Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Yes, it's a stereotype, but do mothers and their gay sons really do have a special relationship like no other?
Matt Doyle believes so. The Tony Award-winning actor from the gender-switching …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
Athol Fugard, the great South African playwright died on Saturday night at his home in Stellenbosch, a town near Cape Town. He was 92. His wife, Paula Fourie, confirmed his death after a car…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
Photo by T. Charles Erickson
The following is my extended 2017 interview with James Bundy for American Theatre magazine.. Bund…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
There's a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal " or for that matter, the political " and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace.
A separate …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2025
All photos by Curtis Brown.
The show: "El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom" by Matt Barbot
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:22PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2025
The show: The Broadway revival of the musical "Gypsy."
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:37PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2025
When one first sees Connecticut actress Kate MacCluggage on stage in the Broadway rom-com "Left on Tenth," she's a sunny California friend of the main character played by Julianna Margulies.…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:59PM[SHARE]The curtain came down on the Broadway show "Left on Tenth" and it was time to walk the stars.
Few Tony-honored artists have two shows playing on Broadway at the same time but animal trainer …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2024
It's a misty autumn afternoon and along a winding country road in New Milford, a housing development emerges of stately though modestly-scaled homes with manageable lawns and pristine porche…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2024
There's a cozy ease that permeates "All In," in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 28, 2024
The show: "A Christmas Story" musical at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam
What makes it special?: After a limited holiday Broadway run inn 2012 and a national tour with a stop at the Bus…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:23PM[SHARE]When queer visual artist and writer Komail Aijazuddin was growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, he knew he was attracted to boys. But it wasn't easy being gay. At his all-male prep school where, a…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:43AM[SHARE]David Sedaris is proud to be gay.
Not in the marching-in-the-streets-waving-placards way.
He is proud of the word 'gay' " as opposed to any number of the homoseuxal-defining terms that he sa…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:35AM[SHARE]In NBC's new medical series "Brilliant Minds," Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in the bo…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 21, 2024
In the new Broadway musical "Death Becomes Her," a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover.
Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two vain…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2024
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make "Tammy Faye" divinely suited for musical theater.
It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoo…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2024
Sad news: Actor Tony Todd who had roots " and performed " in Connecticut has died at the age of 69 in California.
I wrote several profiles on him " and saw his magnificent performance in th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2024
The show: "The Counter" by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway's at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City.
What makes it special?: I'd run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also feature…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2024
The show: "Hold On to Me Darling" by Kenneth Lonergan at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre.
What makes it special?: It stars Adam Driver, one of the hottest screen, stage and television…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2024
The show: "McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
What makes it special?: It's a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner of "Disgraced," as well as the Broadway deb…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2024
The show: "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder at Broadway's Barrymore Theatre.
What makes it special?: The production stars Jim Parsons, best known for his TV role in the popular "The Big Bang T…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:09PM[SHARE]Friday, October 11, 2024
With theaters nationwide still staggering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hartford Stage announced today it is nearly halfway through the largest non-capital fundraising campaign …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
For David Sedaris, everything is fodder for his slightly twisty and sardonic view of life, whether it's those annoying post-purchase surveys that flood our emails, the condescending nature o…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2024
All production photos by Joan Marcus
Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills o…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:51PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2024
Sad news about the death of Maggie Smith. Her pre-Broadway performance in "Private Lives" in Boston in 1975 (which I saw nearly 50 years ago -- and wrote a show-off review for a suburban Mas…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:53AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2024
The show: "Table 17" at Manhattan Class Company in New York City.
What is it?: A new play by Douglas Lyons, who last wrote Broadway's "Chicken and Biscuits"
What makes it special?: Several t…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2024
The show: "Once Upon a Mattress" at the Hudson Theatre.
What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center's Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael Urie …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 30, 2024
It's no spoiler to say "JOB", Max Wolf Friedlich's electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That's how the play begin…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 21, 2024
The site of the former Long Wharf Theatre
By FRANK RIZZO
It's Saturday night at the New Haven Food Terminal complex. The park…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
Making life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in "Choice," Winnie Holzman's provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton's McCar…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:46AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2024
Sad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:13PM[SHARE] 
