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Mary Louise Parker and David Morse along with their director Mark Brokaw have decided to have another go at Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winning one act play that deals with the rarely ex…
For starters"If you happened to see it, it is wise to forget the original production of this Jule Styne-Bob Merrill-Isobel Lennart musical which enjoyed a run of over 1200 performances in 19…
In his new Broadway play, Playwright/Actor Tracy Letts has invited us in to witness the reading of the minutes at a November weekly meeting of the City Council of the town of Big Cherry.…
It seems to me a very odd time to be bringing back Martin McDonagh's play, written and first produced in the mid 1960s, yet here it is at the Golden Theater on Broadway, in a smashingly …
If you think you have an inner child within you, one who has been yearning to emerge, you might find something to engage, stimulate, enlighten, and entertain you in "The Little Prince," …
Todd Haimes, the Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company, tells us in the Playbill for this production that the play first went into rehearsal on March 3, 2020. Because of…
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…
Onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, Writer James Lapine along with composer Tom Kitt and lyricist Michael Korie put a trio of interesting Hollywood artists together (al…
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…
If ever there was a small independent film that fulfilled and even exceeded its promise, this one called "The Visit" was it. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy, it starred a respec…
This show, currently on by courtesy of the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, identifies itself with "book and lyrics by Tony Kushner" and "music by Jeanine Tesori." It does not call i…
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,…
