Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Joe Mantello
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe
Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:00AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2016
Joe Mantello
Photo: Brigitte Lacombe
Over the last twenty seasons, Joe Mantello has directed thirty plays and...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2016
George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe has directed such diverse productions as Angels in America, Caroline or Change, Elaine...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:56PM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
"My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover somethi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 1, 2016
Ben Platt (center) in Dear Evan Hansen.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
One is tempted to say, simply: Don't ask questions, just go...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2016
Audra McDonald in Shuffle Along.
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang,...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
This is a welcome opportunity to see the play, and the chance to see a top-flight performance by Jessica Lange. But when you leave Long Day enthusing about the actress playing Mary Tyrone -…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Sarah Charles Lewis in Tuck Everlasting. Photo: Joan Marcus
In this our age of Broadway cynicism--when religious tomes...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:47PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
If all you want in your evening at the theatre is nonstop laughter and a brightly-shining comedic tour de force of a performance, then you should hasten to the Lyceum, where Jesse Tyler Ferg…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 24, 2016
Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in Waitress.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Picture a heaping slice of...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:29PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2016
Frank Langella in The Father.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Frank Langella, at his estimable best, is not to be overlooked. Here...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:06PM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Jack Viertel's "The Secret Life of the American Musical" is not a trove, in actuality, of 'secrets' of the...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:41PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
British actor Ben Whishaw is making his Broadway debut as John Proctor in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Dry Powder is not, as you might suspect, another one of those contemporary dramas about affluent Manhattan husbands trying to adjust to life with their toddler sleeping in the next room.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
If you like your shows with glorious music in the air and a dollop of schlag atop the café viennois, you are sure to float away from your visit to She Loves Me on a silver-laced cloud.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
Steven Pasquale (center) in The Robber Bridegroom.
Photo: Joan Marcus
For ninety minutes of banjo-twangin',
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams give frenzied, uncompromising performances as a pair of irremediably-ruined souls frozen by a bubbling mix of guilt, retribution, revenge and what seem to …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
There is likely some type of audience for a way over-the-top camp-pop pastiche musical, and let us hope they find their way to the Nederlander. For everyone else, though, this "disaster…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
The only distressing element about Hungry, the initial installment in Richard Nelson's new trilogy about the Gabriel Family of Rhinebeck, NY--a philosophical, political and round-the-block n…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Too many playwrights, nowadays, seem content to take an idea and stretch it out into some type of extended plot. Hnath has demonstrated, in both of his plays this season, that he has plenty …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
The Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has offered a series of diverse and astounding star performances in films. Thus, he is not just another movie star stopping over on Broadway f…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Dot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:03PM[SHARE]Friday, February 12, 2016
Michael Potts and LaChanze in the Encores! presentation
of Cabin in the Sky. Photo: Joan Marcus
There's "honey in...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
An unruly teen from the Irish tenements of the Bronx is transplanted to a white-bread Catholic prep school on a hilltop in New Hampshire, where his braggadocio, bluster and petty-thievery th…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 4, 2016
Dear olde Miss Austen, who died in 1817 uncelebrated and unknown (her books having initially been published anonymously), is said to have enjoyed playing at theatricals in the family living …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Linda Lavin in Our Mother's Brief Affair. Photo: Joan Marcus
A character steps out of character, just before the first act...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Hello, Dolly!--which turned fifty in 2014--is coming back to the lights of 44th Street (or thereabouts) in the spring of 2017, with the outsized title role essayed by the outsized Bette Midl…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
Michael Frayn's Noises Off, when it premiered back in 1982 in London (with Patricia Routledge) and when it opened in 1983 at the Atkinson (with Dorothy Loudon), was farce comedy par excellen…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 24, 2015
We go back Into the Woods to compare and contrast four major recordings of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine fairytale musical. Which one should you own?
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2015
Danny Burstein in Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Joan Marcus
Fiddler on the Roof is back on Broadway, and--wonder...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
What more need be said? It is, yes, as good as you've heard. What a shame that the ticket situation will keep it out of the reach of the general theatergoing public for another year or thr…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:46PM[SHARE] 
