Thursday, April 23, 2026
We all already know the plot of How My Grandparents Fell In Love from the title. Boy falls in love with girl. Girl isn't interested. Boy plies charm to win over girl. Girl starts to fall i…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Miracle on South Division Street, by Tom Dudzick, will be at the Sheen Center on Bleecker Street from April 14 to May 10. I have had the pleasure of seeing Miracle a number of times, includi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 29, 2026
On March 23 and 24th, MasterVoices presented yet another fabulous musical evening.
Actually, make that a particularly fabulous musical evening.Â
Musical Director Ted Sperling juxtaposed F…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 3, 2026
In 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to the brand-new Lincoln Center, famed Conductor Leopold Stokowski founded the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) to play at C…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2025
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" so opens Charles Dickens' novel, "A Tale of Two Cities," and while this blog post has nothing to do with the French Revolution, we would…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:54PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
The title Laowang: A Chinatown King Lear (written by Alex Lin; directed by Joshua Kahan Brody) is immediately intriguing. Unfortunately, the play does not live up to the title. Yes, th…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
Some quick thoughts on shows I didn't review:
Gruesome Playground Injuries:Â Known theatrical truism: If you get a chance to see Kara Young, see Kara Young.
Gruesome Playground Injuries…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2025
The immensely entertaining Gotta Dance!, a creation of American Dance Machine presented by the York Theatre, includes some 17 dance numbers from such classic musicals as A Chorus Line, Sweet…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 26, 2025
In a world where the vicious cynics of Succession kept a chunk of the world enthralled for years, you might think that the vicious cynics of the musical Sweet Smell of Success could…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
While Richard III has been done 21 times on Broadway, Richard IIÂ has been done only seven, most recently in 1957. (Source: ibdb.com) It is certainly less interesting. Richard III is a gra…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:18AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
In the early 1930s, Sally Carson, an English writer and dancing teacher, spent time in Germany. She then wrote Crooked Cross, which focuses on the insidious growth of Nazism, first as a nove…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Punch completely blew me away, as it did the people I saw it with. A wild, disaffected young man, Jacob, punches another young man, James, for no particular reason. That one punch kills J…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
Torera vividly depicts the life of Elena, the daughter of the housekeeper in the house of a great torero, who desperately wants to be a bullfighter. The son of the torero is Elena's best …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2025
At the start of This Is Government, written by Nina Kissinger and directed by Sarah Norris, three young adults sit in a drab congressional office (nicely realized by Daniel Allen). Against t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Roughly a third of the way through The Essentialisn't (great title), writer-director-performer Elisa Davis quotes Wikipedia:
"Essentialism is the view that every entity has a set of attribu…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
Kelly Bishop writing a memoir--doesn't that sound exciting? The stories she must have! The gossip! The attitude!
Nah. The Third Gilmore Girl is a short, polite, mildly interesting boo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:42PM[SHARE]It's easier to enjoy Twelfth Night, or What You Will, the inaugural production at the newly redone Delacorte, if you accept that it's not exactly Twelfth Night. The show is lively, funny, a …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:42PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
While the subtitle of this book calls Elaine May "Hollywood's Hidden Genius," it also gives full attention to May's theatrical career, which has included writing, acting, and directing.
May …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:36AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2025
It could have been worse. It could have been better. Sandra got a very respectable 18 correct. Liz and I tied with 13. It was a fun Tonys ceremony. Happy New Season!
(BTW, the √s are…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:32PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2025
Lenon Hoyte (Aunt Len) was the founder and proprietor of Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum in Harlem. She died in 1999. In the amazing Harlem Doll Palace, which just finished a run at the HERE …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:18PM[SHARE]In the late 1970s, The Public Theater presented the Yale Rep production of Sganarelle: An Evening of Molière Farces. It was a wonderful evening. One performer was particularly good: Mark…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Jan and Nick, a young married couple, have just moved into an apartment in the East Village. It's 1977, they're in their mid-20s, and they've been together 7 years. Their marriage is happy b…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz's entertaining The Fat Cat Killers combines an incompetent-criminals comedy with a take-down of capitalism. Rather than building on or complementing each other, the two co…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
Although we have not previously shown great acuity in Tony prediction, here we are again. Hope springs eternal!
This year's list of Tony nominees reveals a healthy, exciting season. Looking …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 7, 2025
From the press release for We Do The Same Thing Every Week:
Dick and Jane are bored on a rainy Sunday afternoon. A six-foot tall cat shows up, and hijinks ensue. Later, elsewhere, Dick and J…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2025
Caryl Churchill is not in love with the sound of her own voice. (Many playwrights are, along with many people in every walk of life.) While Churchill has a tremendous amount to say, her writ…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2025
That the American justice system is worse than broken--dangerous, dishonest, racist--is not news. Some innocent people have been coerced into confessing, others have accepted plea bargains r…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2025
I am not a fan of Arthur Miller's. But I like to revisit works to see if I've missed something. Having recently reread Death of a Salesman and seen the The Village Theater Group pro…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2025
In Garside's Career, written by Harold Brighouse before the first World War, Peter Garside is a skilled mechanic and avid Union member in 1914 Midlanton, England. He has just completed a uni…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
The delightful NAATCO-Play on Shakespeare all-femme, all-Asian-American production of Shakespeare's Cymbeline only runs through Feb. 15. If you are a fan of first-class theatre that is…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2025
Mrs. Loman, Barbara Cassady's sequel to Death of a Salesman, starts right after Willy's funeral. Linda Loman, her sons Biff and Happy, and next door neighbor Charley and his son Bernard gath…
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