433 stories by "Simon Saltzman"
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is presenting a very fine production of the popular stage adaptation of Harper Lee's novel
Brian Hargrove & Barbara Anselmi have put a Jewish mother with all her lovable flaws in the center of a delightfully ebullient, often hilarious, new musical comedy
an exuberant and appealing production at the Crossroads Theater
There is nothing quite like the excitement that accompanies the world premiere of a new musical, especially one that, like this Papermill Playhouse premiere, is the result of work by some of…
an Othello that still shocks and delights at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey.
The Mint's production of Teresa Deevy's long ignored play is certainly a cure for those in search of a good yarn .
Simon Stephen's beautifully written, tenderly sad play has finally crossed the Atlantic. Too bad that audiences here have been given such a short time to see it, especially since it stars th…
A superb cast has been entrusted with the difficult burden of speaking a lot of funny lines while also behaving either irresponsibly or reprehensibly in Charles Bush's new play
the iconic musical's original director Michael Grei has attended to the show's needs with marked discipline as well as with some newly motivated impressions
This splendidly directed and spiritedly acted political farce is exactly the recommended prescription for how best to cope these days with the woes of economic deprivation, social injustice …
there is the prospect of a happy ending in this early one-act version of The Glass Menagerie
Put four people with major issues in a room and see what happens when they are fueled by alcohol, an assortment of drugs including cocaine and a script that is neither credible nor makes muc…
An old play and a new monologue have been created as performance pieces, each allowing the wonderfully talented Greenspan to be ingratiating and impressive in different ways.
Composer Maury Yeston, book authors the late Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan and director Doug Hughes have resurrected Alberto Casella,s metaphysical/fantastical/supernatural 1924 Italian play…
the touring Tribe rocks on Broadway
Jon Marans' intensely-acted play under the very fine direction of Jeff Calhoun needs a more credible and more engaging characters. . .
Shakespeare's muddled play is getting something it hadn't bargained for: Brian B. Crowe's delightfully daffy but undeniably relevant interpretation. . .
cheeky musical based on the famous film about Hannibal Lecter . . .
Judy Gold's amusing solo show.
You don't have to be a Maria Callas worshiper to empathize with the prescribed notes of poignancy or purpose of Tyne Daly's portrayal of the diva . . .
Amy Herzog's new play revisits the feisty grandmother of her After the Revolution . . .
a musical of many small delights, including some pithy declarations and just as many missed opportunities. . . .
The Papermill Playhouse's lively revival of Kander and Ebb's Curtains
a compulsively swinging but incredibly shallow new jukebox musical about The Shirelles, . . .
Although downright silly, outrageously hokey and pervasively shallow, under the snappy direction of Jerry Zaks, this latest nun-sensical musical ranks among the season'sbest
