Tuesday, April 8, 2025
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim’s music you would think a fourth wouldn’t offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special.
Think again.
“Old Friends”…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:22PMThis is a tough one and news of infinite sadness. I just learned that composer William Finn has died at the age of 73. “March of the Falsettos” in 1981 was a revelation to me and his fol…
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Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences.
U…
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Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow’s historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck” has a seriousness of purpose that is again dram…
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Photos by Monique Carboni
The show: “Curse of the Starving Class” by Sam Shepard, revived by off-Broadway’s The New Gro…
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Today, the Windham-Campbell Prizes have awarded eight extraordinary writers $175,000 each to support their work and allow them to focus on their creative practice independent of financial co…
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An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
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Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance.
The Social Club was a real place for loca…
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Sometimes gay history is all around you and you don’t even know it.
John D. Allen, Ed.D, is seeking to change that by bringing decades — even centuries — of the joys and fears, triumph…
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Yes, it’s a stereotype, but do mothers and their gay sons really do have a special relationship like no other?
Matt Doyle believes so. The Tony Award-winning actor from the gender-switchin…
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Athol Fugard, the great South African playwright died on Saturday night at his home in Stellenbosch, a town near Cape Town. He was 92. His wife, Paula Fourie, confirmed his death after a car…
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Photo by T. Charles Erickson
The following is my extended 2017 interview with James Bundy for American Theatre magazine.. Bund…
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There’s a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal — or for that matter, the political — and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace.
A sep…
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All photos by Curtis Brown.
The show: “El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom” by Matt Barbot
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The show: The Broadway revival of the musical “Gypsy.”
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When one first sees Connecticut actress Kate MacCluggage on stage in the Broadway rom-com “Left on Tenth,” she’s a sunny California friend of the main character played by Julianna Marg…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:59PMThe curtain came down on the Broadway show “Left on Tenth” and it was time to walk the stars.
Few Tony-honored artists have two shows playing on Broadway at the same time but animal trai…
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It’s a misty autumn afternoon and along a winding country road in New Milford, a housing development emerges of stately though modestly-scaled homes with manageable lawns and pristine porc…
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There’s a cozy ease that permeates “All In,” in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer…
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The show: “A Christmas Story” musical at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam
What makes it special?: After a limited holiday Broadway run inn 2012 and a national tour with a stop at the…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:23PMWhen queer visual artist and writer Komail Aijazuddin was growing up in Lahore, Pakistan, he knew he was attracted to boys. But it wasn’t easy being gay. At his all-male prep school where,…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:43AMDavid Sedaris is proud to be gay.
Not in the marching-in-the-streets-waving-placards way.
He is proud of the word ‘gay’ — as opposed to any number of the homoseuxal-defining terms that…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:35AMIn NBC’s new medical series “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto plays an idiosyncratic neurologist inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, best known for his writings on neurological disorders in …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:26AMThursday, November 21, 2024
In the new Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her,” a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover.
Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:22PMThursday, November 14, 2024
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater.
It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy…
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Sad news: Actor Tony Todd who had roots — and performed — in Connecticut has died at the age of 69 in California.
I wrote several profiles on him — and saw his magnificent performance…
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The show: “The Counter” by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway’s at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City.
What makes it special?: I’d run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:26PMThursday, October 24, 2024
The show: “Hold On to Me Darling” by Kenneth Lonergan at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre.
What makes it special?: It stars Adam Driver, one of the hottest screen, stage and tele…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:24AMSunday, October 20, 2024
The show: “McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
What makes it special?: It’s a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner of “Disgraced,” as well as the Br…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:12PMFriday, October 18, 2024
The show: ”Our Town” by Thornton Wilder at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre.
What makes it special?: The production stars Jim Parsons, best known for his TV role in the popular “The Bi…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 02:09PMFriday, October 11, 2024
With theaters nationwide still staggering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hartford Stage announced today it is nearly halfway through the largest non-capital fundraising campaign …
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