Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Cats just re-opened on Broadway. Does the feline fantasy have what it takes for another 18-year run?
Linked From www.townandcountrymag.com at 06:43AMFriday, May 27, 2016
About 45 minutes into Paramour, the Cirque du Soleil musical that opens at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre tonight, the twin aerialists Andrew and Kevin Atherton are suspended over a stage set of…
Linked From Entertainment Weekly at 06:18AMMonday, December 7, 2015
There is tremendous amount of talent, and a long list of credits, behind School of Rock, the Broadway musical of version of the 2003 Jack Black comedy. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. D…
Linked From Entertainment Weekly at 07:19AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Friday, November 6, 2015
The bad (and frankly a little surprising) news about On Your Feet, the new musical by, about, and featuring the songs of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is that at no point through its nearly two…
Linked From Entertainment Weekly at 01:50PMThursday, October 8, 2015
Playwright Robert O'Hara considers how family stereotypes and racial politics clash with reality during a raucous drug intervention in this Public Theater premiere.read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMMonday, October 5, 2015
The Atlantic Theater Company stages the first major New York revival of Caryl Churchill's landmark 1979 comedy about gender politics and sexual identity.read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
Christopher Abbott, Georgia Engel and Lois Smith star in this contemplative new work by Annie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright behind 'The Flick.'read more
Linked From The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Friday, March 14, 2014
'If/Then'
Mothers and SonsGolden TheatreOpens March 24Terrence McNally’s latest stars the indefatigable Tyne Daly as a mother who pays an unexpected visit to her dead son’s former partne…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Bryan Cranston in 'All the Way.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
The curse, and the blessing, of an initials-based moniker is that those simple, monosyllabic sounds rhyme with so much. There’s “H…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Lauren Valez and Anthony Chisholm in 'The Happiest Song Plays Last.'
In early 2012, Quiara Alegría Hudes won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. A year later, her prize-winning work, Water By the…
Linked From observer.com at 01:48PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…
Linked From observer.com at 04:25PMFriday, February 21, 2014
You gotta get a gimmick, a trio of wise women once advised. But to succeed on Broadway these days, what you really need is a star. Mounting a Broadway show has become so expensive, and the b…
Linked From observer.com at 05:00PMTuesday, February 4, 2014
'Almost, Maine.'
If you’re going to object to Almost, Maine—that it’s too saccharine, too sentimental, a little too impressed with its own quirkiness—then its title is as good a plac…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Frank Langella in 'King Lear.' (Photo by Johan Persson)
Ruth Snyder, whom Wikipedia pithily if reductively identifies as “an American murderess,” was electrocuted by the State of New Yor…
Linked From observer.com at 04:38PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
The Shirelles in 'Beautiful.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Where you lead, Carole, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to.
And if it happens that you lead me to a mediocre bioplay that combin…
Linked From observer.com at 05:28PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
'Pippin.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
So, comes the inevitable question when someone learns what I do for a living, what should I see?
It depends, I reply with equal inevitability. What do you li…
Linked From observer.com at 05:37PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Amanda Quaid and David Costabile in 'The (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence.'
“Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.”
They’re some of the most famous words of the late 19t…
Linked From observer.com at 09:40AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
'Regular Singing.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
At Marian and Barbara Apple’s house in Rhinebeck, N.Y., it’s time to eat again.
As the lights come up, dimly at first, the women are setting the…
Linked From observer.com at 04:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Ian McKellen, left, and Patrick Stewart in 'No Man’s Land.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Let’s get this part out of the way: Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are very good, every bit as good a…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
'Taking Care of Baby.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
“The following has been taken word for word from interviews and correspondence,” says an offstage voice just after the actors have taken the…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
Mark Rylance in 'Twelfth Night.' (© Joan Marcus)
Is the lack of a gimmick itself a gimmick? After a motorcycle-riding, movie-star Romeo on Broadway this fall and a video-projection Athenian…
Linked From observer.com at 10:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
NY Observer review of "Bring It On" and "Last Smoker in America."
Linked From observer.com at 10:54AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
'Peter and the Starcatcher.' (Courtesy O & M Co.)
Don’t worry too much about Peter Pan and his Lost Boys. They’ve found their way to Broadway, and they’re doing just fine…
Linked From The New York Observer at 05:31PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Bell, Bowen and Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff in 'Now. Here. This.' (Photo by Carol Rosegg)
Even though I was supposed to, I didn’t love [title of show] a few years back.
The sw…
Linked From The New York Observer at 10:00PMTuesday, March 27, 2012
'Jesus Christ Superstar.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Religion goes down so much more easily when it’s accompanied by guitar.
Innumerable youth-group leaders and Reform rabbis know this…
Linked From The New York Observer at 04:57PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti in 'Once.' (Photo by Joan Marcus)
Before reckoning with the new, exceedingly lovely, and disappointingly thin Broadway musical Once, which opened Sund…
Linked From The New York Observer at 04:50PM 
