Wednesday, March 15, 2017
At the beginning of The Debate Society's premiere production of THE LIGHT YEARS written by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, developed and directed by Oliver Butler we're told that Arcturus, the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:03AMSunday, March 12, 2017
'Look for the helpers,' Fred Rogers would say. 'When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:32PMOne of the great things about live theatre is its lack of permanence. In film, the words, directorial choices, performances and other artistic contributions all exist as an unchangeably whol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:06PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Five years ago, playwrightcomposerlyricistperformer Ethan Lipton stood on the stage of Joe's Pub as the central character of his solo musical NO PLACE TO GO, explaining the choices he had to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:54PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Straight cisgender teenage boys looking to lose their virginity are generally accepted as a staple of coming-of-age comedies that make movie theatre box offices hum. But when it comes to the…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AMTuesday, March 7, 2017
When Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's classic musical thriller Sweeney Todd THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET opened on Broadway in 1979, Harold Prince's production was of grand operatic p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:36PMSaturday, March 4, 2017
It's not exactly a spoiler to note that the closing scene of Penelope Skinner's wonderfully absorbing and issue-oriented dramatic comedy, LINDA, has the title character, a successful marketi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:14PMFriday, March 3, 2017
'I'm almost twenty-nine years old and no one has ever told me they love me,' says the sweet, funny and open-hearted Jordan during a monologue that opens the second act of Joshua Harmon's gid…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:36AMThursday, March 2, 2017
A night out at David Mamet's tense and terse new play, The Penitent, now getting a hard-edged premiere by director Neil Pepe via Atlantic Theatre Company, isn't so much an observance of huma…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06PMTuesday, February 28, 2017
You can't say that playwrightdirector Will Eno doesn't go out big with his new piece, WAKEY, WAKEY. Just before curtain calls, an extra-bright video montage, set to The Olivia Tremor Contro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:54PMListening to the original Broadway cast album of Jerry Herman's 1969 entry, DEAR WORLD, it's almost unimaginable to think you're hearing the score of a show that shuttered on Broadway after …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:04AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Inspired by Georges Seurat's pointillism masterwork 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,' the authors explore how 'the art of making art' can be less about applying paint to…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:47PMThough the brilliant musicals that composer John Kander created with his late lyricist partner Fred Ebb frequently tackled dark and violent issues CABARET, CHICAGO, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:42AMThursday, February 23, 2017
'We're dealing with some fairly old and ancient material, so maybe let's trust it to be really wise and meaningful, okay' asks a character acting as a kind of host at the beginning of Brande…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:12AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
When tragedy strikes a community, after the initial shock and the effort to neutralize the situation, there's always a strong desire to return to normalcy.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:36AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
Those who have yet to have their fill of half-price post-Valentine's Day candy will be happy to discover that what looks like crudites when you step into Derek McLane's environmental set for…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:40PMSaturday, February 18, 2017
It would be nice to be able take in The Wooster Group's intriguing docu-theatre piece, THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR, as a look at the grotesquely blatant brand sexism of nearly 50 years ago that we …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:32AMThursday, February 16, 2017
Deceptively, little seems to happen in the first several scenes of Tracy Letts' riveting 2004 Pulitzer Prize finalist, Man from Nebraska, now receiving a superb New York premiere at Second S…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
When Nazis began publicly burning copies of his latest musical theatre piece, composer Kurt Weill took it as a hint that he might be better off sailing to America and writing for Broadway.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:11AMSunday, February 12, 2017
One would assume that Mark Twain would have been amused that his 1884 novel condemning America's history of enslavement of Africans, 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' has occasionally been c…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:54PMSaturday, February 11, 2017
After establishing himself as resident doorman, stage manager and sex slave at the Caffe Cino, the historic Cornelia Street birthplace of Off-Off Broadway and America's gay theatre movement,…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:16AMThursday, February 9, 2017
With all due respect to the world class singers and dancers who trod Broadway's boards every season, watching Glenn Close completely enthrall and mesmerize an audience with her two dramatic …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:31PMMonday, February 6, 2017
The legendary Puerto Rican salsa singer Hector Lavoe, who died of AIDS in 1993 at age 46, has been long gone when Paola Lazaro's humorous drama, Tell Hector I Miss Him, takes place, but his …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:36AMFriday, February 3, 2017
As soon as you enter the Lortel for director Trip Cullman's tight and tense production of Anna Jordan's unsettling, hard-edged drama, YEN, the intention to catch audience members a little of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
When Jerry Herman was pegged by producer Gerard Oestreicher to write the score for a Broadway musical set in the fledgling State of Israel, he was a 28-year-old composerlyricist mostly known…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:41PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Teetering somewhere between an incisive study of human fidelity and a sexy comedy of manners, Miles Malleson's Yours Unfaithfully is the kind of play that, under different circumstances, mig…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:48AMMonday, January 30, 2017
Press performances for David Ives' sharp and funny verse comedy THE LIAR began just around the time when political headlines were being made about the phrase 'alternative facts.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:32AMFriday, January 20, 2017
When August Wilson's Jitney had its 1982 world premiere at Pittsburgh's Allegheny Repertory Theatre, there were no plans for it to serve as 110th of the greatest achievement in American dram…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:36AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
'Are you ready for autobiographical solo performance' Marga Gomez would enthusiastically ask the crowd to commence performances of her recently concluded run at the Public Theater's 2017 Und…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:30AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Traditionally, you can regard the name of the Public Theater's annual January festival, Under The Radar, as a reference to the relative obscurity of the theatre companies and artists involve…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01PMThe 1998 Tony Award ceremony was quite a history-making night, as THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE's Garry Hynes became the first woman to be awarded a Tony for directing a play. Her honor was r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:42AM 
