Broadway Review: “Network” at the Belasco Theatre
When Howard Beale (a tortured yet determined Bryan Cranston) first admonishes his listeners to get out of their chairs, go their widows, stick out their heads and yell, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Blue Ridge” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross...
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play “Blue Ridge” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater. She drops these six disparate...
View ArticleTheatre News: Emily Mann to Retire As Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre...
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will retire from...
View ArticleBroadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the...
The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning performances at...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I’m Not A Comedian . . . I’m Lenny Bruce” at the...
“And there it was. My first laugh. It’s like that flash I’ve heard morphine addicts describe. A warm sensual blanket that comes after a cold, sick rejection. I was hooked.” – Lenny Bruce (from “I’m Not...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Eddie and Dave” at Atlantic Stage 2
The present-day social climate in the theater world has fervently addressed non-traditional casting, gender identity, and diversity as part of an effort to be inclusive and accepting. When a production...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Mies Julie” at Classic Stage Company (Through Sunday...
August Strindberg’s naturalism and themes transfer brilliantly from his “Miss Julie” to Yaël Farber’s adaptation of Strindberg’s classic. Farber’s “Mies Julie” is currently running at Classic Stage...
View ArticleOff-Off-Broadway Review: “The Waiting Game” at 59E59 Theaters
In the appropriately titled play “The Waiting Game” by Charles Gershman, what quickly becomes apparent to the audience is that everyone in the play is waiting for something. Sam is in a coma from a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Fiasco Theater’s Production of “Merrily We Roll Along”...
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” could prove to become the mantra of the famed Sondheim musical “Merrily We Roll Along” which was a dismal failure when it first opened on Broadway in...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Hurricane Diane” at New York Theatre Workshop
Playwright Madeleine George sets her “Hurricane Diane” in an Early Anthropocene Time, the era defined as “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the...
View ArticleBroadway Preview: “The Cake” Opens at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I
Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter (“This Is Us,” “American Gods,” The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC’s award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow...
View ArticleBroadway Review and News: “Choir Boy” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J....
“Every place I went felt the same. Cept . . . Until I got to Drew. Everybody didn’t like me but I had . . . I had space to let me be. Now everybody looking at me like, ‘Blackeye, probation, Yup, that’s...
View ArticleOff-Broadway News: “Avenue Q” to Play an Additional Four Weeks at New World...
AVENUE Q – winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical – is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at New World...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the...
One father longing to be wealthy enough to adequately care for his family – and letting the Creator know he feels overlooked – and three “adult” daughters dodging the craft of the local matchmaker are...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka” in the...
Once upon a time, in a not so very long time ago there was a beautiful young Nigerian woman named Akim (a self-absorbed yet fragile Níkẹ Uche Kadri) whose Ma (a stern but loving Maechi Aharanwa) and...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Mother” in the Linda Gross Theater at Atlantic...
Somewhere in France, or perhaps in England in the nineteenth century, a young married woman is standing at the kitchen sink washing dishes after an evening meal. A dish slips from her hand, breaking I...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Preview and News: “Miracle in Rwanda” Opens on April 9, 2019 and...
MIRACLE IN RWANDA – the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga – scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to an official...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, new phrases entered the language of the sailors who took to the sea off the island of Nantucket, one of the whaling capitals of the world during that period. One...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Oklahoma!” Fails to Measure Up at Circle in the Square
Buried somewhere beneath the myriad sheets of plywood neatly lining the walls and covering the floors of Circle in the Square is the original sheer splendor, strength, and – yes – the overwhelming...
View ArticleBroadway and Off-Broadway News: 69th Annual Theater Awards – Outer Critics...
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced today (April...
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