Wednesday, March 27, 2019
'These words might be more offensive now than they were back then,' ponders playwrightactor Ronnie Marmo in the guise of one of 20th Century America's most controversial artists in his mostl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:59AMTuesday, March 26, 2019
'I should let you know I am not okay,' playwrightperformer Maddie Corman advises the audience at the outset of her completely absorbing solo piece ACCIDENTALLY BRAVE. 'This isn't one of thos…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:04AMSunday, March 24, 2019
One of the quirky charms of the musicals that packed Broadway houses during early decades of the 20th Century, was the practice of allowing a stray remark that has nothing to do with anythin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
And as we look out at what the country has become in recent years, and how social media has illuminated what we have always been, it's necessary to have artists like Suzan-Lori Parks around …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:56PMFriday, March 22, 2019
'You never know who was hating you and singing along to your record,' musses Otis Williams in playwright Dominique Morisseau's excellent bio-musical, AIN'T TOO PROUD THE LIFE AND TIMES OF TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:02AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
White letters on a black screen introduce the place and time of an early scene in FX's limited series 'FosseVerdon' as 'Hollywood, 19 years left.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:08PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Sturdy, richly-voiced and subtly droll, John Larroquette is one of those actors with a wonderful talent for creating enormously funny moments by taking in the madness surrounding him and cut…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:45AMSunday, March 17, 2019
According to this reviewer's admittedly casual bit of Googling, the first Broadway production based on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was playwright Alice Gerstenberg's v…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:24PMFriday, March 15, 2019
Buried amongst the over twenty names receiving the smallest-sized billing for their contributions to Roundabout Theatre Company's hot new revival of Cole Porter and Sam amp Bella Spewack's m…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:22AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
It was three seasons ago that French playwright Florian Zeller's Moliere Award winning THE FATHER came to Broadway from London in an English translation by Christopher Hampton. Frank Langell…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:57AMSunday, March 10, 2019
When composerlyricist Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz's hard-rocking, super-charged and very well written science fiction musical comedy Be More Chill ended its month-long premiere engag…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:33PMFriday, March 8, 2019
While this reviewer is always up for a tub of popcorn and a screening of 'Crossing Delancey' or 'Muriel's Wedding,' Suzy Conn's spirited CHICK FLICK, THE MUSICAL is more accurately aimed at …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:43AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
The conflict between seeing multiple sides of an issue and the insistence that there is only one correct side is the power that fuels Bekah Brunstetter sweet and provocative multi-layered co…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:14AMSunday, March 3, 2019
If a contemporary Hollywood screenwriter pitched the plot of Sean O'Casey's classic 1923 drama, The Shadow of a Gunman to a movie producer 'A struggling poet gets in over his head when he al…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:02PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Over 160 years after she first gained fame tending to wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War, the name Florence Nightingale is still recognized as a symbol of selfless caregiving an…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:46AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
The soft clanging of pots and pans gently hitting each other is the first indication that the title characters of South African playwright Athol Fugard's 1969 indictment of Apartheid segrega…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:57AMSunday, February 17, 2019
Opening in November of 1945 and closing up shop less than four months later, the sophomore Broadway effort of the team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, THE DAY BEFORE SPRING, would be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AMFriday, February 15, 2019
'As terrifying as anything I've seen,' is how a young fellow describes the natural phenomenon that gives playwright Simon Stephens' solo piece Sea Wall its title.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:42AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
The only part of FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME that doesn't bounce off an audience response comes at the very beginning when four voices announce a mic check and standard phrases like mic one check…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMYou can pass laws, spread the wealth and educate the masses all you want, but perhaps the quickest way to dissolve the barriers between established classes is simply through giving in to raw…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:12AMMonday, February 11, 2019
'You take a mackerel, grill it, drizzle a little lemon on it, serve it up with a huge glass of white zinfandel, and one doesn't feel quite like blowing one's brains out anymore, does one' ob…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AMThursday, February 7, 2019
The brevity of political satire's shelf life tends to rival that of a tray of supermarket eggs, but it seems one of the quips penned by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for the book of thei…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:54AMFriday, February 1, 2019
With a proliferation of pimps, drug dealers and muggers saturating Times Square, business on Broadway was struggling during much of the 1970s, with theatres frequently left empty for long st…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:42PMWednesday, January 30, 2019
'We can't talk about him, there's not enough time.' That's the quick explanation given to the audience as to why there's nobody portraying Michael Anthony, described 'as a bassist with a gol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:06PMMonday, January 28, 2019
Flying in the face of the dreadful 21st Century practice of making extreme cuts and revisions to classic musicals by deceased authors in the belief that they would offend contemporary sensib…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:54AMSunday, January 27, 2019
To those who knew her, Alice Trillin was highly regarded as an educator, author and film producer. But to millions more who never met her, she was the women that her husband, humorist Calvin…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04PMThursday, January 24, 2019
In this business we make movies. American movies. Leave the films to the French.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
'Free speech is an acoustic art. It wasn't meant to go electric,' Colin Quinn explains in his very funny riff on contemporary American discourse, RED STATE BLUE STATE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:36AMMonday, January 21, 2019
'Before I walk in the room, I remember who I am,' explains rising hotshot negotiator Sarah in Helen Banner's new drama. 'I'm American. And I'm a woman, an attractive woman, divorced, success…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:42AMThursday, January 17, 2019
During the first year of his presidency, after violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia during a protest involving white supremacists, many of whom were displaying Nazi symbols and sl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AMSaturday, January 12, 2019
One of the great opportunities afforded to playgoers at The Public Theater's annual Under The Radar Festival is the chance to see how theatre companies from other countries address the same …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:06PM 
