By ALAN SMASON For those of you living under a rock, King Kong opened on Broadway last Thursday (Nov. 8) and, as one would expect, most every critic panned the newest addition to the Great White Way as being shallow or lacking in theatrical achievement in song and dance. In many ways they are right. […]
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out’) Imagination has always been the spark in literature that establishes domain over the hearts and consciences of mankind. Love and the search for it has been the impetus for so many characters and the motivation for so many recorded works that it is hard to find anything […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) Producers of Broadway shows oftentimes wait for the passing out of coveted Tony Awards before determining whether they will pull the plug on a production. Receiving one or more awards typically will guarantee that a weak show at the box office will get a second or third […]
BEST PLAY MORE INFO Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two The eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. Author: Jack Thorne BEST MUSICAL MORE INFO The Band’s Visit MORE INFO BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY MORE INFO Angels in […]
BEST PLAY MORE INFO The Children The American premiere of a new play by Lucy Kirkwood. Author: Lucy Kirkwood MORE INFO Farinelli and the King Mark Rylance stars in this new play with music by author and composer Claire van Kampen about a Spanish monarch on the brink of madness who finds unexpected solace in the […]
By HERBERT SIMPSON It’s only a few months before the 26th anniversary of the first American appearance of Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Three Tall Women, yet we’ve seen surprisingly few revivals. It’s admittedly difficult to perform, but hundreds of our high schools have performed the extremely demanding constant dance numbers of A Chorus Line without even one cast member […]
By ED RUBIN For many a theatergoer, John Lithgow, the much beloved 72-year-old actor, could read from the phone book and his legion of stalwart fans would gift him with countless oohs, ahs, and a standing ovation. In fact, given his four decades long award-winning film and TV appearances – six Tonys, six Emmys, two […]
By EDWARD RUBIN Even before Farinelli and the King opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, I was chomping at the bit in anticipation of seeing the ever brilliant Mark Rylance unleash his incandescent magic once again. Rylance was the winner of three well-deserved Tony Awards for Boeing-Boeing (2008), Jerusalem (2011), and Twelfth Night (2014), […]
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By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK CITY — You might call them “The Hope Musicals.” The Broadway shows Come From Away and The Band’s Visit offer hope — hope that goodness still exists within humanity during a time when cynicism, division and hate seem rampant. The Band’s Visit is a gem of a heartfelt, emotionally-complex musical which recently […]
By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK CITY — If you’re the father of a young boy or young man, you can relate to Lorenzo’s predicament: You want to instill wholesome, moral values in your son, whom you feel is learning from you. Then he meets and becomes fascinated by a man with violent tendencies, but deep down, […]