“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…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:34PMOnce again, Dolly is back where she belongs, lighting up the sky with her dazzling radiance distilled through the many gifts of Bernadette Peters who is her current inhabitant. Ms. Peters re…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:10PMAt 79, still active as a playwright and director, Alan Ayckbourn here gives us his 81st work for the theatre. He’s been supplying us with material since 1959; and his new play is as fr…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:35PMIf you are among those who are not familiar with the names Draco and Scorpius Malfoy, Cedric Diggory, Dudley Dursley, Uncle Vernon, Severus Snape, Amos Diggory, Albus Dumbledore, Aunt Petuni…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:32PMIt gives me so much pleasure to be able to begin a review of a Broadway musical from the inside out. By that I mean that in recent weeks, in covering this season’s arrivals, I’ve…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:37AMThe new musical “Mean Girls”, currently playing at the August Wilson theatre on Broadway, is a tough one to write about. There are two ways to approach it as I see it. It’s…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:29AMI’ve often found it difficult to feel much empathy for characters who have little or no redeeming features. The exception that might well prove that rule is the current revival of Kenn…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:31PMBy now you may well have heard that Glenda Jackson has made a sensational return to the stage as a character simply called “A” in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:34AMTony Kushner’s masterpiece has arrived on Broadway. As it did after its great success twenty-five years ago, it comes to us from London where it was received very well once again. In 1…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:42PMThe long wait is over. The Disney company has finally delivered the much anticipated stage version of its animated blockbuster film Frozen. A great deal of money has been spent, some of it f…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:29PMI wasn’t going to review this Encores! production because it was only presented for 7 performances and it will have closed (on March 27th) before you have a chance to see it. But I mu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:05PMOn this pleasant Sunday afternoon I had the pleasure of seeing the first half of Bruce Norris’ play The Low Road at the Public. I say “half” because one of the actors becam…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:19PMThe New York theater season has evolved from the so-called Golden Age, when virtually all new plays meant Broadway, to the current series of not-for-profit productions by the huge list of Of…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:14PMFirst there was Grand Opera. Then along came Light Opera and finally Operetta. In 1866, because a ballet troupe was left stranded, a new form called “Musical Theater” was born. T…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:23AMA.R.Gurney, who was called “Pete” by all who knew him, passed away at the age of 87 in 2017. He died in his apartment in New York surrounded by his family, which is how he wanted…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PMIn his own time, Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was a sports writer and columnist for the Hearst newspapers but was perhaps best known as the creator of Nathan Detroit, Miss Adelaide, Jedediah Sky…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PMDavid Rabe’s Good For Otto, directed by Scott Elliot and presented by The New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street, is a very absorbing play, running almos…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:00PMI didn’t want to slink off into the night without saying so long to you very lovely DC fans at DC Metro Theater Arts. It was time to go, and I’m grateful for the space in which t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PMTerrence McNally has been a steady contributor as a playwright ever since his first play, And Things That Go Bump In The Night landed on Broadway in 1963. It didn’t bump for long; it p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51PMTo celebrate its 25th anniversary, the very successful Encores! series threw us a party by offering its seven audiences (February 7–11) a potpourri of book scenes and musical numbers from …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:47AMLong buried in a box marked “forgotten” was this remarkable play, now unearthed by Jonathan Banks’ Mint Theater Company, which has brought it back to shimmering life for a …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMRobert Fairchild, a lead dancer with the New York City Ballet Company, burst upon the Broadway scene two years ago by playing the lead in the stage version of An American In Paris. He was im…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:58PMI believe there’s a reason the name of the countertenor Farinelli precedes that of King Philippe V of Spain in the title of the play running currently at the Belasco Theatre on Broadwa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:39PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has imported the London Royal Court Theatre’s production of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, and with it have come the highly acclaimed original cast (Francesc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMDrawing room comedy is back for the moment, thanks to Beau Willimon’s The Parisian Woman. Genuine high wattage star Uma Thurman is riding in this vehicle which deals with the powerful …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22PMThis 90-minute sketch by Steve Martin begins as a situation comedy. Until fairly recently there were always several lighting up Broadway; and they were usually written by the likes of Neil S…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PMAt last, a musical version of the SpongeBob family of characters who first appeared in a film cartoon in 1999. The title character and his friends have always lived in the fictional underwat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMJust as I was about to resignedly sigh Another tired revival of a favorite musical from the Golden Age?–along came Brigadoon from the remarkable New Yorks City Center “Encores!&#…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AMOnly on rare occasion have I found a one-man (or woman) play rich enough for my blood. I do recall John Gielgud’s mesmerizing performance in Shakespeare’s Ages of Man, and there …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMThe playwright Julia Cho now has Office Hour on at the Public Theatre, but she has been a steady and welcome contributor to the contemporary scene for some time. Works of hers have been prod…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMJason Alexander was a Broadway baby long before he achieved fame on Seinfeld, but he’s had trouble re-establishing himself even though he’d appeared in Merrily We Roll Along, The…
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