Tuesday, December 17, 2013
'Pippin.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
So, comes the inevitable question when someone learns what I do for a living, what should I see?
It depends, I reply with equal inevitability. What do you li…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:37PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Amanda Quaid and David Costabile in 'The (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence.'
“Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.”
They’re some of the most famous words of the late 19t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:40AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
'Regular Singing.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
At Marian and Barbara Apple’s house in Rhinebeck, N.Y., it’s time to eat again.
As the lights come up, dimly at first, the women are setting the…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Ian McKellen, left, and Patrick Stewart in 'No Man’s Land.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Let’s get this part out of the way: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are very good, every bit as good a…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
'Taking Care of Baby.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
“The following has been taken word for word from interviews and correspondence,” says an offstage voice just after the actors have taken the…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Mark Rylance in 'Twelfth Night.' (© Joan Marcus)
Is the lack of a gimmick itself a gimmick? After a motorcycle-riding, movie-star Romeo on Broadway this fall and a video-projection Athenian…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
NY Observer review of "Bring It On" and "Last Smoker in America."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:54AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
'Peter and the Starcatcher.' (Courtesy O & M Co.)
Don’t worry too much about Peter Pan and his Lost Boys. They’ve found their way to Broadway, and they’re doing just fine…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:31PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Bell, Bowen and Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff in 'Now. Here. This.' (Photo by Carol Rosegg)
Even though I was supposed to, I didn’t love [title of show] a few years back.
The sw…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
'Jesus Christ Superstar.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Religion goes down so much more easily when it’s accompanied by guitar.
Innumerable youth-group leaders and Reform rabbis know this…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:57PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in 'Once.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Before reckoning with the new, exceedingly lovely, and disappointingly thin Broadway musical Once, which opened Sund…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:50PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
'Tribes." (Photo by Gregory Costanzo)
Watching Tribes, a new drama about a deaf son falling in love and finding his independence amid a close-knit, hyper-articulate, constantly arguing f…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:47PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Nicholas Christopher and Corey Hawkins in 'Hurt Village.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
It’s an odd coincidence that the two excellent plays about contemporary African-American families t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:24PM 
