Rare is the Broadway season that hasn’t been bettered by an August Wilson revival, and this very busy spring is no exception. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, lovingly and astutely directed b…
You can keep going — Wilson’s poetry is richly layered, a dramaturgy of abundant significance. The roots are deep, the canopy wide, and the song in the leaves, especially in the hands of…
Allen’s staging doesn’t match the fine work she’s drawn from her actors, who are mostly confined to the kitchen table far stage left. This leaves the rest of the house – a cozy livin…
Almost without fail, the brilliance of August Wilson emerges even in mediocre stagings of his plays. That is the unshakable feeling at the revival of his “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” t…
There are many wonderful exchanges as these seekers clash and sometimes connect. Even the small talk feels epic, and it all leads up to a searing climax that I recalled vividly from the last…
The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids—Brad and his fiancée, Janet—on their way to visit their former college professor when by a twist of fate, their car …
[Luke Evans’] magnetism is off the charts: Pinkleton can, more or less, point him at the audience and fire him like a cannon. Evans towers over the rest of the cast in skyscraper boots, hi…
Solidly produced, this revival still feels like a missed opportunity to be the wild must-attend event of the season. It’s Rocky Horror at Studio 54 for crying out loud. If we can’t let l…
The halls of Studio 54 should be proud with the glittery whirlwind happening on stage eight times a week. It’s Sam Pinkleton to a tee, and boy is it fun. It’s a type of revival that will…
With immensely appealing performances from Luke Evans (yes, he most certainly can sing) as the sinister Frank-N-Furter, Rachel Dratch as the droll narrator quick with the audience repartee, …
The production will no doubt satisfy “Rocky Horror Show” fetishists who still find comfort in the liturgical rituals of a by-gone counter-culture. Others, however, will just find themsel…
Still, there’s much to like, even adore, in Pinkleton’s revival — from its Fritz Lang-y metallic manikins to a dark and seductive castle set that feels ripped from a Jim Steinman music…
Ideally a show charging hundreds of dollars a seat (in most cases) would make things more legible than Pinkleton has, to best ensure that everyone is having a good time, not just those who h…
It’s a tricky spot taking on such an iconic role originally played to perfection by Curry, but this is no mere shadow cast performance. Evans manages to capture the character’s scintilla…
This “Rocky Horror” is not without flaws, but it hardly matters. The style carries you along, and the energy rarely falters. For nearly two hours, it delivers what it promises: a weird, …
Beaches, A New Musical, based on the best-selling novel that became the blockbuster film, brings to the stage one of the most iconic friendships in popular culture. This sweeping, emotional,…
The musical, adapted by Dart (book and lyrics), Thom Thomas (book) and Mike Stoller (music), doesn’t trust that stormy dynamic, preferring the upbeat to the uncomfortable, as if that were …
Beaches, the musical, is not bad but it is fatally misguided. […] It is very hard to care about anything onstage. The post Despite Jessica Vosk, BEACHES Is Beached appeared first on Did Th…
The two performers leading the cast are the real spectacle. Barrett puts our hearts in our throats as Bertie, her Waspy restraint breaking like a dam holding back tears late in the second ac…
Beaches, A New Musical, as the full title has it, is a mostly forgettable endeavor, and that, sadly, includes a score that will not likely takes its place in the treasured legacy of its comp…
Sadly there’s little wind beneath this uninspired musical’s thin and tattered wings. Even the film’s critic-defying, pinky-swearing fanbase may be disappointed in the barebones product…
When a Broadway musical doesn’t work, it’s almost never the fault of the actors. It isn’t in this case, either. Some of them even squeeze in some moments of charm; you can see why both…
A standout turn from Jessica Vosk, taking on the Bette Midler role, isn’t enough to turn a much-loved movie into a legitimate stage show The post 80s weepie makes for soggy Broadway musica…
At the end of “Beaches,” when Vosk belts the famous song from the movie so sublimely, the audience momentarily forgets the sandy slog that came before it. And then, woken up from that tr…
Unfortunately, the so-bad-it’s-good pleasure that comes from a movie is harder to achieve in the theater. The actors aren’t in the room with you when they embarrass themselves on film. I…