You can practically see the tumbleweeds blowing through the hearts of the characters in “Girl From the North Country.” This achingly beautiful musical weds the songs of Bob Dylan to a bo…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMWith his new production of “West Side Story,” the estimable Belgian director Ivo van Hove has essentially stolen a march on no less a showbiz luminary than Steven Spielberg. How’s that…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 08:00PMIn just the first minutes of Bess Wohl’s “Grand Horizons,” a supremely funny comedy of marital malaise presented by Second Stage Theater, Jane Alexander and James Cromwell deliver a mi…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMShots ring out. A man falls dead at the hands of an unknown killer. Enter an investigator to sort through a hefty pile of suspects and bring the culprit to justice. Charles Fuller’s Pulitz…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMWhen the theater goes to the library for inspiration, the results can often be disappointing. Even great books can wither and wilt when they are adapted for the stage. A happy if not entirel…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMLove is most certainly for sale at “Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter.” Although the composer-lyricist is justifiably renowned for his coruscating wit and insouciant wordpl…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 07:30PMIn “You Learn,” the song that concludes the new musical “Jagged Little Pill” on a note of hard-won, almost downbeat uplift, a lyric from Alanis Morissette recommends the advantages o…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMIf you don’t respond with a moist eye and a swelling heart to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens’ classic tale of a miser’s spiritual redemption, I wouldn’t go so far as to cal…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMMost Broadway seasons feature at least one show that gathers an aura of importance even before it opens. This year it is undoubtedly “The Inheritance,” Matthew Lopez’s two-part, nearly…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PM“Slava’s Snowshow,” which has returned to New York for a limited engagement more than a decade after its first Broadway run, is not your typical holiday fare. While the show’s cast i…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 07:00PMTo the long list of adjectives we toss around like verbal confetti to describe Kristin Chenoweth – radiant, impish, perky, sunny, funny! – we can now add fearless. In her concert at the …
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 03:12PMIf a single voice, or a single performance, could send a Broadway musical soaring to greatness, “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” would handily qualify as one of the best musicals to emerg…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMThe company returns to Lincoln Center to celebrate its founder, performing many of the late choreographer's masterworks October 29–November 17.
Linked From Playbill at 03:19PM“We’re on a road to nowhere,” David Byrne sings in the final encore of his Broadway concert, “American Utopia,” at the Hudson Theatre. Can we get an encore of that encore, please?…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMPop quiz question: Can you name a single writer darker than Dostoevsky? The options are few, but I hereby nominate Adam Rapp, the playwright and novelist whose vision is so unrelievedly grim…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMYou think your dad (or mom) is a deadbeat? Consider the plight of the young characters in “The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,” a thoroughly endearing family-friendly musical…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMAs Serafina Delle Rose, a grieving Italian-American widow struggling to open herself to life again in Tennessee Williams’s “The Rose Tattoo,” Marisa Tomei bares just about all, emotion…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMA sad romantic comedy sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s an apt-enough description of “Linda Vista,” a slight but funny and quietly affecting play from Tracy Letts, which h…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMIf there’s anything more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, it’s hearing about their therapy sessions. And, to my mind, hearing about people’s sexual fantasies — admi…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 08:30PMIf “gerund” isn’t the very last word I ever expected to hear uttered on a Broadway stage, it’s probably pretty darn close. Broadway rarely gives grammar lessons, after all. And yet…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMWhen incendiary current events are leaping from your TV screen into your lap on an almost hourly basis, a play such as “The Great Society” has a tough row to hoe. How to excite audiences…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMAs a literary luminary slowly sinking into senility, thrashing through his failing memory like a man battling the suffocating grip of quicksand, Jonathan Pryce gives a performance of remarka…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMWhere did that infernal banana go? This is not the kind of question you expect to be rattling around your brain during an evening of theater. And yet rattle me it did more than once during…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMThere are three principal characters, unfixed points in an adulterous romantic triangle, in Harold Pinter’s 1978 play “Betrayal,” now being revived to thrilling — and chilling — ef…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMLove and marriage. Birth and death. Sorrows and joys. Loss and renewal. Bacon and eggs. Whoops — sorry! My mind wandered to breakfast plans while I was attempting to think of something i…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 09:00PMThe Broadway exclamation point — once a marquee staple, later an overused joke — makes a roaring comeback with “Moulin Rouge!” This new musical, based on the Baz Luhrmann movie set i…
Linked From broadwaynews.com at 10:00PMIt’s only in the final moments of the moving new Broadway revival of Terrence McNally’s “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” that the consummate musician in Audra McDonald emerg…
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 09:30PMThe groundbreaking classic from the '70s is a featured part of the American Ballet Theatre's Tharp Trio performances beginning May 30.
Linked From Playbill at 02:40PMFor a musical jubilantly proclaiming that its overriding theme is death, “Beetlejuice” has a surprisingly lively spring in its step. As is well known by now, popular movies never die; th…
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 09:00PM“People like stories,” says Rupert Murdoch — a fictional Rupert Murdoch, that is — just before the lights dim on the last scene of “Ink,” James Graham’s play about the media ma…
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 10:00PMThe familiar rap on flawed Broadway musicals usually goes something like this: “Well, the score is great…but the book has problems.” Enter “Tootsie,” red sequins ablaze, a new musi…
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