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"My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover somethi…
You may not know Drew Hodges' name, but you're living in a world he helped create. His new book, On Broadway, is an irresistible adventure that lifts the curtain on the making of the best an…
Ben Platt (center) in Dear Evan Hansen.
Photo: Matthew Murphy
One is tempted to say, simply: Don't ask questions, just go...
Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb <em>A Street Car Named Desire</em>, now transported to St. Ann's Wareh…
Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb A Street...
Each year I write about people/shows I'd like to see get Tony nominations. These are people/shows that aren't...
Audra McDonald in Shuffle Along.
Photo: Julieta Cervantes
The 2015-2016 Broadway season started with a musical bang,...
This is a welcome opportunity to see the play, and the chance to see a top-flight performance by Jessica Lange. But when you leave Long Day enthusing about the actress playing Mary Tyrone -…
Sarah Charles Lewis in Tuck Everlasting. Photo: Joan Marcus
In this our age of Broadway cynicism--when religious tomes...
Not when Barber, amusingly pinched mouthed, is on the boil. Or when Mr. Snake is bowing and scraping in an architecturally
Jesse Berger has been devoting his Red Bull Theater company to presenting first-rate productions of the classics, which...
If all you want in your evening at the theatre is nonstop laughter and a brightly-shining comedic tour de force of a performance, then you should hasten to the Lyceum, where Jesse Tyler Ferg…
Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and Kimiko Glenn in Waitress.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Picture a heaping slice of...
No, American Psycho, an imported Almeida and Headlong production, is not about the current Republican presidential campaign. On the...
What are we to do when the private persona of a performer bleeds over into the public creative sphere? The line is so fragile...
Yoo-hoo, theater cognoscenti! Remember Theater of the Absurd, the new strain of writing that--to fall into reviewer's clichés--burst on the scene in the 1950s? That's when playwrights lik…
According to some statistics, And Then There Were None is bestselling Agatha Christie's all-time bestseller. It's been filmed more than once, perhaps the favorite adaptation until recently b…
Sitting in the Steve Martin/Edie Brickell bluegrass musical Bright Star I knew the show would divide critics, but I also knew that it was impossible to leave and not at least respect the wor…
Frank Langella in The Father.
Photo: Joan Marcus
Frank Langella, at his estimable best, is not to be overlooked. Here...
It's been a while since Roseanne Barr flaunted her domestic-goddess self before the public. Therefore, room should exist for Dena Blizzard, as Miss New Jersey of 1995, no less, who's now cr…
It's been a while since Roseanne Barr flaunted her domestic-goddess self before the public. Therefore, room should exist for...
It's rough out there. Right now, there are countless brands shouting and wildly waving their virtual hands 24/7 for attention. It's noisy; it's unrelenting; it's war.
If you're searching for an example of genuine brotherly love, you don't start with Cain and Abel. Perhaps the choicest place to look is Vincent and Theo Van Gogh.
The picture of the astonished, speechless faculty members is accompanied by a devastating sound effect that designer Daniel Perelstein unleashes. Once and for all, the deafening blare drive…
Jack Viertel's "The Secret Life of the American Musical" is not a trove, in actuality, of 'secrets' of the...
