MAX VON ESSEN HAS A KNOCKOUT CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT Max von Essen is no spring chicken, having made his Broadway debut in the 2000 revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Nevertheless, when he bounc…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSWEENEY NOD By any measure, Irish playwright Brian Friel (who died in 2015) is one of the 20th-century’s great dramatists, whose works are among the lasting treasures of Irish literature. …
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AMTHE CHOSEN FEW There is an impressive collection of talent on display in The Lonely Few, a rock musical making its New York debut at MCC after a run in Los Angeles at the Geffen Playhouse. C…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:23AMA GROUNDBREAKING ACHIEVEMENT INDEED The short take on this play is that Jake Shore — as they say at the website The Rumpus — WRITES LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER. He is new to me, but he’s not a…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMSCARLETT FEVER Kevin (Andrew Keenan-Bolger) used to be a hunk, and a successful playwright with an off-Broadway hit. But lately, he’s become a couch potato, much to the chagrin of his husb…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:49AMAll of Me is a rom-com in which the central couple is wheelchair bound and unable to speak; they use text-to-speech technology. The New Group‘s production, which opened last night at Persh…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:37PMEYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF OCTOBER 7 BECOME A SHATTERING THEATRICAL EVENT After the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the husband-and-wife team of journalists Phelim McAleer, playwright, and Ann…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:00PMALL IN A GOLDEN AFTERNOON Dan Lauria‘s gentle two-hander, which opened today at Theater 555, is a sly variation on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Two characters, named simply “man…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:19PMREMEMBER, THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS, ONLY HILARIOUS ACTORS Ronnie Larsen, a prolific stalwart of Queer theatre, Off-Broadway and around the country, has made what clearly qualifies as a trium…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMTASTY BUT FLAT FRYBREAD Carolyn Dunn‘s new play The Frybread Queen features three generations of Navajo women gathered at the reservation home of the family matriarch for the funeral of Pa…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 12:02AMNEW DANCE-THEATER MAKES A BIG (ILLI)NOISE For countless millennial hipsters, Illinois (2005) is THE album of their coming of age, as well it should be. Now, New York City Ballet’s wunde…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:59AMIT WON’T WIN A PULITZER, BUT IT WILL REMIND YOU TO “BELIEVE IN LOVE” It is the fashion nowadays to present musicals with legitimate claims to sophisticated art, with elegant musical se…
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