Photos: Maya Werner Thursday night, November 16, was the opening of MCC’s newest show School Girls: Or, The African Mean Girls Play, written by Jocelyn Bioh, and directed by Tony Award Winner Rebecca Taichman (Time and the Conways, Indecent). The show stars...
End of Longing: On the Red...
Matthew Perry’s ‘The End of Longing’ opened last night at the Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) with quite a list of first nighters including Allison Janney, Matthew Morrison, Sarah Stiles, Halley Feiffer, Austin Smith, Matthew Lopez, Sandra Caldwell,...
Photos: Ride the Cyclone Opening...
Thursday, December 1, 2016, MCC Theater celebrated the opening night of Ride the Cyclone (reviewed here), a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. The production is directed by Rachel Rockwell. First nighters in attendance included Sarah Stiles,...
Opening Night Photos: All the Ways...
Wednesday night, September 28, saw the opening night celebration of Neil LaBute’s All the Ways to Say I Love You, starring the iconic Judith Light, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street) in the West Village. The solo play, about a high...
Do I Hear A Waltz? Graces City...
by Brian Scott Lipton Like a number of City Center Encores! productions, Evan Cabnet’s staging of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ 1965 “flop” musical Do I Hear A Waltz? simultaneously makes the best case possible for reviving...
George C. Wolfe Honored with 16th...
Monday, May 9 esteemed director and playwright George C. Wolfe was honored with the 16th Annual Monte Cristo Award by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Festivities took place at the Edison Ballroom in Times Square. The Monte Cristo Award is presented to the artist “whose...
Bloody Bloody Angela Lansbury
by Kathryn Kitt What better idea for a musical than letting Dame Angela Lansbury be a diva–headlining her own show! You say she’s 90 years old and unavailable to perform? Well, there are good, campy ways around that! Feinstein’s/54 Below has presented a...
Tony Awards Creative Arts Nominees...
Sting, Christian Borle, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron were just a few of the many nominees who gathered the evening of May 20th at Hudson Terrace in New York City for the Tony Awards Creative Arts Nominees Reception. The evening was held...
Hand to God – Dark and Irreverent
Review by Sandi Durell Things haven’t changed much from the off Broadway productions of “Hand to God” for the foul-mouthed hand puppet Tyrone, the alter-ego of the angry, dysfunctional and shy Jason (Steven Boyer) in the little Texas town of Cypress where he...
