Monday, November 4, 2019
Even with good acting, a play told entirely in monologues can be difficult to make lively.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:24PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
David Staller s production lacks realism in parts, but it s a lively take on George Bernard Shaw s comedy.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:18AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
This play needs some trimming, but the inquiring mind at the heart of it makes for an intriguing character.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 12:03AMMonday, April 29, 2019
This adaptation of Uncle Vanya struggles as it straddles two worlds without committing to either.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:48PMFriday, February 15, 2019
God makes a visit to Earth in this new comedy, but the story is short on substance.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 06:36PMSaturday, February 2, 2019
This is a fun musical about a nice Jewish boy with maxed-out credit cards and zero game with women.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:12PMMonday, November 5, 2018
An out-of-commission playhouse has one week to put on a play and save the town.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 04:06PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Allen Lewis Rickman. Topics include: Yiddish, Alan Rickman, Coen Brothers, A SERIOUS MAN, Steve Sterner. Segment aired Feb. 4, 2017 as part of the "Dave's …
SOURCE: YouTube at 01:05PMFriday, July 31, 2015
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you’re aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the H…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:39PMThursday, July 23, 2015
You may not know this. In fact, there’s no particular reason for you to know it, but July 24th is “Tell an Old Joke Day.” Yes, a day apparently exists that is devoted to recounting qui…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:28PMFriday, July 10, 2015
As they do every so often, stories of audience members behaving insufferably at the theater become newsworthy—usually making the papers because some actor or fellow playgoer finally pushes…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:30AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Just finished watching the 2015 Tony Awards on CBS, and what a swell party it was. Oh sure, there are things to snark about (see below), and coulda-shoulda-woulda moments, but for three hour…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:56AMSaturday, June 6, 2015
Dave Lefkowitz, a theater editor at Stagebuddy.com, is doing his annual, live, Tony Awards radio special TODAY (Sat, June 6), from 11am-4pm(Eastern). You can listen live at www.uncradio.com.…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:30AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
It’s that time again, when art meets commerce meets glitz meets schmaltz. It’s the 69th Annual Tony Awards, happening Sunday night, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS-TV broadcas…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:12AMFriday, May 22, 2015
As a theater critic for more than 25 years, I’m used to getting free tickets to the plays I see, be they off-off-Broadway showcases or the latest multi-million dollar blockbusters in Times…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:35PMSunday, May 10, 2015
SEE or SKIP: The Audience VENUE: Broadway’s Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, to June 28, 2015. INFO: Broadway continues its slavish Anglophilia with this look at the long reign of Queen Elizabet…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:25PMFriday, May 1, 2015
SEE or SKIP: The Heidi Chronicles VENUE: Broadway’s Music Box Theater, to May 3, 2015. INFO: Theatergoers have just a few more performances to catch Pam MacKinnon’s staging of The Heidi …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:34AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
With so many shows opening on Broadway this spring, it’s easy to overlook a light, frothy comedy. But never count Joe DiPietro out. His musical with Jimmy Roberts, “I Love You, You’re …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:38AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Well, “The Wedding Singer” flopped but became a popular touring show, and “First Date” flopped but is bound to get lots of community-theater action, will another comic musical about …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:56AMThursday, April 9, 2015
1951 saw Broadway fall in love with Audrey Hepburn playing the innocent but oh-so-canny “Gigi” in the Anita Loos play of that title. 1958 caused a similar infatuation with Leslie Caron w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:42AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
A Broadway show about foul-mouthed hand puppets . . . could such a thing ever work? Ask the producers of “Avenue Q” (which is still running in its off-Broadway transfer). Okay, but can a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:31AMFriday, April 3, 2015
When David Hare’s romantic drama, “Skylight”, first reached Broadway in 1996, critics lauded the show’s balance of emotional, inter-personal drama with the playwright’s realization…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:14AMFriday, March 20, 2015
Before “Girls” and “Sex and the City” but after “That Girl” and “The Mary Tyler Moore” show came “The Heidi Chronicles”, a comic look at a modern-day woman who wants and …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:26AMMonday, March 16, 2015
Old-fashioned, nostalgic glamour is big on Broadway this year, what with the eccentrics of “You Can’t Take it with You” and the retro vibe of “Honeymoon in Vegas”, not to mention t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:19PM1914 Female impersonator Julian Eltinge is lyricist and star of The Crinoline Girl. Otto Hauerbach provides the book and Percy Wenrich the score. S/he'll twirl at the Knickerbocker Theat…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, March 9, 2015
While American politics remains a rare topic on Broadway (this season’s “Disgraced” notwithstanding), English intrigue is all the rage on the Great White Way. David Hare’s socio-econ…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:24AMThursday, March 5, 2015
Just a couple of months ago, when plans were announced to bring Larry David’s new play, “Fish in the Dark”, to Broadway, even inside theater people knew precious little about the show.…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:23PMAll through rehearsals and early previews, Larry David tried to keep people in the dark about his new play, “Fish in the Dark”, which opens on Broadway this Thursday (March 5). A seeming…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:42AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Entertainment Weekly reported this week that everybody’s favorite absorbent, porous and yellow invertebrate, SpongeBob SquarePants, may someday come to Broadway. At its annual “upfront�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:32AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Overnight, “will it or won’t it?” has turned into “when will it?” Even before Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new musical, “Hamilton”, opened at off-Broadway’s Public Theater last nig…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:45PMThursday, February 12, 2015
Taking a date (or spouse, or significant other or affectionate parolee) out to a Broadway show is a no-brainer for Valentine’s Day. A show is both social and personal, the experience allow…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:54AM 
