Sunday, June 8, 2014
This month we watch the 1955 television adaptation of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus, Douglas Sirk's '50s melodrama "All That Heaven Allows," the Howard Hawks western …
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New York has seen recent Macbeths by the handful, including two star-topped Broadway productions in the last year, but they are best forgotten. Now we have Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth -- starr…
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The star makes it look effortlessly simple, weaving his tales and adventures into gloriously funny set-pieces. He has made a side career as reader of the phenomenally-successful Harry Potte…
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Rory O'Malley, who convulsed audiences in his Tony-nominated turn as the repressed, tap-dancing Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, is on to something intriguing in Pub Crawl.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2014
How do you become an overnight sensation in a show that runs only three days? Melissa Errico did just that when she stepped onto the City Center stage–in the third season of the still-…
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Katie Finneran–the expert Broadway comedienne who seemed subdued in the 2012 revival of Annie–offered a convulsive demonstration last night of just how expert she is in It Might …
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This week's column explores the cast recording of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love.
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New Dramatists, which was been dedicated to supporting and developing playwrights since 1949, honored Susan Stroman at its 65th annual spring luncheon May 22 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
The pieces of American Hero are somewhat too jagged to fit together, but as an offering in the modestly-priced Second Stage Uptown series it provides a pleasant comic diversion on the Upper …
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Linda Lavin in TOO MUCH SUN. Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg
Playwright Nicky Silver, director Mark Brokaw, and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PM[SHARE]This month we watch the British documentary "Theatreland," Billy Wilder's "Ace in the Hole," Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman" and David O. Russell's &q…
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Kate Baldwin, a Tony-nominated singing actress, brought her solo show Sing Pretty, Don't Fall Down to 54 Below May 15. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
John Doyle and friends took the stage of the Hudson Theatre May 12 for the Classic Stage Company benefit Musical Masterworks: Kern, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, Hart.
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This week's column looks at the 50th anniversary digital remastering of the Funny Girl cast recording.
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Irma La Douce, the rarely-revived musical about a French streetwalker and the law student who falls in love with her, opened at City Center Encores! May 8. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
Anthony Giardina's The City of Conversation is an intelligent, provocative, incisive drama about politics, people, ideals and principles, with razor-sharp dialogue and -- from Jan Maxwell --…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:10PM[SHARE]Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth presented The Evolution of a Soprano at Carnegie Hall May 3. Playbill.com was there.
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This week's column explores the original Broadway cast recording of Jason Robert Brown's #The Bridges of Madison County.
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The show--with concept and lyrics by Byrne, music by Byrne and Fatboy Slim -- captivated theatergoers and critics last April during its limited engagement as part of the Public season. A he…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Symphony Space, the performing arts organization on the Upper West Side, honored Sheldon Harnick at its annual gala April 28. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 27, 2014
And here we have a revival of Jon Robin Baitz' 1991 play The Substance of Fire, which introduced a decidedly...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:43PM[SHARE]This month's column looks at "The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan," Philip Ziegler's biography of the great Laurence Olivier, an anthology of "Plays for Two" (incl…
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Tony Award winner Tommy Tune made his Café Carlyle debut April 22. Playbill.com was there.
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This is one of those "is the old lady losing her marbles?" plays, in which the doddering, aching, creaking, 79-year-old heroine drifts from witty perceptiveness to the borders of s…
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This past season has been lackadaisical for new Broadway musicals, with the best of them--arguably After Midnight, Beautiful and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, in alphabetical ord…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:45PM[SHARE]This week's column discusses the cast recordings of A Gentleman's Guide, Les Misérables, Murder for Two, Privates on Parade and Billy Porter's solo CD "Billy's Ba…
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The comedic chameleon Arnie Burton first came to view in the 2008 parody version of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Susan Stroman, the director/choreographer who worked with Mel Brooks on the aforementioned blockbuster, has now joined forces with Allen but lightning is not striking twice. The main culpri…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 9, 2014
It is Mr. Ives, and his director John Rando (of Urinetown and A Christmas Story) who make The Heir Apparent a ludicrously luscious affair. Unlike other new comedies recently arrived in town,…
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This week's column discusses the first commercial release of the soundtrack recordings of Robert Goulet in television productions of Kiss Me, Kate (1968) and Brigadoon (1966).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York floated into Carnegie Hall last night, with that staid historic venue hosting a one-night-only concert version of Frank Loesse…
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