"Frenzy for Musicals Kills Off New Plays in West End," by Matt Wolf
If you think the summer sun is in short supply in London, try finding a new play on the West End.
If you think the summer sun is in short supply in London, try finding a new play on the West End.
This revival could be a lot more effective if Kathleen Marshall, its decent enough choreographer, were not also its mediocre director. She has made several poor directorial choices. Her adul…
With London's theaters increasingly overrun by musicals, it seems producers have found the holy grail to commercial success: When all else fails, get a television tie-in.
Money manager Edwin Schloss says his 33- year sideline investing in commercial theater closed with the show.
Before the lights go down, everyone in the audience has filled out a brief questionnaire inquiring into your gender, how old you were when It happened, whether It was good, bad or indifferen…
With or without quibbles, then, this is a "Gypsy" to be enjoyed and, all things considered, treasured. It deserves to last beyond its appointed time.
On track to lose its entire $5 million investment, the show is the latest casualty of a season that was great for art but brutal for investors.
How old is 67 for a play? No more than a trice if a masterpiece; verging on hoary in the case of a boulevard comedy like John van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," especially as revived on Broadw…
A world in which a play this bad can earn praise in Madison, Wisconsin; Berkeley, California; and New Haven, Connecticut, deserves to be steeped in Ruhl's sophomoric inanities. I have never …