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 09:45PMThis 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe comedic chameleon Arnie Burton first came to view in the 2008 parody version of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03PMSusan 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 10:53PMIt 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,…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:17PMThis 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 12:01AMThe 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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PMCity Center Encores! presented the opening night of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella April 2. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PMAnd here we have a raucous, bright and vulgar musical comedy about fun-loving, middle-American teens who bully each...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PMLester is a creative associate of the Tricycle, and husband to playwright Chakrabarti. This is incidental information; Lester's performance in Red Velvet, under any circumstances, is a marv…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:13PMThis month's column looks at "Bigger, Brighter, Louder," an historical chronicle of theatre in Chicago by drama critic Chris Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week's column discusses the studio recording of Yank! featuring Bobby Steggert and most of the cast of the 2010 York Theatre production.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAladdin and Rocky have opened on Broadway back-to-back; the critics have seen them back-to-back; and, more crucially, early audiences who generate all-important word-of-mouth will see them b…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PMThis month's column focuses on Joel and Ethan Coen's "Inside Llewyn Davis," Jean-Luc Gerard's "Breathless" and the Ruth Gordon/Lee Strasberg "Boardwalk.&…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIt turns out that Rocky is better than the Spider-Man, by several notches in the proverbial heavyweight belt. The Cinderella story, such as it is, is durable; and the sure-to-be-much-talked-…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:19PMThis week's column discusses the Broadway cast album of Andrew Lippa's Big Fish, along with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afrai…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02AMThis week's column discusses the Broadway cast album of Andrew Lippa's Big Fish along with Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill in the original production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThere is always a place for a production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Sweeney Todd, especially one that gives us an oversized orchestra filling the hall with Sondheim's masterful s…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:48PMDirector Gordon Edelstein keeps things moving handily, although he is forced by one-man-show strictures to resort to such activities as having the star change his clothes in several installm…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:15PMThis month's column looks at Daniel Rosenthal's masterful chronicle "The National Theatre Story," as well as playscripts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America and John Pa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEarly on, we are told that Ode to Joy is "the story of how the pain goes away." At the end they say "forgiving is giving up the option for revenge" and "true joy is …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PMPlaybill.com reports on the 2014 Dramatists Guild Awards Ceremony, held Feb. 24 at the Lambs Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThis week's column discusses the original cast album of Fun Home, the new musical by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMA trip to Madison County is well worth while; Broadway rarely sees two such wonderful singing performances, and things are mighty incandescent when Mr. Brown's love songs are being sung. How…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:41PMLights up on two 20-somethings on a first-date picnic, falling in love as she feeds him information about her job. She tests and kills baby chickens, slices their brains, and plots thought p…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:18PMMembers of the original Broadway cast gathered at Lincoln Center Feb. 17 to offer a concert presentation of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's musical Titanic. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PMThis month's column focuses on Alfred Hitchcock's early World War II thriller "Foreign Correspondent" and "Throne of Blood," Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThis week’s column discusses Sierra Boggess' cabaret act, Awakening, and Patrick Page and John Cullum in the belated cast recording of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMEncores! kicked off its 2014 season Feb. 5 with the musical Little Me, starring Tony Award winner Christian Borle. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:31PMPlaybill.com offers a look at Lincoln Center's American Songbook series presentation of Heartbreak Country: Michael John LaChiusa's Stories of America.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMThis month's column looks at Moss Hart's classic "Act One" and Dorothy Gallagher's examination of one of Broadway's most noted playwrights of the mid-20th century, …
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