744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
We go back Into the Woods to compare and contrast four major recordings of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine fairytale musical. Which one should you own?
Danny Burstein in Fiddler on the Roof. Photo: Joan Marcus
Fiddler on the Roof is back on Broadway, and--wonder...
What more need be said? It is, yes, as good as you've heard. What a shame that the ticket situation will keep it out of the reach of the general theatergoing public for another year or thr…
f you put three computer monitors on a dining room table talking to each other, how will you know when the play is over unless someone comes along to shut them down? That's one of the questi…
Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple. Photo: Matthew Murphy
In one of the more notable turnarounds in recent Broadway history,...
Michael C. Hall in Lazarus. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
"Is there an end to it?" someone cried out an hour into the new musical at...
The unpredictable kismet that Broadway producers face deigns that sometimes you end up with something brilliant that no one, alas, wants to see. Contrarily, you sometimes come up with a dec…
One of the biggest musical hits of the century, thus far, tells of American do-gooders who go to Uganda and -- in the face of a corrupt and lawless evildoer -- teach the natives to read, wri…
Parnell takes a sociological approach, kind of; Gerrard gives us what we might call a show tune approach, which is at once less realistic and more rambunctiously funny.
James Carpinello (center) in Incident at Vichy. Photo: Joan Marcus
Arthur Miller--who would have turned 100 on...
His words caught the public fancy -- such phrases as "my huckleberry friend," "one for my baby and one more for the road," "hooray for Hollywood," and the immor…
British actor Mark Strong is making his Broadway debut as Eddie Carbone in director Ivo van Hove's production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.
In Dada Woof Papa Hot, Parnell combines characters we know pretty well -- and a situation we know pretty well -- in a manner which makes it all seem fresh, involving and convincing.
Mark Strong in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. Photo: Jan Versweyveld
British actor Mark Strong is making his...
Rehearsing my plays is a really different experience, for actors, than most plays. I think it was the actor Matt Maher, of The Flick, who said something like "it's like playing in a ver…
All your favorites are there. William, Harry, Kate, even the ghost of Diana, who roams the halls at night like one of the three weird witches of Macbeth. Charles faces his dilemma like Ham…
We playwrights are always mentioned in the listings and reviews. This is not about us. We think the stage managers and sound and lighting and set and costume designers we work with are just …
"You really have to look at the whole picture and see whose story is being told, in terms of geography, gender, class, race. I also think a big problem is not doing work that's experim…
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Cassie Beck, Sarah Steele and
Arian Moayed in The Humans. Photo: Joan Marcus
Stephen...
Broadway audiences clamoring for dance-happy musical comedy, with an emphasis on tap-tap-tap, need look no further than the Helen Hayes where Dames at Sea provides two hours-worth of shuffle…
Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in Ripcord. Photo: Joan Marcus
Put David Lindsay-Abaire, Holland Taylor,...
The York Theatre Company, the determined, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-a-musical group in the basement of a church within the Citicorp Center, has rolled up their sleeves and -- with great …
An American theatergoer in London can always be sure to find an intelligent modern-day adaptation of a world drama classic or two. At present, both the National and the Almeida have success…
You realize that this is not junk-food theatre; this is keenly-contrived and impeccably-crafted comedy of high order.
Imelda Staunton in Gypsy. Photo: Johan Persson
Ethel Merman. Angela Lansbury. Bernadette Peters. Patti LuPone. ...
