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Monday, June 6, 2016

Aisle View: Hospital-Room Family War by Steven Suskin

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play <em>War</em>, from Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3, begins in a hospital room, with two women sitting vigil over what seems to be a mannequin/patie…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:13PM
Friday, June 3, 2016
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Interview: Ivo van Hove Goes to Broadway by Steven Suskin

Ivo van Hove Photo: Jan Versweyveld Belgian director Ivo van Hove [pronounced EE-vo van HOE-va] made his Broadway debut...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:18AM
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Aisle View: Anna and the King by Steven Suskin

So many musicals to see, I know; but the show, which remains in exquisite condition, now strikes a tone -- emotionally, not just musically -- that has been absent in recent renditions.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:21AM
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Aisle View: Einstein's Brain by Steven Suskin

Heather Lind and Geneva Carr in Incognito. Photo: Joan Marcus Admirers of Nick Payne's Constellations,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:13PM
Monday, May 23, 2016

Aisle View: It's Hotter in Hades by Steven Suskin

Damon Duanno and Nabiyah Be in Hadestown. Photo: Joan Marcus When the trombone growls at the start of "The Road...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43PM
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Interview: Joe Mantello Directs, Part 2 by Steven Suskin

Joe Mantello Photo: Brigitte Lacombe Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00AM
Monday, May 9, 2016

Interview: Joe Mantello Directs, Part 1 by Steven Suskin

Joe Mantello Photo: Brigitte Lacombe Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03AM
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Interview: George C. Wolfe Makes a Musical, Part 2 by Steven Suskin

George C. Wolfe George C. Wolfe has directed such diverse productions as Angels in America, Caroline or Change, Elaine...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM
Monday, May 2, 2016

Interview: George C. Wolfe Makes a Musical, Part 1 by Steven Suskin

"My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover somethi…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:49PM
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Aisle View: A Thrilling New Musical by Steven Suskin

Ben Platt (center) in Dear Evan Hansen. Photo: Matthew Murphy One is tempted to say, simply: Don't ask questions, just go...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02PM
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Aisle View: Broadway Musical Magic by Steven Suskin

Audra McDonald in Shuffle Along. Photo: Julieta Cervantes The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang,...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:56PM
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Aisle View: Long Night's Journey by Steven Suskin

This is a welcome opportunity to see the play, and the chance to see a top-flight performance by Jessica Lange. But when you leave Long Day enthusing about the actress playing Mary Tyrone -…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Aisle View: Don't Drink the Water by Steven Suskin

Sarah Charles Lewis in Tuck Everlasting. Photo: Joan Marcus In this our age of Broadway cynicism--when religious tomes...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:47PM
Monday, April 25, 2016

Aisle View: Reservations, Sur La Table by Steven Suskin

If all you want in your evening at the theatre is nonstop laughter and a brightly-shining comedic tour de force of a performance, then you should hasten to the Lyceum, where Jesse Tyler Ferg…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:07PM
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Aisle View: Deep Dish Delite by Steven Suskin

Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in Waitress. Photo: Joan Marcus Picture a heaping slice of...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:29PM
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Aisle View: Peering into the Abyss by Steven Suskin

Frank Langella in The Father. Photo: Joan Marcus Frank Langella, at his estimable best, is not to be overlooked. Here...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:06PM
Monday, April 11, 2016

On the Shelf: Jack Viertel's Broadway Secrets by Steven Suskin

Jack Viertel's "The Secret Life of the American Musical" is not a trove, in actuality, of 'secrets' of the...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:41PM
Monday, March 28, 2016

Interview: Ben Whishaw, Staring into Miller's Crucible by Steven Suskin

British actor Ben Whishaw is making his Broadway debut as John Proctor in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:01PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Aisle View: Big Money at the Public by Steven Suskin

Dry Powder is not, as you might suspect, another one of those contemporary dramas about affluent Manhattan husbands trying to adjust to life with their toddler sleeping in the next room.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PM
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Aisle View: Musical Candy Box by Steven Suskin

If you like your shows with glorious music in the air and a dollop of schlag atop the café viennois, you are sure to float away from your visit to She Loves Me on a silver-laced cloud.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:04PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Aisle View: Sleepy Man, Deeper in the Woods by Steven Suskin

Steven Pasquale (center) in The Robber Bridegroom. Photo: Joan Marcus For ninety minutes of banjo-twangin',

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Aisle View: Stage Dynamite by Steven Suskin

Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams give frenzied, uncompromising performances as a pair of irremediably-ruined souls frozen by a bubbling mix of guilt, retribution, revenge and what seem to …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Aisle View: 'Sinking Ship' by Steven Suskin

There is likely some type of audience for a way over-the-top camp-pop pastiche musical, and let us hope they find their way to the Nederlander. For everyone else, though, this "disaster…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Aisle View: Another Three Bites of the Apple by Steven Suskin

The only distressing element about Hungry, the initial installment in Richard Nelson's new trilogy about the Gabriel Family of Rhinebeck, NY--a philosophical, political and round-the-block n…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31AM
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Aisle View: Last One in the Pool by Steven Suskin

Too many playwrights, nowadays, seem content to take an idea and stretch it out into some type of extended plot. Hnath has demonstrated, in both of his plays this season, that he has plenty …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:19PM
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Aisle View: A Long Night's Journey and a Police Story by Steven Suskin

The Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has offered a series of diverse and astounding star performances in films. Thus, he is not just another movie star stopping over on Broadway f…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PM
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Aisle View: Connecting the Dots by Steven Suskin

Dot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:03PM
Friday, February 12, 2016

Aisle View: 'Honey in the Honeycomb' by Steven Suskin

Michael Potts and LaChanze in the Encores! presentation of Cabin in the Sky. Photo: Joan Marcus There's "honey in...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:56AM
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Aisle View: The Birth of a Playwright by Steven Suskin

An unruly teen from the Irish tenements of the Bronx is transplanted to a white-bread Catholic prep school on a hilltop in New Hampshire, where his braggadocio, bluster and petty-thievery th…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PM
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Aisle View: Scintillating Sense (& Sensibility) by Steven Suskin

Dear olde Miss Austen, who died in 1817 uncelebrated and unknown (her books having initially been published anonymously), is said to have enjoyed playing at theatricals in the family living …

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:13PM

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