by Matt Smith If you’re burdened down with trouble and your nerves are wearing thin, then BroadwayHD has the antidote to ensure the merry bells keep ringing throughout the holiday season. From November 17th, the popular theatre streaming service hosts the return of...
Of Thee I Sing
By Brian Scott Lipton With its now-prescient take on presidential politics, including plotlines involving beauty pageants, foreign collusion and impeachment – it’s almost shocking no one has revived the 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Of Thee I Sing” this season. So one is...
It’s Kind of a Funny Story...
by Matt Smith “It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.” Such is the opening line of the new, Alex Brightman/Drew Gasparini musical It’s Kind of a Funny Story, which debuted at Feinstein’s/54 Below. On the surface, yes, it’s quite the macabre subject...
Holiday Inn – Let’s...
by Michael Bracken Everything old is new again. Or is it? The Roundabout Theatre Company has exhumed the 1942 film, Holiday Inn, labeled it “The New Irving Berlin Musical,” and mounted it as a live production at Studio 54. Starring Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Bleu (in...
Broadway Meets PBS on Mercy Street
Broadway mainstays are happily joining the ranks of many who have successfully segued to television. Mercy Street‘s new cast members now include: Tony Award-winner and Emmy Award-Nominee Brían F. O’Byrne (“Mildred Pierce,” “Aquarius”) is Allan Pinkerton, head of the Union...
Past Prologue: 1776
by Brian Scott Lipton Is it 1776 or 2016? It can be occasionally be hard to tell what year we’re watching—or living in—during Tony Award winner Garry Hynes’ supremely intelligent and entertaining revival of 1776, now being presented by City Center Encores!...
The Heidi Chronicles Returns
By: Sandi Durell When Wendy Wasserstein wrote this play, that originally premiered off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1988, transferring to Broadway a year later, it had real ground-breaking legs making a statement and empowering women...
Sneak Peek: The Heidi Chronicles
by: Brian Scott Lipton In 1988, the playwright Wendy Wasserstein took the theatrical world by storm with her play, “The Heidi Chronicles,” a penetrating yet often humorous look at 25 years in the life of Heidi Holland, ranging from her days in high...
