Tuesday, March 24, 2020
As always, a Scott Miller book is one I reach for with relish. In his previous tomes, Miller has proved...Continue Reading
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As Albert Blossom sings in DOCTOR DOLITTLE, “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.” You haven’t, either. And...Continue Reading
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“What’s the worst thing that you’ve ever seen in all your trips to the theater?” It’s a question that people...Continue Reading
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Oh, why not?! Let’s face it: WEST SIDE STORY, in their faithful 1980 and 2009 revivals, set few pulses racing...Continue Reading
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Wouldn’t a play with Josephine Baker, Margaret Sanger, Langston Hughes and Adam Clayton Powell have terrific dramatic possibilities? After all,...Continue Reading
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Trumpilton: An American Musical Parody Summary Trumpilton: An American Musical Parody is a comedic, irreverent, provocative, and tweet-by-tweet romp through the...Continue Reading
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The first words that we hear come courtesy of an onstage Band Leader. “It’s 1969.” Those who didn’t know that...Continue Reading
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On my way to baggage claim, I locked eyes with the lovely lady who was sitting at the welcome table...Continue Reading
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You may have noticed that Broadway Select wasn’t around for about a week. Damn those hackers! In the interim, I...Continue Reading
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“Broadway Profiles with Tamsen Fadal” will become nationally syndicated, marking a first for a program about the Great White Way....Continue Reading
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This week, let’s review an artistic director. James C. Nicola of New York Theatre Workshop gets a rave. He’s been...Continue Reading
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Lincoln Center Theater’s new musical Flying Over Sunset has completed its casting. In addition to the previously announced Tony-nominated stars Carmen Cusack...Continue Reading
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Linked From broadwayselect.com at 06:03PMWednesday night’s performance of “Slave Play” will be filmed by the New York Public Library’s Theatre on Film and Tape...Continue Reading
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Linked From broadwayselect.com at 05:57PMA bittersweet comic take on the sexual revolution in which the suavely conventional lives of two successful young couples, all...Continue Reading
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This review will not sport any jokes or puns about the film version of CATS. No, it’s not a very...Continue Reading
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If you wanted to know who they were, they weren’t gentlemen of Japan, but of England. Theatergoers weren’t immediately in...Continue Reading
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In one way, THE THIN PLACE is a drama critic’s dream – at least for the first 60 of its...Continue Reading
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Sophisticated writers often stack the deck when writing about suburban families. JAGGED LITTLE PILL, now at the Broadhurst, seems to...Continue Reading
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Ken Jennings is a very engaging actor. THE BOOK OF JOHN, which he conceived as well, is being presented at the...Continue Reading
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Linked From broadwayselect.com at 09:25PMDecember theatergoers can always see a slew of shows that celebrate Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. How they uplift us and...Continue Reading
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“I felt while I was writing this play that I was getting away with murder.” So said Maria Irene Fornes...Continue Reading
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In 2007 alone, it was produced by the estimable Manhattan Theatre Club and won The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize that...Continue Reading
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While some shows are famous for second-act trouble, Matthew Lopez’s THE INHERITANCE runs the risk of having both that and...Continue Reading
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The lights come up on a woman just sitting, not moving and with her back to us. That’s all it...Continue Reading
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With Peter Dinklage as the title character in this new musical simply called CYRANO, you might assume you’ll see a...Continue Reading
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Sure, we all want our children to be smart and confident. That includes the kids we see on stage. So...Continue Reading
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Linked From broadwayselect.com at 02:42PMSunday, October 27, 2019
In a way, SCOTLAND, PA is the perfect musical for the Donald Trump era. It says get what you want,...Continue Reading
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