Ethan Slater & Betsy Wolfe bring their Seymour and Audrey to a new LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS “Skid Row” music video! This month the show will be celebrating the milestone of hitting the same amount of performances as the or…
Jon Tenney, Len Cariou, Kevin Kline, Nell Verlaque, and Laura Linney in “American Classic.”September 6, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerIt’s not often that film can o…
Interview with Ron Fassler . . . I had the opportunity recently to talk with multi-hyphenate Tony Danza, a performer who’s been steadily entertaining audiences for close to fifty years. It…
Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986).August 31, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.One of the most colorful of men, Alan Jay Lerner was a librettist and lyricist from the golden age…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Allow me to confess that I have never seen any of the seven Paranormal Activity films produced since 2007. Admittedly, my enthusiasm for horror has waned somewh…
William Redfield as Harding in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975).August 17, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerOn this date fifty years ago, the versatile and de…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . With this being the centenary of Tony Bennett’s birth (in fact, he was born today, August 3, 1926), cabaret icon and pianist-singer Billy Stritch put together a…
By Ron Fassler . . . At the moment, playwrights seem happy to dig into the dangers of AI because—let’s face it—there’s drama in them thar hills. Disruption, Andrew Stein’s new play…
Jason Babinsky, Michael McKean and Adam Kantor in “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been.”July 30, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.About six years ago, my theatre going b…
Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 — July 23, 1966).Credited with bringing a bold and newfound realism to the big screen, Montgomery Clift distinctively transformed movie acting in th…
The 1967 cast of “Hello, Dolly!” led by Pearl Bailey (Friedman-Abeles Photography).July 19, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerIf your love of Broadway musicals has brough…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . One of the first things you might be struck by while watching Jonathan Spector’s impressive three-hour and twenty-minute Birthright, currently playing at MCC, …
July 8, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWith this week’s official passing of the torch from one to another, the Belasco Theatre can now boast Will Aronson and Hue Park’…
The original cast on Jo Mielziner’s elegant set with Patricia Zipprodt’s stunning costumes (photo by Martha Swope).July 4, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.I’ve writ…
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in “Once” (2012). Photo by Sara Krulwich.July 1, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.The 21st century began on January 1, 2001 (this is a s…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Her mastery of cabaret should come as no surprise to fans of Megan Hilty’s Broadway work, already well aware how beautifully she knows her way around a song. …
Review by Ron Fassler ... With so many interesting plays these days dealing with young teenage women, Dad Don't Read This struggles to find its place among them.
In front of the Apollo Theatre in the West End after attending “The Truth” (self-portrait by Ron Fassler).June 24, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerYesterday, I wrote ab…
The Royal Theatre Haymarket’s SAFETY CURTAIN — a thing of beauty and a joy to behold (photo by Ron Fassler).June 23, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWhile in London…
A chat with Megan Hilty about her new Café Carlyle show and what inspires her about playing at the legendary supper club.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . There’s a relatively new theatre space off-Broadway (well, maybe off-off-Broadway, but who defines these things anyway?) and it goes by the moniker East Villa…
Basketball’s loss was musical theatre’s gain when Adrienne Warren switched her professional interest.
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989).June 1, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.With the month of May in the rearview mirror, I’ve taken the last few days to look back at eighty …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In the mid-70s, pop composer Rupert Holmes was doing well writing and performing hits like “Him” and “The Pina Colada Song”, though their success did ha…
Audra McDonald with her six Tony Awards.May 15, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerNow that the 2026 Tony Awards nominations have been announced and campaigning is in full sw…
A peculiar show, it should still leave one grateful to see it after so many years and happy to support J2 Spotlight’s commitment to producing seldom-seen musicals
May 5, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWell, the 79th Annual Tony Nominations have just been announced and, as usual, theatre fans all over are reviewing the situation. In …
Thought provoking and unsettling, "Kenrex" is a drama with a central performance by Jack Holden that should not be missed.
By Samuel L. Leiter As I watched the revival of August Wilson’s emotionally explosive but dramatically stiff Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, I was struck by …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Famously, New York City’s Joe Allen restaurant on West 46th Street features a wall of shame; its brick walls decorated with the original posters of flop shows f…
Reporting by Ron Fassler and Melissa Griegel. Last night at a cocktail party at the Algonquin, on the site where Al Hirschfeld once hung out with the esteemed members of the hotel’s illust…
Sara Chase (center) and company in “Schmigadoon!”April 28, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.When I began writing this column ten years ago and titled it “Theatre Yest…
Wonderfully self-effacing in his well-structured cabaret act, Panaro is in love with performing and crafts an evening of pleasurable sincerity.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . As an avid theatregoer and critic, I consider myself fortunate that at the age of twelve, I saw the original 1969 Broadway production of 1776. A critic even back…
By Samuel L. Leiter The Broadway revival of David Auburn’s 1999 drama Proof at the Booth Theatre, directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton), has various laudatory features, but it fails to prov…
With two heaven-sent actresses, it is unfortunately left to the gifted Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara to grapple with a play that has always been a bit of a soufflé and is now downgraded to…
"The Ballusters" provides more gut-busting laughter than any show this season
By Alex Eichholz . . . If you haven't heard by now, Cats, now dazzlingly rebranded as Cats: The Jellicle Ball, has opened on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre after a critically acclaimed a…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In a 2011 interview, the legendary composer Jerry Herman referred to Milk and Honey, his first musical produced on Broadway, as "an extraordinary adventure, fi…
By Ron Fassler . . . The Annual fundraiser concert for Broadway Inspirational Voicers (BIV) was held Monday night at City Winery. As the sun set on the Chelsea Piers, a festive and happy cro…
Review by Ron Fassler . . . The early 20th century playwright Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein in New York City in 1892, had two dozen plays produced on Broadway in his lifetime ov…
By Ron Fassler . . . Anyone serious about theatre will most likely recall their introduction to Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. At age eighteen, when director Mike Nichols saw its or…
The original cast of "Beautiful Girls" from "Follies" (1971) with the inevitable Roscoe (Michael Bartlett). Photo by Martha Swope.April 4, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fas…
Jon Bernthal commands the stage from start to finish, accomplishing that with an honest charisma, a true voice made for the theater, and solid acting chops.
"Rhinoceros" couldn't be timelier.
Review by Ron Fassler . . . In 1966, children's book author Stoo Hample, along with Eric Marshall, co-edited a small volume of letters to God written by children, aptly titled Children's …
March 30, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler. Jonathan Groff at the curtain call of "Just in Time," his final performance as Bobby Darin. Photo by Ron Fassler.Almost a y…
The theatrical event of the season.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is charming, even if one wishes for someone in the role with a genuine score to settle
A riveting 70-minutes.
Just sit back and appreciate songs filled with nostalgia, sentiment, humor, wisdom, longing, and regret.
