Friday, 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 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 to …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Pulit…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 that ends…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 part…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 deat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 pl…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 06:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 certain yo…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 01:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 glory…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 gr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 entries…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 insight…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 Oregon Sha…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 P…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 Homecoming," an…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 05:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 03:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 soc…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]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 huge …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:42PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 years…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 onto …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Huma…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:39AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 represen…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 charm the ca…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 bec…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 04:15PM[SHARE] 
