23 stories by "Patrick Christiano"
HOT SHOTS featuring Russell Young on view at The White Room Gallery through September 21
A hauntingly beautiful reimagining of Bonnie & Clyde by Scott Schwartz inhabits the stage in Sag Harbor.
By Patrick Christiano
RED CARPET featuring Nelson De La Nuez on view at The White Room Gallery July 16 through August 17, 2025
July 16, 2025: The White Room Gallery, 3 Railroad Avenue, in the village of East Ham…
By Samuel L. Leiter May 23, 2025: The Public Theater's latest musical, Goddess, on the same stage that introduced A Chorus Line and Hamilton,bursts onto the stage with an electrifying energy…
By David Sheward May 18, 2025: When you walk into the Vineyard Theater for Nazareth Hassan's Bowl EP, a co-production between Vineyard and the National Black Theatre in association with The …
LA FEMME at The White Room Gallery featuring the works of Terry O'Neill, Elise Remender, Sabrina Cabada, Rob Brinson and more on view at The White Room Gallery on view through June 16, 2025.…
By Samuel L. Leiter May 13, 2025: In an era where, as they say, nostalgia is currency and irony king, The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse arrives at the Pershing Square Signature Center with as…
By Alix Cohen
May 12, 2025. "Anything inanimate that you animate is a puppet." Basil Twist
How does a program like HERE's Dream Music Puppetry (producer of Puppetopia) get started in a coun…
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING wins 4 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best New Broadway Musical and JOHN PPROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN won Best new Broadway Play
May 12, 2025: The Outer Critics Circle…
By David Sheward May 5, 2025: The 2024-25 Broadway season closes out with a pair of wildly divergent musicals featuring stunning star turns by two of the musical theater's brightest stars. J…
By Paulanne Simmons
The main artifice of Justin in Time, the new jukebox musical about Bobby Darin, is that it's all artifice. The first thing Jonathon Groff says as he strides onto Derek…
By Samuel L. Leiter
May 3, 2025: In recent seasons, Jonathan Groff, now 40 but still boyishly handsome, has become Broadway's definition of a modern musical matinee idol, masculine yet g…
STRIPPED " MUSIC THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD/ The Work of Steve Joester at The Whie Room Gallery, also featuring Brad Beyer, on view through May 11, 2025.
April 27, 2025: The White Room Gallery,…
By David Sheward April 17, 2025: During its two-season run on NBC (2012-13), I used to hate-watch Smash, the weekly series chronicling the making of a Broadway musical on screen legend Maril…
April 14, 2025: The current Broadway season, which technically ends this month, has been notably top-heavy with musicals and pencil thin in new plays. However, for those pondering the upcom…
By Patrick Christiano
April 11, 2025: Boop! The Musical is a delightful homage to the iconic cartoon character created by Max Fleischer in the 1930s and embodied beautifully by Jasmine Amy …
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 15, 2025. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, now in an uninspired production at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, has not received anywhere ne…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
February 4, 2025: In Jordan Harrison's play, The Antiquities, receiving its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, one of the characters is a writer who thinks artificial …
By: Iris Wiener
           February 1, 2022: Joe Iconis musicals have typically demonstrated the songwriter's innate, brilliant knack for storytelling thr…
B'way Update: Music Man and the Critics; Tony Voters and Bias Training; Etc.
By: David Sheward
January 31, 2022: The Music Man, probably the most anticipated show of this entire post-CO…
By: David Sheward
January 28, 2022: When patrons enter the Samuel J. Friedman Theater for Manhattan Theater Club's Broadway premiere of Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew, they are greet…
By: Paulanne Simmons
January 29, 2022: Kathryn Kates was a talented character actress, as can be seen in her numerous roles in television, stage and film. But I knew her best as Mrs. River…
TRIASSIC PARK, The Musical by Marshall Pailet, Bryce Norbitz and Steve Wargo is making a playfully silly return in a fantastic production with music, sex and singing dinosaurs. Pandemonium …
