279 stories by "Elyse Trevers"
Broadway is always looking for a family friendly musical, one with kid and tourist appeal, and this season the musical is "Boop! The Musical." Few young people know Betty Boop, the animated …
If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity's effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is packi…
If you've seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of "GlenGarry Glen Ross," forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don't compare the present cast to Al Pacino…
The phrase "the sins of the father are visited upon the son" suggests that parents' actions can severely impact their children. In the new adaptation by Mark O'Rowe of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts…
Composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson died before achieving success. He posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking musical "Rent". The musica…
How would you react after a terrible personal tragedy? Would you slip into a deep depression? In the new musical "Redwood" directed by Tina Landau at the Nederlander Theater, Idina Menzel's …
It's hard to imagine our mothers' lives when they were young women. What were their plans, goals, dreams? Do they have regrets? This is the premise of Bess Wohl's new play, Liberation, prese…
It's not easy for an adult to learn a new language. If you ever tried, you will connect with the characters in "English" the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play for Drama by playwright Sanaz To…
Some Broadway musicals are classics, revived over and over again. And then there are the divas, the performers who create the starring roles. If you are lucky enough to see them, you will wi…
The Board of Directors of Eureka Day school, a private school in upscale Berkeley, California, prizes inclusivity above all else. So no issues will be resolved without complete agreement. "W…
Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is considered a 'problem' play with its ambiguous tone, shifting from humor to dark elements in the person of one of the central characters, the Jewish…
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Photo by Julieta Cervantes So much theater is about family dynamics where we often recognize ourselves and our families on stage. However, sometimes we are relieved that it is NOT our family…
How far would you go to retain your youth? Theater and film are replete with tales of women attempting to stay young. If the woman is Maddy Ashton, an egotistical narcissistic performer, one…
With his raspy gravelly voice and broad smile, trumpet-player Louis Armstrong has become an iconic figure. Yet his story is much more complex than that. The new Broadway bio-musical, "It's A…
When people need to recharge, they take a nap or have a cup of coffee or a piece of chocolate. When the charming Helper Bots in the different quirky new musical, "Maybe Happy Ending" need a …
Is there anyone who doesn't know the story of Romeo and Juliet, the young star-crossed lovers? The challenge for a director, then, is how to retell the story to appeal to a younger audience.…
The chemistry between Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher is charming, and that's the most compelling reason to see the new play "Left on Tenth". The autobiographical play by novelist, sc…
In "Gypsy" three strippers explain the key to success by singing "You Gotta Get a Gimmick." Lately that seems to be the theme of Broadway revivals. The goal is to differentiate the show from…
Vladimir Putin is an intriguing figure and last spring, he was one of the two main characters in playwright Peter Morgan's play "Patriots." This season, a second show by Erika Sheffer called…
We grow up, seek partners and then we die. That's the storyline of "Thornton Wilder's Our Town". There's very little cutesy and kitschy about the play which begins in 1901 in Grover's Corner…
Jez Butterworth's latest play, "Hills of California" moves so smoothly that you are never aware of its 2 hours and 45 minutes running time. Arriving on Broadway after a successful London run…
They say you can't go home again. Yet in "Good Bones," the new play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright James Ijames ("Fat Ham") that's what Aisha (Susan Kelechi Watson) is doing when she a…
I'm a sucker for the Iron Man movies. I love Tony Stark who uses his wealth to combat crime and terrorism. Robert Downey, Jr plays Tony Stark aka Iron Man, and his role has won him a legion …
It can't be easy portraying a living person, and it must be even more daunting when the person you are playing is the person who wrote the play. Such is the task for Daniel Dae Kim, the good…
