744 stories by "Steven Suskin"
This week's column examines the new recording of Stephen Sondheim's Passion and "Judy Kuhn: All This Happiness."
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This week's column examines the new recording of Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
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An all-male boarding school serves as the starting point for Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy. During a school ceremony, tenor Pharus Jonathan Young is interrupted -- mid-solo -- by a homop…
This month's column looks at the obscure talkie "Perfect Understanding," with Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier; Harold Lloyd's silent classic "Safety Last!"; K…
This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sp…
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sperli…
This week's column examines the original Broadway cast recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, along with a Laura Osnes collection of songs by Maury Yeston.
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Seriously demented fun is on display at <em>The Explorers Club</em>. That is, the new play by Nell Benjamin at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 at City Center.
Errors -- of identification, understanding and more -- abound in the Public Theater's current Shakespeare in the Park offering, <em>The Comedy of Errors</em>.
This month's column looks at award-winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir, "Jack Be Nimble."
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There's a cutting-edge, politically provocative, modernistic new-style musical at the Public Theater that will have you literally dancing in the aisles.
This week's column examines conductor John Wilson's salute to "Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies" and the cast album of the long-lost Gene Kelly musical ClownAround.
The answer, in a word, is: a lot. The question being, how much does Jane Lynch -- the antagonistic cheerleader coach of <em>Glee</em> -- add to the heretofore sleepy revival of &…
The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards opened with a stunning, site-specific coup-de-théâtre: the curtain at the Music Box rose on the Pippin set, with a familiar musical vamp and…
This week's column examines the original cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Off-Broadway musical Dogfight.
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This week's column examines the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa's Giant.
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Laura Benanti—a Tony Award winner for her appearance as the title character in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, more recently seen in In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Women on the…
This is an edgy, gimmicky, nouveau musical wrapped in a gaudily immersive, dinner theater atmosphere; "an electropop opera ripped from a slice of <em>War and Peace</em>,&quo…
This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swa…
Wouldn't it be hysterical to mix the romantic world of Bollywood musicals of the 1950s with the farcical world of Marx Brothers-like comedies of the 1930s?
Byrne has joined with the Public's Oskar Eustis and an altogether impressive production team to turn <em>Here Lies Love</em> into -- what? A musical? A disco musical? A theatric…
Audra McDonald stepped onto the stage at Avery Fisher Hall in a flowing teal-colored gown last night and once again demonstrated how reliably superb she is on the concert stage. The event, e…
City Center Encores! ends its 20th season with a bright and flavorful production of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 musical, On Your Toes. Guest conductor Rob Fisher—the organization's…
This week's column looks at Arthur Bicknell's backstage chronicle "Moose Murdered" and the newly revised vocal score of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
