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, […]
By AARON KRAUSE NEW YORK CITY — The Play That Goes Wrong should be titled The Play That Goes Right. Oh, it’s understandable why authors Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields came up with their title. Practically nothing the characters do in this play-within-a-play, now on Broadway, seems to be correct. That’s likely quite […]
By EDWARD RUBIN One might think after winning a record 21 Tony Awards for producing or directing (and sometimes both simultaneously) many of Broadway’s most popular and critically acclaimed musicals of the past 70 years, that the return of Hal Prince to The Great White Way with his latest venture, Prince of Broadway, would have […]
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) Near the beginning of Indecent, the one-act ensemble piece by Paula Vogel, which netted director Rebecca Taichman her first Tony Award, the character of Lemml, the Stage Manager (Richard Topol), peers into the darkness enveloping the theater audience and announces “Every night we tell the same story.” […]
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre Critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) What truly establishes War Paint as one of the most unusual Broadway experiences is that rarely are two Tony Award winning actresses allowed to share the stage with one another and stand strongly pound-for-pound, song-by-song next to each other and sing and act their hearts out. It […]
Dear Evan Hansen won the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards ceremonies at Radio City Music Hall. In addition the musical about teenage angst, social media captured Best Score awards for the songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and Best Book for scriptwriter Steven Levenson. Star Ben Platt won the […]