Thursday, August 16, 2018
It’s very sweet that, as in the movie, the two unlikely lovers in the musical “Pretty Woman” end up rescuing one another from their respective lives of streetwalking and soulless money…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Before the curtain rises on the new musical “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” at the Belasco Theatre, Ken Davenport, the show’s lead producer, who also co-wrote the book, takes the st…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, July 26, 2018
Summer is not officially the silly season on Broadway, but you might be forgiven for assuming so should you wander into the Hudson Theatre, where “Head Over Heels,” a fearlessly loopy ne…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMMonday, July 23, 2018
In case you have been singing loudly with your fingers stuffed in your ears for, say, a year and a half, you have probably noticed much soul-searching in the media, along with plenty of outr…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, May 31, 2018
“Thanks for the laughs,” says Harold, whose disorderly birthday celebration is the occasion on which the men in “The Boys in the Band” gather for an evening of cutting barbs, bottoml…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
“Something to Dance About”—a one-act compilation that references Robbins’ greatest work from On the Town to West Side Story—premieres at the New York City Balle…
Linked From Playbill at 10:00PMThursday, April 26, 2018
When Denzel Washington, who plays the salesman Hickey in the shatteringly good Broadway revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” unleashes his dazzling smile, it’s fair to conclude that he coul…
Linked From broadway.news at 07:30PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
George Bernard Shaw’s plays are performed so rarely on major New York stages that it’s hard not to feel grateful for a chance to see a first-class production of “Saint Joan.” Unfortu…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Someone really did leave the damn cake out in the rain. That’s my metaphorical summation of “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” Fans will recognize the allusion, and I’ll throw in on…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, April 19, 2018
Impeccable is the first word that springs to mind to describe the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady.” But that’s really no surprise. The director, Ba…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, April 12, 2018
At the core of “Carousel,” which has been revived with breathtaking emotional intensity at the Imperial Theatre, is a dark fatalism that trails the leading lovers like their own shadows.…
Linked From broadway.news at 07:00PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Does it make me a mean girl if I say that “Mean Girls,” the new Broadway musical based on — well, duh! — is, like, tbh, just OK? Sorry. My mean. But that’s kind of my job. As with …
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, March 29, 2018
Unless you have a raging fever, an ice bath wouldn’t seem like a particularly pleasurable experience. And yet “Three Tall Women,” Edward Albee’s late-career masterpiece being revived…
Linked From broadway.news at 08:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
If only what happened in Budapest stayed in Budapest. I have nothing in particular against the city, really. I quite enjoyed my one visit there many years ago. There was a nice castle, I thi…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:00PMSunday, March 25, 2018
“The world only spins forward,” says Prior Walter, ravaged with AIDS but still enduring, in the culminating speech of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s majestic drama about our c…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:30PMThursday, March 22, 2018
Should hell freeze over — and given global environmental trends, well, who knows? — it’s possible that “Frozen” will not be Disney’s next from-now-until-eternity Broadway blockbu…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:00PMThursday, February 22, 2018
All those who declined to take out a second mortgage to buy a pair on the aisle for Bette Midler in “Hello, Dolly!” can stop rending their garments and tearing out their hair. The revere…
Linked From broadway.news at 07:30PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The room is a very modestly furnished kitchen: mismatched chairs around a table, a miniature refrigerator, a scruffy but cozy-looking armchair, slightly out of place. But this mundane settin…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:00PMSunday, December 3, 2017
Continual waves of radiance, warming the blood and stirring the heart, flow forth from the sand-covered stage of the Circle in the Square Theatre, where an absolutely incandescent revival of…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:00PMThursday, November 30, 2017
Sleepy times, right? No drama emanating from our nation’s capital. Barely enough sensation to fill a single page of a broadsheet. Nary a shocking revelation to warm the cockles of a cynic…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
The stars supply most of the fireworks in “Meteor Shower,” a scattershot – and even scatterbrained – comedy of bad manners by Steve Martin at the Booth Theatre. The cast member whose…
Linked From broadway.news at 06:45PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Overwhelming? Yes. Self-involved? Absolutely. But Drew Droege still makes for hilarious company in this one-person show.
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A business degree is not a prerequisite for an appreciation of “Junk,” a new play by Ayad Akhtar about the heady heights and ethical lows of American finance in the 1980s. But it certain…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, October 26, 2017
That silk kimono hides a scandalous secret in “M. Butterfly,” David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Tony Award-winning drama about the romance between a French diplomat and the Chinese opera singer…
Linked From broadway.news at 10:00PMThursday, October 12, 2017
“I’ll handle this myself,” said Bruce Springsteen with a wry smile on Wednesday night at the Walter Kerr Theatre, as his enraptured audience began to clap along in rhythm t…
Linked From broadway.news at 08:00PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
The ineluctable force that touches all our lives – the day-to-day, year-to-year process by which the present becomes the past, and the future bears down upon us – is the melancholy subje…
Linked From broadway.news at 08:00PMThursday, August 24, 2017
What’s the last word I thought I’d ever use to describe a show directed by Harold Prince? Bland. And yet, sadly, that’s the overall effect of “Prince of Broadway,” a polished but d…
Linked From broadway.news at 11:36PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Michael Moore’s solo show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” comes as close to being a campaign rally as anything you are likely to see on Broadway – or anywhere else, for that matter, sa…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:09PMThursday, June 29, 2017
Calamity comes in Costco-style jumbo packages for the fractured family in “Marvin’s Room,” Scott McPherson’s play about the beleaguering trials and little triumphs collectively known…
Linked From broadway.news at 09:43PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Summer entertainment options do not get more counterintuitive than the Broadway adaptation of George Orwell’s “1984” that opened at the Hudson Theatre on Thursday, just as beach season…
Linked From broadway.news at 08:39PMThursday, April 27, 2017
The frenetic Broadway spring comes to a thrilling conclusion with the lightning-bolt opening of Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” a new play so endlessly stimulating that it co…
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