Friday, January 17, 2014
Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector in Machinal
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
For anyone who's ever felt trapped by their job, their relationships, or just life in general, there's always a good possib…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:47AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Last year, there was a lapse in a tradition, I'd grown really fond of. A "12 CDs of Christmas" column. I'm so happy to bring it back this year. Below you'll find a dozen discs - all relea…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 02:14PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Herman Cornejo and Alessandra Ferri in Chéri
(©Joan Marcus)
Martha Clarke's new dance-theater piece Chéri, which opened last night at the Pershing Square Signature Center, ve…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:07AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Nathaly Lopez, Laura Dreyfuss, Kyle Riabko (front row)
James Williams, James Nathan Hopkins, Daniel Woods, Daniel Bailen (back row)
in What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
(©Eric R…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:52AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Ruben Santiago-Hudson in How I Learned What I Learned
(©Joan Marcus)
Fans of Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's plays know that he has both a keen sense of history and an extraordin…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:41AMHarvey Gardner Moore and DeWanda Wise in Sunset Baby
(©Monique Carboni)
Sunset Baby, the rather innocuous title of Dominique Morisseau's new play that's just opened in a Labyrinth Thea…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:17AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker in The Commons of Pensacola
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Ripped-from-the-headlines drama meets situation comedy in Amanda Peet's The Commons of Pensacola, whi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:41AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Tom O'Keefe, Eric Tucker, and Andrus Nichols in Hamlet
(Photo courtesy of the company)
New York has been awash in productions of William Shakespeare's plays this fall: from Romeo and Julie…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:11AMFriday, November 15, 2013
Stephanie J. Block, Rory O'Malley, Hannah Nordberg, Logan Rowland, David Rasche, and Will Swenson in Little Miss Sunshine
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
In the latest of transfers from film to the m…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:01AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Bill Pullman and Glenne Headly in The Jacksonian
(Photo: Monique Carboni)
Beth Henley takes audiences on a creepy rollercoaster ride in The Jacksonian, a grisly Southern Gothic memory play…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:35AMHamish McCann in La Soiree
(Photo: Max Gordon)
Chances are you've seen acts like those found in the new age circus burlesque La Soiree, which opened last night at the Union Square Theatre…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 04:49AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Adriane Lenox in After Midnight
(Photo: Matthew Murphy)
Take a host of standards from the American songbook mix them with some jazz classics and a few forgotten gems from nearly a century …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:21AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Noah Hinsdale, Griffin Birney, and Sydney Lucas in Fun Home.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
To give you an idea of the daring new musical Fun Home, which opened last night at the Public Theater, let…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:17AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Charlotte Parry and Roger Rees in The Winslow Boy.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
A pair of masterful performances from Tony Award winner Roger Rees and his co-star Charlotte Parry are just enough o…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:18AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Today and tomorrow a who's who of musical theater professionals will converge on New World Stages in Midtown Manhattan for the National Alliance of Music Theatre's 25th Annual Festival of Ne…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:07AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Jason Pinter, Will Callahan, and Lou Bolster in Orphan Train.
(Photo: Richard Finkelstein)
Over the weekend, Orphan Train, a new musical about a simultaneously inspiring and disturbing sli…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 03:11PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Rob McClure and Tony Danza in Honeymoon in Vegas.
(Photo: T. Charles Erickson)
The question that most likely is on everyone's mind as they contemplate the idea of a musical version of the 1…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 09:57AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Molly Ranson, Tracee Chimo, and Michael Zegen in Bad Jews.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Death can bring out funny things in people. Playwright Joshua Harmon demonstrates his understanding of this …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:48AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Il Divo meets the press at Sardi's.
(Photo: ATW)
The global phenomenon known as Il Divo - the vocal quartet that seamlessly blends classical and pop sounds - is going through a metamorphosi…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 10:23AMFriday, September 20, 2013
Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad in Romeo and Juliet.
(Photo: Carol Rosegg)
At intermission of a recent press performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which officially opened night at…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:37AMFriday, September 13, 2013
Betty Buckley in The Old Friends.
(Photo: Joan Marcus)
Dropping in for a visit to Harrison, TX, courtesy of Horton Foote, can often be a sort of reassuring theatrical trip down south, and w…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:58AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Natalie Gold and Will Pullen in Scarcity.
(Photo: Sandra Coudert)
Consisting of five plays produced concurrently in five different venues throughout the West Village, Rattlestick Playwright…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:30AMFriday, August 23, 2013
I won't be posting any reviews here on AmericanTheaterWeb until September 5, but before then, I'll be sharing a few links to pieces I've written for other sites. Starting with one about 'Sh…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 08:04AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Eric Anderson in Soul Doctor.
(Photo: Carol Rosegg)
The new bio-tuner Soul Doctor, which opened at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre last night, is a curious hybrid. There are times…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 06:20AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Review of the Shakespeare in the Park production: At its very best, the new musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost that's running at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park …
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 02:45PMFriday, August 9, 2013
Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez in First Date. (Photo: Joan Marcus)
It would be great to announce that it's love at first sight with the new musical First Date, which opened at Broadway…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 05:24AMSunday, August 4, 2013
Morning,
Not at all sure how many people will see this. Tonight, I'll be seeing First Date on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. It officially opens on Thursday, and I think the time has c…
SOURCE: AmericanTheaterWeb at 07:00AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
Playwright Erin Courtney's The Service Road, receiving its world premiere from the Adhesive Theater Project at the Voorhees Theatre in Brooklyn, plunges you into a modern-day fairy tale. It'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:45PMMonday, January 14, 2013
There's a dose of the autobiographical, the biographical and, most important and impressive, the lyrical waiting for you in James DeVita's In Acting Shakespeare, now running at The Pearl The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMThere's a dose of the autobiographical, the biographical and, most important and impressive, the lyrical waiting for you in James DeVita's In Acting Shakespeare, now running at The Pearl The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:08PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Heather Henderson has been named the new managing director of Abdingdon Theatre Company. She replaces Samuel J. Bellinger, who has left the theater to take a position at Second Stage Theatre…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:19PM 
