Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Passion and politics are often intertwined, and Your Colonel, a new play by Montgomery Sutton, explores that fusion during the American Revolution. Premiering as a part of the Metropolitan F…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:49AMSaturday, January 5, 2013
As I think about the upcoming season of Broadway, I feel excited but also a little saddened. Much of what will be produced are revivals, and many of these revivals are limited-time runs feat…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:21PMFriday, January 4, 2013
This weekend I just may have to purchase a pantsuit. After visiting the New York Library for the Performing Arts’ exhibit “Katharine Hepburn – Dressed for Stage and Screen&…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:57PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
SPOILER ALERT I will admit it. I have read all three books in the Fifty Shades of Grey series. I am not admitting this because I am ashamed of my sexual desires or even because I feel the ne…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:25AMSunday, December 23, 2012
As the year comes to an end, we love to look back at the highlights of the past twelve months. Throughout 2012, I had the privilege of seeing so many incredible performances while covering t…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:02PMEmpty words may not normally be a happy discovery on Broadway, but in the stirring revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, currently in performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, the vacant dial…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:21AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
The musical Les Misérables has finally made it to the screen, with even more pomp and circumstance than the stage. And, I am happy to report, just as much glory. Victor Hugo’s novel, firs…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:29PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Photography by Jason Bell. Makeup by Sonia Kashuk, Sonia Bashuk Beauty, for Target; Hair by Umberto Savone, Umberto Beverly Hills, for Target.
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:37PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
“Let’s all be as vulgar and uncivilized as possible!” shouts one character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the joyfully boisterous production in performances at Studio 54. …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:42AMMonday, December 10, 2012
I still don’t know what Arbor Day had to do with it. Dead Accounts, Theresa Rebeck’s latest play currently in performances at the Music Box Theater, contains a haphazard h…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:21AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Aging gracefully has taken on a new meaning, thanks to the hilarious and touching production of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s latest play currently in performan…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:36PMJust when I was beginning to fear I had become sarcastic and cynical, along came A Christmas Story to Broadway. Having seen the movie only once, more than ten years ago, I only had vague mem…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:33AMThursday, November 29, 2012
To say Samantha Shane received an unconventional bar mitzvah gift would be an understatement. When the aspiring actress reached adolescence, her father gifted her a copy of The O’Reilly Fa…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:01PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Call me crazy, but I am having a crisis of faith. Spirituality has been a popular topic on Broadway in the past year, with revivals of Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar as well as the orig…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:32PMTheater is a family affair for Rachael and Matthew Harrington. The director and author of Don Pedro de la Cebolla, a story about the illegitimate son of royalty sent on a heroic quest, are a…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:43PMMonday, November 19, 2012
“Republicans, too, Oliver! Sing!” This order, given by President Franklin Deleano Roosevelt to millionaire Oliver Warbucks may be the most unusual, fantasy-like element of Annie, the Dep…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:40AMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Texas is on the minds of many Americans as of late. A petition for the state to secede from the union was submitted last week, requesting the White House “Peacefully grant the State of…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:20PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
A stroll up a staircase has never looked better. And Jessica Chastain’s ascent up the onstage staircase in the final scene of The Heiress, currently in performances at the Walter Kerr Thea…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:47AMFriday, November 2, 2012
A new advertisement for Madison Square Garden that is plastered all over Manhattan reads as follows: “It’s Friday night. You can either see a Broadway harness malfunction or you …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:44AMSunday, October 28, 2012
“That wasn’t a very nice thing to say, Martha.” Few lines are as understated and accurate as this one, delivered early in the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Vir…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:33PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Wild With Happy, a new play by writer/performer Colman Domingo and currently in performances at the Public Theater, is a bit like Disney World, the final destination of the play’s road tri…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:31PMThursday, October 25, 2012
For Peggy Willens, being a pack rat has paid off. Years after working as a hospice volunteer, she still hadn’t thrown away the notebook filled with notes from her training. When taking…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:43PMMonday, October 22, 2012
This Cyrano de Bergerac is a “rare being,” indeed. The latest revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, currently in performances at the American Airlines Theater and starring the force o…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:41AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Throughout his years as an actor, Stephen Mo Hanan has performed in a wide range of roles, the variety of which is astounding. After originating the role of Aspara-gus/Growl-tiger in Cats, f…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:39PMTuesday, October 16, 2012
“This is a sad story,” states Karl, the plain-spoken German exterminator as he begins recounting events from his life. The same could be said before the first scene of Grace, the metaphy…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:56PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
“Some people have nothing better to do than gossip,” states one character scornfully in The Best of Everything, a stage adaptation of Rona Jaffe’s novel currently in performances at …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:18PMMonday, October 8, 2012
“It feels like a revolution!” one character exclaims passionately. “Try not to be so vocal!” another hushes him. This quote is just one of many statements made during Henrik Ibsen’…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:21PMWednesday, October 3, 2012
“Don’t speak unless you are spoken to and don’t walk through any doors,” I was strictly warned upon entering Arts@Renaissance to experience Then She Fell, the thrillingly sensual int…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:57AMIf Cinderella had a Facebook page, what would she have posted? Just ask Laura Osnes, who will play the title role in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella on Broadway. While discuss…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:35AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Teenage bullying and global warming have both received a great deal of attention in the media lately, but one wonders if they have ever been combined into one story. Bringing the two togethe…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:08AMSunday, September 23, 2012
Who am I? That is the bold question the equally boldly named play C*ck, currently in performances at the Duke Theater, dares to ask as it examines a man whose sexual identity confuses him, t…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:00PM 
