By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Patrick Page chooses his words very carefully or, perhaps, it should be said he chooses Shakespeare’s words carefully. In All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain (now extended through February 25 at the DR2 Theatre in the West Village), the gifted and respected actor […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic Following his 2019 Tony Award win for Tootsie, writer Robert Horn was offered several projects of his choosing, but none seemed more appropriate than reviving his concept of a musical relating to corn and simple country life. Horn had set his sights prior in 2015 on a musical that […]
By ROY BERKO Langston Hughes, the author of Black Nativity, now on stage at the Allen Theatre, in a joint production between Karamu, the country’s oldest black producing theater and the Cleveland Play House, the nation’s first resident company, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. One of the earliest innovators of […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Since its release in 1982, New Orleans native Bob Clark’s “A Christmas Story” has been part of the holiday landscape, helped along by its cult status promoted in marathon showings over the TNT and TBS cable systems since the 1990s. If you’re unfamiliar with the Jean Shepard […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) After celebrating its 20th anniversary this past October, the juggernaut that is Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked on Broadway seems like it will never stop, still taking in weekly gross sales figures of more than $2 million dollars. The success of this alternative retelling of “The Wizard of Oz” has […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) “Harmony: A New Musical,” the Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman work is hardly a “new” musical, having simmered off the Broadway range for more than 26 years. The musical finally had its fateful opening at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York on Nov. 13 and is […]