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 10:22PMIt 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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMSad 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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:56AMThe 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 12:26PMThe 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 10:24AMThe 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 07:12PMThe 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 02:09PMWith 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 …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMFor David Sedaris, everything is fodder for his slightly twisty and sardonic view of life, whether it’s those annoying post-purchase surveys that flood our emails, the condescending nature…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:41PMAll production photos by Joan Marcus Jez Butterworth’s ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama “The Hil…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:51PMSad news about the death of Maggie Smith. Her pre-Broadway performance in "Private Lives" in Boston in 1975 (which I saw nearly 50 years ago -- and wrote a show-off review for a suburban Mas…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:53AMThe show: “Table 17” at Manhattan Class Company in New York City. What is it?: A new play by Douglas Lyons, who last wrote Broadway’s “Chicken and Biscuits” What makes it special?:…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:04PMThe show: “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Hudson Theatre. What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center’s Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:55PMIt’s no spoiler to say “JOB”, Max Wolf Friedlich’s electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That’s how the …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMThe site of the former Long Wharf Theatre By FRANK RIZZO It's Saturday night at the New Haven Food Terminal complex. The park…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:41AMMaking life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in “Choice,” Winnie Holzman’s provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton�…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:46AMSad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:13PMFirst "Mystic Pizza" was a hit film which launched Julia Roberts’ career, now it's a musical which will run at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, just a 20 minute drive from the film’s nam…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50AMA scene from “13” at the Norma Terris Theatre. Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatr…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:13AMAn innovative production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at Long Wharf Theatre and a high-spirited, buoyant production of Summer Stock at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at th…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:20AMThe show: “South Pacific” at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. , through Aug. 11. What is it?: A Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on James A. Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:17PMTony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of “Angels in America” and Steven Spielberg’s go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions t…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMRandy Beach is a character witness. For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut’s most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:04PMWhen a character in the new musical “The Heart of Rock and Roll” tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: “Oh, my god. It’…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:35PMIn Peter Morgan’s tantalizing but disappointing new play “Patriots,” Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:57PMTo the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka — but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:55AMThere’s a moment in David Adjmi’s play “Stereophonic” when a discordant, mid-’70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:25AMA musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat. But “Suffs,” which tells the story of the final pus…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:50PMThe show: “Corruption” by J.T. Rogers at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:03PMIt was an awkward moment for Jose Llana when he told his family that he would be starring in the new stage musical "Here Lies Love." But Llana would not be playing heroic Philippine politici…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:56AMWhen Jelani Alladin (pictured left) read the description of his character in the Showtime/Paramount + series “Fellow Travelers,” the romantic leading man of the stage musicals “Frozen�…
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