By Sandi Durell What! Idina Menzel in a biting comedy without a note to sing? Well, it happens and luckily it happened in Joshua Harmon’s (Bad Jews, Significant Other, Admissions) continuing exploitation of neurotic Jewish families. As wont to happen, Menzel’s Jodi Isaac,...
Latin History for Morons –...
By Eric J. Grimm Watching John Leguizamo age from the buoyant livewire who gave us the incredible 90s one-man shows, Mambo Mouth, Spic-o-Rama, and Freak to the family man learning how to be a good husband and father in the 2000s sets Sexaholix… A Love Story and Ghetto...
If I Forget
by Carol Rocamora “I’m not asking people to forget the Holocaust – I’m asking them to remember it in a different way.” So says Michael Fischer, a man under fire, in Steven Levenson’s moving family drama, If I Forget. Michael (Jeremy Shamos), professor of...
‘Significant Other’...
Roundabout Theatre Company’s Significant Other, by playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews), has made its way to Broadway and Theater Pizzazz’ MR Anderson was on the scene to talk to some of the cast and the creatives. (see video) Roundabout Theatre Company gave us the...
Love, Love, Love
By Sandi Durell All you need is the Beatles’ Love, Love, Love . . . and this humor-filled play by Mike Bartlett (of recent Broadway success’ King Charles III) to set the record straight about the 1960s flower child era, a time of exploration, freedom and. . . narcissism....
The Cherry Orchard
by Michael Bracken It’s a risky business to rework a classic. Change too much, and you lose its greatness. Change too little, and why bother. But if you’re skilled and lucky enough to find the right balance, as Stephen Karam has been with Anton...
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...
Stephen Karam’s “The Humans”
By: Sandi Durell Looking at the two-tiered setting (David Zinn) of a somewhat dilapidated, sparsely furnished apartment with spiral staircase, the immediate impression might be ‘boy, somebody scored some nice NYC digs.” But that’s only until you look closer to see it’s...
The Unavoidable Disappearance of...
It could have been avoided if the sociopathic lying nature of Durnin, not unlike Madoff, had been dealt with earlier! By: Sandi Durell How does a successful attorney put his entire family relationships and friends on the line in a get-rich Ponzi scheme without a thought of...
The Big Knife – Slices with...
Marin Ireland and Bobby Cannavale Credits: Joan Marcus by: Sandi Durell Clifford Odets’ 1948 postwar play, now 60+ years old since it debuted on Broadway, should probably have been left on the shelves but wasn’t. The temptations of Hollywood of the 40s surely reeked of an era when making it...
