Grab those chips! Kenzie Ziegler's Charmion solo from & Juliet just dropped. & Juliet is the hit Broadway musical created by the Emmy-winning writer of Schitt’s Creek & pop music’s # 1 hitmaker. Get tickets to & Juliet …
My injured back forced me to miss the opening performances, so I caught this one on the heavily wet Sat mat of July 19th, where a goodly group of us joined up to witness a lively performance…
The production of Monte Cristo, a new musical under the direction of Peter Flynn, debuted for three weeks of performances at the York Theatre off-Broadway with its last on April 5th. Meet…
Bread is going to draw us into learning more about our next Broadway musical, a lalapalooza with a cast of over twenty featured players and an ensemble of gifted singers, all of whom are del…
ART arrives at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway to brighten the autumn season. French writer Yasmina Reza's hit comedy as translated to The King's English by Christopher Hampton has been a …
Kyoto at Lincoln Center is a production of the play by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre. It has taken me three days to unravel my thoughts and to collect and arrang…
The Lincoln Center Theatre Mgt. has mounted a new production of the musical RAGTIME to replace the recent ones that first attracted us 30 years ago. Lear deBessonet is the org…
The world of theatre has changed once again"one word titles are fashionable, and nuance is out. This production of Punch, a new play by James Graham, is based on the book Right From Wrong by…
Here is a musical about the very real mother of Gypsy Rose Lee who was a Broadway legend in her own right co-starring in musical comedies in the early 1940s"in shows that crossed the l…
It's taken me many hours to deliver to you the unusual mysteries in the background of this very late entry into the '24 -'25 New York theatre season. There are over 40 names of individual…
The American Musical which Broadway has been said to invent has passed away. The current season on the main stem has just ended as award season selects its winners for the summer tourist …
Carolyn Bowman (Mathew Murphy) In an attempt to attract new audiences to new plays and musicals, a pattern has begun to emerge. Shows are being conceived by a new generation of producers, wr…
Who would have believed that at last a musical comedy called BOOP would arrive on Broadway late in the season (April 6) just in time to deliver an Easter gift that saves us from the…
Out of a great mess of a family, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has fashioned a new play dealing with a celebratory birthday dinner at the very conventional looking home of Claudine…
Out of the nightly CBS talk show which once filled our radio and later our television listening hours, the 21st century has moved in early and finally taken command of the vast audience that…
     Shaina Taub is an artist in residence at the Public Theatre in New York, where she first presented this musical for which she wrote book, music, and lyrics. In add…
Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard are now co-starring in this flashy and stylish new musical, playing the two nasty "frenemies" who were played in the non-musical movie by Meryl Streep and Gol…
The  James Earl Jones Theatre on West 48th Street (once called The Cort) has put out its newly-refurbished welcome mat to a new rom/com by Delia Ephron based on her best-selling memoir. I…
An odd quirk about the Playbill program that is notable"there is no listing of the songs' titles and no mention of why. I suspect Lloyd Webber felt that his melodies were constant; they were…
The management at New York's Lincoln Center has brought into its spacious Beaumont Theatre a flashy new production called McNeal by the highly regarded Ayad Aktar whose plays Disgraced a…
The new Broadway season begins with this two-character play from Jen Silverman who is a "they/them" playwright, novelist, and screenwriter; and they seems to have had productions every…
I took a third look at this"my memoir"and realized that, though it covered 90 years, I found myself reacting to some of its highlights with reflection, and realized that when it was publ…
After 30 years of devotion and much love for this marvelous institution, this will be my final report. The management has for three years ignored my request for a change of seat location. I …
On a fine evening in late June with a hundred celebrants in the Green Room at Yotel on 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, I was with my partner, Christian Foy, and two friends" the cartoonist Tom …
Chip Zien and Judy Kuhn (Joan Marcus) I was unable to attend an early performance of this grand finale to the 2024 season, but I did catch it just before it finished its brief run on June…
This is an odd column  for me, as I reviewed this play by Amy Herzog in 2017 when it first appeared in the smaller venue of the New York Theatre Workshop on East 4th Street where it had w…
Playwright Amy Herzog has given us her version of Ibsen's masterful play of the same name that remains set in late 19th Century Norway; but it is as though it was first conceived yesterday b…
I've been privileged to be one of the few survivors of the 1966 opening of this landmark musical when its original production opened on Broadway. I was then a young theatre agent representin…
There are classical themes that seem to interest and attract playwrights in each succeeding generation. Certainly Shakespeare was aware of the class distinctions of his time in urban England…
There is a note in the Playbill for Corruption the current occupant of the Mitzi Newhouse Theater in Lincoln Center. It's by the play's author J.T.Rogers and in it he tells us that his p…
This elaborately titled musical is based on a novel of the same name by Sara Gruen which was a best seller and served as the source of a film with Reese Witherspoon and others. It's now been…
In the beginning, there was the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Same title as the musical which is based on the book"a runaway best seller. A consortium of over twenty producers (investors) joined…
The New Group is offering us a play called The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seaver. Directed by Scott Elliott, it is now running at The Signature Pershing Square Theatre on West 42nd Stree…
In the glorious days, a star like Ethel Merman, Gwen Verdon, Alfred Drake, or a favorite of mine, Chita Rivera (whom we just lost), could lift mediocre material to the level of entertainment…
I spent some time in Sarasota in January as the Asolo Repertory Theatre is celebrating its 65th season. The Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein has announced an ambitious collection …
What we have here on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a consortium of over FIFTY "producers" who gathered together to sponsor a musical comedy"something to which they could take th…
The dazzling company of 24 gifted singers, dancers, and actors under the remarkably inventive direction and choreography of Josh Rhodes have brought to the St.James Theatre on 44th Street a …
A series of conflicting dates meant I had to wait until December 17 to see this musical at the Classic Stage Company where it opened in October and was extended to run through December 17th.…
This musical tribute to director/choreographer Graciela Daniele is beautiful to look at and mostly delightful to know. It was created musically by Michael John LaChiusa for Daniele"his good …
This s a tough review to write because this new musical at the Public Theatre is a prime example of what has happened to Broadway as we approach the middle of the 21s…
A visit to the Abingdon Theatre, a compact Off-Broadway Theatre on 42nd Street, felt to me like a visit to help an acquaintance through the very difficult final days of the life of the famil…
Ossie Davis is an actor and playwright"born in 1917"whose long career in theatre began in 1939 after his graduation from Howard University. He eventually made his Broadway debut in Jeb in 19…
Theresa Rebeck is a prolific, award winning playwright whose new play deals with an eccentric elderly gent who is an obsessive hoarder.We meet him as the curtain rises on his apartment where…
I had worked with Director Peter Flynn a number of times, both as an actor and as author when he staged two workshop productions in New York of a musical to which I'd written the book. I'…
In 1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart took hold of John O'Hara's original book, borrowed its title character, and brought to Broadway a somewhat cynical musical named for its central c…
This comedy by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon is currently running at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway. It serves as a good example of the current trend of new work being presented by a consor…
The cover of the playbill for The Cottage, now playing at the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway, is most promising. It is a painting of an English country cottage burgeoning with a group of wa…
There was once a play called The Days of Wine and Roses by J.P. Miller, and in 1962 it was filmed starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Now, sixty years later, Adam Guettel has written …
I watched Oscar Levant on tv"primarily on the Jack Paar Show where he was an almost permanent guest, so popular were his many visits. Paar himself loved to chat with him about t…
The original production of this British musical is one I thoroughly enjoyed when i saw it in 1960. The New York City Center has now offered it to us again in its "Encores! series for a b…
Just as I was about to write off this season on Broadway's Musical Theatre Scene after many months of second rate offering in that category"shows that are so busy catering to rock and oth…
