Florida Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The last three performances of ArtBuzz's seriously amusing, amazingly witty, agonizingly poignant, heartbreakingly real staging of William Finn'…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . Being one of the early arrivals, the first thing that happened during my visit to Sam Myers and Dan Kuan Peeples' appropriately discomforting immersive…
Theater Review by Myra Chanin . . . . The Lost Virginity Tour at the Delray Beach Playhouse is a curious mishmash. I initially found the initial frame"four superficial women who meet periodi…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Martin Bauml Duberman, Paul Robeson (New York: Knopf, 19…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . The idea behind Ronnie Larsen's sentimental farce, The Actors"now playing at Theatre Row"is, for all its seeming improbability, so comedically prom…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen Cole. MARY & ETHEL . . . and Mikey Who? (New…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . As the 2023-2024 Broadway season hurtled through its overstuffed last week before the annual awards deadline, two plays about motherhood"one more a…
By Ron Fassler . . . . The Acting Company is the brainchild of the co-founders of Juilliard's drama division, John Houseman, the legendary producer and director, and Margot Harley, who serve…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . In charge of adapting Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album Illinois for the stage, Jackie Sibblies Drury (playwright) and Justin Peck (director and choreo…
By Walter Murphy I arrived at the An Beal Bocht Cafe ready to review Eileen Byrne Richards' one-woman performance of Running with Coffee only to realize I was attending a family reunion"shoc…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Barry Singer. Ever After: Forty Years of Musical Theatre…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Anton Chekhov, the Russian-born author, dramatist, and medical physician, died at age forty-four 120 years ago. In his short lifetime, he wrote four…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . "What good is sitting alone in your room?" Good question! And the answer lies in the succeeding line: "Come hear the music play!" It's a lyric from a…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Every time Suzan-Lori Parks writes a play, she creates a new dramatic form. In the case of Sally and Tom, now playing at the Public, let me try to de…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . Copyrights have expired for all published works produced prior to 1926. Now considered public domain, permissions are no longer necessary, nor royalties…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . I suspect that, if the category for Final Jeopardy were "Russian Oligarchs" and the clue was, "Mathematical prodigy who claimed responsibility for …
Theater Review By Myra Chanin . . . . America's Sexiest Couple, currently being presented by Boca Stage, might just as easily be entitled "America's Formerly Sexiest Couple." It has a cast o…
Theater Review by Carol Rocamora . . . . Nine actors enter the performance space of St Ann's Warehouse. Surrounded by the audience on all sides, it is stark and empty save for a dozen boxes.…
Theater Review by Carole Di Tosti . . . . Being a caretaker of a chronically ill child is a difficult task for the most dedicated of parents of means. However, when a single mother is left w…
Theater Review by Michael Dale . . . . "The heart of rock and roll is still beating," announced Huey Lewis and The News back in 1983. I'm no expert in such matters, so I'll take their word f…
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . In Last Call for Babe Reilly playwright Marianne Driscoll imagines what it takes to make it into heaven: To be kind. Pretty good advice in these fract…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . . The brave folks at J2 Spotlight, which produces musicals that usually haven't seen the light of day in some time, are offering two shows this spring (Do…
Casual notes on show-biz books, memoirs and studies, dust gatherers, and hot off the presses. Book Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . Stephen J. Bottoms. Playing Underground: A Critical Hist…
Theater Review by Samuel L. Leiter . . . . A brief (but incomplete) timeline: 1900: L. Frank Baum publishes his fantasy novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 1903: a hit musical version of the …
Theater Review by Walter Murphy . . . . The Worst Cafe in the World should not be confused with the venue where it takes place, Ryan's Daughter. This Irish pub has been an Upper East Side ma…