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…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2014
City Center Encores! presented the opening night of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella April 2. Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:25PM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
And here we have a raucous, bright and vulgar musical comedy about fun-loving, middle-American teens who bully each...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
Lester 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 06:13PM[SHARE]This month's column looks at "Bigger, Brighter, Louder," an historical chronicle of theatre in Chicago by drama critic Chris Jones.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 23, 2014
This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
Aladdin 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 10:01PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 16, 2014
This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
It 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 10:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 9, 2014
This 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 12:02AM[SHARE]This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 6, 2014
There 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 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Director 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 10:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2014
This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
Early 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 10:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Playbill.com reports on the 2014 Dramatists Guild Awards Ceremony, held Feb. 24 at the Lambs Club.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2014
This week's column discusses the original cast album of Fun Home, the new musical by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
A 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 10:41PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Lights 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 10:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Members 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 01:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 16, 2014
This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2014
This 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2014
Encores! 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 02:31PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2014
Playbill.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 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 2, 2014
This 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, …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
"THIS PLAY CONTAINS NUDITY, SEX & BAD LANGUAGE," says a bold-lettered sign in the lobby at Intimacy, the new offering from the New Group at New York City's Acorn Theatre. The l…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:31PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
Café Carlyle's Late Night series premiered Jan. 24 with a performance by Ryan Silverman.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2014
This week we watch Stanley Kramer's "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," starring Spencer Tracy and dozens of top comedians (including Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2014
Recent seasons have seen a dependable stream of first-rate Irish plays making their way to Broadway and off. The newest hails not from the old country but from Bronx-born scribe John Patrick…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Tony winner and original star of Hello, Dolly! Carol Channing took the stage at Town Hall Jan. 20, with Justin Vivian Bond, for an evening of stories and song.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 19, 2014
This week's column discusses the hit-filled compilation "Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO," plus a collection of mostly unknown songs by Comden, Green & Styne under the…
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