Monday, December 9, 2013
54 Below presented "It's Today…54 Sings Mame," Dec. 8, featuring Leslie Uggams, Beth Leavel and Hunter Ryan Herdlicka. Playbill.com was there.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 01:15PMSunday, December 8, 2013
This month's column looks at Sam Wasson's comprehensive new biography "Fosse;" "West End Broadway," Adrian Wright's look at American musicals abroad; Carolyn …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
In busy spells -- which in the Broadway arena typically include the two weeks before Thanksgiving and the month before the various award deadlines in the spring -- it is not uncommon for cri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:52AMSunday, December 1, 2013
We have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWe have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Mr. McNally knows how to write funny, and has provided us with much laughter over the years. But not here.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:30PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
This is a portrait, in four slices, of an American family. Not a typical American family, mind you. These are upper middle class, New York liberals: Baby Boomers dealing with life, family, …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:04PMMonday, November 25, 2013
The authors mix bleak despair with comic patter, making the plays catnip for a certain caliber of star actor. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have joined together to offer the two plays.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:14PMSunday, November 24, 2013
This month's column is led by two favorite classics that we happily return to again and again. This time, though, we've got them in new Blu-ray editions. This doesn't make the fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 22, 2013
O'Brien is unquestionably one of our finest directors. Little enlightenment can be expected from Amanda Peet's The Commons of Pensacola.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:21PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown began a week of performances at 54 Below Nov. 18. Playbill.com was there.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, November 18, 2013
Everything about the show is so likable. I left Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder having had a perfectly pleasant time with a pair of talented new theatre-writers, in the company of a …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:15AMSunday, November 17, 2013
This week's column discusses the original cast album of the hit 1972 London revue Cowardy Custard and "Somethin' Real Special," Philip Chaffin's collection of songs wit…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 14, 2013
700 Sundays is emotionally riveting, uproariously funny, and altogether lovely. I found it smashingly good in 2004 and somehow more gripping last night, perhaps because Mr. Crystal is nine…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:18PMA Bed and a Chair, a collaboration between Tony-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and jazz musician-composer Wynton Marsalis, began its limited engagement Nov. 13 at New York City C…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMSunday, November 10, 2013
Playbill.com correspondent Steven Suskin reports on British productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Sweeney Todd. How do these shows compare with the most-recent Broadway productions? How do …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Broadway's Book of Mormon and Once — Best Musical winners from the 2011 and 2012 seasons, respectively — are both ensconced in the West End. How do the productions compare wi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
With two discretionary nights available in London, I asked my favorite expatriot "what's good?" He sent me off to two plays that I very much enjoyed but surely would not have found…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:56AMSunday, November 3, 2013
This week's column looks at "Theatre World Volume 68: 2011-2012," the 2012-13 "Playbill Broadway Yearbook" and press agent Susan L. Schulman's "Backstage Pas…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Six days in London bring the opportunity to catch up on seven shows that have opened since my last visit. I could have more industriously caught nine by juggling the schedule, but one does …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:24PMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Becoming Dr. Ruth is not just an ordinary, clichéd pop biog. There is a tale of struggle, perseverance and survival mixed in with all the sex therapy talk. There is, yes, quite a bit of se…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PMSunday, October 27, 2013
This week's column examines the studio cast restoration of Rodgers and Hart's first complete musical comedy Dearest Enemy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 25, 2013
Is it the role? The performance? The writing? Whatever the problem may be, it leaves this Snow Geese foundering.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:54AMThursday, October 24, 2013
"A new John Kander musical" this new Kander musical isn't, not quite.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:51PMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Mitchell Erickson, a stage manager whose 50-year career encompassed well over 100 productions on Broadway and on tour, died Oct. 22 at the age of 92 in Portland, OR, after a long illness.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Playbill.com reports on the Dramatists Guild Fund's Annual Gala, Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars, which was held Oct. 21 at the Edison Ballroom.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMMonday, October 21, 2013
The final 20 minutes of "A Time to Kill" provide crackling theatrics. Unfortunately, those 20 minutes of high drama come after two full hours of lumbering storytelling.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:38PMThe final 20 minutes of the courtroom drama A Time to Kill provide crackling theatrics, as idealistic folksy small-town lawyer Sebastian Arcelus goes up against slimily wily district attorne…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:11PMSunday, October 20, 2013
This month's column looks at the bubbly René Clair fantasy "I Married a Witch," the World War II epic "From Here to Eternity," and the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Readers who remain undecided about whether to see the filmed version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, next Wednesday night (Oct. 23) on some 460 movie screen…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:55PMSunday, October 13, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast albums of three of last season's Broadway musicals: Matilda, Hands on a Hardbody and Scandalous.
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