2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
 By: David Sheward
April 24, 2022: Dark humor pervades two new Broadway productions, both delayed years by the COVID crisis and finally opening in an atmosphere of disquiet and insecur…
Jonathan Nash Glynn Solo Show at Colm Rowan Fine Art in East Hampton
April 24, 2022: Over 100 people attended the opening reception of Jonathan Nash Glynn's abstract paintings at Colm Rowa…
Have you read "The Minutes"? Do you concur?
By: Isa Goldbereg
April 25, 2022: In Tracy Letts' confrontational new play, "The Minutes", some characters question the facts. "History is a …
By: David Sheward
April 22, 2022: In this theater season when African-American women playwrights such as Lynn Nottage, Dominique Morriseau, Antoinette Chinoye Nwandu and the late Alice Ch…
World Premiere of West End's Little Women to stream exclusively on BroadwayHD
April 21, 2022: BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming service for live theatre, announced that they will be bringi…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 21, 2022: Nothing can replace the book, "The Little Prince," not really replace it, especially when it's one of the first books you ever read. As immediately engros…
Broadway Update: Some Like It Hot; Robert Morse Dies; Drama Desk Dates
By: David Sheward
April 21, 2022: Some Like It Hot, a new musical version of Billy Wilder's 1960 film classic about…
James Monroe Iglehart Shares His New Cabaret Show Ahead of a Performance at NJPAC
By: Iris Wiener
April 21,2022: Due to his remarkable, distinct talent, James Monroe Iglehart steals every…
By: David Sheward
April 20, 2022 Second Stage is currently offering a fascinating dual perspective on the gay experience in America. On Broadway at the the company's Hayes Theater, there i…
By: Isa Goldberg
Two classic works, "Birthday Candles" at the Roundabout Theatre on Broadway and "The Patsy," in revival by the Transport Group off Broadway at the Abrons Arts Center, bri…
By: Alix Cohen
On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. ("One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")
April 18…
By: David Sheward
April 17, 2022: Harmony, the long-gestating musical about the Comedian Harmonists, a real-life German singing group destroyed by the Nazis, isn't exactly harmonious. The…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 16, 2022: The best thing you can say about Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles is that it manages to stuff a traditional, long and sappy soap opera, which usua…
The Price of a Peek
April 14, 2022: Perhaps the most interesting part of the Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out is what happens before the play even starts. Everyone…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 12, 2022: JC Lee's (Luce) new comedy, To My Girls, at the Second Stage's Terry Kiser Theater, is the latest entry in the tradition of Mart Crowley's groundbreak…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 12, 2022: A Chorus Line famously tells us that everything done in theater is what we do "for love." Certainly, the productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan P…
Broadway Update: New Stoppard Play; Kinky Boots Marches Off-B'way; COVID Woes
By: David Sheward
April 9, 2022: What a coincidence. Just as I finish reading Hermione Lee's comprehensive, …
Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 5, 2022: The Trojan war is over after ten long years. The Greeks are victorious and Odysseus, King of Ithaca, wa…
FAITH RINGGOLD: Prints and Multiples on view at ACA Galleries through June 11th 2022
March 20, 2022: ACA Galleries, 529 West 20th Steet, in the Gallery District has an exciting exhibition, …
Musical Legends, Broadway stars and Renowned Comedians including Tracy Morgan, Kenny G., Paul Anka, Keb'Mo, Kelli O'Hara, Jay Leno, Taj Mahal, Chris Isaak, Michael Feinstein, Rita, Rudner, a…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 3, 2022: Remember Neil Simon's 1970 movie, The Out-of-Towners, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis, where everything that could possibly go wrong on a brief t…
B'way Update: 2022-23 Takes Shape with K-Pop, Piano Lesson, Camelot
By: David Sheward
April 2, 2022: The 2021-22 Broadway season is far from over, yet already we are getting announcement…
By: David Sheward
March 29, 2022: Two new Broadway productions offer boatloads of entertainment, but skirt around serious examination of their subjects. That's perfectly okay, neither Pla…
By: Isa Goldberg
March 28, 2020: Domestic abuse, at the center of John J. Caswell, Jr.'s "Man Cave," is the enemy, and it's punishable by death. At least Rosemary (Jacqueline Guillen) won…
By: Alix Cohen
Based on the book and Smithsonian Associates lecture by author Stephen Galloway.March 29, 2022: Larry Olivier- not yet Laurence or Sir Laurence, "the finest actor of our ag…
