Wednesday, January 15, 2020
When 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 10:00PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Love 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 07:30PMThursday, December 5, 2019
In “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 09:00PMWednesday, November 20, 2019
If 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 10:00PMSunday, November 17, 2019
Most 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 10:00PMThursday, November 14, 2019
“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 07:00PMMonday, November 11, 2019
To 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 03:12PMThursday, November 7, 2019
If 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 10:00PMThursday, October 31, 2019
The 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 03:19PMSunday, October 20, 2019
“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 09:00PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Pop 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 10:00PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
You 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 10:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
As 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 09:00PMThursday, October 10, 2019
A 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 10:00PMSunday, October 6, 2019
If 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 08:30PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
If “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 10:00PMTuesday, October 1, 2019
When 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 10:00PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
As 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 10:00PMSunday, September 15, 2019
Where 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 09:00PMThursday, September 5, 2019
There 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 09:00PMThursday, August 8, 2019
Love 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 09:00PMThursday, July 25, 2019
The 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 10:00PMThursday, May 30, 2019
It’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 09:30PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
The 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 02:40PMThursday, April 25, 2019
For 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 09:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
“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 10:00PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The 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…
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 09:45PMFormer NYCB dancers Jonathan Stafford and Wendy Whelan discuss their plans for the future as the new season kicks off April 23.
Linked From Playbill at 11:46AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Hillary: Likable or not? Likable enough? And if not, why not? Those much-discussed questions, asked and answered ad nauseam over the course of her two terms as a presidential wife, and her t…
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 08:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
The road to hell is paved with heavenly music in “Hadestown,” the exuberant, exhilarating new musical that stands tall among a season of mostly (so far) lackluster Broadway competition. …
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 09:00PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Winter storms may be in the rearview mirror, but idle storm chasers should know that there’s a tempest being whipped up nightly at the Hudson Theatre, where a ferociously good Adam Driver …
Linked From Broadway.News Subscription at 09:30PM 
