17 stories by "James Feinberg"
"It's been a long, hard year," John Falstaff (Jacob Ming-Trent) complains in Merry Wives, Jocelyn Bioh's update of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Delacorte Theatre. "Been st…
Sparkling lead performances help make Bay Street Theater's new Annie Get Your Gun a warm, nostalgic visit to an earlier era. Alexandra Socha, late of Broadway's Head Over Heels,  is a…
Halfway through the first act of Shakespeare in the Park's Much Ado About Nothing, I found myself on Danielle Brooks' lap. The exemplary performer, of Netflix's Orange is the New Black…
"I always thought that my lot in life was to help people en masse," pontificates Susan Sarandon as an unbearable community theater diva in Jesse Eisenberg's half-baked new play, Happy Talk. …
LONDON " Man of La Mancha  is being revived at the London Coliseum, starring Kelsey Grammer as a blustery Don Quixote. Directed by Lonny Price, with the English National Opera's 30-piece …
LONDON " Following Network, Ivo van Hove's disappointing star vehicle now packing them in on Broadway, the writer/director is back in peak form with his adaptation of All About Eve …
Editor's note: There are talks to bring the West End's Company to Broadway, and last we heard nothing was set. In the meantime, tickets appear to be plentiful for the run at the Gielgu…
St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn, has been recast as a crowded and vibrant refugee camp called the Calais Jungle on the coast of France. The theater's ticket booth is in a ramshackle h…
In Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at the Hunter Theater Project, Jay O. Sanders plays the title character as the kind of wisely figure you'd like to have as your own uncle. That …
Some theatrical ideas are so ambitious it almost doesn't matter whether they succeed or fail " the fun is in seeing them play out. In his audacious, stripped-down staging of Rodgers & Ha…
It may seem necessary, before an American audience, to provide a primer on snooker, that English variant of billiards. But the unseen, bone-dry play-by-play snooker announcers in Richard Bea…
Lillian Hellman's second play, Days To Come, was a flop when it premiered on Broadway in 1936. Sources differ on why — but it certainly wasn't the writing. The well-acted productio…
Pretty Woman: The Musical, the over-amplified wannabe tourist trap that opened Thursday at the Nederlander Theatre, illustrates the limits of vision-free Broadway producing. The music is mon…
The musical Be More Chill has some baggage. It's about high school angst that verges on cliché, and it's a showcase for the kind of head-banging pop, in this case by composer/lyricist Joe I…
Early in his funny and poignant off-Broadway show, The New One, the comedian Mike Birbiglia expresses a low tolerance for children. "We gotta get babies off planes," he says. "We got…
REVIEW : The question at the heart of Head Over Heels is whether Elizabethan comedy and the music of the Go-Go's go together. Sadly, the answer is no. (See below for other opinions.) …
If you needed any further proof that Jason Robert Brown is the greatest active composer of American musical theater, you'll find it at Millburn, New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, where his …
