Thursday, March 27, 2025
Photos by Monique Carboni
The show: “Curse of the Starving Class” by Sam Shepard, revived by off-Broadway’s The New Gro…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:17PMMonday, March 24, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:42PMThursday, March 20, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:05PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:11PMThursday, March 13, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 01:46PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:12PMMonday, March 10, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:26AMThursday, February 27, 2025
Photo by T. Charles Erickson
The following is my extended 2017 interview with James Bundy for American Theatre magazine.. Bund…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 06:51PMThursday, February 13, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:09PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
All photos by Curtis Brown.
The show: “El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom” by Matt Barbot
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:22PMMonday, January 20, 2025
The show: The Broadway revival of the musical “Gypsy.”
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SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:37PMMonday, January 6, 2025
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 09:00AMSunday, December 29, 2024
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:19AMSunday, December 22, 2024
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 08:25PMThursday, November 28, 2024
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:40PMSunday, November 10, 2024
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…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 07:56AMSunday, November 3, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 11:28PMMonday, September 30, 2024
For 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 10:41PMSunday, September 29, 2024
All production photos by Joan Marcus
Jez Butterworth’s ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama “The Hil…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 10:51PMFriday, September 27, 2024
Sad 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 10:53AMSaturday, September 14, 2024
The 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 10:04PM 
