11 stories by "Christopher Bonanos"
Editor's note: New York's regular theater critic, Sara Holdren, is on a brief medical leave. She'll be back shortly.Even before those ubiquitous ads in your Facebook feed ruined the phrase "…
It's a curious and counterintuitive choice the Roundabout has made, bringing the 1991 play Marvin's Room to Broadway for the first time. Seeing it is a time-travel experience, down to the gl…
Well, this wasn't Julius Caesar, and no protester interrupted the writer-directors Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke's adaptation of 1984 the night I saw it. That may be a sign of its weaknes…
As Eliza Schuyler Hamilton begins to emerge into her own in the second act of Hamilton, she's dealt a huge blow. Alexander Hamilton's affair with Maria Reynolds, and his subsequent hush-hush…
When New York took a long look at Broadway back in 1995, there was no talk of a golden age. Instead, the question on the table was "Can Broadway Be Saved?," and you could be forgiven for thi…
The history of the Ziegfeld " Manhattan's largest movie theater, whose leaseholders announced Wednesday that it would be closing in a few weeks " is one of really lousy timing. Opened in 196…
Usually, the call goes out on Twitter before lunch. On the feed from @lin_manuel " that is, of course, Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator-songwriter-star-certified-MacArthur-genius behind the…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson packed a wallop at the Public Theater, but it rings hollow and glib in a big house.
Billy Joel is the closest thing Madison Square Garden has to a sure thing " certainly more than the Knicks or the Rangers or the Liberty. It's been 21 years since Joel released a new pop alb…
"What I remember," John Cleese says as he peers outward from center stage at the Schoenfeld Theatre, "is, during our first rehearsal, a lot of people in the very back, moving around." It was…
Frank Langella loves to find the inner lives of very bad men.
