Monday, May 25, 2015
We 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 05:58PMWe 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 05:58PMWe screen the classics "All About Eve" and "An Affair to Remember"; John Gielgud's Shakespearean recital series; Alan Ayckbourn's Norman trilogy; Woody Allen's latest; and "Glee: Season Two …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe screen the classics "All About Eve" and "An Affair to Remember"; John Gielgud's Shakespearean recital series; Alan Ayckbourn's Norman trilogy; Woody Allen's latest; and "Glee: Season Two …
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to the new live recording of Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein's cabaret act "Cheek to Cheek," plus the 1960 London cast album of Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's Once Upon a Mattr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe listen to the new live recording of Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein's cabaret act "Cheek to Cheek," plus the 1960 London cast album of Mary Rodgers & Marshall Barer's Once Upon a Mattr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through Thomas S. Hischak's guide to "Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919"; a problematic survey of "The Golden Age of the Musical Theatre"; a cornucopia called "The American Stage"; an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWe page through Thomas S. Hischak's guide to "Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919"; a problematic survey of "The Golden Age of the Musical Theatre"; a cornucopia called "The American Stage"; an…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:58PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
Like Hand to God, Permission is outrageous and profane; like its predecessor, it can be seen as a sledgehammer attack on religion featuring violence and sex, albeit without as much bloodshed…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:53PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Annie Baker, in The Flick, has drawn three disparate loners in dead-end menial jobs; engaged them in often aimless-seeming banter, as opposed to meaningful discussion; and keeps them at it f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:49PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Noah Galvin in A.R. Gurney's What I Did Last Summer. Photo: Joan Marcus
If you have written upwards of fifty plays over...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:20PMThursday, April 23, 2015
Not enough. An interesting show, to be sure; but in this crowded April, with at least ten intriguing new productions on view, I wonder whether this Visit is quite worth the visit.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Something's rotten on the stage of the St. James, and it smells like a hit.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:49PMSunday, April 19, 2015
Seekers of provocative, invigorating and entertaining theatre--musical or dramatic--will find it at Circle in the Square. To those who think that Fun Home doesn't sound like their sort of en…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:34PMThursday, April 16, 2015
In a day and age when producers, directors and author's executors think nothing of imposing their so-called artistic vision on Broadway masterworks that were pretty good to begin with, it is…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:00PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
If you can predict that "blue-ish"--in the new musical, It Shoulda Been You--rhymes with something like "it's true-ish when you're Jewish," then you're two (or five) step…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:01PMSunday, April 12, 2015
Lesley Manville in Ibsen's Ghosts. Photo: Stephanie Berger
Dedicated theatergoers who try to see the best of the best are...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PMFriday, April 10, 2015
You have six actors sitting silently, listening and observing; and you have ninety theatergoers sitting silently, listening and observing. The combination turns out to be an exhilarating ad…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:57AMThursday, April 9, 2015
There's a rip-roaring, malevolently Machiavellian, viciously nasty, blood-letting saga of intrigue and incest on view just now. No, not in the cloistered cloakrooms of the U.S. House of Repr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:39PMThursday, April 2, 2015
We cannot at this point state that the Stephen Daldry revival of Skylight will be the finest of the group, no, but it is likely to be near the top of the list. This is a smashingly good pro…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PMThursday, March 26, 2015
Since the place was reborn in 1979 under the direction of the new Radio City Musical Hall Productions, the Spring Spectacular has been reliably perky, friendly, and leaning towards mass-mark…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PMSunday, March 8, 2015
The Audience gives us Ms. Mirren, but is likely to be a one-shot arrow. The star's performance is more than enough to carry the day, and carry the play, to surefire success; while Elizabeth …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:24PMThursday, March 5, 2015
The nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:30PMThe nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:30PMWednesday, February 25, 2015
The nether realm, as constructed in Jennifer Haley's eighty-minute drama The Nether at MCC, is a demon world of evil and imagination.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:44AMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Arnie Burton, Rick Holmes, Kelly Hutchinson and Liv Rooth
in David Ives' Lives of the Saints. Photo: James Leynse
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:00PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
The show has been impeccably staged by Thomas Kail, Miranda's colleague from In the Heights, with choreography from that show's Andy Blankenbuehler. For theatergoers who admired but didn't …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:46PMSunday, February 15, 2015
This month's column looks at Richard Linklater's new classic, "Boyhood" as well as a long-vanished 1942 drama centering on jazz and swing, "Syncopation."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, February 1, 2015
This week we listen to the cast recording of Sting's short-lived Broadway musical The Last Ship.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 25, 2015
This month's column looks at John Lithgow and Alfred Molina in "Love Is Strange," Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story," and the Jackie Gleason/Carol Channing &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, January 22, 2015
Yes, this is obviously going to be another one of those actors-play-the-instruments affairs, which have become dime-a-dozen since John Doyle did it in 2004 with Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. In t…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:59PM 
