Thursday, September 25, 2014
A new Broadway revival of On the Town began previews over the weekend at the oft-renamed Lyric (nee Foxwoods, nee Hilton, nee Ford) Theatre. There were no survivors.This is not going to be a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:47AMFriday, September 19, 2014
[As with my review of Indian Ink, this post contains what may be considered spoilers to some. Read ahead at your own risk. -CK] Photo: Joan Marcus The Country House is a rare--and a rather w…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:07PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Portrait by Ken Fallin A.R. Gurney's Love Letters has long been a favorite of regional theatres and one-night-only benefits. Its conceit is simple: two performers--a man and a woman--sit sid…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:53PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
[Note: This review contains potential plot spoilers. You have been warned. -CK] Photo: Joan Marcus Roundabout is starting its Broadway season with an all-star revival of Tom Stoppard’s The…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:12PMMonday, September 8, 2014
The acclaimed, awarded Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is currently benefitting from addition by subtraction. Neil Patrick Harris is gone, and he's understandably taken some…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:53AMThursday, September 4, 2014
The new Broadway revival of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s You Can’t Take It With You is spectacularly bad. This, perhaps, shouldn’t be surprising. New York theatre no longer specia…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:29AMSaturday, August 30, 2014
Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow In 2014, a play written in 1996 and set in 1982 is making its Broadway debut. Still with me? The play is This is Our Youth, the first major work by Kenneth Lon…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:43PMHi, everyone! I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. Or, depending on your history with this blog, re-introduce myself. I’m Cameron Kelsall, and I’m the new (old) writer for Show…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:22PMMonday, October 24, 2011
When I first heard the commotion regarding the new Broadway adaptation of Porgy & Bess--directed by Diane Paulus, with a new book by Suzan-Lori Parks and musical adaptations by Deirdre Murra…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:10PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
photo: Broadway.comThe criminally underrated musical adaptation of Sister Act (by Alan Menken and Douglas Carter Beane, at the Broadway Theatre) is notable for many reasons, including a brea…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:57PMOver the next few weeks, the ShowShowdown team will be providing our opinions on a variety of theatre-related questions that often come up. These are questions that interest us, fascinate us…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:49PMSunday, June 19, 2011
Having actors direct is always a tricky prospect. It's complicated even further when the actor who is directing is also playing a leading role in the same production. That's the main problem…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:35AMThursday, June 9, 2011
As a playwright, Jez Butterworth seems to be keenly interested in the implied. The words that he puts in his characters' mouths are often meant to signify something that's three steps remove…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:19AMSaturday, June 4, 2011
I saw Lynn Nottage's new play this afternoon--ironically, two years to the day after I first saw her Pulitzer-Prize winning Ruined. In those two years, rarely a day has passed when I haven't…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:41PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
photo: T. Charles EricksonNo one can fault John Guare for being ambitious. His play A Free Man of Color, which has been in gestation for over twenty years, represents not only two decades of…
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