611 stories by "Richard Seff"
Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his finger on the audience pulse since 1969; and in the following half century, he has become the longest-running composer in Broadway history. Joseph and …
I spent a happy afternoon on Saturday at the Encores! matinee of Jerry Herman's Dear World… which did not have a great success in 1968 when it first opened to very mixed notices and lim…
A planned visit to a Broadway show now requires a new sort of preparation. When I learned that a new production of Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" was heading our way, I delighted in thin…
Jonathan Bank has been Producing Artistic Director of Off Broadway's Mint Theatre for many years, and he has made it his mission to search out and rediscover plays which were written in an e…
Jeffrey Richards and his many associates here offer us a one-set, 95 minutes visit with an elderly couple and their middle aged son who is visiting them in their Southern California home. Ba…
New York's jewel of an off Broadway theatre company called the Irish RepTheatre continues to offer new insights into memorable works like this gem from Samuel Beckett, which first prov…
The Manhattan Theatre Club is offering its subscribers and the general public its production of this play first done at the Old Vic in London and now cast here in New York with the ori…
David Lindsay-Abaire wrote a similarly titled play some seasons back, and Jeanine Tesori joins him now as composer of the new musical on which it is based. This lively entry boasts an …
An assortment of gifted theatrical talents have combined to restore Adrienne Kennedy's play "Ohio State Murders" to the current season on Broadway Originally mounted in 1991 this revival…
It took some twenty-odd producers plus the Shubert Organization, Neil Meron, MGM On Stage, and Executive Producer S. Moynihan to bring this musical comedy to the stage on Broadway. Wi…
A new musical has arrived at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre making its bid for acceptance by the press and the public with a list of ten new names adorning its Playbill title page as produc…
The times are no longer a-changin'; they have already changed. What used to be called "Musical Theatre" is weathering the change as best it can, and the most recent example of the new musica…
Todd Haines, as Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, has made the brave decision to mount this challenging new work by Noah Diaz as part of the Roundabout Season in New Y…
Once upon a time… in the period affectionately known as The Golden Age, there was an opportunity for all to discover the mysteries and magic of something called "Broadway." Some of us …
In Oscar Hammerstein's book and lyrics for "The King and I," there is a phrase used by the King whenever his own behavior seems to contradict itself causing him confusion. The phrase was "Is…
What a way to go! As the final entry in the 2022 season of Encores!, Artistic Director Lear Debessonet has taken the reins herself and led a company of miraculous performers to the b…
A smashingly vital revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo'" is heating up Broadway in a rare revival at the Circle In The Square Theatre. That space has an elliptical playing area that i…
BILLY CRYSTAL was born in 1948 and spent most of his childhood in Long Beach, New York. His father, Jack Crystal, was a prominent figure in the world of Jazz and ran a classic jazz r…
Once upon a time one of the popular phrases was : "The times they are a changin." Well, they've changed. A successful run on Broadway used to mean one of 300-400 performances. Prolific playw…
Mary Louise Parker and David Morse along with their director Mark Brokaw have decided to have another go at Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning one act play that deals with the rarely ex…
For starters"If you happened to see it, it is wise to forget the original production of this Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical which enjoyed a run of over 1200 performances in 19…
In his new Broadway play, Playwright/Actor Tracy Letts has invited us in to witness the reading of the minutes at a November weekly meeting of the City Council of the town of Big Cherry.…
It seems to me a very odd time to be bringing back Martin McDonagh's play, written and first produced in the mid 1960s, yet here it is at the Golden Theater on Broadway, in a smashingly …
If you think you have an inner child within you, one who has been yearning to emerge, you might find something to engage, stimulate, enlighten, and entertain you in "The Little Prince," …
Todd Haimes, the Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, tells us in the Playbill for this production that the play first went into rehearsal on March 3, 2020. Because of…
