744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
"My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover somethi…
Ben Platt (center) in Dear Evan Hansen.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
One is tempted to say, simply: Don't ask questions, just go...
Audra McDonald in Shuffle Along.
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang,...
This is a welcome opportunity to see the play, and the chance to see a top-flight performance by Jessica Lange. But when you leave Long Day enthusing about the actress playing Mary Tyrone -…
Sarah Charles Lewis in Tuck Everlasting. Photo: Joan Marcus
In this our age of Broadway cynicism--when religious tomes...
If all you want in your evening at the theatre is nonstop laughter and a brightly-shining comedic tour de force of a performance, then you should hasten to the Lyceum, where Jesse Tyler Ferg…
Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in Waitress.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Picture a heaping slice of...
Frank Langella in The Father.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Frank Langella, at his estimable best, is not to be overlooked. Here...
Jack Viertel's "The Secret Life of the American Musical" is not a trove, in actuality, of 'secrets' of the...
British actor Ben Whishaw is making his Broadway debut as John Proctor in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
Dry Powder is not, as you might suspect, another one of those contemporary dramas about affluent Manhattan husbands trying to adjust to life with their toddler sleeping in the next room.
If you like your shows with glorious music in the air and a dollop of schlag atop the café viennois, you are sure to float away from your visit to She Loves Me on a silver-laced cloud.
Steven Pasquale (center) in The Robber Bridegroom.
Photo: Joan Marcus
For ninety minutes of banjo-twangin',
Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams give frenzied, uncompromising performances as a pair of irremediably-ruined souls frozen by a bubbling mix of guilt, retribution, revenge and what seem to …
There is likely some type of audience for a way over-the-top camp-pop pastiche musical, and let us hope they find their way to the Nederlander. For everyone else, though, this "disaster…
The only distressing element about Hungry, the initial installment in Richard Nelson's new trilogy about the Gabriel Family of Rhinebeck, NY--a philosophical, political and round-the-block n…
Too many playwrights, nowadays, seem content to take an idea and stretch it out into some type of extended plot. Hnath has demonstrated, in both of his plays this season, that he has plenty …
The Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker has offered a series of diverse and astounding star performances in films. Thus, he is not just another movie star stopping over on Broadway f…
Dot -- which was first presented at the 2015 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, with Johnson in the title role -- is not yet quite in a finished state. The first act could use…
Michael Potts and LaChanze in the Encores! presentation
of Cabin in the Sky. Photo: Joan Marcus
There's "honey in...
An unruly teen from the Irish tenements of the Bronx is transplanted to a white-bread Catholic prep school on a hilltop in New Hampshire, where his braggadocio, bluster and petty-thievery th…
Dear olde Miss Austen, who died in 1817 uncelebrated and unknown (her books having initially been published anonymously), is said to have enjoyed playing at theatricals in the family living …
Linda Lavin in Our Mother's Brief Affair. Photo: Joan Marcus
A character steps out of character, just before the first act...
Hello, Dolly!--which turned fifty in 2014--is coming back to the lights of 44th Street (or thereabouts) in the spring of 2017, with the outsized title role essayed by the outsized Bette Midl…
Michael Frayn's Noises Off, when it premiered back in 1982 in London (with Patricia Routledge) and when it opened in 1983 at the Atkinson (with Dorothy Loudon), was farce comedy par excellen…
