 5, 2014
New York has seen recent Macbeths by the handful, including two star-topped Broadway productions in the last year, but they are best forgotten. Now we have Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth -- starr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:57PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
The star makes it look effortlessly simple, weaving his tales and adventures into gloriously funny set-pieces. He has made a side career as reader of the phenomenally-successful Harry Potte…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:11PMMonday, June 2, 2014
Rory O'Malley, who convulsed audiences in his Tony-nominated turn as the repressed, tap-dancing Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, is on to something intriguing in Pub Crawl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMSunday, June 1, 2014
How do you become an overnight sensation in a show that runs only three days? Melissa Errico did just that when she stepped onto the City Center stage–in the third season of the still-…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 29, 2014
Katie Finneran–the expert Broadway comedienne who seemed subdued in the 2012 revival of Annie–offered a convulsive demonstration last night of just how expert she is in It Might …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:39PMSunday, May 25, 2014
This week's column explores the cast recording of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 23, 2014
New Dramatists, which was been dedicated to supporting and developing playwrights since 1949, honored Susan Stroman at its 65th annual spring luncheon May 22 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PMThursday, May 22, 2014
The pieces of American Hero are somewhat too jagged to fit together, but as an offering in the modestly-priced Second Stage Uptown series it provides a pleasant comic diversion on the Upper …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:47PMSunday, May 18, 2014
Linda Lavin in TOO MUCH SUN. Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg
Playwright Nicky Silver, director Mark Brokaw, and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PMThis month we watch the British documentary "Theatreland," Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole," Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman" and David O. Russell's &q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Kate Baldwin, a Tony-nominated singing actress, brought her solo show Sing Pretty, Don't Fall Down to 54 Below May 15. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
John Doyle and friends took the stage of the Hudson Theatre May 12 for the Classic Stage Company benefit Musical Masterworks: Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, Hart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMSunday, May 11, 2014
This week's column looks at the 50th anniversary digital remastering of the Funny Girl cast recording.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Irma La Douce, the rarely-revived musical about a French streetwalker and the law student who falls in love with her, opened at City Center Encores! May 8. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM 
