Perhaps if Clifford Odets' landmark pro-union drama, WAITING FOR LEFTY, hadn't opened the year before,Lillian Hellman's 1936 labor drama, DAYS TO COME, the sophomore Broadway effort of the p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18AMWith an innocuous book more focused on moving to plot points than creating interesting leading characters and a platitude-heavy score that tends to linger on moments instead of expanding on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMThe past several Broadway seasons have seen extraordinary developments in musical theatre, with a steady stream of new shows, usually transferring from non-profit Off-Broadway, offering smar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe stage is quite empty, save for a makeshift throne in a corner and a couple of rows of ordinary looking chairs in the back, where actors not involved with scenes sit. The costumes are con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMIt may not have the romantic sweep of 'Some Enchanted Evening' or the driving intensity of 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' but so far, the best new theatre song of this young season is a finely-c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMBack in the days, really not very long ago, when self-effacing gags about failed diets were one of the few topics of discussion deemed acceptable for women in comedy, the punchline Renee Tay…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMThe last time an actor appeared in a Broadway musical playing a role he had previously essayed on film, it was 1983, when Anthony Quinn opened in the revival of ZORBA. Sharing that unusual d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33AMOne of the most exciting and important voices to emerge from the 1980s-90s American performance art movement, Karen Finley might be regarded as one of the country's most noted censored artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMThe late afternoon and early evening rain that had been steadily falling last Friday didn't stop the faithful from arriving at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for Shakespeare In The Park's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM'I sound like Borat and I look like Seinfeld,' jokes the Russian-accented illusionist Vitaly Beckman, who indeed sports a resemblance to 9th Avenue's most famous diner patron.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMComing in at the heels of landmark musicals like AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH and INNER CITY, composerlyricist Micki Grant's DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T COPE was an important part of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PMFans of late 16th Century pastoral poetic narrative tragicomedy have been all abuzz anticipating the Broadway arrival of the new song and dance adaptation of a Sir Philip Sidney classic. But…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThere was plenty to admire when playwrightdirector Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN opened at The Public Theater in November of 2014. Those familiar with the exceedingly non-traditional w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMWhen the smash hit revue SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, celebrating the pop classics of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, opened on Broadway in 1995, director Jerry Zaks staged each beloved number with sna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AM'If life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one,' sings a character from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS while pondering whether the intimate encounter she j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMIt's a classically-styled cinematic pose. The kind that tends to define a certain era of film noir. A woman stands alone on the Coney Island boardwalk on a chilly day. Covered in a tan trenc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMThe person seated in the back of the orchestra section on opening night of the Encores Off-Center concert mounting of GONE MISSING, who was loudly sobbing during the closing song, was by no …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM'Now that the winter formal gives way to glorious spring fling,' recites our antihero at the outset of Mike Lew's enormously clever contemporary riff on Shakespeare's RICHARD III, titled Tee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMThis is not shaping up to be a good year for Oscar Hammerstein II, American musical theatre's most important writer, who spent the first half of the 20th Century not only making significant …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PM'We're all fully interested in navigating this brave new world with them,' says an exasperated character in Jordan Harrison's comedy of social politics, Log Cabin, 'but it sometimes seems li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMJason Robert Brown was just 25 years old when his SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD took the stage of Off-Broadway's intimate WPA Theatre. As he played piano and led the handful of musicians in director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMPerhaps some of the good people at Britain's Royal Court are in need of a hug these days. This week New York playgoers welcomed two transfers of exceedingly violent productions from that cel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMOn the surface, the plot of CYPRUS AVENUE is just a little too weird to take seriously, and that's one of the strengths of David Ireland's creepy drama, as director Vicky Featherstone, Artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMThe existence of queer people of color, particularly of African descent, has repeatedly been washed over, or forgotten altogether, writes Donja R. Love, whose SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS is receivin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMIf upon entering a theatre, the stage is populated by a young black man sleeping under a street lamp as another young black man quietly scrutinizes all in attendance, while the pre-show musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMDavid Friedman and Peter Kellogg may be billed, respectively, as composer and bookwriterlyricists of the rollickingly fun new musical comedy DESPERATE MEASURES, which has just moved from the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMIs there anything more charming than watching two older people falling in love Well, perhaps. Like when the romance occurs, as instructed by playwright Charles Mee in his 2001 one-act, FIRST…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMFrom the very beginning, one of the most important tenants of Joseph Papp's vision of free Shakespeare in Central Park has been the insistence the company of actors audiences see on stage wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM'We are women more willing to be vile receptacles then we are willing to be dead,' says a character identified as Item 2 in Eve Ensler's FRUIT TRILOGY, which is receiving its New York debut …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AM'Vassar. See yourself there,' a successful adult advises a high school student who has impressed him with her talent for writing poetry, but not with her low expectations for securing a spot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMCommencing in 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was a 5-year plan to convert Communist China's largely agricultural economy into government-run farming collectives, freeing up r…
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