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]Friday, 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,” e…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 was …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 splitti…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:34PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 of …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:13PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:22PM[SHARE]The 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 10:50AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 04:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, 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"I’d p…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 12:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 05:29PM[SHARE]Monday, 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)Â before you have a chance to see it. But I …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2018
On this pleasant Sunday afternoon I had the pleasure of seeing the first half of Bruce Norris’ play The Low Road at the Public. I say “half” because one of the actors becam…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2018
The New York theater season has evolved from the so-called Golden Age, when virtually all new plays meant Broadway, to the current series of not-for-profit productions by the huge list of Of…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2018
First there was Grand Opera. Then along came Light Opera and finally Operetta. In 1866, because a ballet troupe was left stranded, a new form called “Musical Theater” was born. T…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
A.R.Gurney, who was called “Pete” by all who knew him, passed away at the age of 87 in 2017. He died in his apartment in New York surrounded by his family, which is how he wanted…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 11, 2018
In his own time, Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was a sports writer and columnist for the Hearst newspapers but was perhaps best known as the creator of Nathan Detroit, Miss Adelaide, Jedediah Sky…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
David Rabe’s Good For Otto, directed by Scott Elliot and presented by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street, is a very absorbing play, running almos…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 7, 2018
I didn’t want to slink off into the night without saying so long to you very lovely DC fans at DC Metro Theater Arts. It was time to go, and I’m grateful for the space in which t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
Terrence McNally has been a steady contributor as a playwright ever since his first play, And Things That Go Bump In The Night landed on Broadway in 1963. It didn’t bump for long; it p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the very successful Encores! series threw us a party by offering its seven audiences (February 7"11) a potpourri of book scenes and musical numbers from ei…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AM[SHARE] 
