GIANT starring John Lithgow
ADMISSION " Never knew much about the author Roald Dahl, let alone how to pronounce his name correctly BUT I was extremely curious to see GIANT a play about him by Mr. Mark Rosenblatt. I hav…
ADMISSION " Never knew much about the author Roald Dahl, let alone how to pronounce his name correctly BUT I was extremely curious to see GIANT a play about him by Mr. Mark Rosenblatt. I hav…
Packed or should I say over-stuffed into two hours and thirty-five minutes with intermission at the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on West 47th Street is this 89 pe…
Oh Boy! Buckle up! This is one bumpy/lumpy musical! SMASH " the making of a musical based on Marilyn Monroe called BOMBSHELL with an emphasis on "BOMB" that recently opened at the Imperi…
There's a new girl in town. A fascinating girl. Talent oozing out of every single pore. Sweetly singing or confidently belting with tip-top tapping and stealing our hearts along …
This review will be short. And not very sweet. Be forewarned. If you intend to pay big bucks to see a disappointing, not very charismatic George Clooney endlessly smoking, live a…
SARAH SNOOK is Dorian Gray. And a gaggle of supporting characters in this spellbinding, sophisticated and surprising production of Oscar Wilde's infamous novella, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN G…
To be perfectly clear. Audra, as in McDonald. Starring as Momma Rose, the very determined, very pushy stage mother dreaming of making her daughter June a star in Vaudeville while her…
If only! The bar of excellence has once again been lowered for quality musicals on Broadway. Perhaps I should rephrase by writing "non-musical musicals" for these productions lack th…
I have never been a fan of Sunday. Â Especially a Sunday when I am scheduled to review at 3pm a new musical " TAMMY FAYE " that has gotten less than stellar reviews and some bad word of mo…
Attend the tale of Satchmo's wives. Four in all.  For all to see. In this spotty, chaotic production of A WONDERFUL WORLD " the Louis Armstrong musical at STUDIO 54 where a ro…
I don't think that this review will sell many tickets. But with Adam Driver as its star attraction " live and in person, close up and personal " does it matter? I think not. The …
OUR TOWN has a new look. Integrated. Dr. Gibbs and family are black. And fit in just as natural as the white folks next door. The Webbs. Color doesn't matter as we all share …
The less said or written about this latest Lincoln Center catastrophe the better. McNEAL, starring Artificial Intelligence and featuring Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut. …
Did he say he was from New Canaan or New Haven? I really can't remember. It's been quite a long time that I cared to speak to someone while minding my own business sitting on a bench…
 O woe is me! Well…here goes. A mild mannered, mediocre, meandering musical. Music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rogers; mother of Adam Guettel " great musical genes inh…
Feeling blue? Down in the dumps?  Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately? The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might j…
As we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why? Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey'…
  London, Elizabethan England, 1601 For some, forsooth, I am merely a vagabond " a worthless novelty. I have been accused of wasting my time and the time of others " attempting t…
This a short somewhat strange take of a new and original musical titled LEMPICKA " not a review " that I had cancelled by the PR folks shortly before I was ready to head out to see it as one…
In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear. A dullness at first. Then grayness. Then little or…
To be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen. This is Ibsen's Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portr…
I have a cousin. She's a mosquito. I am a fly. A reincarnated fly.  Oh, the stories I could tell " this being one of them… Matthew by name.  Our families somehow, som…
So what! So I haven't got any professional experience. Just loads of school stuff. Starring roles, by the way. I keep telling myself over and over it doesn't matter. It d…
There have been many a Christmas tree in my life. Even a Hanukkah Bush. But few were chosen. And so, I take this time to reflect. A very personal view. From the ridiculous " …
Disclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to. Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street.Â�…
An overwrought, disappointing production. Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous. U…
Thank you Susan Stroman! Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many. For your dedication and artistic vision. Your creativity. For your honest…
Go-o-o-ollee! It's been said that "laughter is the best medicine" " that is, second only to corn whiskey. So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED. …
 In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe's melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White's The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher and…
 Poor Cyndi! Forced to being an outcast 'cuz she doesn't conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where "beauty is a duty" " just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of David Zipp…
Be prepared. Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer. As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and re…
This won't take long. Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …
Never leave dirty dishes in the sink. Always make your bed. And if you don't have something nice to say, don't! But certain rules are made to be broken. Right? So here go…
This new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled " Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry/G…
For this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?! Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recent…
There is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy. And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters " plays a…
As in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre. We shared the same vocal coach. I remember arriving at James Gregory's stud…
I'd like to propose a toast! To celebrate! Here's to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…
2021 is the year of SONDHEIM. Broadway: COMPANY. Off B'way: ASSASINS. Film: WEST SIDE STORY. And his untimely, sudden, unfortunate death. Flashback to 1970. After an extr…
Bringing the 1993 beloved film to Broadway now starring an equally incandescent Rob McClure as an out of work actor, facing divorce who loves his three kids so much that he manages to become…
I wondered while watching this quite expensive extravaganza if those ten year old boys sitting on their make-me-higher cushions in the audience were wondering "what do I make of all this fem…
Seriously?! At the DR2 Theatre this "new musical in the making" is more like an amateur Fringe Festival workshop production. And in need of a doctor suffering from a weak plot and fo…
Was there anyone in your past who was instrumental in guiding you through your youth, teaching you how to treat others with respect and dignity and at the same time expecting you to be treat…
A somber, melancholy atmosphere is set as one enters the Belasco Theatre by the shadowy lighting and vacant musical instruments on a bare stage as the actors slowly enter to tell their stori…
Oh what a relief it is! Laughing out loud with a packed house on Broadway! And at a funeral no less! The dearly departed in question is Bernard Jenkins (unseen until his casket is ro…
Love won. Love lost. Love regained. In short, the main plot of PERSUASION. This exceedingly well put together, charming, theatrical, humorous, anachronistic, engaging bare bo…
Going to see this production at the August Wilson Theatre on September 11 " a day of remembrance was eerily strange. It was a beautiful day. PASS OVER was to be my first show since m…
Welcome to THE TWILIGHT ZOOM. In this time travel panel experiment we meet its leader Mrs. Malaprop and her guests Dr. Faustus, Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ruth as they discuss t…
Fads come and go. Flavors of the month come and go. As do hairdos and hemlines and bust sizes. But the infamous, legendary Jayne Mansfield still fascinates. After all, she di…
VITAGRAPH, may call to mind but should never be confused with Lucy Ricardo's VITAMEATAVEGAMIN TV commercial. Nor should it be mistaken for VITAPHONE, a sound system or BIOGRAPH, a rival …