279 stories by "Elyse Trevers"
From show to movie and back to show. The cult 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Directed by Jim Sharman, the film found its …
It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst wh…
Is madness inherited? Is genius inherited? Are the two connected? These are some of the questions posed in Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play in 2001. When an aging…
I’m a musical theater nerd and love classic Broadway musicals. Even though they may be dated now, I still have an affection for them. So when the television show called Schmigadoon aired i…
What is comedy? Countless books have been written describing, explaining, analyzing and dissecting the genre. Yet we know it when we see it and Fallen Angels, the Noel Coward 1952 comedy of …
Young girls often have BFFs (best friends) with whom they share everything. They swear to be besties forever, and sometimes they actually remain friends over the years. Through school, jobs,…
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – T…
From Off-Broadway to the West End to Broadway, the ship Titanique has traveled a long way. The musical parody of James Cameron's epic movie Titanic has delighted its audiences so much that i…
"Cats:The Jellicle Ball" at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother's "Cats," the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. In the origina…
In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing a…
Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, rece…
The play Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) by Anna Ziegler is not the play you and I read in high school. Although the major characters are the same, the play, directed by Tyne Rafa…
In my role as a critic, I see a lot of shows. While I enjoy many of them, I rarely leave planning to buy tickets for my family. However, by the end of Every Brilliant Thing starring Daniel R…
We've all heard of the mythical Bigfoot. He's a huge creature covered in fur and a popular figure in American and Canadian folklore. Now we can see and hear him at New York City Center Stage…
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How do you spell " enjoyable. Definition, please -The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The revival of the musical at New World Stages, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Tony awa…
The intimacy of Bug makes the revival of Tracy Lett's play moving and powerful. Waitress Agnes White (Carrie Coon) lives in a seedy Oklahoma motel. Except for a certain amount of clutter, th…
Tartuffe, the womanizing fraud in the eponymous comedy by Molire, is like the man who came to dinner. It's next to impossible to get him to leave. In Moliere's play, Orgon, a wealthy man, is…
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, just think about June Squibb, the 96 year old actress onstage each night performing 8 shows a week in Marjorie Prime at The Hayes The…
In Sophocles' classic play, Oedipus tries to circumvent the fate the gods have ordained for him. He will kill his father and marry his mother. Tragically, he can't because he has already ful…
The musical Chess premiered in London in 1986 and then on Broadway two years later. Despite its gorgeous score with music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim R…
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) He's the son of the groom he has never met. She's the sister of the much-younger bride. Together they are the main characters in Two Strangers (C…
Picture a small blonde tornado " bursting with energy and dressed in hot pink wearing high heels. That's Kristen Chenoweth portraying the real-life Jackie Siegel in The Queen of Versailles. …
With only two main characters and a beige couch, Little Bear Ridge Road, a new play by Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale and FX's Emmy Award winning show Baskets) depends entirely on language, scr…
This Fall theater season presented two productions dealing with Archduke Ferdinand. At the end of Ragtime, he is assassinated, setting off the war to end all wars. More recently, I saw Archd…
