Off-Broadway Review: “The Birds” Overreaches at 59E59 Theaters
When the director and creative team of a play conspire in every way to make it difficult to see their product, it should meet with immediate suspicion. Instead, trusting audience members allowed...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical” Connects at...
“Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical” is being presented at the New Ohio Theatre after successful runs throughout Canada. It is a musical cantata with lyrics taken or derived from actual ads...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Maestro” at 59E59 Theaters
“A composer who avoids melody is like a person avoiding breathing just to make life a little more interesting. But the things is, the melody must always be memorable.” Hershey Felder’s stunning tribute...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Nat Turner in Jerusalem” at the New York Theatre Workshop
“Yes, and this country will either cease its injustice or it will slowly fall to ruin. Leave it while you can.” – Nat Turner The encounter between Nat Turner (played with a powerful morally ambiguous...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Holiday Inn” at Studio 54
This is a musical you go in humming, That’s because the star is the late composer Irving Berlin. Consider this a medley of some of his greatest hits. “Holiday Inn,” playing at Studio 54, is a...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Orwell in America” at 59E59 Theaters
Joe Sutton’s “Orwell in America” imagines what might happen if George Orwell were to embark on a book tour in post-World-War II America with his publicist. How would an American audience receive his...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “All the Ways to Say I Love You” at MCC Theater at the...
Mrs. Johnson muses that the role of a teacher– a high school English and Drama teacher at an unnamed public school at a non-specific time – is to provide answers to students’ questions. Whether the...
View ArticleRegional Review: “Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp Live” at Enlow Recital Hall at...
This is an alert notice for the residents of Northern NJ and beyond, informing them that there are options other than trekking into the great entertainment mecca across the river to satisfy their...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Heisenberg” at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J....
“You’re not. You can hear it. That’s not listening to it. That’s different from listening./You need to follow it. The melody. Try to predict what will happen to it next. It will completely take you by...
View ArticleBroadway Preview: Glenn Close Returns to Broadway as Norma Desmond in “Sunset...
Producers Paul Blake and Mike Bosner announced today the Broadway return of three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close in her most iconic role, Norma Desmond, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Vietgone” at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I
“This agony inside of me ain’t providing me any time to think/About anything beyond the sitch we’re now living/Gotta go hard, gotta be tough/gotta move forward towards a new dawn, a new dream, a new...
View ArticleCabaret Review: Anita Gillette and Harold Sanditen in “Harold and Broad” at...
The remarkable Anita Gillette, now an octogenarian, returns to the Metropolitan Room for a two-night gig with her sexagenarian friend Harold Sanditen. The pair – separated by a span of twenty years –...
View ArticleNews: The National Alliance for Musical Theatre 28th Annual Festival of New...
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has been hard at work since 1989 introducing writers and their new musicals to significant theatre industry leaders. Now in its 28th year, NAMT attracts...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: Keen Company’s “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” Explodes with Joy at...
“I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember, and do the same thing every morning for the rest of my life.” – Jon Before...
View ArticleNews: “Bandstand” Begins Previews on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs...
The producers of Bandstand are pleased to announce that the new musical will play the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre this spring with previews beginning March 31, 2017 in advance of an April 26 opening...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Roads to Home” at Primary Stages at Cherry Lane...
If the idiom “home is where the heart is” has any veracity, then the characters in Horton Foote’s 1982 “The Roads to Home” are as far from home as anyone might be. Geographically, the main characters –...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Finian’s Rainbow” at Irish Repertory Company
The 2016 Presidential Election has been perhaps the most contentious in modern history. Erupting from the three debates – as well as prior to the nominations – there has been a disturbing barrage of...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire...
“Yesterday today next summer tomorrow just uh moment uhgoh in 1317 dieded thuh last black man in thuh whole entire world. Uh! Oh. Dont be uhlarmed. Do not be afeared. It was painless. Uh painless...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Terms of Endearment” at 59E59 Theaters
It is always a difficult task to adapt for the stage a novel that has turned into a successful screenplay. The current American premier of Dan Gordon’s adaptation of “Terms of Endearment” has even...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” Sparkles at the...
“I never thought that I’d end up like this./I used to be better.” – Pierre What is “The Great Comet?” The masterful musical, recently transferred to the Imperial Theatre on Broadway, seems to evoke...
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