2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: Brian Scott Lipton
March 27, 2022: America has long touted itself as the land of the free and the home of the brave, but "freedom" of all sorts has long proved elusive for so many of o…
Broadway Update: Girl Returns to the Belasco; POTUS Moves Up; Lortels Announced
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2022: April is almost upon us. That's the month when critics' datebooks are ch…
2022 Oscar Predictions: Will CODA Tame Dog?
By: David Sheward
March 25, 20222: This year's Oscar race has been a fun one for me. Thanks to streaming services, I have been able to see mos…
The 94th Oscars Telecast Sunday. Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes Host
By: Ellis Nassour
March 24, 2020: Moviedom's 94th Academy Awards, saluting the best and brightest films of…
By: Alix Cohen
March 24, 2022: First, multi-hyphenate talent Harvey Fierstein is not just a good writer, but a talented storyteller. You may be familiar with his plays, screenplays, and …
By: Maryann Lopinto
After celebrating 46 years of creative music theatre THE ENCOMPASS NEW OPERA THEATRE presented their yearly gala, after an absence of two years because of the Pandemic,…
Celebrate Spring with the Incomparable Phoebe Legere
March 22, 2022:Â Phoebe Legere, an internationally renowned musician, personality and composer, will bring her magic to a residency a…
By: Bernard Carragher
 March 19, 2022: "A Touch of the Poet" is not one of Eugene O'Neill's best dramas yet it does have some memorable characters and some sharp honest theatrical sce…
By: Isa Goldberg
March 16, 2022: At the Irish Repertory Theatre, director Ciarán O'Reilly's revival of Eugene O'Neill's," A Touch of The Poet," makes for a rarely engrossing eveni…
Emerging Artists Theatre Presents THE FINALIST A performance on Sunday, March 27th @ 2pm at TADA TheatrePart of the 2022 New Work Series (March 21 " April 10, 2022)Â
Emerging Artis…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
Before us on the Irish Rep's miniscule stage is a lifelike simulacrum of the dining room in a village inn outside Boston, circa 1828 (the year of Andrew Jackson's elec…
The 75th Annual Tony Awards, a celebration of the 2021-2022 Broadway Season, will air live on Sunday, June 12.
March 10, 2022: The 75the Annual Tony Awards will return to the legendary Rad…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 12, 2022: On March 13, 2020, precisely two years ago, minus one day, I was scheduled to see Coal Country at the Public Theater; you all know what happened next…
By: David Sheward
March 8, 2022: The offstage war in On Sugarland, Alesha Harris' poetic and riveting new play at New York Theater Workshop, is unnamed. It could be the Persian Gulf War o…
Isaac Mizrahi: 'In Person' (at Café Carlyle) " Fun!
By: Alix Cohen
March 6, 2022: Isaac Mizrahi almost bounds onto the stage wearing urbane black with two BIG silk flower bouttonieres.…
By: Alix Cohen
March 7, 2022: Yes, Virginia, there are women magicians. This March, Women's History Month, as we celebrate more visible achievers, Monday Night Magic brings atten…
By: David Sheward
March 3, 2022: James Earl Jones, whose theatrical career spans six decades, will become the second African-American theatre artist and the only living person to have a B…
Award-winning Broadway and film designer, Tony Walton, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, from complications of a stroke.Â
March 3, 2022: Tony Walton was an award-winni…
By: David Sheward
February 27, 2022: Our relationship with language is the subject of Sanaz Toossi's perceptive new play English, presented in a taut and affecting production by Knud Adam…
By: David Sheward
February 27, 2022: We have the first definite date for a Broadway opening for the 2022-23 season. Kimberly Akimbo, the hit musical version of David Lindsay-Abaire's quir…
By Samuel L. Leiter
February 27, 2022: Anyone who's ever struggled to master a foreign language in private classes will find something to appreciate in English,Sanaz Toossi's fitfully amus…
By: Patrick Christiano
Musical satire, with exciting Bill T. Jones choreography and an eclectic score, lampoons race inequalities with style. The outstanding ensemble, headed by the chari…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 24, 2022: D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), the deservedly admired British novelist, known for provocative works like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers, …
By: Paulanne Simmons
February 25,2022: With his first play, The Daughter-in-Law, D. H. Lawrence returned once again to familiar territory: Eastwood, the coal mining town in the Erewash…
By: Bernard Carragher
March 2, 2022: "The Music Man" is a simple, innocent, endearing musical from 1957 which requires a cast of wonders. The stars this time are formidable Broadwa…
