Nathaniel 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 …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM'All the world's a stage And everybody's in the show. Nobody's a pro.' Those words, sung at the opening of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery's thoroughly enchanting musical adaptation of Sha…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PMSnuggled at the curve of a quiet little Greenwich Village side street, the quaint and historic Cherry Lane Theatre is a perfect spot to engage in a quiet little drama.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:42AMWhile the underrepresentation of women playwrights in contemporary American theatre remains an important issue, the Mint Theater Company, those invaluable specialists in rediscovering intere…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:12AMHarold Prince, who has been honored with 21 Tony Awards for his seven decades of achievements as a Broadway producer and director, did not write one word nor compose one note of the 17 music…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMIt doesn't take long before Nancy Opel starts tearing your heart out as the title character of the new musical, Curvy Widow.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AM'If you knew in advance exactly what was going to happen in your life, and how everything was going to turn out, and if you knew you couldn't do anything to change it, would you still want t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:35AMWhen this reviewer first critiqued Lucas Hnath's clever and intriguing A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2, he envisioned much discussion being provoked over the fact that a new Broadway play that debate…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMAfter Florenz Ziegfeld spent the early decades of Broadway's 20th Century 'glorifying the American Girl,' a young composerlyricist named Jerry Herman spent a good hunk of the second half sho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:54AMRed, white and blue bunting is draped across a stage left box at the Belasco Theatre because, as Michael Moore explains at the beginning of his more-or-less solo Broadway performance, THE TE…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMGiven her distinguished career that includes such significant works at PAINTING CHURCHES, COASTAL DISTURBANCES and PRIDE'S CROSSING, a new play by Tina Howe is certainly a noteworthy event.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:12AMNew York City wasn't exactly the most magical place for a child to grow up in back in 1975. Crime and poverty rates were inhumanely high and when the city begged for federal assistance, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:12AMIt was fifty years ago that The Summer of Love attracted throngs of lunatics, lovers and poets to New York's Central Park in a free-spirited embrace of life's passions and pleasures. That s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36PMConnoisseurs of American musical theatre wishing to make a point about the genre's ability to dramatize even the most unlikely of subjects often cite examples like SWEENEY TODD's vengeful ba…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:48AMEven if you've never heard a note sung by Ella Fitzgerald and if that's the case, you should stop reading this review immediately and look up some of her recordings on YouTube Andrea Frierso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:06PMThough your ticket says you're seated at The Public's Anspacher Theater, don't be surprised if once director Sam Gold's jaunty mounting of Shakespeare's Hamlet shifts into gear, you find you…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:36AMA folk-singing black man with an optimistic view of America looks back at our nation's history of angry white people finding no better way to cope with their grievances than by firing a gun …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:18PMIn December of 2015, shortly before her excellent drama SKELETON CREW opened Off-Broadway, playwright Dominique Morisseau essayed an article for American Theatre titled 'Why I Almost Slapped…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMAfter PARAMOUR, last season's ambitious but underwritten attempt to incorporate their world-class circus arts performers into a book and score Broadway musical, Cirque du Soleil returns to t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:06PMWhile it's not unexpected to have the title character of a musical based on Henry Fielding's infamously bawdy 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling be introduced to the audience w…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:06AMAs America's great playwrights go, Horton Foote, who passed on in 2009, just shy of his 93rd birthday, was perhaps the most understated of them all. In a prolific career that involved golden…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48PMAfter thirteen years and eighteen directing credits for major Off-Broadway companies such as Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard, Lincoln Center Theatre and The New York Theatre Workshop, another…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24AMThe newest offering at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater features a beautiful dreamscape depicting a woman in a small boat being guided through swelling ocean waves by a friendly face pain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMThe recent Signature Theatre revival of Suzan Lori-Parks' VENUS, based on the true story of Saartjie Baartman, depicted a 19th Century African woman who was subjected to exploitation because…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PMRonald Reagan was re-elected president, the first human baby conceived by artificial insemination was born and the Tigers won the World Series, but for much of the world, the public percepti…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:24AMThough the lonely, out-of-work truck driver Eddie continued to text love notes to his estranged wife's cell phone number long after her death, he never expect to get an answer.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48AMWhen playwrightactor Jim Brochu was announced as the 2010 Drama Desk Outstanding Solo Performance Award winner for his loving tribute to the great Zero Mostel, ZERO HOUR, circumstances of th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:33AMAsk any New York Mets fan and they'll tell you that one of the unique quirks about watching a game at the teams' Flushing home - be it the now-demolished Shea Stadium or the current Citi Fie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:42PMThe new Off-Broadway production of SWEENEY TODD just got a whole lot meatier. No, the chef hasn't been adding more filling to the tasty meat pies audience members can enjoy before the perfor…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:48PMFor the past 400 years, the title character in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar has been traditionally regarded as one of the good guys. Oh sure, there was that time back in '37 when Orso…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:06AMThe confusion one might feel trying to follow Atlantic TheaterCompany's production of British playwright Clare Lizzimore's psychological study, Animal, is no doubt an intentional reflection …
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