Tuesday, August 6, 2019
You can tell as you enter the Al Hirschfeld Theatre that you’re going to be seeing a big show. The entire proscenium and a lot of the side walls are covered with gilt and glitter and a hug…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:55AMThursday, August 1, 2019
Top drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reikvik, Iceland, although, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely for this man who spent his working lif…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMMonday, July 22, 2019
A young British playwright, Chris Urch, is making his Lincoln Center debut with this play—one written in white heat. It’s fiction but is based on incidents that took pace in Uganda ten y…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:20PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Orpheus is once again descending into hell in search of his beloved Eurydice; Hermes is around to keep the plot spinning; and Hades, the King of the Underworld, is madly maneuvering his …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:19AMMonday, May 6, 2019
Nathan Lane is enjoying one of theatre’s longest running careers. He’s been brightening stages ever since 1975 when at 19 he made his off-Broadway debut, and 1982 when he first bounced o…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMFriday, May 3, 2019
Playwright Lucas Hnath, has served his apprenticeship in theatre by having work produced at some of New York’s most reputable off-Broadway venues and at many out of town spaces like the Hu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:39AMMonday, April 29, 2019
I saw the original Broadway production of this, Arthur Miller’s second Broadway outing, when I was 20 years old; and it struck me as a sober introduction to a playwright who clearly repres…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:34PMSaturday, April 27, 2019
“Tootsie” is fun company. “She” is actor Michael Dorsey’s one ally in finding him a job in a New York play or musical. For Michael is a hard-to-cast 40 year old who is unable to ch…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:45AMSaturday, April 20, 2019
Playwright Lanford Wilson began the story in the play, set in New York in 1987, on the day after the death of Robbie, a gay choreographer. His apartment mate Anna, who was a dancer who’d b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:00AMThursday, 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 04:15PMThursday, 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 kn…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:11PMAndréa 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:25PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:23PMSaturday, 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 11:57AMSunday, 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 su…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:08PMThursday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:44PMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:39PMSaturday, 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. Friedma…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:14PMTuesday, 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 04:18PMTuesday, 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 sh…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:34PMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:35PMTuesday, 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 telephone …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:51PMSunday, 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 12:31PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:22AMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:25PMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:51PMThursday, 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 06:41PMMonday, 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 earlie…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:11PMSaturday, 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 05:49PMSunday, 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 
