It was easy to predict that a musical adaptation of Pretty Woman would find fans on Broadway. As producer and veteran film executive Paula Wagner points out, the 1990 movie, starring Julia R…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:12AMWhen the subject of a Broadway show is an icon of both music and fashion, it’s vital that the piece be dazzling both visually and aurally. To ensure this was the case for The Cher Show, se…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:22PMTeenage outsiders have not traditionally been considered ripe fodder for musical theater — heightened emotions like those expressed in, say, West Side Story notwithstanding. Be More Chill,…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:46AM★★★★ Director Conor Bagley pairs lovely, haunting accounts of innocence and experience by Brian Friel The post Two By Friel: Love Stories, Fleeting and Bittersweet appeared first on …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:13AM★★★★★ In Tom Stoppard's brilliant, moving new play, very smart people grapple with very big questions The post The Hard Problem: Puzzling Over Beautiful Enigmas, the Mind and Heart…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:40PM★★★★ Aleshea Harris's new play and "ritual" commemorates violence and a celebrates a community's resilience The post What to Send Up When It Goes Down: Making Black Lives Matter Thro…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★ Broadway actors invade a Midwestern town to help a teenage lesbian, and themselves, in a new musical comedy helmed by Casey Nicholaw The post The Prom: Bringing Red and Blue Togeth…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:25PM★★★★ Will Eno's early one-man play is revived, its brutality and beauty in tact. The post Thom Pain (based on nothing): Life, the Art of the Possible appeared first on New York Stage…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:28PM★★ A new, extravagant musical adaptation offers a feminist but emotionally exploitative take on the classic tale The post King Kong: The Beast Is Us, with Special Effects appeared first …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:30PM★★★★ Ming Peiffer charts the fraught, funny, frightful journey from female adolescence to womanhood in a stirring new play The post Usual Girls: Aching Just Like A Woman, and Breakin…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:50PM★★ Topical and vital concerns get mired in banality in the new play marking Kerry Washington's return to Broadway The post American Son: Modern Injustice, Wrought As Melodrama appeared f…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★★ Michael Urie shines in a condensed version of Harvey Fierstein's still-pertinent, piercing and accessible comedy The post Torch Song: Fierstein’s Epic, Shorter But Fierce …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:45PM★★★ The latest from Dear Evan Hansen playwright Steven Levenson follows young protesters in a divided nation The post Days of Rage: Talking About a Revolution, 50 Years Back appeared f…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:41PM★★ Two women separated by age and race find no common humanity in Eleanor Burgess's dispiriting new play The post The Niceties: Inside Ivy Walls, No Room For Empathy appeared first on Ne…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00AM★★★★★ Samuel D. Hunter surveys the America we still don't know well enough in his beautiful, haunting two-part play The post Lewiston/Clarkston: A Western Landscape, Majestic and T…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★★★ Glenn Close brings Joan of Arc's mother to radiant life in a luminous account of women's strength, and love The post Mother of the Maid: A Soldier and Her Other Heart appeare…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:52PM★★★ Christian Borle directs two other facile funny men in a play by James Hindman. The post Popcorn Falls: Small-Town Drama, Played For Laughs appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:00PMWith “Homeland” about to end, he’s released his first new albums in more than a decade, with a young pop-minded producer pushing him to take risks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AM★★★★ Bill Irwin offers an exuberant homage to a master of bleakness The post On Beckett: Clowning in the Dark appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:00PM★★★★★ Depression-era Minnesotans find no shelter from their storms in Conor McPherson's adaptation Bob Dylan's songs The post Girl From the North Country: Souls Tangled Up In Blue,…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:45PM★★★ La Femme Theatre Productions offers a fittingly languid revival of a later, lesser-known Tennessee Williams play The post A Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur: Women Of A Certain Time, …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 01:23PM★★★★ Edie Falco plays a political survivor, decades before #MeToo, in Sharr White's moving play. The post The True: Behind Every Man, Resilience and Pain appeared first on New York S…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 09:01PM★★★★ One of Disney's most enduring screen-to-stage confections remains among its most adult-friendly--and seems freshly relevant, for all ages. The post Aladdin: Four Years On, A Fai…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:30PMDuring a recent rehearsal for the new touring production of Dear Evan Hansen, launching September 25 in Denver, actress Jessica Phillips — who plays Evan’s mom, Heidi — had what she de…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:29AMCherry Jones has proven herself as one of the greatest actors of her generation with her powerful work in both established and instant classics, from the Broadway productions of The Heiress …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 06:05AM★★★ Four winning performances and a stunning one add up to an absorbing production of Jen Silverman's entertaining but frustrating play. The post Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties (…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05PMBack when celebrated director Casey Nicholaw was working on the 2010 Broadway musical Elf, he approached members of his creative team with something one of them, composer Matthew Sklar, desc…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 12:56PMAs the fall theater season launches, a string of musicals that have enjoyed success on Broadway in recent years will become available to audiences across the country. Now fans who have just …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:20PMThe Book of Mormon. Something Rotten!. The Drowsy Chaperone. What do these boisterously witty, aggressively entertaining, critically lauded musicals have in common? All were choreographed an…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:39AMTwice Tony Award–nominated actor Christopher Sieber remembers walking to the gym one day several years ago and running into Tony-winning director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw. “And Casey…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:31AM★★★★ A musical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy champions diversity with a light hand, a full heart, and an effervescent score. The post Twelfth Night: The Food of Love, i…
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