Audio Drama Preview: “Around the Sun” Brings Egot Winners and Nominees...
Around the Sun, an episodic audio drama, created by Brad Forenza, has launched its first episodes via the Broadway Podcast Network. New episodes premiere each week, throughout fall 2021. The series...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” at the DR2...
The new musical “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” with music, book and lyrics by Ben Fankhauser and Alex Wyse, who also star in the Off-Broadway production now occupying the DR2 Theater is old....
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Morning Sun” at Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City...
“I’m very scared. I’m very confused it’s very bright here please just tell me whether or not I am safe.” These are among the first words spoken by Charley McBride (an ethereal and impassioned Edie...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Visitor” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Through...
The new musical “The Visitor,” now playing at the Public’s Newman Theater, is based on the 2007 film sharing the same title, with a book by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Brian Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt and...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Caroline, or Change” at Roundabout’s Studio 54 (Tickets...
Racism, sexism, economic disparity, and stagnation roil beneath the surface Caroline Thibodeaux’s (an embattled yet resilient Sharon B Clarke) deep unhappiness, disappointment, and resistance to change...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Trevor: The Musical” at Stage 42 (Open Run)
The new musical “Trevor: The Musical” based on the 1994 short film makes a valid attempt to bring to light the issues and problems that adolescent gay teens face, which result in attempts at suicide....
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Mrs. Doubtfire” at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (Open Run)
The latest Broadway opening is the new musical comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” based on the immensely popular 1993 film which starred Robin Williams in the leading role. The plot revolves around a divorced...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Kimberly Akimbo” at Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theater...
“Kimberly Akimbo” may be one of the best new musicals to appear on the New York Theatre scene this season, glorified by the music of Jeanine Tesori, and enhanced with the unequivocal book and lyrics of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Tambo & Bones” at Playwrights Horizons (Through Sunday,...
In “Tambo & Bones,” currently running at Playwrights Horizons, playwright Dave Harris (“Summertime,” “Patricide”) gives the audience a minstrel show with three variety acts whose timeframes span...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: The New Group’s “Black No More” at The Pershing Square...
A clue in in the “New York Times” crossword puzzle on Tuesday, February 15th was “Prefix with futurism.” The correct answer: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined as “a cultural aesthetic that combines...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Music Man” at the Wintergarden Theatre (Currently On)
The recent revival of “The Music Man” which has opened at the Winter Garden Theater comes to the stage with some good news for fans of a certain celebrity, and some bad news for avid theater goers...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater’s “sandblasted” at the...
As Stacey Derosier’s lighting comes up on the stage of Charly Evon Simpson’s “sandblasted,” which is currently being co-presented by Vineyard Theatre and Women’s Project Theater at the Vineyard, Angela...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Six” at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre (Currently On)
Broadway has been graced with quite a bit of royalty considering the “SIX” queens that currently occupy the stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, vying for the title of the most victimized wife of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Little Girl Blue: The Nina Simone Musical” at New World...
There is something very special happening at New World Stages that every ardent admirer of great musical legends and theatre enthusiast should see. “Little Girl Blue”, the new Nina Simone musical is a...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “The Little Prince” at the Broadway Theatre (Currently On)
It has taken this reviewer a couple of days to contemplate the new stage version of the well-known children’s story “The Little Prince” penned by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which has taken up residence...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Harmony” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (Through...
The Comedian Harmonists was an internationally famous all-male German singing group that was formed during the Weimar period and was forced to disband in the early 1930’s when the Nazi regime came into...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Take Me Out” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theatre (Through...
The revival of “Take Me Out” by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political climate and the...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the...
“Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Ntozake Shange...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Hangmen” at the Golden Theatre (Currently On)
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the jibber-jabber...
View ArticleAward Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle...
Award Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees By David Roberts Theatre Reviews Limited The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of...
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