Monday, May 25, 2015
Does October 25 sound like “Soon” or "Later" to you, Sondheim fans? Whether it's sooner or later, it's certainly not now — but it is the earliest you'll get a peek at the s…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMMandy Patinkin's voice holds the same national-treasure/national-joke status as a Julian Schnabel plate-painting or a Keith Haring mural. It's a saccharine klaxon that can whipsaw from birdl…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PMThat real rare thing: a good, small play.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:58PMThursday, June 26, 2014
Yes This Man, the title of Mike Daisey’s slender new monologue, has a kind of “Ecce Homo” quality to it, and Daisey, declaredly, plays his own Pilate here. As a white male monologist, …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:55AMFriday, June 28, 2013
New York's premier investigative theater company looks into death this weekend.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:37PMAmanda Plummer makes existing look so hard in the Tennessee Williams revival.
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:35PMSunday, February 24, 2013
A particularly starry spring descends on Broadway.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:42PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh, friend of the working man, is bringing miserable back. All the miserables, in fact: Les Misérables — flush with brand recognition after its extreme close-u…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:32PMSunday, December 2, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
To the strains of "Brink of Doom" (à la Brigadoon), the parody institution Forbidden Broadway — skewering the Great White Way for 30 years now — reemerges after a three-year hiatus. And…
SOURCE: Vulture at 04:33PMSunday, April 8, 2012
As two revivals arrive on Broadway, a critic revisits Lloyd Webber and Rice.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:00PMSaturday, January 28, 2012
Wit is in good health for its age (fourteenish, an awkward time for a revival) and risk profile (star-driven, midwinter Manhattan Theatre Club production).
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 12:29AMSunday, January 22, 2012
Musical? Opera? Rapture? Travesty? Two critics on the remade Porgy and Bess.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:41PMSunday, December 11, 2011
In an age of endless squabbles over nothing, from the debt ceiling to foreign aid, New Yorkers know whats worth fighting over.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:14PMWednesday, December 7, 2011
There’s much to love (along with a few choices that mystify me) in Once, a sweet mash of tuneful, youthful, beautiful blarney that’s successfully leapt from screen to stage.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:52PMSunday, December 4, 2011
Small-scale brilliance, a mystery hotel—and those singing Mormons!
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:56PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
What’s so wrong with an “updated” Godspell? Golly, aren’t they all updated? Perhaps no other American musical cries out for retrofitting more than this one, with its strung-together …
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:22AMFriday, October 21, 2011
The Ethan Coen–Woody Allen–Elaine May triptych Relatively Speaking nearly drowns in its own shtick.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 11:53PMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Print media, organized labor, and musical theater: Three institutions from Golden Age America so perennially beleaguered, they’ve more or less been reduced to camp. And really, what’s so…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:08PMSunday, July 31, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Fond of women who don’t — correction, won’t — know their place, confine themselves to their appointed range, or answer to any authority other than their own instincts, even if it mea…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:03PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Davis McCallum is a director to watch. Taking the reins of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents,, he turns a wet little Freudian nightmare into a muscular seriocomedy — one that (to …
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:52PMIs there anything more glorious than an outdoor wedding in summertime? The bride blushing (and scheming and strategizing), the clueless horndog groom elaborately entrapped, and some fickle a…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:50PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Last week, I took a break from critiquing Off–Off Broadway plays about naked hip-hop Serbo lesbian forest children struggling with father issues and consumerism to interview actor-comedian…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:16PMMonday, June 13, 2011
I didn’t attend the Tonys — I prefer to experience shared cultural moments (awards ceremonies, inaugurations, targeted assassinations) the way nature intended, via telecast — but so fa…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:23PMFriday, June 10, 2011
One Arm, Moisés Kaufman's fast, fierce, brutally beautiful stage adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams, is more than a play: It's a time machine. Kaufman has retrieve…
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 03:30PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
What will Karin choose to believe? Does she even have a choice? Do we?
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 04:05PM 
