"The Book of Mormon": A Non-Convert's View
If you love meta musicals"and judging by the ecstatic reviews the show has gotten, a whole lot of people do"you're going to love The Book of Mormon, which opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
If you love meta musicals"and judging by the ecstatic reviews the show has gotten, a whole lot of people do"you're going to love The Book of Mormon, which opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatr…
My husband K is crazy about Frank Loesser. The movie version of the composer's Pulitzer Prize"winning final work, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, sat in our Tivo queu…
I saw Mambo Mouth, John Leguizamo's first one-man show when it played at the old American Place Theatre back in 1991. And I had a really good time"a better time, alas, than I had at Gh…
People I know keep asking me what I think about Good People, the new David Lindsay-Abaire play. They don't need my opinion to determine whether it's, well, good because the show, now p…
Beautiful Burnout, which is playing through March 27 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn Heights, is the textbook definition of style over substance. But the style is sensational. …
The rap on the current revival of That Championship Season, which opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre last week, is that the play is outdated. Which seems a silly thing to say.&nbs…
While reading the Times this morning, my husband K discovered that our friend Judd Jones had died. That means the world is a less fun place. Judd, who passed on March 9 at the age o…
Monday is traditionally a dark night in the theater so performances are rare, which probably explains why the New York Theatre Workshop was filled with theater folks"press and otherwise"when…
Bill Eppridge/TIME & LIFE Pictures, Life's other demands have gotten in the way of my writing here and so I am again missing my regular Saturday morning posting deadline. But I'm hoping …