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 05:08PMKenneth 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:50PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:07PMSaturday, 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 charact…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:54AMTuesday, 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 01:27PMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:07PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:36PMSunday, 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” …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:36PMSunday, 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 attitud…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:00PMMonday, 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 Childre…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:04PMFriday, August 24, 2018
Composers and lyricists have long been attracted to successful films as source material for adaptation into Broadway musicals. “Saturday Night Fever,” “Groundhog Day,” “Rocky,&…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:28PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
I admit that forty years ago, when the Go-Go’s female rock stardom was in full bloom, when their punk scene was all the rage amongst the hip, I was very happy with musical theatre as it wa…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:27PMSaturday, August 4, 2018
I was confused when I entered the small Helen Hayes Theater for I thought I’d entered the wrong building. I was ushered into the small foyer, and from the auditorium I could hear ear split…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:34PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Once again, we have a new production of an old success from the school of “And Then I Wrote…” musicals. This time out the writers are Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who, over the course…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:54PMThursday, June 21, 2018
The Mint Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jonathan Bank, has an uncanny eye for the best of the old obscure plays that deserve a crack at a contemporary audience for re-examination. A perf…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:13PMFriday, June 15, 2018
I was introduced to professional theater when I was twelve. A friend of my parents worked for the owners of a Broadway playhouse and she invited my mother and me to a matinee of a long runni…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:22PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has opened this new play by Anthony Giardina, and director Doug Hughes has cast it impeccably, staged it fluidly with help from John Lee Beatty’s rapidly tur…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:50AMSunday, May 27, 2018
The Vineyard Theatre off Broadway has once again delivered a worthy new musical play created by uptown talents John Kander, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson and inspired by a Henry James no…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:29PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, rises majestically over the Connecticut River. Its mission is to take popular musicals from the past, dust them off, and shape them up …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:59PMMonday, May 14, 2018
If I were asked to come up with a snappy slogan for Noel Gay’s musical “Me And My Girl”— something that might fit on the sides of buses or on the wall of a subway car—IR…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:30PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
“I have often walked down this street before.” Freddie Eynsford-Hill sings those lyrics as he begins his romantic ode to Eliza Doolittle to whom he is wildly attracted after just…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:34PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
Once again, Dolly is back where she belongs, lighting up the sky with her dazzling radiance distilled through the many gifts of Bernadette Peters who is her current inhabitant. Ms. Peters re…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:10PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
At 79, still active as a playwright and director, Alan Ayckbourn here gives us his 81st work for the theatre. He’s been supplying us with material since 1959; and his new play is as fr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:35PMSunday, April 29, 2018
If you are among those who are not familiar with the names Draco and Scorpius Malfoy, Cedric Diggory, Dudley Dursley, Uncle Vernon, Severus Snape, Amos Diggory, Albus Dumbledore, Aunt Petuni…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:32PMMonday, April 16, 2018
It gives me so much pleasure to be able to begin a review of a Broadway musical from the inside out. By that I mean that in recent weeks, in covering this season’s arrivals, I’ve…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:37AMSunday, April 15, 2018
The new musical “Mean Girls”, currently playing at the August Wilson theatre on Broadway, is a tough one to write about. There are two ways to approach it as I see it. It’s…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:29AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
I’ve often found it difficult to feel much empathy for characters who have little or no redeeming features. The exception that might well prove that rule is the current revival of Kenn…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:31PMThursday, April 5, 2018
By now you may well have heard that Glenda Jackson has made a sensational return to the stage as a character simply called “A” in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:34AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Tony Kushner’s masterpiece has arrived on Broadway. As it did after its great success twenty-five years ago, it comes to us from London where it was received very well once again. In 1…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:42PMThursday, March 29, 2018
The long wait is over. The Disney company has finally delivered the much anticipated stage version of its animated blockbuster film Frozen. A great deal of money has been spent, some of it f…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:29PMMonday, March 26, 2018
I wasn’t going to review this Encores! production because it was only presented for 7 performances and it will have closed (on March 27th) before you have a chance to see it. But I mu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:05PM 
