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 09:49AM[SHARE]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 06:21PM[SHARE]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 01:57PM[SHARE]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 10:25AM[SHARE]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 05:02PM[SHARE]Empty 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 11:21AM[SHARE]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, first …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:29PM[SHARE]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 01:37PM[SHARE]“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.Â…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:42AM[SHARE]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 09:21AM[SHARE]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 performance…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:36PM[SHARE]Just 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 09:33AM[SHARE]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 Fact…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:01PM[SHARE]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 05:32PM[SHARE]Theater 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 03:43PM[SHARE]"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 Depress…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:40AM[SHARE]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 02:20PM[SHARE]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 Theate…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:47AM[SHARE]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 12:44AM[SHARE]"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 Virginia Wool…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 06:33PM[SHARE]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 trip …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:31PM[SHARE]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 04:43PM[SHARE]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 of natu…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:41AM[SHARE]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 12:39PM[SHARE]"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 metaphysica…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:56PM[SHARE]"Some people have nothing better to do than gossip," Â states one character scornfully in The Best of Everything, a stage adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel currently in performances at the …
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:18PM[SHARE]"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's An Enemy…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:21PM[SHARE]"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 interactive…
SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:57AM[SHARE]If 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 10:35AM[SHARE]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 10:08AM[SHARE]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…
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