The King and I is an odd classic. Full of wonderful songs, it features a dumb plot with a cutesy approach to female enslavement, a condescending view of Siamese culture, unconvincing sc…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:33AMReviewer Wendy Caster discusses why she is now specifying where she sat--and how much she paid to sit there--in her reviews.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMExtremely entertaining, breathtakingly imaginative, and quite funny (especially in the second act).
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SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMUntil this production, Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower had not had a major New York revival. That was a good thing.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMThe Changing Room, by David Storey, is not big on plot.
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:58PMThe questions asked by Blood Red Roses: The Female Pirate Project are fascinating ones. How did certain women in history to break away from stifling expectations and become pirates…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:48PMThe Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is presenting an excellent production of Merrily We Roll Along, and you've got two more weekends to catch it. With a top ticket price of $18, it's q…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:06PMSince Encores! Off-Center is presenting Little Shop of Horrors in July, I thought it would be an interesting time to revisit the movie and see how it holds up.It holds up very well.Ellen Gre…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:25PMWhen all is lost, what is left? What can be salvaged? In the Flux Theatre Ensemble production of August Schulenburg's new play, Salvage, these questions are faced by survivors of a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:30PMThe brilliant Fun Home opens at the Circle in the Square on April 22nd, and the big question is, "How does it fare in the round?"This is a classic glass-half-full, glass-half-empty situ…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:03PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company production of Wolf Hall is a simple yet gorgeous production based on Hilary Mantel's best sellers Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Gracefully&n…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:02PMThere are two sorts of lovers. (This is simplified, but bear with me.) The first focuses on one thing at a time, giving it full and lingering attention. The other is more varied, changing po…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:35PMIf I hadn't seen the original production of On the Twentieth Century, I suspect I would have been as blown away by the revival as were my co-bloggers Liz and Cameron. But I did see the origi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:33PMWhen a show covers 50 years, difficult decisions must be made about what to include and what to leave out. Long Story Short, which covers five decades of a love relationship, omits showing u…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:32PMI stumbled across this casting call for Doctor Faustus on Playbill.com, and a fascinating document it is. It gives the salary for actors doing shows at CSC (not much), discusses ho…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:02PMBravo to the Mint!Once again, the Mint has revived and revitalized a neglected play with respect, creativity, fine acting, excellent direction, and knockout scenery and costumes. This time a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:19PMIt is a wonderful thing that John & Jen exists. Written in the early 1990s, it was never going to be a huge hit or a big money-maker. Clearly Andrew Lippa (music and book) and Tom G…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:34PMHere are some of the shows that have excited me as much as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton:A Little Night Music (original Broadway production)Pacific Overtures (original Broadwa…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:34PMYou On The Moors Now, written by Jaclyn Backhaus, is a de- and re-construction of the romantic tropes that have permeated our culture from Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Little Wo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:35PMTalk about an anticlimax.First there is the announcement: Peter Dinklage and Taylor Schilling (aka, "The woman from Orange is the New Black") in Turgenev's A Month in the Country a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:18AMI suspect that there is something kind of brilliant and heart-breaking going on in Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play, The World of Extreme Happiness. It didn't quite come across in the early prev…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:44PMI don't believe that every white person in the United States is a racist at heart , waiting only for the right provocation to reveal his or her true colors. I also do not believe t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:20PMOsceola Mays was the daughter of sharecroppers and the granddaughter of slaves. She sang for the love of singing, her family, and Jesus. John Burrus was a rodeo cowboy who sang cowboy songs …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:25PMThe concept of Film Chinois, by Damon Chua, is a good one: noir goings-on in 1947 China, with a femme fatale who also happens to be a Maoist revolutionary. The writing is smart, wi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:10PMIn the truly amazing Between Riverside and Crazy, the wonderful Stephen Adly Guirgis signals us quickly that all is not what it seems. Pops, the old man in the wheelchair, is neither il…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:17PMSo, suddenly there's an announcement. Julie Taymor. Anne Hathaway. Grounded. Tickets already on sale, and going fast.Anne HathawayVivien Killilea/Getty Images for PsiffIt's my turn to order …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:11PMThe line between elliptical fascination and obscure tedium can be thin, and the current production of A Delicate Balance falls to the wrong side far too often.John Lithgow, Glenn ClosePhoto:…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:28PMRebekah Brockman, Tom Pecinka in ArcadiaPhoto: Joan MarcusAaah, the joys of being an online reviewer. I don't get paid, and I often have to buy my own tickets, but I don't have to see shows …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:16PMHe's not really the messiah. His mom is Mandy, not Mary. She's certainly not a virgin. For that matter, neither is he. Well, you know the story.It's Monty Python's Life of Brian, only now it…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:36PMIn the first scene of Kristen Palmer's Once Upon A Bride There Was A Forest, Josie (Rachael Hip-Flores) tells her boyfriend Warren (Chinaza Uche) that she will finally marry him but fir…
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