Wednesday, April 30, 2025
“I probably should try to eat a little more,” David Hyde Pierce tells the waiter who just tried to clear his plate of scrambled eggs. We’re having breakfast in a diner on the Upper Wes…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AMThursday, April 3, 2025
By Mariah Reed Waitress follows the story of Jenna, a talented pie maker working in a small-town diner who is trapped in an unhappy marriage. Haunted by her mother’s legacy of hardship, …
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 09:54AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Thirty-eight years ago, an ambitious young cartoonist named Frank Caruso turned up to the Manhattan offices of King Features for what was meant to be a single day’s freelance work. The com…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:48PMSunday, March 16, 2025
New Diorama theatre, LondonWisconsin’s ‘red scare’ of 1950 was a deliberate fake – but this entertaining show by Counterfactual speculates about possible truths behind the pretence
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18PMMonday, December 30, 2024
Lavin become a role model for working moms in “Alice” as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix. The show, with Ms. Lavin singin…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:59AMFriday, December 27, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
The show: “The Counter” by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway’s at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City.
What makes it special?: I’d run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 12:26PMFriday, October 18, 2024
Broadway isn't the only place boasting big names. Off-Broadway stages are also getting their fair share of star power this month, with favorites from the silver screen telling fresh stories …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMFriday, October 11, 2024
Meghan Kennedy's new play connects two lonely souls over a cup of diner coffee. Lorin Wertheimer reviews.
The post Review: The Counter at the Laura Pels Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Maga…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 09:58AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Despite this obvious shortcoming of The Counter, Anthony Edwards, a growing New York stage presence after much TV and movie fame, resolutely ignores it, never letting Kennedy's contrived wri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09AMWednesday, October 9, 2024
A diner patron asks a waitress for an extraordinary side dish in Meghan Kennedy’s sweet but shaggy new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMEarly every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk …
SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:00PMLife secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machin…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PMAnthony Edwards and Susannah Flood are entrancing as two lost souls at a small-town diner in this humane and artfully presented small-scale drama.
The post The Counter appeared first on …
SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:02PMFriday, August 23, 2024
Discover The Counter, playwright Meghan Kennedy’s newest Roundabout commission. In this video, Roundabout Theatre Company Teaching Artists Karla Hendrick and Margaret Montagna explore the …
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:32PMWednesday, August 21, 2024
Every morning at the local diner in a small town, a waitress refills a regular’s coffee. An unlikely friendship develops and keeps him coming back for more. But when he asks for a shocking…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:48PMMonday, August 19, 2024
Ellen's Stardust Diner will take part in this year's Kids' Night On Broadway in partnership with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:02AMSunday, August 18, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: She has already taken on Broadway and the West End. Now Katharine McPhee is back to close up the diner for good! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the stage…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:24AMSunday, August 11, 2024
Ready for another red-eye from LAX.Recently, due to inclement weather, I was stuck in a Delta lounge due to a flight delay for several hours. Since no one can control the weather, and my fe…
SOURCE: victoriacairl.medium.com at 09:56AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter, directed by David Cromer, has completed casting. The show will begin performances at the Laura Pels …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
Tony Award winner LaChanze will direct Alice Childress' Wine in the Wilderness in her New York directorial debut. The production is part of Classic Stage Company's 2024-25 season, which wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:02PMFriday, June 14, 2024
‘Clyde’s’: Imperfect people striving for a perfect sandwich Darleen OrtegaReview: In Portland Center Stage's heart-filled production of Lynn Nottage's truck-stop diner comedy/drama, ex…
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 01:03PMMonday, June 10, 2024
The immersive comedy from Two Cent Lion moves from the Fringe Festival to the People’s Building
The post ‘Josie’s Diner’ mixes complex relationships with coffee and cinnamon rolls ap…
SOURCE: OnStage Colorado at 11:59AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Does everybody get the joke in ON THE TOWN? That occurred to me last week at the uber-popular Ellen’s Stardust Diner. How popular? Pass by, and you’ll undoubtedly see a line longer than …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:00AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Randy Beach is a character witness.
For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut’s most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns f…
SOURCE: ShowRiz at 03:04PMFriday, April 26, 2024
Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a “theater rat.” So it’s natural she’d be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, November 30, 2023
Ellen's Stardust Diner—a kitschy '50s throwback fused with dinner theater and wrapped in a joyful, fluorescent package—has been a Broadway landmark for nearly 40 years. Opened in 1987 wi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:24PMCorrespondent Perry Sook takes viewers inside Ellen’s Stardust Diner and speaks with one of their performers and servers, Starduster Mitch Gray.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, you can watch the episode's YouTube premiere at 5PM ET on Wednesday, November 29. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMThe musical transports audiences to 1979 West Virginia, where a mayor is attempting to tear down the region's only Jewish temple to build a RadioShack.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:06PMBefore The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, you can watch the episode's YouTube premiere at 5PM ET on Wednesday, November 29. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this e…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AM 
