In the new Broadway musical "Death Becomes Her," a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover. Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two vain…
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make "Tammy Faye" divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoo…
Sad news: Actor Tony Todd who had roots " and performed " in Connecticut has died at the age of 69 in California. I wrote several profiles on him " and saw his magnificent performance in th…
The show: "The Counter" by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway's at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City. What makes it special?: I'd run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also feature…
The show: "Hold On to Me Darling" by Kenneth Lonergan at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre. What makes it special?: It stars Adam Driver, one of the hottest screen, stage and television…
The show: "McNeal by Ayad Akhtar at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. What makes it special?: It's a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner of "Disgraced," as well as the Broadway deb…
The show: "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder at Broadway's Barrymore Theatre. What makes it special?: The production stars Jim Parsons, best known for his TV role in the popular "The Big Bang T…
With theaters nationwide still staggering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hartford Stage announced today it is nearly halfway through the largest non-capital fundraising campaign …
For David Sedaris, everything is fodder for his slightly twisty and sardonic view of life, whether it's those annoying post-purchase surveys that flood our emails, the condescending nature o…
All production photos by Joan Marcus Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills o…
Sad news about the death of Maggie Smith. Her pre-Broadway performance in "Private Lives" in Boston in 1975 (which I saw nearly 50 years ago -- and wrote a show-off review for a suburban Mas…
The show: "Table 17" at Manhattan Class Company in New York City. What is it?: A new play by Douglas Lyons, who last wrote Broadway's "Chicken and Biscuits" What makes it special?: Several t…
The show: "Once Upon a Mattress" at the Hudson Theatre. What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center's Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael Urie …
It's no spoiler to say "JOB", Max Wolf Friedlich's electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That's how the play begin…
The site of the former Long Wharf Theatre By FRANK RIZZO It's Saturday night at the New Haven Food Terminal complex. The park…
Making life-altering decisions is no small matter, especially for the characters in "Choice," Winnie Holzman's provocative but imperfect play, which just completed a run at Princeton's McCar…
Sad news about the death of Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the age of 96. I remember fondly spending an afternoon with her in her Washington Heights apartment in NYCm in 2013 to advance a production…
First "Mystic Pizza" was a hit film which launched Julia Roberts' career, now it's a musical which will run at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex, just a 20 minute drive from the film's namesak…
A scene from "13" at the Norma Terris Theatre. Tucked away in the cozy Connecticut town of Chester, sits the Terris Theatre, t…
An innovative production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge at Long Wharf Theatre and a high-spirited, buoyant production of Summer Stock at Goodspeed Musicals took top honors at the …
The show: "South Pacific" at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. , through Aug. 11. What is it?: A Rodgers & Hammerstein musical based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright of "Angels in America" and Steven Spielberg's go-to screenwriter over the last 20 years, is never short of opinions that ar…
Randy Beach is a character witness. For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut's most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns for…
When a character in the new musical "The Heart of Rock and Roll" tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: "Oh, my god. It's cardbo…
In Peter Morgan's tantalizing but disappointing new play "Patriots," Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a…