12 stories by "Leah Greenblatt"
An Oscar nominee for a movie in which everything crashes down on her (literally), Byrne is shifting gears with the Broadway comedy "Fallen Angels."
Have you ever seen Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" set in the 1950s with a biracial star in a lesbian love triangle? In this new film adaptation, you will.
The loony 1992 comedy's visual effects broke new ground (along with Meryl Streep's neck). With the film's Broadway musical adaptation, a look at its enduring legacy.
How do you solve a problem like a remake? Play it too faithfully and you're just doing karaoke, or community theater; stray too far and you risk losing the thread of the original text " or w…
Seven hours: It's a runtime so outrageous, so almost unthinkably decadent, only Angels and boy wizards have dared to go there on Broadway before. It's also approximately how long it takes to…
"Can't we slow down the groove just a little bit," a young, gasping Tina Turner (Adrienne Warren) begs her hard-driving soon-to-be-husband early on in Tina " The Tina Tuner Musical. "So when…
Broadway babies, be warned: Slave Play aims to land in a world of Lion Kings and Wickeds and Dear Evan Hansens like a bomb, and it does " a high-wire discourse on race and power and sexualit…
It was the unexpected feel-good (and then feel weird about it, and then feel good again) hit of the summer: Get On Your Knees " approximately 80 minutes of high-flying mediations on, essenti…
There it was last June on Netflix, somewhere between the second season of Stranger Things and approximately 4,567 episodes of Friends: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette. In just over an hour, her u…
The spectacular spectacular, the ring-ding razzle dazzle, the gitchie gitchie ya-ya da-da: It's all in Moulin Rouge!, a Broadway musical so stuffed with songs and sequins and sheer, outrageo…
The first thing you learn in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune: Even Audra McDonald's orgasms are musical. The classically trained soprano and six-time Tony Award winner enters the …
About midway through Burn This, dancer-turned-choreographer Anna talks about a piece she's been working on, "a pas de deux for two couples"; "pas de quatre," her boyfriend counters, half-abs…
