744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
Mitchell Erickson, a stage manager whose 50-year career encompassed well over 100 productions on Broadway and on tour, died Oct. 22 at the age of 92 in Portland, OR, after a long illness.
Playbill.com reports on the Dramatists Guild Fund's Annual Gala, Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars, which was held Oct. 21 at the Edison Ballroom.
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The final 20 minutes of "A Time to Kill" provide crackling theatrics. Unfortunately, those 20 minutes of high drama come after two full hours of lumbering storytelling.
The final 20 minutes of the courtroom drama A Time to Kill provide crackling theatrics, as idealistic folksy small-town lawyer Sebastian Arcelus goes up against slimily wily district attorne…
This month's column looks at the bubbly René Clair fantasy "I Married a Witch," the World War II epic "From Here to Eternity," and the Ethan Hawke/Julie Delpy …
Readers who remain undecided about whether to see the filmed version of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, next Wednesday night (Oct. 23) on some 460 movie screen…
This week's column examines the original cast albums of three of last season's Broadway musicals: Matilda, Hands on a Hardbody and Scandalous.
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On the musical stage, the wild adventures of the hero of "Big Fish" turn into a series of production numbers. Too many production numbers, and too few that rouse us.
Symphony Space presented a one-night-only concert celebrating the the 70th anniversary of the original Broadway opening night of Kurt Weill's One Touch of Venus and the CD release of the…
This month's column looks at Nigel Simeone's massive new collection of correspondence to and from Leonard Bernstein, "The Leonard Bernstein Letters."
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my Huffington Post review of BAD JEWS
Broadway veterans Anita Gillette and Penny Fuller teamed up at 54 Below, giving a performance titled Sin Twisters. Playbill.com was there.
This week's column examines Laura Benanti's 54 Below act, In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention, and the new revival cast album of the Second Stage production of Jason Ro…
Nice Fighting You, an act celebrating the work of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, kicked off its three-night run at 54 Below Sept. 26. Playbill.com was there.
This month's column looks at "La Cage aux Folles," the French-language film which launched that title on the international level and prepared the world for the Broadway musical…
a review of David Leveaux's ROMEO AND JULIET starring Orlando Bloom
a review of Horton Foote's THE OLD FRIENDS
An overview and review of the 20,000th performance of THE FANTASTICKS
This week's column examines two long out-of-print recordings from the old Columbia label, the soundtrack album of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" and the Julius M…
Tony nominee Emily Skinner treated audiences to an evening of Broadway, Her Way at 54 Below Sept. 11. Playbill.com was there.
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster returned to the Café Carlyle Sept. 10 with a new act, opening the fall season at the legendary nightclub on Madison Avenue.
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster returned to the Café Carlyle Sept. 10 with a new act, opening the fall season at the legendary nightclub on Madison Avenue.
It's Man vs. Machine, to the nth degree, in Matt Charman's The Machine at the Park Avenue Armory.
It is not an auspicious sign when a generally-positive, ever-hopeful drama critic sees fit to start off a review with some such elliptical statement as "the trouble with whimsy..."
Ann Morrison, one of the original cast members of Merrily We Roll Along, took the stage at 54 Below for a one-night only concert Sept. 2. Playbill.com was there.
