Wednesday, March 15, 2017
They aren’t. Johanna Day and Michelle Wilson play best friends and line workers on the floor since high school, caught up in an old socioeconomic squeeze play brought on by hard-nosed, cos…
Linked From observer.com at 06:30AMWednesday, March 8, 2017
When someone asks you where you were the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, not only do you know precisely where you were, you also know what you were doing and how you somehow made it through the r…
Linked From observer.com at 11:59AMMonday, March 6, 2017
The Franco-Prussian War almost started this week. That was the original title of the Joshua Harmon play that just bowed at the Booth, but the author chickened out. “I love that title,” h…
Linked From observer.com at 11:59AMFriday, March 3, 2017
In Barrie's new play, granny gets her guy.
Linked From observer.com at 09:56AMFriday, February 24, 2017
t’s good to report that Jake Gyllenhaal, who just made his Broadway musical debut in Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, was spared this special terror even hardcore career singer…
Linked From observer.com at 09:56PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater, former home of The Humans and Bad Jews, is now housing a potent blend of both in Steven Levenson’s play, If I Forget, bowing February 22.
Linked From observer.com at 12:44PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Terrence McNally recently stumbled into the perfect compliment for Santino Fontana. “I don’t think of you as a singer,” he told him. “Are you singing a lot now?”
Linked From observer.com at 11:11AMThursday, February 9, 2017
“Glenn,” Lloyd Webber still insists, “is the best Norma Desmond that I’ve ever seen.”
Linked From observer.com at 11:20AMWednesday, February 1, 2017
“I notice this eagerness to attach the word provocateur to me," says Jacob-Jenkins. "My feeling is: you can really only provoke once. After that, you’re attracting people who want to be …
Linked From observer.com at 01:29PMWednesday, January 25, 2017
One doesn’t, of course, set out to become a character actor. That’s just something that happens over the long haul of an evolving career—through age or theatrical seasoning or maybe ev…
Linked From observer.com at 01:42PMThursday, January 19, 2017
The first attempts at playwriting of two of the greats are currently nestled together in neighboring theaters on West 47th Street: At the Barrymore at present is The Present, the latest latt…
Linked From observer.com at 12:30PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Marie Mullen has made only one stop on Broadway, but it won her the Tony for Best Actress in a Play. She played Maureen Folan, a 40-year-old plain Jane resigned to a life of terminal spins…
Linked From observer.com at 12:35PMTuesday, January 3, 2017
During the past decade, Cate Blanchett from faraway Down Under has dazzlingly paraded some world-famed females before New York audiences—Hedda Gabler, one of The Maids, Blanche DuBois, Van…
Linked From observer.com at 02:49PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
David Oyelowo (pronounced “oh-yellow-oh”) is a super-serious Shakespearean actor, Oxford-born to Nigerian parents of Yoruba ethnicity, raised a Baptist and schooled in the classics at LA…
Linked From observer.com at 12:25PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
After “amazing,” “awesome” and “iconic”—on the short list of the Most Overworked and Banishable Words in the English Language—is “immersive,” but the Irish Rep’s rich, …
Linked From observer.com at 09:44AMWednesday, December 7, 2016
“Not another Tony Shalhoub musical, surely!”
The line cracks up Shalhoub, who tomorrow night tentatively sticks his big toe in the strange, shifting, uncertain sand of musical comedy …
Linked From observer.com at 09:12AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
Chazz Palminteri’s budding career as a nightclub doorman slammed swiftly shut the night he refused admission to super-agent Swifty Lazar, but another door sprang open, and it’s still ope…
Linked From observer.com at 04:48PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The fellow in the upper-lobby lounge of the of the Vivian Beaumont Theater fielding press questions is sitting very pretty indeed. These days, he's being quizzed on two literary fronts.
Linked From observer.com at 09:47AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
“I don’t know about you, but I spent election night with my family,” wrote Ben Brantley in The New York Times two days after Barack Obama was re-elected president.
“The Apples…
Linked From observer.com at 01:28PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Borle at his bravest and best is Borle at his broadest—a daring high-wire act of comedy. He’d give Wile E. Coyote cause to pause. Just look at the two cartoony Tony win in a row he is co…
Linked From observer.com at 10:09AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
When you leave A Life at Playwrights Horizons, you’ll be—if you aren’t already—thanking your lucky stars for David Hyde Pierce. It is not overstating the case too much to say that …
Linked From observer.com at 09:30AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Were the Internet Broadway Database your sole means of tracking down the Main Stem career of Diane Lane, you could get the distinct impression the poor dear has marked time in The Cherry Orc…
Linked From observer.com at 01:49PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
“It’s someone I’ve known for a good many years,” Irving Berlin remarked after a quick peek inside the Oscar envelope. “He’s a nice kid and, I think, deserves it.”
Translation:…
Linked From observer.com at 09:00AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
“Please, the full company of All the Ways to Say I Love You—to the set, please.” Such is the politely overripe way stage manager David Lurie summons his cast to work these days. Prompt…
Linked From observer.com at 09:00AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
Any dollar bill with Alexander Hamilton’s picture on it will get you a shot at Hamilton, the musical—and all-round phenomenon now (and, maybe, forever) at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. If…
Linked From observer.com at 01:37PMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Our theater community took a major hit this month with the passing of James Houghton, the 57-year-old artistic director of the Signature Theater Company who pioneered a whole new procedure i…
Linked From observer.com at 09:00AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
In Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which starts tonight and is running through July 30 as part the Encores! Off-Center series at City Center, the first voice you hear after t…
Linked From observer.com at 12:43PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Director Rachel Chavkin is riding a comet to Broadway—surely the slowest-moving comet ever to streak across the stratosphere. On November 14—four years, one month and two days after it w…
Linked From observer.com at 03:30PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
The years have salt-and-peppered his hair. He sports his share of wrinkles, crinkles and other signs of the times. But there’s something eternal and imperishable about Matthew Broderick’…
Linked From observer.com at 07:54PMWednesday, June 8, 2016
Jessica Lange was discovered in 1976 in the oversized mitt of King Kong, pretty damn distressed but pretty, and—surprise! surprise!—has spent the next 40 years harvesting film-acting har…
Linked From observer.com at 01:24PMEver realize how many years Frank Langella has been giving “the performance of a lifetime”? Critics keep trotting out that old chestnut, and he keeps calling them on it.
They said it a…
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