Like a sad, lonely island, depleted of its bounty, a single floor of the offices of Lehman Brothers is revealed, isolated, lofted above the endless business of a bustling Manhattan. It is em…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:17AMThis morning President Donald Trump signed an executive order spelling out steps to combat the importation of Squips into the United States.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01AM'Would you please raise your hand if you are a white man who also owns property', playwrightperformer Heidi Schreck asks her audience. The number of respondents is typically a very low perce…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01PM'Today, we give to the dirt of the earth, our beloved brother and friend, Brother Righttocomplain,' Father Freeman announces to the audience at commencement of Jordan E. Cooper's aggressivel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:56PM'These words might be more offensive now than they were back then,' ponders playwrightactor Ronnie Marmo in the guise of one of 20th Century America's most controversial artists in his mostl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59AM'I should let you know I am not okay,' playwrightperformer Maddie Corman advises the audience at the outset of her completely absorbing solo piece ACCIDENTALLY BRAVE. 'This isn't one of thos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04AMOne of the quirky charms of the musicals that packed Broadway houses during early decades of the 20th Century, was the practice of allowing a stray remark that has nothing to do with anythin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMAnd as we look out at what the country has become in recent years, and how social media has illuminated what we have always been, it's necessary to have artists like Suzan-Lori Parks around …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PM'You never know who was hating you and singing along to your record,' musses Otis Williams in playwright Dominique Morisseau's excellent bio-musical, AIN'T TOO PROUD THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02AMWhite letters on a black screen introduce the place and time of an early scene in FX's limited series 'FosseVerdon' as 'Hollywood, 19 years left.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMSturdy, richly-voiced and subtly droll, John Larroquette is one of those actors with a wonderful talent for creating enormously funny moments by taking in the madness surrounding him and cut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMAccording to this reviewer's admittedly casual bit of Googling, the first Broadway production based on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was playwright Alice Gerstenberg's v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMBuried amongst the over twenty names receiving the smallest-sized billing for their contributions to Roundabout Theatre Company's hot new revival of Cole Porter and Sam amp Bella Spewack's m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMIt was three seasons ago that French playwright Florian Zeller's Moliere Award winning THE FATHER came to Broadway from London in an English translation by Christopher Hampton. Frank Langell…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMWhen composerlyricist Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz's hard-rocking, super-charged and very well written science fiction musical comedy Be More Chill ended its month-long premiere engag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33PMWhile this reviewer is always up for a tub of popcorn and a screening of 'Crossing Delancey' or 'Muriel's Wedding,' Suzy Conn's spirited CHICK FLICK, THE MUSICAL is more accurately aimed at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMThe conflict between seeing multiple sides of an issue and the insistence that there is only one correct side is the power that fuels Bekah Brunstetter sweet and provocative multi-layered co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMIf a contemporary Hollywood screenwriter pitched the plot of Sean O'Casey's classic 1923 drama, The Shadow of a Gunman to a movie producer 'A struggling poet gets in over his head when he al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMOver 160 years after she first gained fame tending to wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, the name Florence Nightingale is still recognized as a symbol of selfless caregiving an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMThe soft clanging of pots and pans gently hitting each other is the first indication that the title characters of South African playwright Athol Fugard's 1969 indictment of Apartheid segrega…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMOpening in November of 1945 and closing up shop less than four months later, the sophomore Broadway effort of the team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, THE DAY BEFORE SPRING, would be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AM'As terrifying as anything I've seen,' is how a young fellow describes the natural phenomenon that gives playwright Simon Stephens' solo piece Sea Wall its title.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMThe only part of FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME that doesn't bounce off an audience response comes at the very beginning when four voices announce a mic check and standard phrases like mic one check…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMYou can pass laws, spread the wealth and educate the masses all you want, but perhaps the quickest way to dissolve the barriers between established classes is simply through giving in to raw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12AM'You take a mackerel, grill it, drizzle a little lemon on it, serve it up with a huge glass of white zinfandel, and one doesn't feel quite like blowing one's brains out anymore, does one' ob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMThe brevity of political satire's shelf life tends to rival that of a tray of supermarket eggs, but it seems one of the quips penned by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for the book of thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMWith a proliferation of pimps, drug dealers and muggers saturating Times Square, business on Broadway was struggling during much of the 1970s, with theatres frequently left empty for long st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PM'We can't talk about him, there's not enough time.' That's the quick explanation given to the audience as to why there's nobody portraying Michael Anthony, described 'as a bassist with a gol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMFlying in the face of the dreadful 21st Century practice of making extreme cuts and revisions to classic musicals by deceased authors in the belief that they would offend contemporary sensib…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMTo those who knew her, Alice Trillin was highly regarded as an educator, author and film producer. But to millions more who never met her, she was the women that her husband, humorist Calvin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMIn this business we make movies. American movies. Leave the films to the French.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48PM
