Review by Adam Cohen If you love singing – pure, rich, emotional, transformative harmonies, rousing odes to empowerment, jazz, gospel, ragtime, and blues – then click over to Papermill Playhouse and book your tickets to their production of The Color Purple. Powered by this...
Carmen Jones
by Carol Rocamora If only Oscar Hammerstein were alive today to see the Classic Stage Company’s thrilling revival of his Carmen Jones! Like the rest of us, he’d marvel at the artistry and red-hot passion packed into that tiny theatre. Hammerstein’s compact...
Fire and Air
by Carol Rocamora A bare stage, a set of gilded chairs, a pair of huge mirrors, and presto – the remarkable life and times of Sergei Diaghilev are conjured up before our eyes. And a turbulent life it was, as embodied by Douglas Hodge in Terrence McNally’s arresting new bio-drama...
Twelfth Night – A Laughless...
by JK Clarke Even among those who eschew Shakespeare plays, whatever their reason—language, content, repetition—the much beloved, comic masterpiece Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, is the rare exception. So beautifully written and perfectly paced,...
CSC’s As You Like It
by JK Clarke To label Classic Stage Company’s new production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It “Marxist” might be at first off-putting to some. But, no. Despite the social equality of the Forest of Arden, the Marx that comes into play in this...
Sondheim x 3 Pacific Overtures,...
by Carol Rocamora In case you haven’t noticed (but how could you not?!), there’s a Sondheim festival going on in New York this spring. Three splendid Sondheim revivals have opened recently, offering dramatically different directorial interpretations in strikingly...
Dead Poets Society
by Carol Rocamora He tells his students to rip out the introductions to their poetry books. He orders them to run around the classroom to free themselves. He urges them to confront their fathers. Above all, he commands them to read – and write – poems....
Peer Gynt
by Carol Rocamora Few classics pose as many challenges as Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. A formidable five-act dramatic poem, it was one of Ibsen’s first works, never intended for performance. Its daunting content includes forty scenes, dozens of characters, and a story line...
The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim
You can get to see and hear some of the best at a gala benefit for the esteemed Classic Stage Company on Monday, March 14 at Alice Tully Hall as new Artistic Director Tony Award winner John Doyle helms the evening’s festivities. The talented leading ladies scheduled to...
The Color Purple
By Brian Scott Lipton It’s not just the final “Amen” that gives the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s stunning Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple the feeling of a church service. Lessons of tolerance, redemption, forgiveness, and, most importantly,...
Classic Conversations: John Doyle...
Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick, Managing Director Jeff Griffin and Executive Director Greg Reiner, will present CLASSIC CONVERSATIONS: CHITA RIVERA on Sunday evening, November 16 at 7:30 pm. The Tony...
