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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

TO KILL A PRESIDENT by Brian Scott Lipton

The groundbreaking 1990 musical humanizes the troubled souls who try to change history with a gun.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PM
Monday, July 10, 2017

Review: Pipeline by Brian Scott Lipton

Playwright Dominique Morriseau' latest – and perhaps strongest work – “Pipeline,” now being given an exemplary production at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theatre...

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:59PM
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Review: Napoli, Brooklyn by Brian Scott Lipton

Meghan Kennedy’s “Napoli, Brooklyn” is now premiering at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre under Gordon Edelstein’s direction.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:06PM
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Review: 1984 by Brian Scott Lipton

The timely terror of living in a fascist state – one where the government makes all the rules and controls all your thoughts – is likely the raison d’etre that the recent British drama…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:28PM
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Review: Fulfillment Center by Brian Scott Lipton

How fulfilled you will feel at the end of Abe Koogler’s 90-minute drama, “Fulfillment Center,” is likely a matter of pre-show expectations.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:28PM
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

MUSICALS HOLD THE DAY by Brian Scott Lipton

The Tony Awards were a less than glittering night for Broadway.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:18PM
Monday, June 12, 2017

Review: Julius Caesar by Brian Scott Lipton

It could be easy enough to bury Oskar Eustis’ Public Theater’s production of “Julius Caesar,” now at the Delacorte Theatre, for being just a bit too heavy-handed.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:23PM
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Review: Animal by Brian Scott Lipton

To play a “mad scene” well, as numerous actresses who have been tasked with portraying Ophelia or Lady Macbeth have done, is one thing. To spend an entire 90 minutes on stage portraying …

SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:48PM
Monday, June 5, 2017

Review: Matthew Perry in The End of Longing by Brian Scott Lipton

Since first-time writers are usually advised to tackle subjects they know, it’s less-than-shocking that former “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s playwriting debut, “The End of Longing…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:37PM
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Review: Amber Tamblyn stars in Can You Forgive Her? by Brian Scott Lipton

Women have making tough decisions about the price of independence, financial and otherwise, for a couple of centuries, and this timeless topic is explored anew in Gina Gionfriddo’s “Can …

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:06PM
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Review: “The Whirligig” by Brian Scott Lipton

Everything revolves around Julie, both literally and figuratively, in Hamish Linklater’s ambitious and moving new play, “The Whirligig,” now being given a top-notch production by direc…

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Monday, May 15, 2017

Review: Venus by Brian Scott Lipton

The Signature Theatre Company’s exploration and re-examination of the career of Suzan-Lori Parks continues with director Lear deBssonet’s striking revival of “Venus, which is dominated…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PM
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Review: A Doll’s House, Part 2 by Brian Scott Lipton

To paraphrase an old show-biz saying, the sequel is rarely the equal. So anyone expecting Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” now at the Golden Theatre, to have the psychological…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:27PM

RETURN FROM WAR by Brian Scott Lipton

Despite its two-dimensional characters, this is an old-fashioned musical with crowd-pleasing numbers.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:12AM
Monday, April 24, 2017

Review: Anastasia by Brian Scott Lipton

What young girl (or grown woman) hasn’t dreamt that she’s actually royalty? That fantasy is one reason the story of Anastasia Romanov – the daughter of the last Russian tsar, and who m…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:48PM
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Review: Bette Midler in "Hello, Dolly!" by Brian Scott Lipton

Bette Midler delivers an all-stops-out, look-at-me performance for the ages.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:38PM
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Review: The Little Foxes by Brian Scott Lipton

In any theatrical season, a revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1939 family drama, “The Little Foxes,” would be welcome. Hellman’s play is a remarkably well-structured work, full of complex…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:00PM
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Review: Indecent by Brian Scott Lipton

Paula Vogel’s harrowing new work, “Indecent,” is now at the Cort Theater. Its examinations of censorship, xenophobia and anti-Semitism are both brilliant and painfully timely...

SOURCE: cititour.com at 09:50PM
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Review: Oslo by Brian Scott Lipton

Oslo is a dazzling 14-karat gold production, sets the bar for 2017.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:08PM
Friday, April 7, 2017

SKIN DEEP by Brian Scott Lipton

The characters are two-dimensional, but the singing is through the roof.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:54AM
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Review: Gently Down the Stream by Brian Scott Lipton

Tony-nominated playwright Martin Sherman pulls off as many sleight of hands in 100 minutes as the most experienced magician in his affecting new play, “Gently Down the Stream,” now at th…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:02PM
Monday, April 3, 2017

Review: Amelie by Brian Scott Lipton

Phillipa Soo steals the show in Amelie.

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:42PM
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Review: Miss Saigon by Brian Scott Lipton

Loud. Action-packed. Crude. No, I haven’t switched careers and begun reviewing Marvel movies; these same adjectives apply (unfortunately) to Laurence Connor’s bombastic revival of the 19…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:00PM
Monday, March 20, 2017

Review: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Brian Scott Lipton

A play that occasionally feels as unruly as its title, Sarah Ruhl’s “How to Transcend a Happy Marriage” is both a very funny and decidedly rueful examination about the challenges of lo…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:37PM
Friday, March 17, 2017

BURY IT AND RISE ABOVE by Brian Scott Lipton

Danny DeVito and Mark Ruffalo star in Arthur Miller’s complex 1968 drama.

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Thursday, March 9, 2017

Review: Sally Field stars in The Glass Menagerie by Brian Scott Lipton

Time – 72 years to be exact – cannot extinguish the power of Tennessee Williams’ great autobiographical play, “The Glass Menagerie...”

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:25PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Review: All The Fine Boys by Brian Scott Lipton

A first-rate quartet of actors, led by Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin, lend gravity and depth to “All the Fine Boys,” a slightly odd and decidedly disturbing drama written and directed by…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:35AM

Review: Sweeney Todd by Brian Scott Lipton

Apparently, Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the lyrics to “You Gotta Get a Gimmick” way back in 1959, is fine and dandy with the admittedly brilliant gimmick that has led, nearly 60 years la…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 08:34AM
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Review: Sunday in the Park with George by Brian Scott Lipton

Jake Gyllenhaal making his official Broadway musical debut in one of the most profound musicals ever written, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Sunday in the Pa…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:54PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Review: If I Forget by Brian Scott Lipton

There are layers upon layers of plot, themes, and revelations in Steven Levenson’s new play, “If I Forget,” now being given an immaculately acted production by Tony winner Daniel Sulli…

SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:12PM
Monday, February 20, 2017

SLALOM WITHOUT BRAKES by Brian Scott Lipton

The conversation flows uninterrupted for 100 minutes in Wallace Shawn’spolished production.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 02:42AM

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