Monday, September 17, 2018
For the better part of the present decade, playwrightdirector Richard Nelson has been going seriously Chekhovian, first with a quartet of plays set during the Obama years in the Rhinebeck, N…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Eat your heart out, THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Paul Weiss' 1963 h…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMFriday, September 7, 2018
There are times in musical theatre when a talented cast performing their hearts out can make questionable material not only endurable, but even somewhat enjoyable. Sadly, this is not the cas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Perhaps if Clifford Odets' landmark pro-union drama, WAITING FOR LEFTY, hadn't opened the year before,Lillian Hellman's 1936 labor drama, DAYS TO COME, the sophomore Broadway effort of the p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:18AMMonday, August 20, 2018
With an innocuous book more focused on moving to plot points than creating interesting leading characters and a platitude-heavy score that tends to linger on moments instead of expanding on …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMThursday, August 16, 2018
The past several Broadway seasons have seen extraordinary developments in musical theatre, with a steady stream of new shows, usually transferring from non-profit Off-Broadway, offering smar…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMMonday, August 13, 2018
The stage is quite empty, save for a makeshift throne in a corner and a couple of rows of ordinary looking chairs in the back, where actors not involved with scenes sit. The costumes are con…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:18AMSaturday, August 11, 2018
It may not have the romantic sweep of 'Some Enchanted Evening' or the driving intensity of 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' but so far, the best new theatre song of this young season is a finely-c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:24PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Back in the days, really not very long ago, when self-effacing gags about failed diets were one of the few topics of discussion deemed acceptable for women in comedy, the punchline Renee Tay…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06AMTuesday, August 7, 2018
The last time an actor appeared in a Broadway musical playing a role he had previously essayed on film, it was 1983, when Anthony Quinn opened in the revival of ZORBA. Sharing that unusual d…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:33AMSaturday, August 4, 2018
One of the most exciting and important voices to emerge from the 1980s-90s American performance art movement, Karen Finley might be regarded as one of the country's most noted censored artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PMThursday, August 2, 2018
The late afternoon and early evening rain that had been steadily falling last Friday didn't stop the faithful from arriving at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for Shakespeare In The Park's …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
'I sound like Borat and I look like Seinfeld,' jokes the Russian-accented illusionist Vitaly Beckman, who indeed sports a resemblance to 9th Avenue's most famous diner patron.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
Coming in at the heels of landmark musicals like AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH and INNER CITY, composerlyricist Micki Grant's DON'T BOTHER ME, I CAN'T COPE was an important part of t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:18PMFriday, July 27, 2018
Fans of late 16th Century pastoral poetic narrative tragicomedy have been all abuzz anticipating the Broadway arrival of the new song and dance adaptation of a Sir Philip Sidney classic. But…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
There was plenty to admire when playwrightdirector Young Jean Lee's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN opened at The Public Theater in November of 2014. Those familiar with the exceedingly non-traditional w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:39AMMonday, July 23, 2018
When the smash hit revue SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, celebrating the pop classics of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, opened on Broadway in 1995, director Jerry Zaks staged each beloved number with sna…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:36AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
'If life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one,' sings a character from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS while pondering whether the intimate encounter she j…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:15PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
It's a classically-styled cinematic pose. The kind that tends to define a certain era of film noir. A woman stands alone on the Coney Island boardwalk on a chilly day. Covered in a tan trenc…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMMonday, July 16, 2018
The person seated in the back of the orchestra section on opening night of the Encores Off-Center concert mounting of GONE MISSING, who was loudly sobbing during the closing song, was by no …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMThursday, July 12, 2018
'Now that the winter formal gives way to glorious spring fling,' recites our antihero at the outset of Mike Lew's enormously clever contemporary riff on Shakespeare's RICHARD III, titled Tee…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMSaturday, July 7, 2018
This is not shaping up to be a good year for Oscar Hammerstein II, American musical theatre's most important writer, who spent the first half of the 20th Century not only making significant …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:42PMMonday, July 2, 2018
'We're all fully interested in navigating this brave new world with them,' says an exasperated character in Jordan Harrison's comedy of social politics, Log Cabin, 'but it sometimes seems li…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:04AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
Jason Robert Brown was just 25 years old when his SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD took the stage of Off-Broadway's intimate WPA Theatre. As he played piano and led the handful of musicians in director…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:58AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Perhaps some of the good people at Britain's Royal Court are in need of a hug these days. This week New York playgoers welcomed two transfers of exceedingly violent productions from that cel…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
On the surface, the plot of CYPRUS AVENUE is just a little too weird to take seriously, and that's one of the strengths of David Ireland's creepy drama, as director Vicky Featherstone, Artis…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:42PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
The existence of queer people of color, particularly of African descent, has repeatedly been washed over, or forgotten altogether, writes Donja R. Love, whose SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS is receivin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMSunday, June 24, 2018
If upon entering a theatre, the stage is populated by a young black man sleeping under a street lamp as another young black man quietly scrutinizes all in attendance, while the pre-show musi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36PMFriday, June 22, 2018
David Friedman and Peter Kellogg may be billed, respectively, as composer and bookwriterlyricists of the rollickingly fun new musical comedy DESPERATE MEASURES, which has just moved from the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:29PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Is there anything more charming than watching two older people falling in love Well, perhaps. Like when the romance occurs, as instructed by playwright Charles Mee in his 2001 one-act, FIRST…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
From the very beginning, one of the most important tenants of Joseph Papp's vision of free Shakespeare in Central Park has been the insistence the company of actors audiences see on stage wi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AM 
