Thursday, September 14, 2017
Writer-director Kenneth Lonergan was the first to spot the white-knight potential of the talented and handsome C.J. Wilson.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:00PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Sarah Ruhl's new play opens in a hospital room where five quibbling siblings are doing a deathbed vigil for their dad.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AMThursday, August 31, 2017
Knock knock. You’ll never guess who’s there. Then, again—given it’s 'A Doll’s House, Part 2'—you will.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:30AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
They aren’t. Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson play best friends and line workers on the floor since high school, caught up in an old socioeconomic squeeze play brought on by hard-nosed, cos…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:30AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
When someone asks you where you were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, not only do you know precisely where you were, you also know what you were doing and how you somehow made it through the r…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:59AMMonday, March 6, 2017
The Franco-Prussian War almost started this week. That was the original title of the Joshua Harmon play that just bowed at the Booth, but the author chickened out. “I love that title,” h…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:59AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Friday, February 24, 2017
t’s good to report that Jake Gyllenhaal, who just made his Broadway musical debut in Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, was spared this special terror even hardcore career singer…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:56PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater, former home of The Humans and Bad Jews, is now housing a potent blend of both in Steven Levenson’s play, If I Forget, bowing February 22.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:44PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Terrence McNally recently stumbled into the perfect compliment for Santino Fontana. “I don’t think of you as a singer,” he told him. “Are you singing a lot now?”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:11AMThursday, February 9, 2017
“Glenn,” Lloyd Webber still insists, “is the best Norma Desmond that I’ve ever seen.”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:20AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:29PMWednesday, 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 ev…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:42PMThursday, 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 12:30PMWednesday, 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 spins…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:35PMTuesday, 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, Van…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:49PMWednesday, 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 LA…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:25PMWednesday, 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, …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:44AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:12AMTuesday, 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 02:14PMWednesday, 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 09:00AMWednesday, 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 ope…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:48PMWednesday, 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 09:47AMWednesday, 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.
“The Apples…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:28PMWednesday, 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 co…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:09AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30AMWednesday, 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 01:49PMWednesday, 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:…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMWednesday, 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. Prompt…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:37PMWednesday, 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 
