13 stories by "Richard Lawson"
Studio 54, New YorkThe 1973 cult favorite is back with a stacked cast, including Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans and Rachel Dratch, but only flashes of genuine funRichard O’Brien’s The Rocky …
Majestic theatre, New YorkA standout turn from Jessica Vosk, taking on the Bette Midler role, isn’t enough to turn a much-loved movie into a legitimate stage showGarry Marshall’s 1988 fi…
Booth Theatre, New York
The Bear star and Don Cheadle are lost in a new take on David Auburn's family drama but a standout performance from the two-time Tony winner does some heavy lifting
I…
James Earl Jones theatre, New York
There's a strong emotional pull to this fact-based story of injustice, but on stage it's all a little too polite to truly soar
If the meat and potatoes of …
Broadhurst Theatre, New York
After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber's easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new
One criticism lobbied…
Jon Ortiz and Jessica Hecht also star in director Rupert Goold's misguided Broadway production based on the 1975 Sidney Lumet film.
St Ann's Warehouse, New York
Oscar-nominated actor struggles to convince in an emotionally inert attempt to resurrect one of the playwright's lesser-known works
Though it won a Pulitzer priz…
Hayes Theater, New York
The return of the 2014 play, now starring June Squibb as an octogenarian using a tech program to speak to her dead husband, veers between poetry and cliche
When Jorda…
With music by ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the 1988 show revolves around rival American and Soviet chess wizards and the woman caught between them.
Toronto film festival: Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina Hoss
Henrik Ibsen's se…
Toronto film festival: The two stars are knockouts in Chloé Zhao's poignant adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel with a stirring tearjerker ending
Maggie O'Farrell's lauded 2020 nove…
Rubbing elbows with the theater elite after Broadway's big night"minus the cast of Hamilton.
Dammit, I hate it when Riedel is right.