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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

The touring company of the 2013 Broadway production fully delivers on playwright Douglas Carter Beane's snarky but charming update.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:50PM

'Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

The touring company of the 2013 Broadway production fully delivers on playwright Douglas Carter Beane's snarky but charming update.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:50PM
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

'Switzerland': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Laura Linney stars as mystery novelist Patricia Highsmith in her final days in the U.S. premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's two-character play at the Geffen.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:48PM
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

'The Price': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Sam Robards and Kate Burton star at the Mark Taper Forum in Arthur Miller's rarely performed chamber piece, which proves both problematic and profound.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:30PM
Friday, February 20, 2015

'Enter Laughing — The Musical': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

A flop in its original 1976 incarnation, this musical based on Carl Reiner's semi-autobiographical novel enjoys a happy second life. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:46PM
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

'California: The Tempest': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

A California-centric adaptation of what is believed to be Shakespeare's final play tours working-class Los Angeles communities.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:45PM
Monday, February 2, 2015

'Dame Edna's Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Notching up as many farewell tours as Cher, the vainglorious Melbourne hausfrau calls it quits after sixty years… again.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:06PM
Friday, January 30, 2015

'Anna Christie': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

'Scandal' star Jeff Perry and daughter Zoe team up in a visceral staging of Eugene O'Neill's classicread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:52PM
Monday, January 26, 2015

'Serrano the Musical': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

It's gangsters, bullets and belly laughs for 'Cyrano.' read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:34PM
Thursday, January 1, 2015

Guardian US critics: our cultural new year's resolutions by Jason Farago, Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy, Jordan Riefe, Melissa Locker, Brian Moylan, Monica Heisey, Matthew Specktor, Britt Julious, Ben Westhoff, Anne T Donahue, Michelle Dean and Jordan Hoffman

Never mind getting fit or giving up smoking – will this be the year you finally read In Search of Lost Time? Our critics share their arts goals for 2015 Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AM
Monday, December 15, 2014

'Blithe Spirit': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Angela Lansbury shows why 89 is the new 40 in this consummate Broadway and West End revival of the Noel Coward classicread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:10PM
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

'Luna Gale': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

An outstanding new social drama that stands as a rich contribution to the American theatre canonread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:53PM
Monday, December 8, 2014

'Into the Woods': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

The metatheatrical Oregon Shakespeare Festival production comes to Los Angeles just ahead of Disney's movie adaptationread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:48PM
Monday, December 1, 2014

Audra McDonald on Performing After Billie Holiday — and That 'Sound of Music Live' by Jordan Riefe

The Broadway star and six-time Tony Award winner hits the Disney Concert Hall on Dec. 2read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00AM
Monday, November 24, 2014

'What the Butler Saw': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Joe Orton specialist John Tillinger conjures a superlative version of the classic 1969 farce at the Mark Taper Forumread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:23PM
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Audra McDonald Remembers Mike Nichols: "One Cannot Overstate His Brilliance" by Jordan Riefe

The legendary singer and actress worked with him on 'Wit'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:31PM
Friday, November 14, 2014

'Kinky Boots': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Strutting on the Pantages stage through Nov. 30, an all-new national tour cast takes on Harvey Fierstein's haphazard book and Cyndi Lauper's uplifting songsread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:49PM
Monday, October 27, 2014

'Pippin': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

The national tour touches down in Los Angeles with Broadway company members Matthew James Thomas in the title role and Andrea Martin as his age-defying grandmotherread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:24PM
Friday, September 26, 2014

Theater Prodigy Tarell Alvin McCraney Brings 'Choir Boy' to Geffen by Jordan Riefe

“It’s interesting that we ask the artist to come up with answers to larger questions when we don’t ask our lawmakers to do the same” read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:17PM
Thursday, September 25, 2014

This 'Lost' Ending Aims to Satisfy the Audience (and It Also Includes Musical Numbers) by Jordan Riefe

'Lost the Musical' creators Steven Brandon and Steven Christopher Parker patch up the series' divisive finale with theatergoers' inputread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:15PM
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

'Marjorie Prime' Playwright Jordan Harrison on Memory, Mainframes and 'Orange Is the New Black' by Jordan Riefe

“We’ll find ways to hold on to our humanity in the face of our 500 iPhone emails we get in a second” read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:40PM
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Pasadena Playhouse Honoree Diahann Carroll on Race in Hollywood by Jordan Riefe

The actress will receive the 2014 Diversity Award on Sept. 21read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:29PM
Monday, September 15, 2014

Kate Burton on 'Under Milk Wood,' Celebrity Parents and TV's Embrace of Women Over 50 by Jordan Riefe

"In my [Emmy] category this last year for 'Scandal,' every nominee, with the exception of Kate Mara, for 'House of Cards,' was over the age of 55. How amazing is that?"read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:40PM

'What I Learned in Paris': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Playwright Pearl Cleage's love triangle risks seeming trivial against its historic backdropread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:26PM
Friday, August 15, 2014

Q&A: Jason Alexander on Directing His Career-Making Play, 'Seinfeld' Cast Friendships by Jordan Riefe

The actor revisits Neil Simon's Broadway Bound and talks Jerry, Elaine and Kramer: "We never became social friends."read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:16PM
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

'Frederick Douglass Now': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Smith mashes up Douglass’ writings with contemporary tropes and memes on race relations in a nuanced and provocative one-man showread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:30PM
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

'Visionary Man': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

Georgia-based art scholar Mary Padgelek's first play is a bio-drama with gospel music, based on her book about the life, work and spiritual beliefs of self-taught painter J.B. Murray.read mo…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:30AM
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Kristen Bell to Star in 'Hair' Musical at Hollywood Bowl by Jordan Riefe

"I think that it still has resonance now for people who are anti-violence, or anti certain war involvements," says the actress of the Adam Shankman-directed production.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:34PM

Ernest Hemingway Look-Alikes Descend on the Hemingway Days Festival by Jordan Riefe

The event's Ernest Hemingway look-alike competition drew roughly 130 white-bearded male contestants.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:10PM

'Ugly Betty' Alum Michael Urie on Starring in One-Man Show 'Buyer & Cellar' by Jordan Riefe

The actor plays an unemployed actor who gets a job overseeing Barbra Streisand's basement emporium in the hit one-man show by Jonathan Tolins, now showing at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum through …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:05PM
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

'Family Planning': Theater Review by Jordan Riefe

An uninspired production of a cliché-ridden family dysfunction comedy.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:17PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards