Tuesday, July 26, 2022
photo by Joan Marcus Adapting a beloved bestselling book into a Broadway show is not without its challenges. While the show has name recognition and is sure to attract loyal readers, it also…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:53PMTuesday, July 19, 2022
photo by Matt Murphy Sometimes those of us not easily impressed can be impressed. So it is with Into The Woods, now at the St. James Theater. The revival marks a return to the original, foll…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:44PMTuesday, July 12, 2022
Photo by Joan Marcus Free Shakespeare in the Park is quintessential New York. If you are lucky enough to score the free tickets and it’s a gorgeous evening, theater doesn’t get any bette…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:48AMWednesday, June 22, 2022
What? Another show about a moody, overweight, young Black man with family issues? Like “A Strange Loop,” “Fat Ham” hasan endearing young main character. But “Fat Ham” delivers mu…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:57PMSaturday, June 18, 2022
Classics remain classics because they speak to us-no matter when they were written or where they are set. In a newly-imagined version of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” a family remain…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:39AMThursday, June 2, 2022
by Joan Marcus There’s something to be said for star power filling theater seats. Despite some tepid reviews for the latest version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Longacre Theatre was fil…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:16PMWednesday, May 25, 2022
Mr. Saturday Night I’m a staunch Billy Crystal fan, and judging from the audience’s reaction at the Nederlander Theatre the other night, I’m not alone. I love Crystal’s quick wit, ea…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:51AMThursday, May 12, 2022
Once upon a time there was a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan called The Five Points. For over 70 years, it was a crowded slum, populated mostly by newly -freed slaves and ethnic Irish. Altho…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:05PMSaturday, May 7, 2022
A female press secretary, a female chief of staff, a first lady and several female assistants but even all of them together can’t keep the hapless president from occasionally opening his m…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:04AMMonday, May 2, 2022
Black comedy, or gallows humor, is a style of story telling that makes light of subject matter usually considered somewhat taboo, like death, suicide and disease. Either term applies to Mart…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:06AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
“The Minutes” Playwright Tracy Letts possesses the extraordinary ability to lull an audience into expecting something dry and ordinary but then making it explosive. Teaming up again with…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:01PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Food is often the centerpiece of family holidays and celebrations. In “Birthday Candles”, the new play presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company at the American Airlines Theatre, the s…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:08PMSunday, April 17, 2022
Photo by Julieta Cervantes When TV’s Murphy Brown was mocking singer Barry Manilow, I was buying his albums and attending his concerts. I was unabashedly a Fanilow. So I looked forward to …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:36AMMonday, April 11, 2022
What a quandary! There was a new show to review, but it was opening night for my favorite baseball team. Which one should I choose? The theater won this time. A timely revival of Richard Gee…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:32AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
When we see married actor couples working together on stage, we feel a special connection. It’s as if we are in on the joke. We expect chemistry and smile when they kiss and caress because…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:38PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
When was the last time you smiled for two hours? Were you wearing a mask? Under their masks, audiences at the Winter Garden Theater are grinning broadly eight times a week. Despite any criti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:35PMFriday, February 25, 2022
For many audiences, Phylicia Rashad will always be the elegant unflappable TV wife/mother/lawyer in The Cosby Show. She came into their homes every Thursday like a welcome friend. After the …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:04PMThursday, February 17, 2022
Lynn Nottage must be the hardest-working playwright in New York, having written three shows for the Fall 2022 season. First was Clyde, a terrific show about ex-convicts and second chances. D…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:40PMThursday, February 10, 2022
A viewer should be prepared for intense theater when attending a Eugene O’Neill play. If the show is “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” she should be ready for a lengthy assault on her…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:35PMThursday, January 27, 2022
It’s been almost 25 years since the 1997 release of the first Harry Potter book. Its young readers have grown up, gotten jobs and now have families of their own. Do the Harry Potter charac…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:11PMFriday, January 21, 2022
Only Stephen Sondheim could have taken a motley group of would-be murderers and made them sympathetic and funny. At one time, a musical about killing presidents would have been controversial…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:07AMThursday, January 13, 2022
It felt strange to be attending a show last Saturday night instead of sitting in front of the television waiting for SNL to begin. Fortunately, the play was “The Search for Signs of Intell…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:40AMSunday, December 26, 2021
By now, everyone associated with musical theater has written a tribute to legend Stephen Sondheim who died Nov. 26, 2021 at age 91. Productive until the end, Sondheim died while working on a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:09PMFriday, December 17, 2021
First let’s get rid of the elephant in the room- Rob McClure, hardworking star of Broadway’s “Mrs. Doubtfire” is NOT Robin Williams who created the 1993 movie role. However, he doesn…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:30PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
“What’s your justification?” demands the director, prodding his actors to consider their characters’ motivations in the play “Trouble in Mind.” Playwright Alice Childress had her…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:17AMFriday, December 3, 2021
For some, food is merely sustenance; for others, it is an art form. And for the former convicts who work at Clyde’s, a truck stop in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the perfect sandwich may of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:26PMMonday, November 29, 2021
Siblings can be a blessing. It’s even nicer when they live nearby. In “Morning’s at Seven,” the revival of Paul Osborne’s play at the Theatre at St. Clement’s, they are a little …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:57PMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Photo credit: Joan Marcus We have a conflict in America. While it is built on the shoulders of immigrants,and the Statue of Liberty stands tall in New york harbor, our policies discourage im…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:34AMSunday, November 21, 2021
A group of characters gather at Laine’s boarding house. They are running away from something or to something. It is 1934 in Duluth, MI, ( actual birthplace of Bob Dylan) and people are sti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:24PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
The playwright George Bernard Shaw must have been a feminist long before the movement became popular. He used his plays to decry the few opportunities for women and observed how they were be…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:14PMMonday, November 15, 2021
One young man rejects a scholarship to MIT so he can stay home to care for his mother and younger siblings; he’s Depression. An older Nigerian man shares knowledge and tales from his yo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:17AM 
