Wednesday, May 10, 2023
I watched Oscar Levant on tv–primarily on the Jack Paar Show where he was an almost permanent guest, so popular were his many visits. Paar himself loved to chat with him about the mos…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:44PMMonday, May 8, 2023
The original production of this British musical is one I thoroughly enjoyed when i saw it in 1960. The New York City Center has now offered it to us again in its “Encores! series for a b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:13PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Just as I was about to write off this season on Broadway’s Musical Theatre Scene after many months of second rate offering in that category—shows that are so busy catering to rock and o…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:18AMMonday, May 1, 2023
David Auburn’s play breaks new ground opening with two women seated at the ends of a large table but facing us, the audience. Each individually recalls how their very dear friendship bega…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:28PMSunday, April 30, 2023
This musical tribute to “the city that never sleeps” is a love letter now running at the St. James Theatre on West 44th Street. It has some imperfections as does the city it celebrates; …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:58PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco When I was a “baby agent” back in 1954, my job as a new recruit was to discover young performers, composers, writers. directors, and any others with tal…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:03PMSunday, April 16, 2023
There is an article in the Playbill for Fat Ham on Broadway that quotes the play’s author James Ijames. In adapting Shakespeare’s Hamlet, he tells us he only “intended to disrupt the s…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:39PMFriday, March 31, 2023
I don’t have the vocabulary to properly describe the miraculous work being done 8 times a week at the Music Box, where Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ is currently in residence. A company of 22 …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:39PMThursday, March 30, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his finger on the audience pulse since 1969; and in the following half century, he has become the longest-running composer in Broadway history. Joseph and the …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:14AMSunday, March 19, 2023
I spent a happy afternoon on Saturday at the Encores! matinee of Jerry Herman’s Dear World… which did not have a great success in 1968 when it first opened to very mixed notices and lim…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:33PMThursday, March 16, 2023
A planned visit to a Broadway show now requires a new sort of preparation. When I learned that a new production of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” was heading our way, I delighted i…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:06PMMonday, February 27, 2023
Jonathan Bank has been Producing Artistic Director of Off Broadway’s Mint Theatre for many years, and he has made it his mission to search out and rediscover plays which were written in an…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:59PMFriday, February 24, 2023
Jeffrey Richards and his many associates here offer us a one-set, 95 minutes visit with an elderly couple and their middle aged son who is visiting them in their Southern California home. Ba…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:52PMFriday, February 10, 2023
New York’s jewel of an off Broadway theatre company called the Irish RepTheatre continues to offer new insights into memorable works like this gem from Samuel Beckett, which first provok…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:45AMMonday, January 23, 2023
The Manhattan Theatre Club is offering its subscribers and the general public its production of this play first done at the Old Vic in London and now cast here in New York with the origina…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:15PMWednesday, December 21, 2022
David Lindsay-Abaire wrote a similarly titled play some seasons back, and Jeanine Tesori joins him now as composer of the new musical on which it is based. This lively entry boasts an exce…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:19PMSaturday, December 17, 2022
An assortment of gifted theatrical talents have combined to restore Adrienne Kennedy’s play “Ohio State Murders” to the current season on Broadway Originally mounted in 1991 this rev…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:02PMThursday, December 15, 2022
It took some twenty-odd producers plus the Shubert Organization, Neil Meron, MGM On Stage, and Executive Producer S. Moynihan to bring this musical comedy to the stage on Broadway. With a…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:15PMSunday, November 20, 2022
A new musical has arrived at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre making its bid for acceptance by the press and the public with a list of ten new names adorning its Playbill title page as producer…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:15PMMonday, November 7, 2022
The times are no longer a-changin’; they have already changed. What used to be called “Musical Theatre” is weathering the change as best it can, and the most recent example of the new …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:29PMSunday, November 6, 2022
Todd Haines, as Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, has made the brave decision to mount this challenging new work by Noah Diaz as part of the Roundabout Season in New Yor…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:24PMThursday, October 13, 2022
Once upon a time… in the period affectionately known as The Golden Age, there was an opportunity for all to discover the mysteries and magic of something called “Broadway.” Some of us�…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:55PMIn Oscar Hammerstein’s book and lyrics for “The King and I,” there is a phrase used by the King whenever his own behavior seems to contradict itself causing him confusion. The phrase w…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:34AMMonday, May 9, 2022
What a way to go! As the final entry in the 2022 season of Encores!, Artistic Director Lear Debessonet has taken the reins herself and led a company of miraculous performers to the best …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:16AMFriday, May 6, 2022
A smashingly vital revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo’” is heating up Broadway in a rare revival at the Circle In The Square Theatre. That space has an elliptical playing are…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:30PMBILLY CRYSTAL was born in 1948 and spent most of his childhood in Long Beach, New York. His father, Jack Crystal, was a prominent figure in the world of Jazz and ran a classic jazz recor…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:46PMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Once upon a time one of the popular phrases was : “The times they are a changin.” Well, they’ve changed. A successful run on Broadway used to mean one of 300-400 performances. Prolific…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:13PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Mary Louise Parker and David Morse along with their director Mark Brokaw have decided to have another go at Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning one act play that deals with the rarely ex…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:43PMFriday, April 29, 2022
For starters–If you happened to see it, it is wise to forget the original production of this Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical which enjoyed a run of over 1200 performances in …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:04PMThursday, April 28, 2022
In his new Broadway play, Playwright/Actor Tracy Letts has invited us in to witness the reading of the minutes at a November weekly meeting of the City Council of the town of Big Cherry. M…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 02:50PMFriday, April 22, 2022
It seems to me a very odd time to be bringing back Martin McDonagh’s play, written and first produced in the mid 1960s, yet here it is at the Golden Theater on Broadway, in a smashingly …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:20PM 
