Monday, June 12, 2023
(NEW YORK) – The United Palace, the opulent and spectacular movie theater that was once home to minister Reverend Ike, served as the glamorous backdrop for Broadway’s night to honor its …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:43AMSunday, June 11, 2023
By ROY BERKO Doubt: A Parable, which is now on stage at Beck Center for the Arts, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. It ran for 525 performances in it…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:46PMFriday, June 2, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Alfred Uhry’s musical Parade, co-conceived by Hal Prince with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, is now playing to sell-out crowds and rave reviews, and back on Broadw…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:59PMWednesday, May 24, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Author Mark Haddon created a best selling novel 20 years ago in Great Britain with “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nig…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:02PMSaturday, May 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There is an adage well known to pharmacists and those familiar with shampoo. The directions “repeat when necessary” come to …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:14PMTuesday, May 16, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Despite its having won a Tony Award for scenic design, The SpongeBob Musical appeared to be a lightweight entry on the season f…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:11AMMonday, May 15, 2023
By ROY BERKO The setting in which a musical production takes place, often affects the pleasure one gets from the experience. A perfect case in point is Ain’t Misbehavin’ presently bein…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:36AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
(NEW YORK) – Tony Awards nominations were announced this morning by Lea Michele and 2022 Tony Award winner Myles Frost. The full list of nominations follows. A total of 38 shows were elig…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:44PMSaturday, April 29, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Lance E. Nichols has played many roles in his stellar movie and TV career, but the opportunity to emulate playwright August Wils…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:46AMTuesday, April 25, 2023
By ROY BERKO It’s always exciting and challenging to see a “new” play script come alive in a staged production, especially by a creditable performance company. What We Look Like, no…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:32AMThursday, April 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) In 1851 in an article written for DeBow’s Review that was published in New Orleans, Dr. Samuel Cartwright, a physician, create…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 02:29PMSaturday, April 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Brian Egland wears many hats in the theatrical world – stage and film actor, singer, songwriter, photographer and director amo…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:01PMWednesday, April 12, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) If Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia! are examples of “jukebox musicals,” then the national tour of Moulin Rouge! might be more acc…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:15PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) The final production for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s 2022-23 season is Misery, the play written by the late script…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25PMWednesday, March 22, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Pictures from Home currently running thru April 30 is the most delightful and thought-provoking play currently gracing the Broadway stages at this very moment. Featuring the …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 09:44AMMonday, March 20, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) One could argue that T. Lawrence Shannon, the defrocked Episcopal priest who is the central character of The Night of the Iguana…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 12:48PMWednesday, March 15, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) For the second time in less than six months, The Play That Goes Wrong, the hit West End and Broadway award-winning comedy is on …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:47AMTuesday, March 14, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) There’s something to be said when a major New Orleans staple like Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is able to been …
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:05AMFriday, March 10, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – As England prepares for its royal coronation in May, Milwaukee audiences have gotten a glimpse of the upcoming festivities with the arrival of the Six nation…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 10:57AMTuesday, March 7, 2023
By ROY BERKO In the late 1950’s through the 1980s The Theatre of the Absurd theatrical movement was the intellectual rage. Based on the concept of Existentialism which asks, “what ha…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:42AMMonday, March 6, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) If artists of one cultural or racial extraction are being considered above others for inclusion at a museum or at gallery shows,…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:21PMSaturday, March 4, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI – This Midwest state is currently swept up in a slate of new plays, all part of a project called World Premiere Wisconsin. The project, with multiple sources o…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 07:07AMThursday, March 2, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) When it comes to an old chestnut like “Fiddler on the Roof,” the biggest challenge may be in keeping the Joseph Stein book f…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:40PMFriday, February 24, 2023
By JASON ROBERT BROWN February 22, 2023, Nyack, NY So, the Neo-Nazis. There is a website about the Leo Frank case that is not hard to find on Google. It has been around in some form or other…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 03:25AMSaturday, February 4, 2023
By ROY BERKO When Hadestown, opened on Broadway on April 17, 2019, it was met with critical acclaim. Reviews contained such terms as “inventive,” “gorgeous, “hypnotic,” “high ene…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:37AMSunday, January 29, 2023
By EDWARD RUBIN Having lived in New York City’s East Village for many decades, I know the very neighborhood where much of the action in Anthony McCarten’s currently running Broadway play…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 04:32AMThursday, January 26, 2023
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (‘Steppin’ Out“) When A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical opened on Broadway nearly eight weeks ago, there was some bellyaching from fir…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:43AMWednesday, January 18, 2023
By ROY BERKO As the run of the awe-inspiring Hamilton draws to a close at the Playhouse Square’s State Theatre, Beetlejuice, the cult-followed farcical ghostly show appears next door at th…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 06:24PMWednesday, January 11, 2023
By ANNE SIEGEL MILWAUKEE, WI. – January temperatures rarely rise above 30 degrees here, so indoor activities are welcomed. Local theatergoers can watch a foot-stompin,’ whooping and holl…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 05:24AMMonday, January 9, 2023
By ALAN SMASON There are a plethora of plays that have become the basis of successful Broadway musicals. A classic example is Lynn Riggs’ Green Grow the Lilacs, which became Oklahoma. Th…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 11:37AMThursday, December 22, 2022
By EDWARD RUBIN Billed as “A Penetrating Portrayal of A Queer Giant,” performance artist John Kelly’s explosive gay-themed show Underneath The Skin, – bolstered by actor/dancers Hu…
SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 08:25PM 
