Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the TRU (Theater Resources Unlimited) benefit. The TRU mission: TRU was formed to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12AMLast week, the wonderful MasterVoices presented the Gershwins' Strike Up the Band. In 1927, its book, about a war over cheese tariffs, was written by George F. Kaufman with a pretty satiri…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:42PMLynn Riggs (1899-1954) wrote 30 plays, a few of which were produced on Broadway, along with screenplays and poetry. Nowadays he is known--when he is known at all--for having written Green Gr…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:32AMWhat is honor? That's a particularly relevant question as we head into the election. Is honor reputation? Or is it something between a person and herself? What value does honor have? Do most…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:12PMThe American Classical Orchestra (ACO), described by its founder/conductor as "our labor of love," utilizes period instruments to better produce classical pieces as the composers composed th…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:12AMAnnette is winning at life. She has just negotiated a major promotion; her boyfriend Charles is attractive, considerate, and wealthy; their major life challenge is whether to stay in the Upp…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:06PMOne is not supposed to focus so much on trees that you miss the forest, right? I get that. But what if they're really big, ugly, focus-grabbing trees? I suspect that Client-Attorney, Alex…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:32AMThere's a little gem playing at the Wild Project through September 28th. One set, 80 minutes, with terrific and compassionate writing (Matthew Freeman), directing (Jessi D. Hill), and acting…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:32PMOn one hand, there could never be too many books about Stephen Sondheim. On the other hand, each book should be able to justify its existence through untold stories (are there any?), a new p…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:36PMFirst, how cool is it that Suffs exists, and that it's so good, and that it's been recognized and rewarded? And how sad is it that the show is still timely? But things are changing. The nig…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:20PMA lovely, if somewhat overlong, dance revue about humans telling stories and being oh-so-human, Illinoise is based on the beautiful songs of Sufjan Stevens and an original story by choreogr…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:15PMThe Transport Group's Follies in Concert had all the makings of a magical evening, but for many of us, the magic was intermittent at best. For a fascinating, multifaceted discussion of the …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:24PMSecond Stage's Breaking the Story (closing today) has a lot of goals for its 85 minutes: depict the PTSD of a war journalist, discuss the meaning and ethics of journalism, show a woman try…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:18PMWell, this is an opinion piece, so I should perhaps make the subtitle "A Very Satisfying Event for Me." A quick glance around the web reveals that I was not in the majority. I do, of cours…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:02PMSeers, we ain’t. (Categories are in the order the awards were given.) Here’s how we did: Sandra Liz Wendy TOTALS (out of 26) …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:36PMIt's Tony time again. Was this an exciting year on Broadway? Yes! Was it a disappointing year on Broadway? Yes! Same as it ever was. And here we go: (A complete list of nominees is provide…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:12AMThe fabulous TON (The Orchestra Now), associated with the master's program at Bard, recently gave the final performance of its 2023-2024 season. The orchestra started with Debussy's "Prelude…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:06AMA lovely production of A Little Night Music is running at Theatre 2020 in Brooklyn Heights thru May 12th. I highly recommend it. The show has some excellent acting and much wonderful singing…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:24PMThe Orchestra Now (TON) regularly presents concerts keyed into exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The most recent, William Grant Still and the Harlem Renaissance, focuses on Stil…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:12PMThe recent collaboration between MasterVoices and Doug Varone and Dancers was nothing short of amazing. Brilliant dance, gorgeous singing, thrilling musicians--it was the proverbial feast fo…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:24PMHaving thoroughly enjoyed the 2005 production of Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow, I was looking forward with excitement to the current production, directed by Pendleton, at the Theater for…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:02PMThe current production of John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt (starring Amy Ryan, Liev Shreiber, Zoe Kazan, and Quincy Tyler Bernstine) is not as good as the amazing original production fro…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:04AMIn Deb Margolin's new play, This Is Not a Time of Peace, directed by Jerry Heymann, Alina's father, Hillel, has become unstuck in time. He "travels" in memory (metaphorically? metaphysica…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:48AMThe title I Love You So Much I Could Die hints at a deeply emotional, even fervid, show. Nope. For reasons that remain obscure to me, I Love You So Much I Could Die extends a great…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:02PMLast weekend, the Program in Vocal Performance at NYU Steinhardt presented a musically gorgeous production of Titanic: The Musical. The NYU Broadway Orchestra, led by Ted Sperling and featur…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:48PMI reviewed Here's to the Ladies over at Talkin' Broadway: Eddie Shapiro's three books of long-form interviews with musical theatre performers provide a unique, entertaining look at the r…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:42AMNew York Magazine's annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue came out at just the right time for this review. After three successive evenings experiencing amazing talent and creativity in New…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:48AMLast night, Broadway Close Up presented yet another lovely night of talented people singing wonderful songs. The evening was devoted to shows that Hal Prince produced and/or directed, which …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 05:12PMThe time is the present. The place is Ancient Greece. The fabulous lyrics and music are by the one-and-only Sondheim. The hysterical book is based on Aristophanes' The Frogs, as loosely adap…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:02PMOver the years, the Broadway Close-Up series has featured selections from musicals-in-development, including discussions with their creators; salutes to established composers and writers o…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:13AMThe fabulous Mint Theater Company is presenting Partnership, the third in their "Meet Miss [Elizabeth] Baker" series. The first, The Price of Thomas Scott (review here), from 1913, movingly…
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