Thursday, 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 02:00PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Anthony Giardina's The City of Conversation is an intelligent, provocative, incisive drama about politics, people, ideals and principles, with razor-sharp dialogue and -- from Jan Maxwell --…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PMTony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth presented The Evolution of a Soprano at Carnegie Hall May 3. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMSunday, May 4, 2014
This week's column explores the original Broadway cast recording of Jason Robert Brown's #The Bridges of Madison County.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, May 1, 2014
The show--with concept and lyrics by Byrne, music by Byrne and Fatboy Slim -- captivated theatergoers and critics last April during its limited engagement as part of the Public season. A he…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:16PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Symphony Space, the performing arts organization on the Upper West Side, honored Sheldon Harnick at its annual gala April 28. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PMSunday, April 27, 2014
And here we have a revival of Jon Robin Baitz' 1991 play The Substance of Fire, which introduced a decidedly...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:43PMThis month's column looks at "The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan," Philip Ziegler's biography of the great Laurence Olivier, an anthology of "Plays for Two" (incl…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Tony Award winner Tommy Tune made his Café Carlyle debut April 22. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, April 21, 2014
This is one of those "is the old lady losing her marbles?" plays, in which the doddering, aching, creaking, 79-year-old heroine drifts from witty perceptiveness to the borders of s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:05PMSunday, April 20, 2014
This past season has been lackadaisical for new Broadway musicals, with the best of them--arguably After Midnight, Beautiful and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, in alphabetical ord…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45PMThis week's column discusses the cast recordings of A Gentleman's Guide, Les Misérables, Murder for Two, Privates on Parade and Billy Porter's solo CD "Billy's Ba…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, April 17, 2014
The comedic chameleon Arnie Burton first came to view in the 2008 parody version of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Susan Stroman, the director/choreographer who worked with Mel Brooks on the aforementioned blockbuster, has now joined forces with Allen but lightning is not striking twice. The main culpri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:53PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
It is Mr. Ives, and his director John Rando (of Urinetown and A Christmas Story) who make The Heir Apparent a ludicrously luscious affair. Unlike other new comedies recently arrived in town,…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:17PMSunday, April 6, 2014
This week's column discusses the first commercial release of the soundtrack recordings of Robert Goulet in television productions of Kiss Me, Kate (1968) and Brigadoon (1966).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMFriday, April 4, 2014
The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York floated into Carnegie Hall last night, with that staid historic venue hosting a one-night-only concert version of Frank Loesse…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMThursday, April 3, 2014
City Center Encores! presented the opening night of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella April 2. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMMonday, March 31, 2014
And here we have a raucous, bright and vulgar musical comedy about fun-loving, middle-American teens who bully each...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PMSunday, March 30, 2014
Lester is a creative associate of the Tricycle, and husband to playwright Chakrabarti. This is incidental information; Lester's performance in Red Velvet, under any circumstances, is a marv…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:13PMThis month's column looks at "Bigger, Brighter, Louder," an historical chronicle of theatre in Chicago by drama critic Chris Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 23, 2014
This week's column discusses the studio recording of Yank! featuring Bobby Steggert and most of the cast of the 2010 York Theatre production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 20, 2014
Aladdin and Rocky have opened on Broadway back-to-back; the critics have seen them back-to-back; and, more crucially, early audiences who generate all-important word-of-mouth will see them b…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PMSunday, March 16, 2014
This month's column focuses on Joel and Ethan Coen's "Inside Llewyn Davis," Jean-Luc Gerard's "Breathless" and the Ruth Gordon/Lee Strasberg "Boardwalk.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 13, 2014
It turns out that Rocky is better than the Spider-Man, by several notches in the proverbial heavyweight belt. The Cinderella story, such as it is, is durable; and the sure-to-be-much-talked-…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:19PMSunday, March 9, 2014
This week's column discusses the Broadway cast album of Andrew Lippa's Big Fish, along with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afrai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThis week's column discusses the Broadway cast album of Andrew Lippa's Big Fish along with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 6, 2014
There is always a place for a production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, especially one that gives us an oversized orchestra filling the hall with Sondheim's masterful s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Director Gordon Edelstein keeps things moving handily, although he is forced by one-man-show strictures to resort to such activities as having the star change his clothes in several installm…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:15PMSunday, March 2, 2014
This month's column looks at Daniel Rosenthal's masterful chronicle "The National Theatre Story," as well as playscripts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America and John Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Early on, we are told that Ode to Joy is "the story of how the pain goes away." At the end they say "forgiving is giving up the option for revenge" and "true joy is …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PM 
