Friday, February 4, 2022
My professional life has been spent in live theatre, film, television–as a playwright, actor, memoirist , librettist, reviewer, and grateful member of the audience. My interest in musi…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:45PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
When it comes to musical theatre, I admit I am more ‘then” than “now.” It’s how I was trained, and I go back to a different time to the plays and musicals of the 1940s when there w…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:23PMMonday, December 6, 2021
The York Theatre Company, which is committed to giving life to new and revised musicals, has been doing so under the direction of designer James Morgan as Producing Artistic Director for the…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:25PMSaturday, December 2, will now become a red letter day for me. I arrived at the theatre at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre at 1:15 for a 2:00 matinee preview of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMTuesday, November 23, 2021
Seated in the American Airlines Theatre at a recent matinee, I had the feeling that I was not watching a show but was instead privileged to be observing a cast of fine actors as they went ab…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:34PMMonday, October 25, 2021
Douglas Carter Beane was Artistic Director for the Drama Department at Greenwich House Theatre for ten years and in recent times has written a number of merry plays including “The Little …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:41PMThis three act play runs three hours and fifteen minutes, and it is–in a word–a Blockbuster! From start to finish it is eloquent, informed, imaginatively staged, and brilliantly acted b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:27PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an extraordinary actor, and he is using his gifts to our advantage in this one-man play at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Ably supported by music compose…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:06PMSaturday, October 9, 2021
Here we have it, an early offering after the Pandemic drought, a new musical playing eight performances a week in a Broadway theatre. That in itself is big news since the theatre district …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:50PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
A playwright with a powerful voice and a director of taste and imagination have joined forces to end the 18 month drought on Broadway of plays, musicals, revues, and other forms of live enli…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:35PMFriday, March 6, 2020
Full disclosure: I still vividly remember the night the original company of this masterful musical opened on Broadway. It was September 26, 1957; and I was there because I, as a young agent,…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:30PMMonday, February 17, 2020
Playwright and actor Charles Busch is back among us offering a new comedy with serious undertones which takes aim at the “weepy” film genre that was popular from the days of silent films…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:50PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Dealing as it does with the incipient integration of black servicemen in the Army in 1944 (The Armed Services were formally integrated in 1948), this new production of Charles Fuller’s Pul…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:14PMMonday, January 27, 2020
From John Milton’s 1667 epic poem in blank verse, playwright Tom Dulack has created his own 100 minute one-act play also called “Paradise Lost.” Currently playing out a limited run tha…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:24PMSunday, January 19, 2020
There is a photo of Laura Linney on the cover of this play’s Playbill—a photo that is luminous and wistful and wise. Her eyes are focused on the distance outside the frame; her lips are …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:53PMFriday, January 3, 2020
Broadway lights will dim on January 7, 2020 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday, December 26 at the age of 88, and at the end of a year that saw at its beginning the death …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMWednesday, December 25, 2019
Dion Boucicault lived through seventy years of the 19th century and spent fifty of them writing plays. He was only twenty-one when he delivered this stylish comedy of manners; it was his…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:25PMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Younger audiences may prefer their theatre either as a seven hour epic or as a neatly-tied, ninety-minute, one-act bundle; but George Eastman’s play takes the middle of the road aiming to …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:09PMSunday, December 1, 2019
Tony Kushner wrote this play in 1985 when he was 29 years old. It deals with the early 1930s in Germany, the years in which the Weimar Republic was beginning to crumble, and Adolf Hitler was…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:37PMSaturday, November 23, 2019
It’s a good idea to prepare yourself if you plan to see both parts of Mr. Lopez’s play at matinee and evening in the same day. It can be done at 1:00 PM and again at 7:00 PM. Make certai…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:10AMSunday, November 17, 2019
If you happen to be passing the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 46th Street any evening around 9:30 (some nights at 10:30), and you hear a roar emanate from the theatre’s lobby, don’t be a…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:10PMSunday, November 3, 2019
To get right to it—there is an anticipatory glow, even as we settle into our seats, that shouts at us from the house curtain with the musical’s title splashed across it in all its gory g…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:10PMSunday, October 27, 2019
There are actors who begin their careers with training and early professional outings in regional and stock theatres as understudies and bit players. Many use live theatre as training grou…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:22PMThursday, October 24, 2019
Broadway will soon have to change its name to “Revival City” for the number of new works (except for juke box musicals and seven hour “events”) has narrowed down to two or three play…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:37PMSaturday, October 19, 2019
Tracy Letts, who established himself as a playwright with “August: Osage County,” is a gifted writer and actor who has an uncanny ear for the unique rhythms, accents, and insights …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:29PMSaturday, October 12, 2019
“All the Way” by Robert Schenkkan dealt with Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to influence the 88th U.S. congress to vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It first appeared in 2012 at the Oreg…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:07PMSunday, October 6, 2019
Artists often prepare sketches to guide themselves through the process of creating a painting. Architects draw blueprints which are subject to change before committing to building. And Pla…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:47PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Master playwright Harold Pinter has left us a fistful of fascinating plays, and their highly original tales will be with us for many years to come. “The Birthday Party,” “The Homecomin…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:32PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Top drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reykjavic, Iceland. In his case, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely, as he had spent his working life…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:33PMThursday, August 15, 2019
The Hudson Theatre on Broadway is playing host presently to two star actors with two playwrights (Simon Stephens and Nick Payne) delivering two acts of delicate magic. On a virtually bare st…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:16PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Let’s take a moment to stroll down memory lane. For some of you it will be more of a history lesson, but join us anyway as we think about a time when New York had something called “café…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:30PM 
