Sex is sex and rape is rape. That's the cut and dry explanation we often hear nowadays. And while there are obvious instances where any reasonable person would determine that rape has occu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PMTo watch New York stage treasure Everett Quinton engaged in his classic brand of silliness - or, to be more accurate, ridiculousness - is just as fulfilling a cultural experience as watching…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:15PMIf there were any concerns that David Yazbek and Itamar Moses' exquisitely melodic and introspective musical, THE BAND'S VISIT would have lost any of its understated beauty while moving from…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMhe sudden act of violence that occurs early on in on Julia Cho's urgent and sensitive drama OFFICE HOUR, is certainly not unexpected. The opening scene sets up the audience to be prepared f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:15AMTo give credit where it's due, Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer-winning STRANGE INTERLUDE is perhaps the best play imaginable about women's sexuality that could have been written by a 35-year-old A…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:21AMBack in 1931, when the firm Kaufman, Ryskind, Gershwin amp Gershwin had the novel idea to infuse that stodgy old musictheatre entertainment, the Broadway operetta, with the jauntiness of sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:34AMAs anyone who has ever seen A CHORUS LINE will tell you, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger's screen classic THE RED SHOES has been tantalizing young dancers with dreams of ballet stardom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33AMTo the average working stiffs among us, money is a tangible thing. We can count it by the number of dead presidents in our wallets and the reasonably manageable digits in our modest portfol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18AMDate movie would be too tepid a phrase to describe director Tom Gustafson's sizzling film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's tensely erotic 1993 musical drama, HELLO AGAIN. The term f…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:33AMIf the spot-on hilarity of first scene of directorplaywright John Patrick Shanley's THE PORTUGUESE KID could be replicated for the play's remaining three-quarters, this review would be happi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06AMWhen Sophocles' OEDIPUS REX was first performed over 400 years B.C., the Greek chorus that opened the play wore the traditional identical masks. But in Luis Alfaro's contemporary adaptation,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:18PMAs societies in post-apocalyptic stories go, the one envisioned by playwright Zoe Kazan in her insightful relationship drama AFTER THE BLAST, seems to have it pretty good.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMThe term 'alternative facts' wasn't part of the popular lexicon when Stephen Adly Guirgis' superb drama of public morality and personal convictions, JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN premiered in 2…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:48AMIt was thirty-five years ago when FORBIDDEN BROADWAY's genius creatorlyricist Gerard Alessandrini first collaborated, so to speak, with Tony-winning composerlyricist Maury Yeston. That's wh…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PM'We opened for an eight-week limited engagement and could not give a ticket away for three weeks.' That's how Harvey Fierstein described the giant leap of faith that, in 1981, brought a t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMWhen their current engagement at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club concludes this weekend, members of the Belarus Free Theatre will return to their homeland, where they and their audience me…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMTo describe Diana Oh's newest performance art installation as the pep rally that precedes the dismantling of the patriarchy is by no means a knock on her vibrantly raucous mixture of glitter…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12PMPlaywrightdirector Aaron Mark has a habit of leaving audiences in the dark. Not that his plays are especially hard to grasp, but the author who specializes sending chills up and down spines…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:33PMI will be in Hell because I don't love my mom, the central character of Max Posner's comedic drama THE TREASURER causally admits to the audience with unemotional matter-of-factness.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:33AMRegarded by The Public Theater's artistic director Oskar Eustice as a resident company of the Astor Place venue, Elevator Repair Service's niche has always been productions with a clear focu…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:12PMWhen J.B. Priestley's absorbing and poetic drama, Time and the Conways premiered on the West End in 1937, you couldn't blame London audiences if they felt a bit wistful observing the playwri…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:54AMFor over twenty years, artistic director Dan Wackerman's Peccadillo Theater Company has specialized in mounting handsome productions of infrequently revived Broadway fare of notable pedigree…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMIt may have been underestimated how popular TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS would prove to be when it opened at The Public's Shiva Theater last November. Actorplaywright Nia Vardalos' warm, funny and…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMIf director Alexandra Spencer-Jones' intention was to stage an erotic word ballet that finds beauty in the well-chiseled male form through highly-stylized acts of choreographed violence, the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMTo say that there are no dramatic highs and lows in Amy Herzog's touching new drama, Mary Jane, is by no means a criticism. It's more of a recognition of the beautifully understated naturali…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:33PMThe beloved and classic premise of an idealistic teacher determined to reach out and help a classroom full of troubled and disrespectful students 'Up The Down Staircase,' 'To Sir, With Love'…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMWhile Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious drama from 2000, FUCKING A, enjoys an excellent new production at Signature Theatre, across the lobby of their multi-stage center, her more sensitive 1999 e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:18AMIt wasn't long after Mary Martin took her first Broadway flight as Peter Pan that Ann, the central character of Sarah Ruhl's sometimes-whimsicalsometimes-philosophical new drama took her own…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42PMFor over forty years, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players have been Gotham's go-to company for high-quality GampS productions produced with full choruses and orchestras in the traditio…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:41AMBritish playwright Simon Stephens scored big his first time on Broadway, taking the 2015 Best Play Tony Award for THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME two years after receiving …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:12AMNathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' may have served as the initial inspiration for Suzan-Lori Parks' ferocious 2000 drama, FUCKING A, but, especially in director Jo Bonney's chilling …
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