Tag: Tom Ridgely

Reporting by Ron Fassler and Melissa Griegel. Last night at a cocktail party at the Algonquin, on...

By Barbara & Scott Siegel… Let’s take a look at The Queen of Versailles, Proof, Beaches, Fallen Angels, The Fear of 13, and Giant

By Alix CohenLeni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was a German actress, photographer and filmmaker best...

By Eyal Solomon, Theater Pizzazz publisher and editor… Schmigadoon! hilariously reminds you just how ridiculous and just how wonderful those golden-age musicals really were.

By Alix Cohen“He wants me to go on a date?!” Clara Schumann (1819-1896) anxiously and excitedly...

Wonderfully self-effacing in his well-structured cabaret act, Panaro is in love with performing and crafts an evening of pleasurable sincerity.

Review by Ron Fassler . . . As an avid theatregoer and critic, I consider myself fortunate that at...

By Alix CohenUnable to reach her mother, Susan, for days, Suzanna (Lauren Patten), who has a...

By Samuel L. Leiter The Broadway revival of David Auburn’s 1999 drama Proof at the Booth...

By Alix CohenThe good news is that Beaches remains tender hearted. As book and lyrics are written...

With two heaven-sent actresses, it is unfortunately left to the gifted Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara to grapple with a play that has always been a bit of a soufflé and is now downgraded to a trifle.

“The Ballusters” provides more gut-busting laughter than any show this season

By Alix Cohen“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as a well…How many...

By Alix CohenFounded by Lee Pope in 1983, The Schoolhouse Theater is Westchester’s longest running...

By Carol Rocamora… Adrien Brody stars in this amazing, true life story of suffering and redemption

BY Alix CohenOver his past 16 years in the New York cabaret world, Stephen Hanks has been a show...

By Alix Cohen“Everybody loves a circus/Until they become the clown/Every weak cog has its purpose…...

By Alex Eichholz . . . If you haven’t heard by now, Cats, now dazzlingly rebranded as Cats: The...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . In a 2011 interview, the legendary composer Jerry Herman referred...

By Ron Fassler . . . The Annual fundraiser concert for Broadway Inspirational Voicers (BIV) was...

Review by Ron Fassler . . . The early 20th century playwright Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold...

By Alix CohenCharlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly concocted Irish Repertory Theatre picturesquely...

By Alix CohenThe work of thirteen Broadway choreographers is here showcased in a series of numbers...

By Alix CohenDonna McKechnie explodes onto the stage, arms shooting out like fireworks....

By Alix CohenAdam Gopnik, master of the caffeinated essay (forty years at The New Yorker) and...

By Alix CohenThe thespian walks onto a stage empty but for a chair and ghost light. “It still...

By Ron Fassler . . . Anyone serious about theatre will most likely recall their introduction to...

By Alix CohenAnna (Danielle Ryan), Denise (Kate MacCluggage) and Cora (Carmen M. Herlihy) were at...

By Alix CohenFelix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the...

By Alix CohenBillie Dawson (Sally Mayes) has returned to Livingston, Texas to clear out her mama’s...

By Carol Rocamora… Director Robert Icke dazzles us again with an urgent new adaptation of an immortal classic

By Alix Cohen “Jason Graae explores his Graae-ness” is an accurate description for this utterly...

Jon Bernthal commands the stage from start to finish, accomplishing that with an honest charisma, a true voice made for the theater, and solid acting chops.