Saturday, January 12, 2019
One of the great opportunities afforded to playgoers at The Public Theater's annual Under The Radar Festival is the chance to see how theatre companies from other countries address the same …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMIf the majority of Broadway ticket-buyers valued great acting as much as they valued celebrity, Marin Ireland would have been an above-the-title, name-in-lights star a long time ago. Certain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
When I was little, my grandmother would sing songs to me that she told me freed slaves, says Pharus Jonathan Young, the central character of Tarell Alvin McCraney's emotionally thick coming-…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:04AMSunday, January 6, 2019
At the commencement of MINOR CHARACTER, New Saloon's offering at the Public Theater's 2019 Under The Radar Festival, actor Madeline Wise stands downstage center, faces the audience and, with…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMMonday, December 31, 2018
Sure, Broadway is traditionally known for its glitz and glamour, but New York audiences have never shied away from socially relevant theatre, either. And while controversial issues are more …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMSunday, December 30, 2018
Though there's nary a mention of snowfall or jingle bells in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, the abundance of joy and good clean humor, not to mention some terrific voices, in the New York Gilbert …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMTuesday, December 25, 2018
The humorous set-up for the new musical at The York, Christmas in Hell is a bit of an old chestnut, but bookwritercomposerlyricist Gary Apple makes it sing nicely.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:49PMSunday, December 23, 2018
Raise your hand if you consider yourself to be a trustworthy person. Those of a cynical nature might consider that a hapless request to aim at a New York audience, but sincerity is the key t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:36PMSaturday, December 22, 2018
Shorty after midnight, on Christmas Day of 1914, a German soldier whose name is now lost to history committed what might be the most subversive act in all of modern warfare. He walked, unarm…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12PMMonday, December 17, 2018
In a city where hundreds of theatre productions are produced every year before audiences who encourage artists to experiment beyond the norm, it takes a lot for a play in New York to be rega…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Without knowing any better, one might easily mistake the new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird' for a revival of a classic Golden Age Broadw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:06PMThe inherent problem with trying to craft a book musical around a score made of previously-existing hit songs is that the lyrics rarely match the charactersituation specifics enough to keep …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
It was fifteen years ago when over forty million people tuned into the season two finale of 'American Idol' to see Rubin Studdard win the crown over runner-up Clay Aiken. This reviewer wasn'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
The lack of visible doors in our view of the home of the title character of Heather Raffo's drama of an immigrant Christian Iraqi family in America, Noura, appears more and more to be a symb…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:48AMMonday, December 10, 2018
It was over fifty years ago when designer Boris Aronson famously let a large mirror hang from the set of CABARET, forcing audience members to see their own reflections to bring home the poin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMSunday, December 9, 2018
For the past five holiday seasons in a row, savvy New York playgoers have been filling the upstairs parlor of East 4th Street's Merchant's House Museum for a warm and intimate evening of Chr…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:39PMThursday, December 6, 2018
The audience loudly booed at the end of last Saturday night's preview performance of the new Broadway offering based on Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 film classic N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:34PMMonday, December 3, 2018
From the moment the houselights dim and the music cranks up on The Cher Show, Broadway's newest bio-musical, the message is clear. Surrender to the fabulousness ahead and brace yourself for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04PMSunday, December 2, 2018
Since family-friendly entertainments tend to dominate the holiday performing arts scene, it's especially cheery that for the past nineyears that scandalous crew called Company XIV has been o…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMFriday, November 30, 2018
If there's such a thing as subtlety in the world of The Illusionists, that band of touring magicians that have frequently been making Broadway their winter home, it's evident in their latest…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
'If you have to choose between family and flying, I hope you would choose the flying,' a father tells his children as the lesson behind a bedtime story involving an angel and a woodcutter. '…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:17AMYes, in the world of Tom Stoppard post-coital pillow talk can be a debate about human consciousness and whether or not altruism truly exists. After all, nobody said anything about THE HARD P…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:33AMSunday, November 18, 2018
The lack of permanence that allows new artists endless chances to bring their own interpretations to classic material is the most significant aspect that separates live theatre from movies a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:43PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Let's cut to the chase. The Prom is a great musical comedy on the same level as HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and THE PRODU…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:51AMThursday, November 15, 2018
No, directordesigner John Doyle does not have Raul Esparza wearing a blonde wig when he delivers his climatic oratory at the close of CSC's revival of Bertolt Brecht's 1941 allegorical satir…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:55AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
For those of us of a certain age, the phrase good grief has been a part of our vocabulary since childhood as simply an expression of exasperation, thanks to the influence of Charles Schulz a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMSteve Rosen and David Rossmer's pop rock musical charmer THE OTHER JOSH COHEN has been hitting the regional circuit a bit since its 2012 Off-Broadway production that picked up Drama Desk, Lo…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:17AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Though it often involves individuals speaking prepared material into a microphone in front of paying customers who may be enjoying a libation or two, and though generating laughter is usuall…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:14AMSunday, November 11, 2018
'We are a great country,' presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy assured his supporters in a speech given moments after winning the Democratic Party's 1968 California primary and moments b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:46PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Using Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 cinema classic 'King Kong' as the inspiration for a musical theatre piece really isn't such a bad idea. Among the film's notable achiev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMThursday, November 8, 2018
'Cuddles the puppy had fallen into the 50 foot deep well and was trapped,' an unseen television anchor is heard reporting at the outset of Patricia Ione Lloyd's chilling and evocative EVE'S …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AM 
