744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
We cannot at this point state that the Stephen Daldry revival of Skylight will be the finest of the group, no, but it is likely to be near the top of the list. This is a smashingly good pro…
Since the place was reborn in 1979 under the direction of the new Radio City Musical Hall Productions, the Spring Spectacular has been reliably perky, friendly, and leaning towards mass-mark…
The Audience gives us Ms. Mirren, but is likely to be a one-shot arrow. The star's performance is more than enough to carry the day, and carry the play, to surefire success; while Elizabeth …
The nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
The nerve of these people, they seem to think that you can take some TV writer--never written a play, never appeared in one unless you want to count Charley's Aunt in eighth grade--and put h…
The nether realm, as constructed in Jennifer Haley's eighty-minute drama The Nether at MCC, is a demon world of evil and imagination.
Arnie Burton, Rick Holmes, Kelly Hutchinson and Liv Rooth
in David Ives' Lives of the Saints. Photo: James Leynse
The show has been impeccably staged by Thomas Kail, Miranda's colleague from In the Heights, with choreography from that show's Andy Blankenbuehler. For theatergoers who admired but didn't …
This month's column looks at Richard Linklater's new classic, "Boyhood" as well as a long-vanished 1942 drama centering on jazz and swing, "Syncopation."
This week we listen to the cast recording of Sting's short-lived Broadway musical The Last Ship.
This month's column looks at John Lithgow and Alfred Molina in "Love Is Strange," Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story," and the Jackie Gleason/Carol Channing &…
Yes, this is obviously going to be another one of those actors-play-the-instruments affairs, which have become dime-a-dozen since John Doyle did it in 2004 with Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. In t…
This month's column discusses "Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design" and Martin Short's "I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend."
This week's column follows Kristin Chenoweth as she goes home to Oklahoma for a concert and looks at a lost and unproduced Ivor Novello musical rescued after 60 years.
Joey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of <em>Dying for It</em> apparently got an enormous lift from the actor…
Joey Slotnick, in the present production, does better as Semyonovich. Even so, the 2007 London production of Dying for It apparently got an enormous lift from the actor in the role, which d…
This month's column looks at Matthew Warchus' new movie "Pride"; Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight"; the new Blu-ray release of Dustin Hoffman's &…
This week's column looks at the various cast recordings of Into the Woods.
This week's column discusses the soundtrack recording of the NBC television event, "Peter Pan Live!" featuring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken.
This was a relatively strong year; where the canker gnaws, as good old blimey slimey Captain Hook might say, is in the musical department.
This month's column visits a few academic works written about Bernstein's On the Town, Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and Lionel Bart's Oliver!
This month's column visits Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" and a 10-movie collection of film noir.
This week's column offers suggestions for holiday gifts from the 2013-14 theatre season.
In this week's column, we discuss the Library of America collection of 16 American Musicals; Judi Dench's picture scrapbook of her life "Behind the Scenes"; and the vocal…
New York theatergoers with an adventurous spirit -- or mainstream theatergoers unafraid to venture off off Broadway when recommendations warrant -- are being rewarded this month with special…
