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 09:26AMIn 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 …
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