T’is the season of the Titans on Broadway: Janet McTeer has tackled the roles of Hamlet and Sarah Bernhardt; Glenda Jackson is about to play King Lear; Elaine May is monumental as sh…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:34PMThe lights come up on a total wreck of a basement room in which a lifetime of junk has been accumulated. It’s under the house in which Irene and Jerry are living out their marriage; and at…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:35PMTen talented actor-singer-musicians are filling the jam packed tiny stage in Theatre A at 59 East 59th Street. They are five men and five women who play the essential bi-lingual telephone …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:51PMTake three playwrights, each making his Broadway debut, to write a play. Have them base it on a published book and essay by two other writers which described a real event. Mix thoroughly; th…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:31PMShout it from the rooftops, “Musical Comedy is back on Broadway!” I mean a NEW musical, not a revival or an adaptation. One that’s all about putting “Your Best Foot Forward” (a…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:22AMIn this bountiful Broadway season there is the phenomenon known as the one-man play. Most recently, on November 11th, two of them arrived on the same night. Will Eno’s “Thom Pain (based …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:25PMMy suggestion is that the Tony Awards committee should place King Kong as a nominee for best leading actor in a musical. He doesn’t sing very well, but I think he would win by beating out …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:51PMChristopher Demos-Brown, the author of this new play, was unknown to me, although his more than a dozen earlier works for the stage have been recognized by the Laurents/Hatcher Award and mul…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:41PMMichael Urie is lighting up the stage of the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway eight times a week with his virtuoso performance in Harvey Fierstein’s play. It’s an adaptation of his earlie…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:11PMIt begins with an explosion of angry rock music that lets us know the play is not misnamed. When the music fades we find ourselves inside the living quarters of a ramshackle old house in ups…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:49PMThe New York theater season has barely begun and already we have several marvelous plays on which theater fans can feast. Some are revivals; some are newly minted; but all have impeccable cr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:08PMKenneth Lonergan has been writing important and nourishing plays since The New Group presented his “This Is Our Youth” in 1997. That Drama Desk Award nominee was revived in 2015 and won …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:50PMOn the cover of the Playbill, it says quite clearly that the title means “vindication, justification, explanation.” It is not, in other words, an apology. Alexi Kaye Campbell has written…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:07PMOut of the simplest and most available tools, composer/lyricist Adam Gwon has created an eloquent and moving small musical that does indeed deal with ordinary things. With just four charact…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:54AMHow good of La Femme Theatre Productions to mount the little known Tennessee Williams play at Theatre St. Clements, for anything Williams wrote should be of interest to anyone who loves thea…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:27PMFor starters, I had expected this oddly titled play to offer information on what went on in someone’s mind during an afternoon siesta. Once the play started I found that no, it deals with …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:07PMThe first of two acts of this new play by Theresa Rebeck invites us all into a rehearsal for “Hamlet” with a company of actors working hard to support Sarah Bernhardt, as played by Janet…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:36PMOnce upon a time, circa 1977, there was a woman with a powerful voice and a caring mind who had intimate access to the long term mayor of Albany, New York. Her name was Dorothea “Polly” …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:36PMEvery now and then, Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” returns to us in times of national stress to request that we (or the folks in Britain) examine our present life styles and attitud…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:00PMLillian Hellman first conceived the idea for this play in 1930 but did not complete it and only went back to it five years later following her first production, the successful “The Childre…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:04PMComposers and lyricists have long been attracted to successful films as source material for adaptation into Broadway musicals. “Saturday Night Fever,” “Groundhog Day,” “Rocky,&…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:28PMI admit that forty years ago, when the Go-Go’s female rock stardom was in full bloom, when their punk scene was all the rage amongst the hip, I was very happy with musical theatre as it wa…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:27PMI was confused when I entered the small Helen Hayes Theater for I thought I’d entered the wrong building. I was ushered into the small foyer, and from the auditorium I could hear ear split…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:34PMOnce again, we have a new production of an old success from the school of “And Then I Wrote…” musicals. This time out the writers are Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who, over the course…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:54PMThe Mint Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jonathan Bank, has an uncanny eye for the best of the old obscure plays that deserve a crack at a contemporary audience for re-examination. A perf…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 08:13PMI was introduced to professional theater when I was twelve. A friend of my parents worked for the owners of a Broadway playhouse and she invited my mother and me to a matinee of a long runni…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:22PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has opened this new play by Anthony Giardina, and director Doug Hughes has cast it impeccably, staged it fluidly with help from John Lee Beatty’s rapidly tur…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:50AMThe Vineyard Theatre off Broadway has once again delivered a worthy new musical play created by uptown talents John Kander, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson and inspired by a Henry James no…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:29PMThe Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, rises majestically over the Connecticut River. Its mission is to take popular musicals from the past, dust them off, and shape them up …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:59PMIf I were asked to come up with a snappy slogan for Noel Gay’s musical “Me And My Girl”— something that might fit on the sides of buses or on the wall of a subway car—IR…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:30PM“I have often walked down this street before.” Freddie Eynsford-Hill sings those lyrics as he begins his romantic ode to Eliza Doolittle to whom he is wildly attracted after just…
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