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It's taken for granted that any superior drama depends on its stakes being high. If that's the case, then The Great
Throughout Ebb's well-wrought lyrics and Kander incessantly rousing melody, Williams presents Sally as angry, as finally and thoroughly disillusioned at her situation, as practically a ghost…
When you hear that Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein's new play, at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman, takes...
By fadeout, the actor has given an indelible portrayal of someone mustering the courage not only to drop his gaudy garments but to drop his guard as well.
This article is about The Alexander Technique and how it can be used in everyday life (by Betsy Polatin, author of The Actor's Secret).
Betsy Polatin is a movement specialist with four de…
This is one of those "is the old lady losing her marbles?" plays, in which the doddering, aching, creaking, 79-year-old heroine drifts from witty perceptiveness to the borders of s…
After a challenging 2013, Melissa Errico is a star on the rebound. The stage and screen veteran has a lot to bounce back from, as her run in last year's acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of Ste…
My friends are never very excited about new plays. What is The Realistic Joneses and why did celebrities want to be in it? Is Casa Valentina an atmospheric production where they treat us lik…
I have to admit it: in my 30 year arts management career I have been ambivalent about the value of international touring. While many of my peers disagree strenuously with me, for every bene…
Having seen it again, I can report that it's every bit as lively, as thoroughly hilarious and as consistently heart-tugging here as it was there, if not that much better for the cast members…
Like many critics, I found the Transport Group production of I Remember Mama to be a touching endeavor. I would...
This past season has been lackadaisical for new Broadway musicals, with the best of them--arguably After Midnight, Beautiful and A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, in alphabetical ord…
When theater veteran Moss Hart published his bestselling Act One in 1959, he packed a lot into it about his impoverished...
The comedic chameleon Arnie Burton first came to view in the 2008 parody version of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps,...
Plucking the dialogue pretty much verbatim from his best-selling book, Steinbeck handily transferred his tale to the stage. Again George and Lennie -- traveling together like the scores of o…
It's close to a year since Steven Soderbergh announced he'd be quitting movies. Now he surfaces at the Public Theater...
Last week I wrote in my blog of my special history with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. I mentioned that to celebrate...
Perhaps the most complimentary remark to be made about Audra McDonald in Lady Day at the Emerson Bar & Grill is that in 90 minutes and under Lonny Price's fully empathetic direction, she…
Although Athol Fugard turns 82 in June and his protagonist in The Shadow of the Hummingbird--having its world premiere at...
In 1983 I was in high school living in suburban Westchester. That winter break my father decided to take me into New York City to see Broadway shows every single day (and two on matinee days…
Susan Stroman, the director/choreographer who worked with Mel Brooks on the aforementioned blockbuster, has now joined forces with Allen but lightning is not striking twice. The main culpri…
It is Mr. Ives, and his director John Rando (of Urinetown and A Christmas Story) who make The Heir Apparent a ludicrously luscious affair. Unlike other new comedies recently arrived in town,…
Stage17's web series, Wallflowers, created by Kieran Turner, perfectly captures NYC's single life. With Patch Darragh, Christianne Tisdale, Susan Louise O'Connor, Sarah Saltzberg, Gibson Fra…
Thus began the journey to The Great Immensity, which will premiere at the Public Theater in New York on April 11 and is scheduled to run through May 1.
Not to put too fine a point on it, director-choreographer Martha Clarke's version of the Bertolt Brecht-Kurt...
