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Katie Brayben in a scene from Elton John's new musical "Tammy Faye" at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently renovat…
Besides the fact that many know the story of the Essex (later told in Melville's "Moby Dick") or the Mignonette told in The Avett Brothers' album of the same name, Logan has made his main ch…
How can you make a new play about a couple on a blind date in a bar interesting for today's jaded audience? In "Strategic Love Play," British playwright Miriam Battye makes them play games a…
Arliss Howard and Marisa Tomei in a scene from The New Group's production of Jessica Goldberg's "Babe" at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) If you don't kn…
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in a scene from the new musical "Maybe Happy Ending" at the Belasco Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman) The new musical Maybe Happy Endi…
Firstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…
Nevertheless, the play is one of several interesting takes on climate change in the theater recently like "Deep History." As the play evolves we are more and more immersed in the problems of…
This is another one of those cut down versions of Shakespeare with only ten actors in total. As result, seven of the ten actors double (one triples). The problem is that almost all of the ac…
David Pittu, Victoria Clark and John Ellison Conlee in a scene from the MasterVoices concert production of the Gershwins' "Strike Up the Band" at Carnegie Hall on October 29, 2024 (Photo cre…
Following her star turn as "Celine Dion" in "TitanÃque" which she co-wrote, Marla Mindelle has a new role in "The Big Gay Jamboree," another parody musical which she co-wrote with Jonatha…
Adam Driver in a scene from Kenneth Lonergan's "Hold on to Me Darling" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Film and stage star Adam Driver has stepped into the ro…
Although the play is graceful and appealing, it is mainly presented in narrative form with Delia played by Julianna Margulies in New York and Peter Gallagher playing Dr. Peter Rutter, her su…
Wilder's experimental play uses no scenery except for two tables, some chairs, a piano and usually two ladders for the upstairs bedroom windows of the young people. Here, however, Leon and s…
Directed by Annette Mees, "Deep History" is a real eye opener but it is not depressing. Finnigan is so upbeat and compelling a storyteller it is not possible not be pulled into events as he …
Lloyd Suh writes quirky historical plays from a unique perspective as ironic comedies. In "Franklinland," the latest entry in the EST/Sloan Project, commissioning and developing plays about …
James Ijames' new play now at The Public Theater is quite different from his satiric Pulitzer Prizing-winning "Fat Ham" which appeared there two years ago. Â "Good Bones" is a realistic de…
While "Sump'n Like Wings" is a lovely little play about a feisty 16-year-old girl who wants her independence in the 1913-16 period just after Oklahoma became a state, unfortunately Raelle My…
As in Ayad Akhtar's plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. Unf…
The problem with the show is two-fold: first, it doesn't have anything new to say about dating other than trying to turn it into a cabaret commentary, and visually the show looks the same th…
While the play is compelling, the question is what is the message? Is the play asking would we have done what the son did? The father is quoted by the son as calling him a traitor while the …
The spate of Sondheim shows both this past season and opening this fall is given prime place in this musical revue. Unsurprisingly, the new "Merrily We Roll Along" which ran all of last seas…
Quintero who obviously knows his Greek plays and Greek mythology is extremely faithful to the original myth and to Euripides' play. What he has added is a contemporary vernacular all in rhym…
However, in the sweeping new musical epic retitled Monte Cristo, canny and adept librettist Peter Kellogg ("Desperate Measures," "Penelope") has streamlined the story, reduced the number of …
While "That Parenting Musical" will not tell you anything you didn't already know, it is a pleasant and undemanding way to spend an evening. The six attractive performers four of whom appear…
Of course, with Farrow and LuPone under the direction of six-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, this is an occasion for cheering although this comedy drama, a cross between a female versi…
