Once you unravel and then connect the on and offstage characters, you will find much to admire in Joshua Harmon's new play, a major new work from this gifted playwright. It is helped enormou…
I've held back my review of this revival of a play by D.H.Lawrence for a day in order to research its history, because it was written in 1913 and put away by Lawrence without …
Andre Bishop and the Lincoln Center Theater are presenting a new opera called "Intimate Apparel." It's an adaptation of Lynn Nottage's play of the same name and carries an opera score by …
Meredith Willson's "Music Man" first blew into River City, Iowa, in 1957 with Robert Preston and Barbara Cook along for the ride, and now he's back 45 years later with Hugh Jackman and Su…
I could sense the air of anticipation as we waited for the matinee on February 6 to begin. Encores!, the much loved series that City Center in New York introduced in 1994, was about…
My professional life has been spent in live theatre, film, television"as a playwright, actor, memoirist , librettist, reviewer, and grateful member of the audience. My interest in mu…
When it comes to musical theatre, I admit I am more 'then" than "now." It's how I was trained, and I go back to a different time to the plays and musicals of the 1940s when there were long r…
The York Theatre Company, which is committed to giving life to new and revised musicals, has been doing so under the direction of designer James Morgan as Producing Artistic Director for the…
Saturday, December 2, will now become a red letter day for me. I arrived at the theatre at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre at 1:15 for a 2:00 matinee preview of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" and w…
Seated in the American Airlines Theatre at a recent matinee, I had the feeling that I was not watching a show but was instead privileged to be observing a cast of fine actors as they went ab…
Douglas Carter Beane was Artistic Director for the Drama Department at Greenwich House Theatre for ten years and in recent times has written a number of merry plays including "The Little …
This three act play runs three hours and fifteen minutes, and it is"in a word"a Blockbuster! From start to finish it is eloquent, informed, imaginatively staged, and brilliantly acted by …
Ruben Santiago-Hudson is an extraordinary actor, and he is using his gifts to our advantage in this one-man play at the Samuel J Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Ably supported by music compose…
Here we have it, an early offering after the Pandemic drought, a new musical playing eight performances a week in a Broadway theatre. That in itself is big news since the theatre distric…
A playwright with a powerful voice and a director of taste and imagination have joined forces to end the 18 month drought on Broadway of plays, musicals, revues, and other forms of live enli…
Full disclosure: I still vividly remember the night the original company of this masterful musical opened on Broadway. It was September 26, 1957; and I was there because I, as a young agent,…
Playwright and actor Charles Busch is back among us offering a new comedy with serious undertones which takes aim at the "weepy" film genre that was popular from the days of silent films to …
Dealing as it does with the incipient integration of black servicemen in the Army in 1944 (The Armed Services were formally integrated in 1948), this new production of Charles Fuller's Pulit…
From John Milton's 1667 epic poem in blank verse, playwright Tom Dulack has created his own 100 minute one-act play also called "Paradise Lost." Currently playing out a limited run that ends…
There is a photo of Laura Linney on the cover of this play's Playbill"a photo that is luminous and wistful and wise. Her eyes are focused on the distance outside the frame; her lips are part…
Broadway lights will dim on January 7, 2020 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday, December 26 at the age of  88, and at the end of a year that saw at its beginning the deat…
Dion Boucicault lived through seventy years of the 19th century and spent fifty of them writing plays. He was only twenty-one when he delivered this stylish comedy of manners; it was …
Younger audiences may prefer their theatre either as a seven hour epic or as a neatly-tied, ninety-minute, one-act bundle; but George Eastman's play takes the middle of the road aiming to pl…
Tony Kushner wrote this play in 1985 when he was 29 years old. It deals with the early 1930s in Germany, the years in which the Weimar Republic was beginning to crumble, and Adolf Hitler was…
It's a good idea to prepare yourself if you plan to see both parts of Mr. Lopez's play at matinee and evening in the same day. It can be done at 1:00 PM and again at 7:00 PM. Make certain yo…