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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has been stunningly reimagined by director Michael Grandage in the show's first Broadway revival since it originally closed on Broadway in 1983.
Evit…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has been stunningly reimagined by director Michael Grandage in the show's first Broadway revival since it originally closed on Broadway in 1983.
Evi…
The New York Premiere of
pool (no water)
By Mark Ravenhill (Playwright of Shopping and F*cking)
May 9"26, 2012 9th Space, 150 First Avenue NYC
****… "80 dynamic minutes that tur…
Tracie Bennett's performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow is as exhausting to watch, as it must be to perform. With all of her ups and downs and neurotic behaviour, Bennett's Gar…
Tracie Bennett's performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow is as exhausting to watch, as it must be to perform. With all of her ups and downs and neurotic behaviour, Bennett's Gar…
Broadway's latest revival, Gore Vidal's The Best Man is a marvelous reason to go to the theatre. This comedy is the tonic for the primary blues. The year is 1960 and the plac…
Broadway's latest revival, Gore Vidal's The Best Man is a marvelous reason to go to the theatre. This comedy is the tonic for the primary blues. The year is 1960 and the plac…
You have to hand it to the folks in marketing at Disney Theatrical. They started by playing it safe with their new musical Newsies by initially announcing it as "101 performances onl…
Jesus Christ has returned (not really) in the new production of Jesus Christ Superstar which just arrived on Broadway from Stratford via La Jolla. At the helm of this new production is Des M…
Just when I was thinking I was going to have to stab my eyes out because another movie is being turned into another mediocre Broadway musical, something special comes along. &n…
The 2012 Theatre Awards Season has begun. Below you will find a summary of announcement dates, presentation dates and press releases from the various theatre awards. This p…
It is infrequent that I feel compelled to stand up during a curtain call. Standing ovations have come to be associated with any mediocre theatrical performance. There is …
The new production of Tina Howe's Painting Churches, currently being presented by the Keen Theatre Company, is an enjoyable evening of theatre, but not without a few problems. This r…
You have to hand it to William Shatner, by his own admission, there have been very few projects to which he has said no. His latest frontier is Broadway. With his new one-m…
My favorite kind of books to read are biographies. I love learning about peoples' lives, what makes them tick. Real life has always been far more interesting to me than f…
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Wit was originally produced in 1995 at South Coast Repertory Company in Costa Mesa, California and then off-Broadway. This new produc…
I have to say, it takes some gall to change the name of a classic American folk opera, effectively negating the contributions of two of the chief architects of the original work. Porgy…
The Road to Meccais a long, tedious one. As directed by Gordon Edelstein, the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Athol Fugard's 1987 play is a dirge. Despite the presence…
Broadway new-comer Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly is a prickly family dramedy that incorporates racism, class warfare between races, and more poignantly, in this case, class warfare amongst …
Broadway is starting to buzz again after the 2011 holiday recess. The 2012 Broadway spring season (or act II as I call it) has the usual share of celebrities coming back to the boards.…
Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities is smart, riveting theatre. Thanks to the deft direction of Joe Mantello and a perfect cast, you can't help but be drawn into this dysfunctional f…
I have spent the past thirty years working in the theatre. It's hard to believe, but it's true, I've never seen a production of Godspell. The original production of thi…
It is rare that a piece of theatre leaves you vibrating the way David Ives's Venus in Fur left me last evening. Venus... is that perfect storm of talent that includes playwright Ives, …
Chinglish, the kinetic new play from David Henry Hwang (M, Butterfly), is a smart and funny look at the cultural differences and miscommunication between Chinese and Americans. &nb…
Relatively Speaking is three one-act plays involving some form of familial entanglement between crazy relatives, crazier relatives and crazy "almost" relatives. The through line …
