211 stories by "Tulis McCall"
Logic tells us Marilyn Maye, at 95, must be on the way down. Â But the way she works a room, it feels like up to me.
Big Bird is not part of this musical, but the other mainstay characters more than make up for it. Â Cookie Monster eats the set. Â The Count counts. Â Elmo dances up a storm. Â And B…
Each character that Page gives us is a marvel of precision, execution and the flame of human spirit that connects us all.
In this show his musicianship is out in front. Â He begins at the piano, gliding through his earlier years. Â After a bit he is joined by Nick Blaemire and Ethan Slater on guitar, piano …
as the play concludes Rebeck drops us off in the neighborhood near where the story started. Â Where truth was a bargaining chip. Â Curiosity was the coinage of the realm. Â And possibi…
This play is not a walk in the park. Â It is a running of the gauntlet. Â Both these characters are playing a high stakes game, and because of the combination of writing, direction and p…
By Tulis McCall Let me tell you something about Lin Shaye  This woman has worked.  A lot.  Since 1975 when she had a small role in Hester Street, she has worked steadily in f…
With a title like "Pay The Writer" you might think that this is a play about just that, or about the  tension between wirters and, well, everyone else.  You would be wrong.
What is so remarkable about "Let's Call Her Patty" at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, is that it is unremarkable. Â
The ideas in this play are not new, but they are newly laid out. Â And of course in this political climate of fake news and lies as truths they are still relevant.
Not my cuppa, I'm afraid.
OK THIS goes on my FAVORITES list. When Edelman drops us off at the final bus stop you realize we have doubled back around to the beginning. Â He leaves us where he found us, except we are…
One person shows that are biographical are always a bid dodgy. For one thing, the author has to come up with a reason for the character onstage to be talking at all - because the character i…
Watching O'Hara and D'Arcy James in "Days of Wine And Roses" is both thrilling and exhausting. These two thoroughbreds navigate this difficult and overwritten score with grace and self a…
... a new block of tickets for the nine-time Tony Award nominated new musical, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, are now available for performances through Sunday, January 14, 2024
There are several ways for a man to deal with a childhood trauma. He might seek out psychotherapy. He could delve into meditation. Or, if he is Kenneth, the central character in Eboni Booth'…
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2023 CHITA RIVERA AWARD NOMINATIONS BROADWAY OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY IN A BROADWAY SHOW Â Steven Hoggett, A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot Sus…
2023 DRAMA DESK NOMINATIONS Outstanding Play A Case for the Existence of God, by Samuel D. Hunter, Signature Theatre Fat Ham, by James Ijames, The Public Theater and National Black Theatre L…
Theatre is a temple.  We go there to open our hearts and let them be touched by someone or something unexpected.  We willingly place ourselves in a seat and hope for the best. With…
This is a hodge-podge of disappointing writing and direction. Â Levant is a person I saw on many a movie screen - THAT guy I cared about.
This Levant - not so much.
Everybody performed with grace and commitment. Â For whatever reason I did not feel much more than interested. Â This, as I have said many times, is part of the magic of the arts and par…
Today's catastrophe becomes yesterday's property in an instant. We are bombarded with information that most of us neither need nor want with the result that what should be remembered and hel…
By Tulis McCall I don't know where to begin. More than once duing the performance of "White Girl In Danger" by Michael R. Jackson my guest and I looked at one another and said, "What did the…
This production is "Camelot Light" which is too bad because at its core it is a universal tale of how hope can become calamity and still not surrender. Â It is a noble tale that deserves a…
