Friday, October 9, 2015
The cast of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
Martin McDonagh--the British/Irish author of such mordantly...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:24AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
The trouble with "Razzle Dazzle," Michael Riedel's new book about Broadway, is that from the first page--on which a...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:53PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Megan McGinness and Paul Alexander Nolan in Daddy Long Legs.
Photo: Jeremy Daniel
Playgoers might have trepidations...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:15AMSunday, September 27, 2015
Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie in Spring Awakening.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:40PMFriday, September 25, 2015
Samuel "Biff" Liff
April 14, 1919 - August 10, 2015
Everybody on Broadway knew Biff, or wanted to know Biff.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:39AMThursday, September 17, 2015
Plays about religious philosophy can be mighty dry and uninvolving, not only to outsiders but to people of the faith in question as well. Playwrights Horizons' newest offering -- The Christ…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:20PMSunday, September 13, 2015
A comedy about drag queens might have a somewhat limited audience. The Legend of Georgia McBride, though, is not so much a comedy about drag queens, but a comedy which incorporates characte…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:30PMFriday, September 11, 2015
"Joy Ride: Show People & Their Shows" by John Lahr
The American drama critic John Lahr has been writing about the theatre and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:29AMThursday, August 13, 2015
Those of us who watched the actress Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) as she slipped into prominence--with...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:55AMThursday, August 6, 2015
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Lin Manuel Miranda
in Hamilton. Photo: Joan Marcus
"I am...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:01PMFriday, July 31, 2015
From 1927 to 1931, six major Broadway composers were born: (in order of appearance) John Kander,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:55PMMonday, July 27, 2015
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
The Absolute Brightness of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:23PMMonday, July 20, 2015
We now have another Awake and Sing!, this time at the Public. But there is a major difference. This is a production of the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO). The cast consists…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:22PMThursday, July 16, 2015
The authors and producers seem to be very much in earnest in this anti-slavery, pro-faith tale of the mid-18th century. They provide something of a history lesson, based on the life, adventu…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:58PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Penn Jillette and Teller in Penn & Teller On Broadway. Photo: Francis George
Penn Jillette and the mononymous Teller...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:09PMMonday, June 29, 2015
Shows for Days is closer, in style and genre, to Joseph Stein's 1963 adaptation of Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing. But that play--which launched the acting career of Alan Arkin and the direct…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:56PMSunday, June 28, 2015
Thirty-five years to the day after the first performance of the long-running Broadway musical 42nd Street, almost two hundred alumni gathered last night to celebrate. The David Merrick/Gowe…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:09PMThursday, June 25, 2015
Jonathan Groff and Aaron Lazar in A New Brain. Photo: Joan Marcus
Theatergoers with a keen interest in dramatic,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:46PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
How do you describe a play that is so surprising -- and so excellent -- that you don't want to give readers an idea of what they are in for?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:29PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Playwright Joshua Harmon burst into view in 2012 with Bad Jews, one of those plays that sounds like a bad idea but turns out to be very good.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:55PMMonday, June 15, 2015
The play itself, an LCT3 offering at Lincoln Center Theater's Claire Tow playhouse, turns out to be an intriguing, challenging evening of theatre.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMSunday, June 14, 2015
Kate Arrington, Jeremy Shamos and Sarah Goldberg in The Qualms.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Bruce Norris, who has given us...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:13PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Since achieving stardom in 2010 as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg has diligently applied himself to writing plays. The Spoils, his third off-Broadway offering in five…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PMMonday, May 25, 2015
We listen to "Quiet Please," a collection of standards and jazz from Steven Blier and Darius de Haas, and the cast album of the award-winning 1959 West End musical Make Me an Offer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to "Quiet Please," a collection of standards and jazz from Steven Blier and Darius de Haas, and the cast album of the award-winning 1959 West End musical Make Me an Offer.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in "Two-Faced Woman"; Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"; Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; and Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in "Two-Faced Woman"; Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town"; Sam Fuller's "The Naked Kiss"; James L. Brooks' "Broadcast News"; and Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to "Originals — Musical Comedy, 1909-1935," a collection of old recordings by old stars; and "Another Openin' Another Show," Lehman Engel's 1958 album of 12 Broadway overture…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through the Fourth Edition of "American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"; newly published librettos of Oklahoma!, Sound of Music and Avenue Q; and a biography of Serge Diaghilev.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through the Fourth Edition of "American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"; newly published librettos of Oklahoma!, Sound of Music and Avenue Q; and a biography of Serge Diaghilev.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to two Off-Broadway musicals, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, from the Roundabout in 2009, and the 1964 adaptation of James Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PM 
