Glory Days/Keen Company Concert - Black Theatre Coalition Gala - Hermitage Major Theater Award/Chris Bush-The Interestings/New Musical-The Flea/Bathhouse.PPTX-Sunday In the Park w/George, Newly Reimagined/Alexrod Performing Arts-Vineyard Theatre Gala/Jesse Tyler...
2d Stage/The Apiary - Wicked/Donna McKechnie,Brad Oscar - The Life & Slimes of Marc Summers - Mary Jane/Full Cast - Peter Brynolf & Jonas Ljung/Stalker Second Stage Theater’s production of Kate Douglas’ THE APIARY, directed by Kate Whoriskey began previews...
Five: The Parody Musical with book and lyrics by Shimmy Braun & Moshiel Newman Dapha, music and lyrics by Billy Recce, choreography by Jen Wineman, will play February 15 thru March 10 at Theater 555 on West 42nd St. Official opening night is Feb. 19. The...
J2 Spotlight Musical Co announced its 2024 season which includes productions of Do Re Mi and Lucky Stiff. Do Re Mi with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and book by Garson Kanin, will run Apri 19-28. Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' Lucky...
By Ron Fassler . . . If you’re in need of a reminder of what it’s like to luxuriate in the ecstasy of a big fat Broadway musical comedy, then get on over to the Shubert Theatre where Some Like it Hot has come roaring into town. Old fashioned in the best sense of the...
By Adam Cohen . . . Gloria and Emilio Estefan, international recording stars, producers, promoters, and restauranteurs, found romance and rhythm in their humble Little Havana beginnings that brought them worldwide fame. Gloria, a Cuban-American singer and actress...
By Ron Fassler . . . In the excellent one-person show, Everything’s Fine, now playing at the DR2 Theatre, Douglas McGrath portrays himself. An Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Bullets Over Broadway, co-written with Woody Allen), a Tony-nominated playwright...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . 1776, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone’s historical drama about the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which won multiple Tony and other awards in 1969—even beating out Hair for the Best Musical Tony—was a surprise hit that,...
EXTENDED THRU JULY 2, 2023 By Carol Rocamora . . . Rarely does a play come along with the majesty and magnitude of Leopoldstadt, the monumental new work by the celebrated British playwright Tom Stoppard now playing on Broadway after a highly acclaimed run in London’s...
By Ron Fassler . . . I consider myself fortunate to have seen the original Broadway production of 42nd Street in its opening week, back in 1980. The biggest hit of that season, it won the Tony for Best Musical and went on to run for more than eight years, even longer...
By Ron Fassler . . . Upon entering the Linda Gross Theater for the Atlantic Theater’s production of Grace Garner’s new play, I’m Revolting, you are met by a strikingly realistic set that depicts a waiting room in a doctor’s office. All the chairs are facing out...
EXTENDED THRU NOVEMBER 6 By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s (Sanctuary City) sometimes touching and funny dramedy, which premiered in 2017 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, was produced Off Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club...
By Brian Scott Lipton . . . No one can accuse Victor I. Cazares of having nothing to say. In american (tele)visions, now premiering at New York Theater Workshop in a co-production with Theater Mitu, Cazares tackles a wealth of worthy theatrical topics, including the...
By Ron Fassler . . . In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it is the verbose Polonius who offers the immortal advice that “brevity is the soul of wit.” It gets a laugh in any good production of the play because of the irony of the character’s habit of rambling on and on in...
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In a ritual-based world where theater is a healing practice, Four Saints in Three Acts might be considered a whirly, spiritual pathway, dense with repetition. Armed with the necessity of understanding, Gertrude Stein may have...
By Carole Di Tosti . . . Raising children is an act of love, sacrifice and emotional expiation. How much more so is this when a child is born with a physical condition that requires 24/7 care? In the World Premiere of Jasper (now playing at the Pershing...
By JK Clarke . . . At the end of the summer of 2017, the Public Theater chose to close out a high-voltage summer with a civic-minded celebration of community and culture with a musical interpretation of William Shakespeare’s beloved comic pastoral As You Like...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Theater returned to town last year after its extended postponement stemming from the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean things were back to normal. Except for a tiny fraction of examples, attendance was down, often seriously, and...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Have you heard the one about the two old Jews sitting around kvetching about life, death, and the hereafter? The one where one of them, sitting in the desert during biblical times, thinks he sees an oasis, and, when the other doesn’t...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Musical theater is usually thought of as lighthearted and escapist, but the genre can also point to darker, even horrific themes, including madness and murder. Shows about characters racked by psychological problems cross the spectrum...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Robert Icke's Oresteia, an adaptation of the only extant ancient Greek tragic trilogy, first produced in 458 BC, has been radically adapted from Aeschylus' original by the British director into a single three-and-a-half-hour play. It's...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . In 2013, a magnificently cheesy show called Disaster! had ‘em peeing in the aisles when it opened at a dinky Off-Broadway venue. A jukebox musical parody of 1970s Hollywood disaster movies, like The Poseidon Adventure, it faced its own...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . The publication in 2003 of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, a hugely successful novel dealing with contemporary Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban, couldn’t have been better timed. The heart of the book is essentially about the...
by Adam Cohen . . . Jim Frangione is a Massachusetts native actor, writer, director and now Artistic Director of the Great Barrington Public Theater. Jim has acted for over 30 years in New York and across the country, performing in the original Off Broadway...
Extended Again thru September 4th By Samuel L. Leiter . . . There’s something odd going on at the St. James Theatre, where the newest revival of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine 1987 fairytale musical, Into the Woods opened this week. No sooner does the curtain...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . How’s this for a dramatic premise? A depressed, retiring young woman falls in love with a dashing, fictional character who reciprocates by stepping out of his story to continue the affair in real life. That happens not only to be the...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . A classic night at Shakespeare in Central Park. Warm, slightly muggy weather? Check. A helicopter or two overhead? Check. A raccoon making an unexpected entrance? Not this night. A so-so revival of a Shakespearean warhorse? Check. The...
By JK Clarke . . . If done even moderately well, a production of Hamlet is a sure-fire hit. And when done very well, it is mesmerizing and memorable. Such is the production currently playing at the Park Avenue Armory, a consistently world-class venue whose...
by Carole Di Tosti . . . Three generations of gay, Black men living together provide the grist in the conflict of Mansa Ra’s lightly comedic drama, …what the end will be, presented at Roundabout’s Off-Broadway venue, the Laura Pels Theatre. Directed by Margot...
By Marilyn Lester . . . Anyone who’s successfully completed a jigsaw puzzle will instantly understand what a complex and amazing undertaking polymath Mark Nadler accomplished with his one-man theatrical piece, Hart’s Desire. This play with music was conceived and...
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