228 stories by "Tulis McCall"
Somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday I forgot to pay special tribute to Lynn Henderson who performed "There's A Little Starch Left" - her new one woman show - in December at Do…
Once Upon A Mattress at Encores is a ton and a half of pure joy. Â And Sutton Foster is at the center of it, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Â Foster is a combina…
There are secrets being spilled here.  These are the stories women tell each other in private.  In this production Chris Henry and Lorna Ventura  have pulled the women and every one…
This might sound fussy but watching a play that should give us the musicality of Brian Friel's work, but does not, because the Irish accents are either missing altogether or fleeting at best…
As it is, the story ends much as it began, two old lovers nattering at one another. Â Not much to see there.
Marilyn Maye at Birdland -- Maye is a happy woman. Genuinely down to the bottom of those cute shoes she is happy. This is not Pollyanna happy. This is "I have a right to be happy…
You could do worse than take a trip with this observant guide. ... We are, like the dogs we own, here to love and serve. Â And that is about all the guarantee Bloom can offer. Â Not a ba…
Let me tell you something about puppetry - it is magic. Â It is a magic that is often superior to acting because a puppeteer embues an object with life. Â So it is life times two. Â No…
Buena Vista Social Club, now playing at the Atlantic Theater Company to riotous approval by every audience, is a bout as uplifting a show as you can get.
Only one problem - the producers …
By Tulis McCall So.  Right off the bat you will know that the seven actors featured in "How To Dance In Ohio" who  play autistic teenagers are real life people with autism.  They te…
By Tulis McCall "Manahatta", now at the Public Theater, is a snappy and disturbing play that will make you reconsider Manhattan, whether or not you want to  "Manahatta" in Lenape means "L…
Every track on this album draws inspiration from composers who themselves have been torchbearers of the classic standards"artists like Michael Feinstein, Harry Connick, Jr., John Pizza…
Watching "Scene Partners" by John J. Caswell, Jr. at the Vineyard Theatre felt like an out of body experience. Â I was watching something, but I had no idea what it was.
Seems as though there are three sets of people in the world. Â The first group knows all about Alicia Keys and has been following her for decades. Â The second group wouldn't know her if…
A pause here to praise these six actors. Â They are astonishing in their talent, their enthusiasm and their commitment to every moment they are on stage. Â They dance, sing, become puppe…
We meet Harry as a young man who remembers being robbed of his earnings as a messenger for the rag business. Â As an adult, when faced with eviction, Harry steps on the wrong treadmill and…
Aber walks us through a variety of methods she uses to defeat the PTSD that has built up over the past four January episodes and makes her terrified of being seen. Â At the same time, bein…
Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down. Â But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.
Big Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it. Â Cookie Monster eats the set. Â The Count counts. Â Elmo dances up a storm. Â And B…
Each character that Page gives us is a marvel of precision, execution and the flame of human spirit that connects us all.
In this show his musicianship is out in front. Â He begins at the piano, gliding through his earlier years. Â After a bit he is joined by Nick Blaemire and Ethan Slater on guitar, piano …
as the play concludes Rebeck drops us off in the neighborhood near where the story started. Â Where truth was a bargaining chip. Â Curiosity was the coinage of the realm. Â And possibi…
This play is not a walk in the park. Â It is a running of the gauntlet. Â Both these characters are playing a high stakes game, and because of the combination of writing, direction and p…
By Tulis McCall Let me tell you something about Lin Shaye  This woman has worked.  A lot.  Since 1975 when she had a small role in Hester Street, she has worked steadily in f…
With a title like "Pay The Writer" you might think that this is a play about just that, or about the  tension between wirters and, well, everyone else.  You would be wrong.
