One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean's "The Nap," currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortunately co…
Richard Bean's broad, and at times crude, comedy, The Nap, premiered in Sheffield, the home of UK snooker, in 2016. The play's plot
Condola Rashad explores the layers of Saint Joan's character with a finesse that leaves little of "The Maid's) personality undefined. The journey from soldier to prisoner to saint is beatifi…
A memorial service for beloved five-time Tony Award-nominated actress Jan Maxwell will be held on June 4 from 3:00-5:00pm at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Maxwell …
The success of "The Children," currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is primarily the result of playwright Lucy Kirkwood's effective and judicious us…
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Lucy Kirkwood's play confronts the privilege of the postwar generation
Tony Yazbeck in solo dance segment from "Follies." Â In my youth, I recall going with my parents to the Jewish Y in New Jersey to an annual entertainment called "Bits of Hits." A wonderfu…
Harold Prince considers his own life in the theater in the musical revue Prince of Broadway The post Review: Prince of Broadway at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazin…
As PRINCE OF BROADWAY opens at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, take a look back at its complicated road to Broadway.
Harold Prince directs this theatrical retrospective of his career.
Broadway producer turned legendary director Hal Prince was born, he reminds us in this lovingly assembled revue tribute, the year after the
Samuel J Friedman Theatre in New York presents the performance of Lillian Hellman's play "The Little Foxes" through July 2, 2017.The play is directed by Daniel Sullivan and stars Laura Linne…
Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon give strong voices to the complex women in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes The post Review: The Little Foxes at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre appeared fir…
Written in 1939, The Little Foxes is a classic Broadway drama and an American theatre warhorse. Manhattan Theatre Club’s bracing new production
"The Little Foxes" will be staged at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in New York through June 18, 2017.Set in Alabama in 1900, Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes" is brought to life in a vibrant…
A remarkable new production of August Wilson’s play Jitney is now available to us all, thanks to the Manhattan Theatre Club, which has staged it on Broadway as the last of the Wi…
The riveting revival explores ever-present undercurrents of racism and violence in a nation awash with guns
Honour, family, lost promise, and legacy are the broad themes that August Wilson hones in Jitney, his tale of a motley crew
Let’s get the title out of the way for starters. Simon Stephens, the author of this play, uses it to remind us that the German physicist Werner Heisenberg introduced his Werner Heisenb…
Tony Award winner Mary-Louise Parker returns to Broadway in a new play by Simon Stephens.
Richard Greenberg’s new play is of the school from which the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” sprang. It has enigmatic hints of Harold Pinter in it as well, though Mr. Greenb…
By Stephen Collins Central to the power of the the production is the exquisite casting of the two doomed lovers, Eddie and May. Nina Arianda, a fan of this play since her very youngest days,…
An argument has been made, most recently and notably by Christopher Hitchens, that women are inherently not funny. It's not true, of course, but, still, there's a long history"from Phyllis D…