If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMTo the extent that “Elling” works, it is not due to the wisps of plot, which are even more incidental than they are implausible. The entertainment comes from the well-pitched per…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMArtists discuss their responsibility to historyBy JONATHAN MANDELLWelcome to Part 2 of our two-part look at how Broadway is currently staging history. Today, we talk to Broadway artists abou…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMNot the end of the line? Though the Scottsboro Boys found only a short welcome on Broadway, there's already talk that their musicalized adventures might become a feature film.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:58PMWith wine and song, three performers push the genre envelopeIt would be wrong to call Three Pianos a jukebox musical, even though it is a stage show created around a series of old songs. Aft…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMHow Spider-Man’s mishaps reflect the long history of stage safety Even before Christopher Tierney plummeted some 30 feet off a platform to become the fourth cast member with serious in…
SOURCE: TDF at 05:58PMSoldiers during World War II line up to visit a prostitute, and one eventually does, in this intermittently intriguing but underdeveloped exercise.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMThis modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMCaridad Svich's stage adaptation of Julie Alvarez's poetic and sorrowful novel chronicling the real-life story of the murder of the revolutionary Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic do…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMBut it is hard to judge the script alone when the production has so much going for it — the fine performances, a six-member cast that includes Estelle Parsons as Margie’s babysit…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:58PMA mysterious but familiar stranger visits a multigenerational household of struggling black men in Jackie Alexander's sometimes insightful play, which is undermined by a vague, predictable p…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMIn what he says may be his last play, South African playwright Athol Fugard explores his characters’ fear, humiliation and desperation, as he has in such well-known anti-apartheid works as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMWe probably all have an answer to ‘What show changed your life?’ For DCTS editor Lorraine Treanor, her path to being an English teacher changed the day she saw Elaine Stritch p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:00PMWhile it’s not hard to find an actor or writer waiting tables or bartending in New York to make ends meet, we found one Tony Award nominee who doesn’t plan to give up his day job…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMThe morning after the 69th Annual Tony Award nominations were announced, Tony Award nominee, Brandon Uranowitz, nominated for creating the role of Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris, sat …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMFun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AMAirline Highway, Lisa D’Amour’s loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is fu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50PMWhen the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from “Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!” to “half-Jewish, half-gypsy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMThere is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show’s title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMI had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak’s novel that presents the Ru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMFrom the very first moments of Lincoln Center’s ravishing The King and I, it feels like a privilege just to be sitting in the audience. First the 29 musicians play Rodgers and Hammerstein�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21PMIs it pointless to pan Peter? Are we helpless in the face of the massive Peter Pander/Pandemic/Pandemonium (pick your Peter Pan pun.) Shortly after Peter and the Starcatcher and Peter Pan Li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMBoth Gigi and An American In Paris are adapted from Oscar-winning 1950’s movie musicals directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron. Both take place in Paris. Both have revised…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMFor an evil sock puppet who eventually bites a teenager’s ear off, Tyrone is quite the philosopher. In the prologue in Hand to God, Robert Askin’s funny, filthy, violent and sensitive …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMIt’ll be another three months before the American Revolution arrives on Broadway, with the hip-hop musical Hamilton. In the meantime, the Great White Way has been pledging allegiance to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMGigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMIt wasn’t exactly an ambush, but the first question actor Bernardo Cubria posed to me as a guest on his theatre podcast was about a complaint that actors have about critics. I was his …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AMWhile we wait for Stephen Sondheim’s new musical — which the Public Theater has already committed to producing, although there is not even a title yet (see “11” belo…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:05AMTonya, the cheeky daughter in “While I Yet Live,” has a problem with God (He’s “a wee bit passive aggressive, and vindictive”) and the Bible (“It’s the most violent book I’ve…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:41PMThere are three shows on Broadway this season that are theater about theater — The Country House, It’s Only A Play, The Real Thing. What’s your favorite theater about theat…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:25PMThe feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it’s fitting that the play about their quarrel, “Hellman v McCarthy,” with the great Rober…
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