Thursday, 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 10:59PMSunday, January 18, 2015
This month's column discusses "Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design" and Martin Short's "I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, January 11, 2015
This week's column follows Kristin Chenoweth as she goes home to Oklahoma for a concert and looks at a lost and unproduced Ivor Novello musical rescued after 60 years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, January 10, 2015
Joey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of Dying for It apparently got an enormous lift from the actor in the role, which d…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:25AMJoey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of <em>Dying for It</em> apparently got an enormous lift from the actor…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:25AMSunday, January 4, 2015
This month's column looks at Matthew Warchus' new movie "Pride"; Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight"; the new Blu-ray release of Dustin Hoffman's &…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 28, 2014
This week's column looks at the various cast recordings of Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 21, 2014
This week's column discusses the soundtrack recording of the NBC television event, "Peter Pan Live!" featuring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
This was a relatively strong year; where the canker gnaws, as good old blimey slimey Captain Hook might say, is in the musical department.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:18PMSunday, December 14, 2014
This month's column visits a few academic works written about Bernstein's On the Town, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Lionel Bart's Oliver!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, December 7, 2014
This month's column visits Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" and a 10-movie collection of film noir.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 30, 2014
This week's column offers suggestions for holiday gifts from the 2013-14 theatre season.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 23, 2014
In this week's column, we discuss the Library of America collection of 16 American Musicals; Judi Dench's picture scrapbook of her life "Behind the Scenes"; and the vocal…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 21, 2014
New York theatergoers with an adventurous spirit -- or mainstream theatergoers unafraid to venture off off Broadway when recommendations warrant -- are being rewarded this month with special…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:57PMWednesday, November 19, 2014
Why can't they just do Broadway musicals the way the authors wrote them in the first place? is a not infrequent cry along the Rialto. If a show was a hit, if a show is a classic, why do mode…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:29PMSunday, November 16, 2014
To tell you the plot of this mysterious ghost play -- anything more than that Man brings Woman to the cabin and they eat two bites of trout -- or to even discuss the dramatis personae, is to…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PMThis week's column discusses studio recordings from Broadway's Mary Testa and Michael Starobin, an anthology from songwriter Scott Alan and this year's edition of "Carols fo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
The Band Wagon, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Osnes, opened at City Center. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMMonday, November 10, 2014
This is the master's earliest professionally-produced musical; that is, it is his earliest musical to receive a professional production, albeit 40-odd years later.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:02PMSunday, November 9, 2014
This month's column looks at the long-running talk-show "The Merv Griffin Show," which was based in the heart of the theatre district throughout its formative years.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Show Boat — in a grand semi-staged version featuring a large cast and an even larger orchestra — is back in town at Avery Fisher Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PMThursday, October 30, 2014
Tony nominee and "Smash" star Jeremy Jordan brings his solo show "Breaking Character" to 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
There is enough in the characters and the dialogue -- even in the costumes, with some actors drifting on wearing basketball sneakers -- to tell us that Father Comes Home is a play of ideas a…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:09PMSunday, October 26, 2014
This month's column discusses John Lahr's new, comprehensive biography "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" and Allen Shawn's "Leonard Bernstein: An A…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
There is an interesting and potentially important musical contained within The Fortress of Solitude, the new piece from Michael Friedman, Itamar Moses and Daniel Aukin at the Public.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:36PMSunday, October 19, 2014
This month's column looks at the Emmy Award-winning HBO version of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart;" the first-ever complete release of the well-remembered s…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Playgoers who haven't walked away from a Broadway musical beaming since before they can remember should head over to Times Square for On The Town, the 1944 musical which introduced Leonard B…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:05PMMonday, October 13, 2014
This Big, alas, seems just as unengaging as the Broadway version; given the lack of orchestral accompaniment, it is even less entertaining.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:03PMSunday, October 12, 2014
This week's column discusses the first complete recording of Jerome Kern's 1933 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" musical, Roberta.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09AMThursday, October 9, 2014
You will not likely find anything funnier onstage, just now, than Nathan Lane in the opening scene of Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play. Lane, as a humble off-Broadway actor turned top-tie…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:12PMSunday, October 5, 2014
Alex Sharp in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
Photo: Joan Marcus
There are plays that entertain,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:43PM 
