572 stories by "Howard Miller"
A beach house in a state of disrepair, not unlike its primary inhabitant, is the setting for Gregg Ostrin's Kowalski, a tangle of truth, truthiness, and fanciful speculation opening tonight …
True story: I once attempted to show off my linguistic prowess at a French restaurant by ordering a salad with Roquefort dressing. I wound up with a dish of horseradish ("raifort") instead. …
Does doing monstrous things make you a monster? That is the question being addressed in the newest and sixth Broadway production of Gypsy, opening tonight at the Majestic Theatre and starrin…
Jonathan Spector's satirical dramedy Eureka Day, opening tonight at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is a perfect reflection of our divisive times as it lays bare wha…
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Sometimes family ties are held together by a thread. In the case of playwright Katori Hall's The Blood Quilt, opening tonight at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, the thread i…
Death Becomes Her, the musical adaptation of Robert Zemeckis's 1992 offbeat comic movie of the same title, opening tonight at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, is a super-fun grudge match between t…
"The great tragedy of the sea." That's what a grizzled old sea captain calls it when describing life aboard a whaler like the one he's commanding in the closing years of the 19th century in …
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Even a little bit? No? All right, then. Let me sweeten the pot. What do you think about the idea of Samwise Gamgee of The Lord of the Rings fame appearing as S…
Playwright Kate Hamill is best known as an adaptor of classic novels like Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, asking us to recon…
Sometimes it's difficult to understand the underlying intent of a theatrical production, which, perhaps, is the underlying problem with Tammy Faye, the intermittently rewarding musical that …
Thanks to some very cleverly arranged design elements, Maybe Happy Ending, the quirky/charming futuristic musical opening today at the Belasco Theatre, is the theatrical equivalent of what c…
"When You're Smiling," a song written just ahead of the Great Depression, was not conceived by its composers with Louis Armstrong in mind. Yet while it is just one song among 30 that are per…
George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple is a melodrama. Or, wait, it's a comedy. No, it's an antiwar satire with political overtones. Anyway, you get my drift. It is difficult to pin down…
To misquote Norma Desmond, "Broadway is big. It's the musicals that got small." Though not in 1997-1998. That was a banner time for big musicals with big companies. The Lion King, Titanic, a…
There is an expression among Caribbean islanders that goes something like this: "Come see me is not the same as come live with me." That is a pretty good description of the situation that se…
Director Sam Gold and William Shakespeare. Always expect the unexpected when these two pair up. For instance, when Gold, in his most avant-garde mode, tackled Hamlet in 2017 and, five years …
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it does not necessarily make for a compelling theatrical experience. And when the truth that is being depicted is based on autobiography, the biggest …
Ach du lieber!!! Holy Moly!!! Or even WTF!!! Feel free to quote me once you exit (or stagger out of) the St. James Theatre, where director/mad scientist Jamie Lloyd has unleashed his latest …
A psychoanalyst would surely have a field day with Clarence McCrane, known to all the world as megastar country and western singer and movie actor Strings McCrane, the irresistibly appealing…
Sump'n Like Wings, now on stage at Theatre Row, is the latest entry from the always intriguing Mint Theater Company, whose aim it is to uncover, dust off, and produce lost or forgotten plays…
Thornton Wilder's Our Town is one American play that feels as though it belongs to everyone. It is regularly read and performed in high schools and mounted by amateur theatre groups across t…
"It's the end of the world as we know it." You may recall these lyrics to a jaunty song by the rock band R.E.M. from back in 1987. And while Deep History, opening tonight at the Public Theat…
"We are falling off the shoulders of our ancestors." These demoralizing words declaimed by an elder of the Blackfeet tribe comes late in the new musical Distant Thunder, opening tonight for …
One of the many pleasures to be experienced in David Henry Hwang's highly pleasurable Yellow Face, opening tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre, lies in the splendid way he has of twisting fac…
