SHAKESPEARES & COMPANY by Jeremy McCarter
Amy Freed's new comedy tells the story of a stagestruck hayseed who wants to flee his dreary existence in the provinces--no, this is not "Wonderful Town".
Amy Freed's new comedy tells the story of a stagestruck hayseed who wants to flee his dreary existence in the provinces--no, this is not "Wonderful Town".
Among its other distinctions, the new revival of "Wonderful Town" reduces "Thoroughly Modern Millie," a musical that works from a similar premise, to a heap of tinsel.
Last night, Kevin Kline walked a few steps further into stage history wearing a fat suit and a chaste nimbus of whiskers.
It’s rare to get an entire musical genre to sit for an interview, especially with a print publication. But late one night last weekend, The New York Sun wedged into a corner table at Angus…
"Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All," "Encores! Bash," "Apparition."
"Taboo" did not open last night as much as it burst, then oozed all over its audience. The musical whisks us back to early-1980s London, the New Romantic period, when if you didn't show up a…
Before Mamet, before LaBute, but after the Book of Job, there was Harold Pinter. People in his world are forever menaced by powers outside their control, a spectacle that can be as funny as it is grisly. How many of his characters could echo Gloucester, the haggard, sightless wretch of "King Lear," who cries, "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. / They kill us for their sport"?
Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas fight a new-old fight.
Cheyenne Jackson is what happens when you cross a middle linebacker and a Broadway chorus boy: He sings, he cracks jokes, and I bet he could bring down a fullback in the open field.