Thursday, February 9, 2017
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
"I notice this eagerness to attach the word provocateur to me," says Jacob-Jenkins. "My feeling is: you can really only provoke once. After that, you're attracting people who want to be prov…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 25, 2017
One doesn't, of course, set out to become a character actor. That's just something that happens over the long haul of an evolving career"through age or theatrical seasoning or maybe even a s…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2017
The first attempts at playwriting of two of the greats are currently nestled together in neighboring theaters on West 47th Street: At the Barrymore at present is The Present, the latest latt…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 11, 2017
 Marie Mullen has made only one stop on Broadway, but it won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Play. She played Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old plain Jane resigned to a life of terminal spi…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 3, 2017
During the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences"Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Vanya…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 28, 2016
David Oyelowo (pronounced "oh-yellow-oh") is a super-serious Shakespearean actor, Oxford-born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity, raised a Baptist and schooled in the classics at LAMDA …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2016
After "amazing," "awesome" and "iconic""on the short list of the Most Overworked and Banishable Words in the English Language"is "immersive," but the Irish Rep's rich, jolly immersion into T…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 7, 2016
"Not another Tony Shalhoub musical, surely!"
The line cracks up Shalhoub, who tomorrow night tentatively sticks his big toe in the strange, shifting, uncertain sand of musical comedy when…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Annette Bening, one of the frontrunners for the 2016 Best Actress Oscar for her performance of an unconventional, hippie-out-of-her-time-zone mom in 20th Century Women, received a noncompeti…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 30, 2016
December is a red-letter month for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, a pair of musical millennials who are so new to the game that they are still checking off firsts.
Their first film musical, …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Chazz Palminteri's budding career as a nightclub doorman slammed swiftly shut the night he refused admission to super-agent Swifty Lazar, but another door sprang open, and it's still open 28…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The fellow in the upper-lobby lounge of the of the Vivian Beaumont Theater fielding press questions is sitting very pretty indeed. These days, he's being quizzed on two literary fronts.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2016
"I don't know about you, but I spent  election night with my family," wrote Ben Brantley in The New York Times two days after Barack Obama was re-elected president. Â
"The Apples a…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Borle at his bravest and best is Borle at his broadest"a daring high-wire act of comedy. He'd give Wile E. Coyote cause to pause. Just look at the two cartoony Tony win in a row he is coming…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2016
 When you leave A Life at Playwrights Horizons, you'll be"if you aren't already"thanking your lucky stars for David Hyde Pierce. It is not overstating the case too much to say that he is …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Were the Internet Broadway Database your sole means of tracking down the Main Stem career of Diane Lane, you could get the distinct impression the poor dear has marked time in The Cherry Orc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2016
"It's someone I've known for a good many years," Irving Berlin remarked after a quick peek inside the Oscar envelope. "He's a nice kid and, I think, deserves it."
Translation: For the secon…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
"Please, the full company of All the Ways to Say I Love You"to the set, please." Such is the politely overripe way stage manager David Lurie summons his cast to work these days. Promptly and…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Any dollar bill with Alexander Hamilton's picture on it will get you a shot at Hamilton, the musical"and all-round phenomenon now (and, maybe, forever) at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. If you…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Our theater community took a major hit this month with the passing of James Houghton, the 57-year-old artistic director of the Signature Theater Company who pioneered a whole new procedure i…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 20, 2016
In Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which starts tonight and is running through July 30 as part the Encores! Off-Center series at City Center, the first voice you hear after the…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Director Rachel Chavkin is riding a comet to Broadway"surely the slowest-moving comet ever to streak across the stratosphere. On November 14"four years, one month and two days after it world…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The years have salt-and-peppered his hair. He sports his share of wrinkles, crinkles and other signs of the times. But there's something eternal and imperishable about Matthew Broderick's bo…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Jessica Lange was discovered in 1976 in the oversized mitt of King Kong, pretty damn distressed but pretty, and"surprise! surprise!"has spent the next 40 years harvesting film-acting hardwar…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:24PM[SHARE]Ever realize how many years Frank Langella has been giving "the performance of a lifetime"? Critics keep trotting out that old chestnut, and he keeps calling them on it.
They said it about…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
Clive Owen turns from fanatical surgeon on The Knick to jealous husband on Broadway in Harold Pinter's Old Times
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
Friday, April 3, 2015
Director Des McAnuff, who has helmed Tony winners like Jersey Boys and The Who's Tommy, sums up the history of his most recent project succinctly.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2015
Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero"Chita to you and the rest of the world"is closing out the Broadway season with The Visit she has been promising for 14 years. Believe it or not, Mr. Ripl…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Diane Lane, a child star, returns to New York theater older, wiser and, annoyingly, just as gorgeous.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:43AM[SHARE] 
