To get right to it—there is an anticipatory glow, even as we settle into our seats, that shouts at us from the house curtain with the musical’s title splashed across it in all its gory g…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:10PMThere are actors who begin their careers with training and early professional outings in regional and stock theatres as understudies and bit players. Many use live theatre as training grou…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:22PMBroadway will soon have to change its name to “Revival City” for the number of new works (except for juke box musicals and seven hour “events”) has narrowed down to two or three play…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:37PMTracy Letts, who established himself as a playwright with “August: Osage County,” is a gifted writer and actor who has an uncanny ear for the unique rhythms, accents, and insights …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:29PM“All the Way” by Robert Schenkkan dealt with Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to influence the 88th U.S. congress to vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It first appeared in 2012 at the Oreg…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 01:07PMArtists often prepare sketches to guide themselves through the process of creating a painting. Architects draw blueprints which are subject to change before committing to building. And Pla…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:47PMMaster playwright Harold Pinter has left us a fistful of fascinating plays, and their highly original tales will be with us for many years to come. “The Birthday Party,” “The Homecomin…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:32PMTop drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reykjavic, Iceland. In his case, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely, as he had spent his working life…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:33PMThe Hudson Theatre on Broadway is playing host presently to two star actors with two playwrights (Simon Stephens and Nick Payne) delivering two acts of delicate magic. On a virtually bare st…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:16PMLet’s take a moment to stroll down memory lane. For some of you it will be more of a history lesson, but join us anyway as we think about a time when New York had something called “café…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:30PMYou can tell as you enter the Al Hirschfeld Theatre that you’re going to be seeing a big show. The entire proscenium and a lot of the side walls are covered with gilt and glitter and a hug…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 09:55AMTop drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reikvik, Iceland, although, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely for this man who spent his working lif…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMA young British playwright, Chris Urch, is making his Lincoln Center debut with this play—one written in white heat. It’s fiction but is based on incidents that took pace in Uganda ten y…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:20PMOrpheus is once again descending into hell in search of his beloved Eurydice; Hermes is around to keep the plot spinning; and Hades, the King of the Underworld, is madly maneuvering his …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:19AMNathan Lane is enjoying one of theatre’s longest running careers. He’s been brightening stages ever since 1975 when at 19 he made his off-Broadway debut, and 1982 when he first bounced o…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMPlaywright Lucas Hnath, has served his apprenticeship in theatre by having work produced at some of New York’s most reputable off-Broadway venues and at many out of town spaces like the Hu…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:39AMI saw the original Broadway production of this, Arthur Miller’s second Broadway outing, when I was 20 years old; and it struck me as a sober introduction to a playwright who clearly repres…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 12:34PM“Tootsie” is fun company. “She” is actor Michael Dorsey’s one ally in finding him a job in a New York play or musical. For Michael is a hard-to-cast 40 year old who is unable to ch…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:45AMPlaywright Lanford Wilson began the story in the play, set in New York in 1987, on the day after the death of Robbie, a gay choreographer. His apartment mate Anna, who was a dancer who’d b…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:00AMOn occasion I marvel at the insight and wisdom shown by the Elizabethan lad Will Shakespeare, not to mention the poetry and imagination and drive that helped him create a basket of enduring …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:15PMI wasn’t exactly sleeping through the 1960s and 70s, but I seem to have missed most of the pop tunes and great combos that found their place at the time. I blush to admit that I did not kn…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 07:11PMAndréa Burns has been brightening several recent Broadway and off/Broadway seasons by supplying supporting performances of great variety and equal quality. They range from Daniela in “In …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:25PMWith thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” is back on Broadway in a fresh and rousing re-examination by director Scott Ellis and choreographer Warren …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:23PMMaddie Corman is an actress who has worked extensively in film, TV, and theater proving herself proficient in all of them. In my acting days, I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with her i…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 11:57AMThis Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical first tried to roll along on Broadway in 1981. It did so–not so merrily–for just 17 performances; but the play on which it was based was a su…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 03:11PMSean O’Casey was the fifth surviving child of thirteen born into a lower middle class family in Dublin in 1880. Suffering from deficiency in his eyesight, he began as a laborer…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:08PMSam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois; and by 1964 he was ready to start becoming a highly original and prolific playwright. From his first work (“Cowboys”) to his last…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 05:44PMThe priceless York Theatre Company, under the excellent leadership of James Morgan, is now presenting three Alan J. Lerner musicals in its series called “Musicals In Mufti” (Mufti is an …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 06:39PMThe Manhattan Theatre Club has dusted off Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play which it first presented off Broadway in 2013, and it is now creating buzz on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedma…
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 10:14PMThere is a phenomenon in San Francisco that has been running for over 6,000 performances ever since 1974; and, in my recent visit with family, I was taken to see it. I went as a …
SOURCE: onandoffbroadwaytheaterreviews.com at 04:18PMT’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…
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