“What’s the worst thing that you’ve ever seen in all your trips to the theater?” It’s a question that people...Continue Reading The post A COCKTAIL PARTY Is an EXPERIMENT That Fail…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 02:27PMOh, why not?! Let’s face it: WEST SIDE STORY, in their faithful 1980 and 2009 revivals, set few pulses racing...Continue Reading The post WEST SIDE STORY: Live on Stage – and on Screen a…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:11PMWouldn’t a play with Josephine Baker, Margaret Sanger, Langston Hughes and Adam Clayton Powell have terrific dramatic possibilities? After all,...Continue Reading The post BLUES FOR AN ALA…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:53PMThe first words that we hear come courtesy of an onstage Band Leader. “It’s 1969.” Those who didn’t know that...Continue Reading The post BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE & …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:19PMOn my way to baggage claim, I locked eyes with the lovely lady who was sitting at the welcome table...Continue Reading The post MOJADA: A MEDEA IN LOS ANGELES: Met It in St. Louis appeared f…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 01:56PMYou may have noticed that Broadway Select wasn’t around for about a week. Damn those hackers! In the interim, I...Continue Reading The post There’s Been a Women’s March on Theater, Too…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:22PMThis week, let’s review an artistic director. James C. Nicola of New York Theatre Workshop gets a rave. He’s been...Continue Reading The post JAMES C. NICOLA KEEPS THE “NEW” IN NEW Y…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 06:14PMThis review will not sport any jokes or puns about the film version of CATS. No, it’s not a very...Continue Reading The post CATS Unmocked appeared first on BroadwaySelect.
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:23PMIf you wanted to know who they were, they weren’t gentlemen of Japan, but of England. Theatergoers weren’t immediately in...Continue Reading The post THE MIKADO: Well, It IS in the Publi…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:34PMIn one way, THE THIN PLACE is a drama critic’s dream – at least for the first 60 of its...Continue Reading The post THE THIN PLACE: Slim and Lean appeared first on BroadwaySelect.
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:46PMSophisticated writers often stack the deck when writing about suburban families. JAGGED LITTLE PILL, now at the Broadhurst, seems to...Continue Reading The post JAGGED LITTLE PILL: Not So Ha…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:32PMDecember theatergoers can always see a slew of shows that celebrate Christmas, Chanukah and Kwanzaa. How they uplift us and...Continue Reading The post IT ISN’T BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIK…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 12:39PM“I felt while I was writing this play that I was getting away with murder.” So said Maria Irene Fornes...Continue Reading The post FEFU AND HER FRIENDS: Don’t Fasten Your Seats Belts a…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:03PMIn 2007 alone, it was produced by the estimable Manhattan Theatre Club and won The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize that...Continue Reading The post PUMPGIRL: And All the Rest Is Talk appeared fi…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:03PMWhile some shows are famous for second-act trouble, Matthew Lopez’s THE INHERITANCE runs the risk of having both that and...Continue Reading The post THE INHERITANCE: The Sum of Its Parts …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:02PMThe lights come up on a woman just sitting, not moving and with her back to us. That’s all it...Continue Reading The post The Warren Report on TINA appeared first on BroadwaySelect.
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:07PMWith Peter Dinklage as the title character in this new musical simply called CYRANO, you might assume you’ll see a...Continue Reading The post Where’s CYRANO’S Nose? appeared first on …
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 08:03PMSure, we all want our children to be smart and confident. That includes the kids we see on stage. So...Continue Reading The post LAST DAYS OF SUMMER: Would You Believe … ? appeared first o…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:26PMIn a way, SCOTLAND, PA is the perfect musical for the Donald Trump era. It says get what you want,...Continue Reading The post SCOTLAND, PA: Cheap at Twice the Price appeared first on Broadw…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:17PMDrama involves conflict. That’s why so many plays rely on husbands, wives and lovers. As Katharine Hepburn famously said, “Marriage...Continue Reading The post WIVES AND LOVERS: And Husb…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:23PMThere are occasional mentions of diet pills, appetite suppressants and laxatives. But Judy Garland’s taking such medications aren’t the focus...Continue Reading The post CHASING RAINBOWS…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMI know, I know … One of the worst things that a critic can do is tell you how...Continue Reading The post Join the BOYNTON BEACH CLUB appeared first on BroadwaySelect.
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 08:55AMAs soon as you walk into the Calderwood Pavilion — Huntington Theatre Company of Boston’s second space — you’ll know...Continue Reading The post See THE PURISTS Near Where the Purita…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMThe Playbill doesn’t tell us in what year the new production of BETRAYAL is set, so theatergoers have every reason...Continue Reading The post BETRAYAL 2019 appeared first on BroadwaySelec…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMThose Judy Garland fans who hated END OF THE RAINBOW – and Lord knows there were thousands – are about...Continue Reading The post JUDY: Let’s Hear It for the Rainbow Tour appeared fir…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMI saw Ethel Merman once, Mary Martin twice and Barbra Streisand thrice (for I saw FUNNY GIRL both in its...Continue Reading The post BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE: Plenty of Assets in Store appeared…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMAnd to think it starts off so nicely. Projected onto the stage is that famous photo of the scene that...Continue Reading The post SIDEKICKED: THE (UNPLEASANT) VIVIAN VANCE STORY appeared fir…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 04:39PMShow me a person who works in theater, and I’ll show you someone who says something bad about him or...Continue Reading The post Meanwhile, in Long Branch, New Jersey … appeared first on…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMNo, its creators insist, it’s not “a musical comedy” but “a comedy musical.” TWO’S A CROWD’s collaborators have in...Continue Reading The post TWO’S A CROWD: Would You Be…
SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMSo, you may ask, with CHICAGO playing right down the street from where I live, why would I take four...Continue Reading The post CHICAGO COMES TO WICHITA appeared first on BroadwaySelect.
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