Two American dramedies, one classic and the other newly minted, affirm humanity’s indomitable ability to renew in the face of chaos. The post From Massachusetts: The Skin of Our Teeth and …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PM★★ A Hamlet prequel out of a John Updike novel falls short of presaging the tragedy to follow The post From Massachusetts: Gertrude and Claudius’s Time Is Out of Joint appeared first o…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PM★★★★ A great doggie performer headlines a tuneful, kid-friendly morality tail (sic) The post From Connecticut: Because of Winn Dixie Is Not Arf Bad appeared first on New York Stage R…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PM★★★ Rock'n'roll is here to stay, though we learn little about the man who made it happen The post Rock and Roll Man: Tutti-Frutti, Mostly Goodie appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PMTwo concurrent plays in the Berkshires examine the effect of fairy tales, whether on the body human or the body politic The post From Massachusetts: Into a Sondheim Woods and a Fascist Ameri…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:00PMGarcia Lorca’s folk tragedy invokes earth, fire, and water, but gets mostly infused with air The post Yerma: Simmering When It Ought to Boil appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PM★★★ A sprightly, nostalgic musical of the 1960s sacrifices some of the stronger qualities of its cinematic source The post The Flamingo Kid: Follow the Pink-and-Blue Road appeared firs…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:00PM★★★★ Two gifted first-timers, the Brothers Lazour, find melody and hope in recent historical events marked as much by defeat as by triumph The post We Live in Cairo: An Arab-Spring A…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00PM★★★★ Shadow Box author shadow-boxes with charismatic real-life champ, wins on points The post Man in the Ring: Forgiven for Killing, Condemned for Love appeared first on New York Sta…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:18PM★★★★ McNally, Ahrens and Flaherty ransack the operetta playbook, with pleasing results The post Anastasia: Journey to the Musical Past appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:50PM★★★★ Director Mark Lamos invests a musical theater perennial with novelty and life The post Man of La Mancha: Still True to Its Glorious Quest appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:01PM★★★★★ A classic poem becomes a stunning music theater piece celebrating identity and dignity in the face of oppression The post The Black Clown: Racial Pride Triumphant in Entertai…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:40PMHarriet Harris shines as Chris Durang’s nutty nun, while Robert E. Sherwood’s vintage melodrama just shines, period. The post Petrified Forest, Sister Mary Ignatius: Revivals Under the B…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01AM★★★★ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material. The post West Side Story: Reproducing a Classic With Si…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:02PM★★ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off The post Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th Century a…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:30AM★★★ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America The post The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PMA rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PMSurveys of musicals, if they do nothing else, inevitably incite arguments between the author and the reader. There's plenty of grist for the argument mill in Dietz's tome.
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