3,345 stories by "Carey Purcell"
The phrase "natural beauty" is a sincere compliment when discussing the Broadway musical Once, currently in performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. Adapted from the sleeper hit 2007 f…
"A small man can be just as exhausted as a great one," Arthur Miller wrote in Death of a Salesman. This statement is all too true in today's world, where two jobs per family, or even per per…
"Death be not proud," Cynthia Nixon pleads on West 47th Street in the stunning production of Wit at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Well, Nixon clearly has not been informed that Death is be…
Sometimes less really is more. This statement is certainly true when applied to the musical adaption of Stephen King's Carrie, which has been reincarnated at the MCC's Lucille Lortel Theatre…
While struggling to find work as an actor, Danny Thomas vowed that if he ever found success, he would open a shrine dedicated to Saint Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Tho…
Actor. Activist. Musician. All of these labels, and more, can be applied to Gavin Creel, one of the busiest men in the entertainment industry. Last seen on Broadway as Claude in the revival …
"It's only a game." This phrase can often be categorized as famous last words, especially in the riveting production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, currently in performances at the Alice Grif…
"He's horrifyingly odd and exciting," one character says of another in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. The same could be said of the current revival of Osborne's landmark 1956 work, curre…
I thought I was prepared for Wit when I entered the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. I had seen countless plays about illness throughout my career as an entertainment writer. Last season alone I …
The living ain't easy on Catfish row in the new rendition of Porgy and Bess, currently playing at the Richard Rogers Theater on Broadway. Minimalistic, passionate and violent, filled with so…
The themes of light and darkness have inspired so countless works of art and literature. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness came to mind frequently while watching the Roundabout Theater Compa…
Jeremy Jordan can't seem to stay out of the news. The star of the recently closed Broadway musical Bonnie and Clyde, the recent film release Joyful Noise, and the upcoming Broadway musical N…
Frothy fun abounds at the Walter Kerr Theater where Lysistrata Jones has made a triumphant transfer to Broadway. This silly, surprisingly heartfelt update of Aristophanes' comedy about the b…
You might be able to see forever on a clear day, but you won't want to in this poorly conceived musical revival/re-imaging currently in performances at the St. James Theater. First seen on B…
Spending a long weekend with family can be described as many ways. Frightening, inspiring, boring, exciting and predictable are just a few choice words to characterize such a situation. Stic…
It is clear from Kim Cattrall's entrance onstage in Private Lives that the audience is in for a smart, sensual treat. Striding onto a balcony clad in nothing but a fluffy white bath towel, t…
Talk is anything but cheap in Seminar, Theresa Rebeck's new play currently in performances at the Golden Theater. Starring Alan Rickman as an acid-tongued literary professor teaching a class…
No actual blood is shed during a performance of Venus in Fur, the startling sex comedy written by David Ives and directed by Walter Bobbie, currently at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Starr…
A wonderful holiday gift has arrived on Broadway from Jon Robin Baitz, whose play Other Desert Cities has opened at the Booth Theater. After a critically-acclaimed run off-Broadway earlier i…
It may already be the name of a hit film but Lost in Translation would be a fitting title for David Henry Hwang's latest play, Chinglish, currently playing at the Longacre Theatre. A comedy …
Sometimes all you need is some good news. In today's world of economic troubles, Tea Party debates and Occupy Wall Street, a little bit of joy couldn't do any harm. Thankfully (thank whoever…
In a city of eight million people and endless possibilities, how can there be so many single men and women out there? Just ask Dr. Alex Schiller, sexual psychologist, musical therapist and f…
There is no awkward small talk at the Brooks Atkinson theater, where Relatively Speaking, a series of three one-act plays is currently in residence. Written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woo…
The Roundabout Theater Company's production of Man and Boy, starring Frank Langella, is eerily representative of the present-day financial crisis that has wracked our country. Many different…
Actions may speak louder than words in some scenarios, but the same could not be said for The Submission, Jeffrey Talbott's timely, thought-provoking and deeply unsettling play currently in …
