Thursday, December 21, 2023
The dazzling company of 24 gifted singers, dancers, and actors under the remarkably inventive direction and choreography of Josh Rhodes have brought to the St.James Theatre on 44th Street a …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2023
A series of conflicting dates meant I had to wait until December 17 to see this musical at the Classic Stage Company where it opened in October and was extended to run through December 17th.…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Monday, December 11, 2023
This musical tribute to director/choreographer Graciela Daniele is beautiful to look at and mostly delightful to know. It was created musically by Michael John LaChiusa for Daniele"his good …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2023
This s a tough review to write because this new musical at the Public Theatre is a prime example of what has happened to Broadway as we approach the middle of the 21s…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:34AM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2023
A visit to the Abingdon Theatre, a compact Off-Broadway Theatre on 42nd Street, felt to me like a visit to help an acquaintance through the very difficult final days of the life of the famil…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Ossie Davis is an actor and playwright"born in 1917"whose long career in theatre began in 1939 after his graduation from Howard University. He eventually made his Broadway debut in Jeb in 19…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
Theresa Rebeck is a prolific, award winning playwright whose new play deals with an eccentric elderly gent who is an obsessive hoarder.We meet him as the curtain rises on his apartment where…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 15, 2023
I had worked with Director Peter Flynn a number of times, both as an actor and as author when he staged two workshop productions in New York of a musical to which I'd written the book. I'…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 5, 2023
In 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart took hold of John O'Hara's original book, borrowed its title character, and brought to Broadway a somewhat cynical musical named for its central c…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:16PM[SHARE]Monday, August 14, 2023
This comedy by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon is currently running at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. It serves as a good example of the current trend of new work being presented by a consor…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2023
The cover of the playbill for The Cottage, now playing at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, is most promising. It is a painting of an English country cottage burgeoning with a group of wa…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 9, 2023
There was once a play called The Days of Wine and Roses by J.P. Miller, and in 1962 it was filmed starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Now, sixty years later, Adam Guettel has written …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2023
I watched Oscar Levant on tv"primarily on the Jack Paar Show where he was an almost permanent guest, so popular were his many visits. Paar himself loved to chat with him about t…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:44PM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2023
The original production of this British musical is one I thoroughly enjoyed when i saw it in 1960. The New York City Center has now offered it to us again in its "Encores! series for a b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Just as I was about to write off this season on Broadway's Musical Theatre Scene after many months of second rate offering in that category"shows that are so busy catering to rock and oth…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2023
David Auburn's play breaks new ground opening with two women seated at the ends of a large table but facing us, the audience. Each individually recalls how their very dear friendship bega…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2023
This musical tribute to "the city that never sleeps" is a love letter now running at the St. James Theatre on West 44th Street. It has some imperfections as does the city it celebrates; but …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 23, 2023
Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco When I was a "baby agent" back in 1954, my job as a new recruit was to discover young performers, composers, writers. directors, and any others with talent …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2023
There is an article in the Playbill for Fat Ham on Broadway that quotes the play's author James Ijames. In adapting Shakespeare's Hamlet, he tells us he only "intended to disrupt the source,…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:39PM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2023
I don't have the vocabulary to properly describe the miraculous work being done 8 times a week at the Music Box, where Bob Fosse's Dancin' is currently in residence. A company of 22 yo…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his finger on the audience pulse since 1969; and in the following half century, he has become the longest-running composer in Broadway history. Joseph and …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2023
I spent a happy afternoon on Saturday at the Encores! matinee of Jerry Herman's Dear World… which did not have a great success in 1968 when it first opened to very mixed notices and lim…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2023
A planned visit to a Broadway show now requires a new sort of preparation. When I learned that a new production of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was heading our way, I delighted in thin…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2023
Jonathan Bank has been Producing Artistic Director of Off Broadway's Mint Theatre for many years, and he has made it his mission to search out and rediscover plays which were written in an e…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:59PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
Jeffrey Richards and his many associates here offer us a one-set, 95 minutes visit with an elderly couple and their middle aged son who is visiting them in their Southern California home. Ba…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:52PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2023
New York's jewel of an off Broadway theatre company called the Irish RepTheatre continues to offer new insights into memorable works like this gem from Samuel Beckett, which first prov…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2023
The Manhattan Theatre Club is offering its subscribers and the general public its production of this play first done at the Old Vic in London and now cast here in New York with the ori…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2022
David Lindsay-Abaire wrote a similarly titled play some seasons back, and Jeanine Tesori joins him now as composer of the new musical on which it is based. This lively entry boasts an …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 17, 2022
An assortment of gifted theatrical talents have combined to restore Adrienne Kennedy's play "Ohio State Murders" to the current season on Broadway Originally mounted in 1991 this revival…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2022
It took some twenty-odd producers plus the Shubert Organization, Neil Meron, MGM On Stage, and Executive Producer S. Moynihan to bring this musical comedy to the stage on Broadway. Wi…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2022
A new musical has arrived at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre making its bid for acceptance by the press and the public with a list of ten new names adorning its Playbill title page as produc…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:15PM[SHARE] 
