In 2012, writer Damian Weber published a compendium of every entry about Jean-Michel Basquiat from The Andy Warhol Diaires; they spanned just over four years, from 1982-1986. He did it, h…
THE COST OF MISSING THIS RAVISHING SHOW Every week in the opening sequence of the eighties television series Fame, dance instructor Lydia Grant would state without irony, "…fame costs and …
After making its award-winning Off-Broadway debut with Manhattan Theatre Club at New York City Center in 2017, and receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2018, Martyna Majok's Cost of Liv…
"Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, …
HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THEATER Some plays take time to come into their own but they're well worth a wait. Twenty-five years after its Off-Broadway debut, Paula Vogel's seminal wonder How I Le…
The Manhattan Theatre Club has revived Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," using the same two main actors who performed it back in 1997, David Morse (Uncle Peck) and Mary-Louise Parker (…
Dominique Morisseau's play is the centerpiece of her "Detroit Project" trilogy, and also its heart. Patrick J. Maley reviews. The post Review: Skeleton Crew at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatr…
Manhattan Theatre Club will reopen its doors tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14, when the Broadway premiere of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues begins performances at MTC's Sam…
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Is it ever truly possible to escape the pain and turmoil of the past or will the disturbing memories always be there to haunt you and to impact your present life? That's the issue at hand in…
Back in elementary school, we all learned that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Apparently, playwright Florian Zeller was absent that day, or perhaps, he merely couldn't be both…
Florian Zeller's complex "The Height of the Storm" is a must see this Broadway season. Enjoy the opportunity to witness Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins " two of the greatest actors of their…
The Manhattan Theatre Club has brought us this play from London's West End. It serves Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce, and an excellent supporting cast well; but I suggest it will bring reward…
"For better or worse" is a promise couples make when taking their wedding vows, but few comprehend how bad the worst can be when old age, dementia, and death bring shattering change to a lon…
Pryce plays an author in the grip of steep mental decline in a production that transfers from the West End
Now playing a limited engagement at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Ink, written by James Graham and directed by Rupert Goold, premiered to critical acclaim in Londo…
Is Rupert Murdoch a hero or a villain? First seen at the Almeida Theatre in London in 2017, ahead of a West
A memorial for Andrew Zerman, the Broadway casting director who passed away on January 6, 2019, will be held on April 29 at 4 PM at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
The former casting director on the original runs of Les Misérables, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera passed away January 6.
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney's important and engaging "Choir Boy" closes on Sunday March 10, 2019. With o…
Making a soul-stirring Broadway debut with the Manhattan Theatre Club after its Off-Broadway premiere with MTC in 2013, Tarell Alvin McCraney's revised Choir Boy has already extended its lim…
Jeremy Pope and members of the cast Photo credit: Matthew MurphyTarell Alvin McCraney's "Choir Boy" premiered at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II in 2013. It is now in revival with exte…
The new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, winner of the best adapted screenplay Oscar for Moonlight, is set in the Charles R
For starters, I had expected this oddly titled play to offer information on what went on in someone's mind during an afternoon siesta. Once the play started I found that no, it deals with th…
In the cue game of snooker, the British version of pool, the nap refers to the rough-surface direction of the fabric covering the table, which affects the path of the ball. In Richard Bean's…