Thursday, April 18, 2019
On occasion I marvel at the insight and wisdom shown by the Elizabethan lad Will Shakespeare, not to mention the poetry and imagination and drive that helped him create a basket of enduring …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
I wasn't exactly sleeping through the 1960s and 70s, but I seem to have missed most of the pop tunes and great combos that found their place at the time. I blush to admit that I did not know…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Andréa Burns has been brightening several recent Broadway and off/Broadway seasons by supplying supporting performances of great variety and equal quality. They range from Daniela in "In Th…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2019
With thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" is back on Broadway in a fresh and rousing re-examination by director Scott Ellis and choreographer Warren Carlyl…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 23, 2019
Maddie Corman is an actress who has worked extensively in film, TV, and theater proving herself proficient in all of them. In my acting days, I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with her i…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:57AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 3, 2019
This Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical first tried to roll along on Broadway in 1981. It did so"not so merrily"for just 17 performances; but the play on which it was based was a subs…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Sean O'Casey was the fifth surviving child of thirteen born into a lower middle class family in Dublin in 1880. Suffering from deficiency in his eyesight, he began as a laborer a…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois; and by 1964 he was ready to start becoming a highly original and prolific playwright. From his first work ("Cowboys") to his last in …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The priceless York Theatre Company, under the excellent leadership of James Morgan, is now presenting three Alan J. Lerner musicals in its series called "Musicals In Mufti" (Mufti is an army…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 26, 2019
The Manhattan Theatre Club has dusted off Tarell Alvin McCraney's play which it first presented off Broadway in 2013, and it is now creating buzz on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 22, 2019
There is a phenomenon in San Francisco that has been running for over 6,000 performances ever since 1974; and, in my recent visit with family, I was taken to see it. I went as a …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
T'is the season of the Titans on Broadway: Janet McTeer has tackled the roles of Hamlet and Sarah Bernhardt; Glenda Jackson is about to play King Lear; Elaine May is monumental as she …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:34PM[SHARE]Friday, December 7, 2018
The lights come up on a total wreck of a basement room in which a lifetime of junk has been accumulated. It's under the house in which Irene and Jerry are living out their marriage; and at t…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Ten talented actor-singer-musicians are filling the jam packed tiny stage in Theatre A at 59 East 59th Street. They are five men and five women who play the essential bi-lingual telephon…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 2, 2018
Take three playwrights, each making his Broadway debut, to write a play. Have them base it on a published book and essay by two other writers which described a real event. Mix thoroughly; th…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2018
Shout it from the rooftops, "Musical Comedy is back on Broadway!" I mean a NEW musical, not a revival or an adaptation. One that’s all about putting "Your Best Foot Forward" (a 1941 mu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
In this bountiful Broadway season there is the phenomenon known as the one-man play. Most recently, on November 11th, two of them arrived on the same night. Will Eno's "Thom Pain (based on n…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
My suggestion is that the Tony Awards committee should place King Kong as a nominee for best leading actor in a musical. He doesn't sing very well, but I think he would win by beating out al…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
Christopher Demos-Brown, the author of this new play, was unknown to me, although his more than a dozen earlier works for the stage have been recognized by the Laurents/Hatcher Award and mul…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Michael Urie is lighting up the stage of the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway eight times a week with his virtuoso performance in Harvey Fierstein's play. It's an adaptation of his earlier wo…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 3, 2018
It begins with an explosion of angry rock music that lets us know the play is not misnamed. When the music fades we find ourselves inside the living quarters of a ramshackle old house in ups…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2018
The New York theater season has barely begun and already we have several marvelous plays on which theater fans can feast. Some are revivals; some are newly minted; but all have impeccable cr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Kenneth Lonergan has been writing important and nourishing plays since The New Group presented his "This Is Our Youth" in 1997. That Drama Desk Award nominee was revived in 2015 and won the …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 20, 2018
On the cover of the Playbill, it says quite clearly that the title means "vindication, justification, explanation." It is not, in other words, an apology. Alexi Kaye Campbell has written a p…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 13, 2018
Out of the simplest and most available tools, composer/lyricist Adam Gwon has created an eloquent and moving small musical that does indeed deal with ordinary things. With just four chara…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2018
How good of La Femme Theatre Productions to mount the little known Tennessee Williams play at Theatre St. Clements, for anything Williams wrote should be of interest to anyone who loves thea…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
For starters, I had expected this oddly titled play to offer information on what went on in someone's mind during an afternoon siesta. Once the play started I found that no, it deals with th…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2018
The first of two acts of this new play by Theresa Rebeck invites us all into a rehearsal for "Hamlet" with a company of actors working hard to support Sarah Bernhardt, as played by Janet McT…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
Once upon a time, circa 1977, there was a woman with a powerful voice and a caring mind who had intimate access to the long term mayor of Albany, New York. Her name was Dorothea "Polly" Noon…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 9, 2018
Every now and then, Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" returns to us in times of national stress to request that we (or the folks in Britain) examine our present life styles and attitudes and…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Lillian Hellman first conceived the idea for this play in 1930 but did not complete it and only went back to it five years later following her first production, the successful "The Children'…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:04PM[SHARE] 
