Tuesday, 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 09:54AMSunday, June 17, 2018
'We are women more willing to be vile receptacles then we are willing to be dead,' says a character identified as Item 2 in Eve Ensler's FRUIT TRILOGY, which is receiving its New York debut …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:42AMThursday, June 14, 2018
'Vassar. See yourself there,' a successful adult advises a high school student who has impressed him with her talent for writing poetry, but not with her low expectations for securing a spot…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMSunday, June 10, 2018
Commencing in 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward was a 5-year plan to convert Communist China's largely agricultural economy into government-run farming collectives, freeing up r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:18AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
From the mid-1960s through to the early years of this century, the musicals scored by the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb have exemplified Broadway pizzazz while exploring darker issues und…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:18AMThursday, May 31, 2018
A younger playgoer knowing nothing about Mart Crowley's classic 1968 Off-Broadway comedydrama The Boys in the Band except, perhaps, that its original run is regarded as an important landmark…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The fact that Broadway hasn't seen fit to provide a role for Lois Smith in over twenty years can be regarded as one of the top arguments denouncing the popular assumption that Times Square i…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:48AMFriday, May 25, 2018
The setup would make a hell of a piece of theatrically-minded erotica. Call it Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and Mouse, as sexual sparks ignite when elegant playwright on the verge of stardom, Tenne…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMThursday, May 24, 2018
There's an empty casket on display and a pants-less mourner screaming. 'What kinda fuckin' world is this' when the lights suddenly go up on Stephen Adly Guirgis' wild New York escapade, Our …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Depending on how snobby you are about the belief that no American play can truly be said to have premiered until it has opened in New York, Paradise Blue, the ravishing new jazz noir drama b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Ranking up there with MEDEA and OEDIPUS REX, Eugene O'Neill's family tragedy LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT would most likely make any playgoer's list of inappropriate classics to revive on M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMFriday, May 11, 2018
Playgoers in the know will arrive at any production of the 1937 West End smash ME AND MY GIRL already humming a bit of its legendary Act I closer The Lambeth Walk, looking forward to a rousi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMWednesday, May 9, 2018
'How're you gonna cap off your prepubescent years', a stony-faced teacher asks his competitive dance team members, shortly after winning a competition that saw one of their own suffer a seas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Though the characters in bookwriterlyricist Bill Russell and composer Janet Hood's sweet, funny and very entertaining new musical UNEXPECTED JOY are all women, there's a guy in the mix who s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Despite only three Broadway credits, Marin Ireland must be regarded as one of the absolute best actors to regularly grace New York stages during this century. Through her steady work Off-Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Escaping disillusionment through the comfort of alcohol while clinging to hopeless pipe dreams is rarely depicted with such crackling energy as it is in director George C. Wolfe's puzzling p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AMMonday, April 30, 2018
'Raise your hand if you've ever been underestimated,' instructs Program Director Stephanie Ybarra before every performance of Shakespeare's HENRY V, as performed by The Public Theater's Mobi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AMSunday, April 29, 2018
The title character of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan was burned at the stake nearly 500 years before the play premiered at Broadway's Garrick Theatre in December of 1923, but for many vie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Czech-born British dramatist Tom Stoppard, whose densely intellectual plays may be the most potent augment known for America's need to step up its public education funding, was first noticed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Now, if you want to sing along, you just go right ahead and sing, the hostess of Broadway's newest musical advises her audience at the top of the show. And if you want to dance, go 'head, fl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AMMonday, April 23, 2018
If, like this theatre reviewer, you've managed to survive the last twenty years without reading a word of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of Harry Potter novels, nor taking in a screeni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24AMFriday, April 20, 2018
From SOUTH PACIFIC to THE KING AND I to FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and now MY FAIR LADY, director Bartlett Sher has been spending the better part of this young century perfecting his method of moun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
When I was young I was taught by my grandmother to listen to the night, says the title character of Lynn Nottage's nobly lyrical drama of the ivory trade, MLIMA'S TALE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMMonday, April 16, 2018
The willingness to suspend disbelief is a long-standing tradition in live theatre, and as long as playwrights and directors firmly establish their boundaries of realism, it's reasonable for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMFriday, April 13, 2018
During the first half of the 20th Century, there was no artist as important to the development of American musical theatre from strictly light entertainment to a legitimate dramatic art form…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMThursday, April 12, 2018
While audiences gather at Lincoln Center to see Lerner and Lowe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, there's a different kind of Pygmalion story being played out at Studio …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
The current American president is never mentioned in bookwriterlyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes and composerlyricist Erin McKeown's lovely and touching chamber musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL. But e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AMMonday, April 9, 2018
There's a theory, hopefully an accurate one, that the things that make you an outcast in high school are the things that make you awesome as an adult. And maybe that's why scenes in the buoy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Magazine ads and television commercials may reach millions more, but perhaps the highest compliment I can pay Havana Club Rum's immersive theatre experience, AMPARO, is that it effectively g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Broadway's legendary composerlyricist Stephen Sondheim will be making a guest appearance next season on Rachel Bloom's musical romantic comedy television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in an epi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Older character men hungry for fresh scenery to chew will certainly look forward to the day when Shem Bitterman's The Stone Witch becomes available for regional and amateur productions.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PM 
