Thursday, February 4, 2016
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 08:13PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
Linda Lavin in Our Mother's Brief Affair. Photo: Joan Marcus
A character steps out of character, just before the first act...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Hello, Dolly!--which turned fifty in 2014--is coming back to the lights of 44th Street (or thereabouts) in the spring of 2017, with the outsized title role essayed by the outsized Bette Midl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Michael Frayn's Noises Off, when it premiered back in 1982 in London (with Patricia Routledge) and when it opened in 1983 at the Atkinson (with Dorothy Loudon), was farce comedy par excellen…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PMThursday, December 24, 2015
We go back Into the Woods to compare and contrast four major recordings of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine fairytale musical. Which one should you own?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Danny Burstein in Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Joan Marcus
Fiddler on the Roof is back on Broadway, and--wonder...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26PMThursday, December 17, 2015
What more need be said? It is, yes, as good as you've heard. What a shame that the ticket situation will keep it out of the reach of the general theatergoing public for another year or thr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:46PMMonday, December 14, 2015
f you put three computer monitors on a dining room table talking to each other, how will you know when the play is over unless someone comes along to shut them down? That's one of the questi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:42PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple. Photo: Matthew Murphy
In one of the more notable turnarounds in recent Broadway history,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Michael C. Hall in Lazarus. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
"Is there an end to it?" someone cried out an hour into the new musical at...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PMThursday, December 3, 2015
The unpredictable kismet that Broadway producers face deigns that sometimes you end up with something brilliant that no one, alas, wants to see. Contrarily, you sometimes come up with a dec…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:48PMWednesday, December 2, 2015
One of the biggest musical hits of the century, thus far, tells of American do-gooders who go to Uganda and -- in the face of a corrupt and lawless evildoer -- teach the natives to read, wri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Parnell takes a sociological approach, kind of; Gerrard gives us what we might call a show tune approach, which is at once less realistic and more rambunctiously funny.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:51PMSunday, November 15, 2015
James Carpinello (center) in Incident at Vichy. Photo: Joan Marcus
Arthur Miller--who would have turned 100 on...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:14PMThursday, November 12, 2015
His words caught the public fancy -- such phrases as "my huckleberry friend," "one for my baby and one more for the road," "hooray for Hollywood," and the immor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
British actor Mark Strong is making his Broadway debut as Eddie Carbone in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:17PMMonday, November 9, 2015
In Dada Woof Papa Hot, Parnell combines characters we know pretty well -- and a situation we know pretty well -- in a manner which makes it all seem fresh, involving and convincing.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:34PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Mark Strong in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
British actor Mark Strong is making his...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:04PMMonday, November 2, 2015
Rehearsing my plays is a really different experience, for actors, than most plays. I think it was the actor Matt Maher, of The Flick, who said something like "it's like playing in a ver…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:13AMSunday, November 1, 2015
All your favorites are there. William, Harry, Kate, even the ghost of Diana, who roams the halls at night like one of the three weird witches of Macbeth. Charles faces his dilemma like Ham…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:29PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
We playwrights are always mentioned in the listings and reviews. This is not about us. We think the stage managers and sound and lighting and set and costume designers we work with are just …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:50PMMonday, October 26, 2015
"You really have to look at the whole picture and see whose story is being told, in terms of geography, gender, class, race. I also think a big problem is not doing work that's experim…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:21AMSunday, October 25, 2015
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Cassie Beck, Sarah Steele and
Arian Moayed in The Humans. Photo: Joan Marcus
Stephen...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:33PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Broadway audiences clamoring for dance-happy musical comedy, with an emphasis on tap-tap-tap, need look no further than the Helen Hayes where Dames at Sea provides two hours-worth of shuffle…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:35PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in Ripcord. Photo: Joan Marcus
Put David Lindsay-Abaire, Holland Taylor,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:44PMMonday, October 19, 2015
The York Theatre Company, the determined, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-a-musical group in the basement of a church within the Citicorp Center, has rolled up their sleeves and -- with great …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:10PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
An American theatergoer in London can always be sure to find an intelligent modern-day adaptation of a world drama classic or two. At present, both the National and the Almeida have success…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:04PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
You realize that this is not junk-food theatre; this is keenly-contrived and impeccably-crafted comedy of high order.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:49PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Imelda Staunton in Gypsy. Photo: Johan Persson
Ethel Merman. Angela Lansbury. Bernadette Peters. Patti LuPone. ...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:36AMSaturday, October 10, 2015
Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51. Photo: Johan Persson
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British crystallographer...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:24PMFriday, October 9, 2015
The cast of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
Martin McDonagh--the British/Irish author of such mordantly...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:24AM 
