351 stories from The AndyGram
It seems that this past week there was a bit of a dust-up at The Scottsboro Boys. According to the "New York Times" a group of 30 protesters picketed the production for its depicti…
Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles, the new "musical" that opened on Broadway this past week is not exactly what I would call a musical. Honestly, the most theatrical thing about …
There is definitely an audience for the new play, Lombardi and I don't mean that pejoratively in the least. Eric Simonson's script is a fine vehicle to tell the story of Vince Lombardi…
La Bête first appeared on Broadway in the winter of 1991 and ran a mere 25 performances. More recently it had a hit production in London starring Mark Rylance, Joanna Lumley and…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, the new rock musical that just moved uptown from the Public Theatre, is timely, enlightening and loads of fun. It is a satirical musicalization on t…
If you didn't know who wrote A Life in the Theatre, you might be hard-pressed to guess that it was David Mamet. A Life in the Theatre was one of his first works and it's fun and silly,…
105 years ago this month, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession played exactly one performance in New Haven and one in New York the following week. It was closed in both tow…
Playwright, Donald Margulies has deftly woven humor throughout Time Stands Still. It helps soften the blow of the harsh reality of the consequences of war and their impact on one…
The Pitmen Painters, a transfer from London's National Theatre is a funny and engaging look at five miners from the coal fields of Northern England who decide to take an art appreciati…
Emma Rice has crafted an engaging, artful and thoroughly charming adaptation of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter for the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2010-11 season opener. Ms. Rice serve…
Charles Busch is up to his old antics again. This time the creator of such classic hits as Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset and probably his most ma…
In the New York Theatre Workshop production of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Flemish director Ivo van Hove has delivered a production of staggering intensity and starkness. He …
The Classic Stage Company opened their 44th season with Virginia Woolf's Orlando, adapted for the stage by Sarah Ruhl. It has been beautifully rendered by director Rebecca Taichman, c…
In the play Zero Hour, the titanic actor Zero Mostel regales an (unseen) interviewer with stories from his life, while trying to browbeat and insult the hapless journalist at the same time. …
Playwrights Horizons opened their 40th anniversary season this evening with Edward Albee's Me Myself & I, Mr. Albee's 30th play. It also marks his premiere at Playwrights. Me…
If anyone is qualified to talk about A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, it's Patrick Stewart. He has spent the better part of the past six years working almost exclusively in theatre. …
Watching It Must Be Him the new off-Broadway comedy/musical by Kenny Solms was like watching the Opelika Dinner Theatre production of Two and a Half Men - the Musical. Even a cast of…
An Error of the Moon, currently playing at the Becket Theatre on West 42nd Street is a stylish production. It boasts an interesting set worthy of Escher by Steve Capone. An Err…
When you go to the Fringe Festival you don't necessarily look for perfection so much as you look for potential. Such is the case with Just in Time - The Judy Holliday Story which w…
New plays from Edward Albee, Lisa Kron, A.R. Gurney, Charles Busch, Neal LaBute and Jon Robin Baitz; revivals of American classics written by Lillian Hellman and Tony Kushner; works fr…
When Platinum opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre (now a church) in 1978 it only ran for 12 previews and 33 regular performances. While the show's star, Alexis Smith got r…
"Broadway: The American Musical," the companion book to the 2004 PBS six-part series has finally been released in an updated paperback edition. Â The series and the book are certainly o…
The Fall 2010 Broadway season is shaping up to be an exciting one. It includes works from such classic playwrights as William Shakespeare, Noel Coward, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart and…
It's a shame that With Glee, currently playing at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row (West 42nd St.) is only playing through August 22 (just a little over a week as I write this.) Â With G…
Martin Rayner and Mark H. Dold (r) in Freud's Last Session
Photo: Kevin Sprague
Freud's Last Session is a riveting hypothetical conversation between two great thinkers, Sigmund Freud and…
