Thursday, December 19, 2013
Lori Wolter Hudson remembers having a nervous breakdown in middle school in Indiana when her teacher assigned her to recite … Read More →
SOURCE: nytheatremag.com at 04:14PM2013 was the year of Shakespeare, and cross-dressing, and people getting naked in tubs on stage. It was a year full of solo performances and celebrity Broadway debuts and shows that sound on…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 02:30PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Brian Dennehy, Nathan Lane and the entire 18-member cast of the Goodman Theatre of Chicago’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, directed by Robert Falls, are…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:46AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Even as we mourn the deaths of Peter O’Toole, 81, Eleanor Parker, 91, and Joan Fontaine, 96, we celebrate the still theatrically active Estelle Parsons, 86, and Carol Lawrence, 82. (…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:49PMSunday, December 15, 2013
During the intermission at “Handle With Care,” billed as a new romantic comedy starring Carol Lawrence, the original Maria of West Side Story, I pondered some nearly theological question…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:00PMThe Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night are on most critic’s top 10 list of the best theater of 2013 so far — but not all (Time doesn’t have either.) I was early with my Top …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:43PMHow does one become one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century? The answer is not directly forthcoming in “How I Learned What I Learned,” the memoir written and performed by Aug…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:13AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices. H…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:30PMFriday, October 25, 2013
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between self-declared critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voic…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:11PMSunday, October 6, 2013
BIG FISH opens tonight, October 6 on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. The production stars two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Edward Bloom, Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin as …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:20PMThursday, May 2, 2013
Motown Tony Award nominee Valisia LeKae and Brandon Victor Dixon bring a complex relationship to the stage as music icons Diana Ross and Berry Gordy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev is brought to life Off-Broadway. His daughter, collaborator and star reflect on the late author and rabbi's need to create.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMThe timing seem ideal for a Broadway revival of “Annie,” and director James Lapine is attempting a timely approach to this story of optimism triumphing in a bleak era. Lapine’s “…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:16AMMonday, November 5, 2012
The main character of “The Whale” is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universa…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:00PMThursday, November 1, 2012
At the beginning of “The Heiress,” the heartbreaking story of an abandoned love, Jessica Chastain descends the staircase of a sumptuous mansion in a dazzling red dress and a glorious smi…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 06:30PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Within the first minutes of the Transport Group Theatre Company’s “House for Sale,” billed as the first work by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom, The Corrections) to be adapted for the stage…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 07:47PMFriday, October 19, 2012
Near the end of the latest Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, much to my surprise, the Les Miz Rule kicked in. If a Broadway show shines bright lights directly in your face, features st…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:41AMMonday, October 15, 2012
“You’re all flops,” Martha says drunkenly to her guest in “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?” the first full-length play by Edward Albee, which has proven once again to be the oppo…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 10:32AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Undesirable Elements” Turns 20 Ping Chong, the theatre artist who created the documentary theatre series Undesirable Elements, knew what it felt like to be an outsider even before he w…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:43PMFriday, October 5, 2012
There were reasons to have faith in “Grace,” a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 02:34PMThursday, September 27, 2012
A day before the opening on Broadway of “An Enemy of the People,” which is a play about the efforts to silence a difficult man, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Obama in a …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:15PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in “Three Days of Rain,” Daniel Craig in “A Steady Rain,” and now Jake Gyllenhaal is making his U.S. stage debut in a play that begins in a stea…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 04:32AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
It is hard to know who to blame for the horribly wrong turn taken in Job, the Flea Theater’s initially promising stage adaptation of the Biblical Book of Job, the text that long has offere…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:37PMHalfway through “Detroit,” Lisa D’Amour’s funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named Sharon explains …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:54PMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Yale-bred playwright Lewis Black, more widely known as an angry "Daily Show" comedian and commentator railing against modern times, brings his act to Broadway in October.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Anyone listening to Jason Robert Brown perform his songs at Below 54 realizes two things right away: He’s as deserving as any other composer-lyricist of his generation to be called Mr. Bro…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 05:44PMRob McClure as Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, plays the violin, roller skates with a blindfold on, does backflips into a handstand, and — most dexterous of all — carries…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:38PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen’s timely classic. Arthur Miller hesitated before adapting Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. He believed that t…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:24PMFriday, September 7, 2012
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of the “Book of Morons” sing “We believe that musicals should be disgusting.” Two competing Marilyn Monroes belt “Let Me Be Subpar” A bloated Matthew B…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 12:46AMMonday, August 27, 2012
Roscoe, the only male character in Sam Shepard’s new, enigmatic play “Heartless,” fondly recalls “my junkie days – Avenue D, 14th Street, Dunkin’ Donuts, cops, transvestite fist …
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 09:03PMSaturday, August 25, 2012
You can look at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in terms of the movie stars that will be on the stage: Al Pacino and Katie Holmes and Debra Winger — or how about Paul Rudd, Michael Shann…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 11:46AM 
