744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
Madeleine George's play is an intricate puzzle built around the quest to invent machines that bring "better living through technology." There are four Watson characters -- one a ro…
54 Below presented "It's Today…54 Sings Mame," Dec. 8, featuring Leslie Uggams, Beth Leavel and Hunter Ryan Herdlicka. Playbill.com was there.
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This month's column looks at Sam Wasson's comprehensive new biography "Fosse;" "West End Broadway," Adrian Wright's look at American musicals abroad; Carolyn …
In busy spells -- which in the Broadway arena typically include the two weeks before Thanksgiving and the month before the various award deadlines in the spring -- it is not uncommon for cri…
We have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
We have reached that time of the year when we look back over the hundreds of CDs that have come our way since our 2012 holiday column last November and draw a red circle around a few worthy …
Mr. McNally knows how to write funny, and has provided us with much laughter over the years. But not here.
This is a portrait, in four slices, of an American family. Not a typical American family, mind you. These are upper middle class, New York liberals: Baby Boomers dealing with life, family, …
The authors mix bleak despair with comic patter, making the plays catnip for a certain caliber of star actor. Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart have joined together to offer the two plays.
This month's column is led by two favorite classics that we happily return to again and again. This time, though, we've got them in new Blu-ray editions. This doesn't make the fi…
O'Brien is unquestionably one of our finest directors. Little enlightenment can be expected from Amanda Peet's The Commons of Pensacola.
Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown began a week of performances at 54 Below Nov. 18. Playbill.com was there.
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Everything about the show is so likable. I left Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder having had a perfectly pleasant time with a pair of talented new theatre-writers, in the company of a …
This week's column discusses the original cast album of the hit 1972 London revue Cowardy Custard and "Somethin' Real Special," Philip Chaffin's collection of songs wit…
700 Sundays is emotionally riveting, uproariously funny, and altogether lovely. I found it smashingly good in 2004 and somehow more gripping last night, perhaps because Mr. Crystal is nine…
A Bed and a Chair, a collaboration between Tony-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and jazz musician-composer Wynton Marsalis, began its limited engagement Nov. 13 at New York City C…
Playbill.com correspondent Steven Suskin reports on British productions of The Scottsboro Boys and Sweeney Todd. How do these shows compare with the most-recent Broadway productions? How do …
Broadway's Book of Mormon and Once — Best Musical winners from the 2011 and 2012 seasons, respectively — are both ensconced in the West End. How do the productions compare wi…
With two discretionary nights available in London, I asked my favorite expatriot "what's good?" He sent me off to two plays that I very much enjoyed but surely would not have found…
This week's column looks at "Theatre World Volume 68: 2011-2012," the 2012-13 "Playbill Broadway Yearbook" and press agent Susan L. Schulman's "Backstage Pas…
Six days in London bring the opportunity to catch up on seven shows that have opened since my last visit. I could have more industriously caught nine by juggling the schedule, but one does …
Becoming Dr. Ruth is not just an ordinary, clichéd pop biog. There is a tale of struggle, perseverance and survival mixed in with all the sex therapy talk. There is, yes, quite a bit of se…
This week's column examines the studio cast restoration of Rodgers and Hart's first complete musical comedy Dearest Enemy.
Is it the role? The performance? The writing? Whatever the problem may be, it leaves this Snow Geese foundering.
"A new John Kander musical" this new Kander musical isn't, not quite.
