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Review - All I'll Say Is This...

August 11, 2011

If Diane Paulus' new version of Porgy and Bess does make it to Broadway, I know one theatre that ain't gonna house it.

Review - If It Only Even Runs A Minute

August 7, 2011

If Mike Nichols and Elaine May ever had a routine about two theatre geeks discussing their favorite unsuccessful musicals, it probably would have resembled the kind of banter that goes on between Jennifer Tepper and Kevin Michael Murphy as creators/producers/hosts of the concert series, If It Only E

Review - Overusing Broadway's F-word

July 30, 2011

Lenny Bruce used to say that if you used a hurtful word often enough it would lose its meaning and its power to harm.

Review - The Patsy & Jonas

July 25, 2011

When Barry Connors' frothy family comedy, The Patsy, enjoyed its seven-month at the Booth during Broadway's 1925-26 season, it was a three-act play utilizing one living room set and seven actors.

Review - Broadway's Rising Stars: Sing Happy

July 24, 2011

As I wrote five years ago, regarding the first edition of Town Hall's Annual Broadway's Rising Stars concert, the traditional middle evening of their Summer Broadway Festival, this is an event where I have absolutely no intention of writing anything the least bit negative about any of the young perf

Review - Hair: Summer Lovin'

July 14, 2011

'That's me up there,' said the gentleman sitting to my right at Tuesday night's performance of Hair when I ask him at intermission if he was having a good time.

Review - Voca People: White Noise

July 13, 2011

They look a little like Blue Man Group, they sound a little like Toxic Audio and they talk a lot like Andy Kaufman and Carol Kane playing Latka and Simka on Taxi, but while Voca People might give the appearance of being a bit too tourist trappy for we jaded New York theatre types, it's the kind of f

Review - Measure For Measure: Nasty Habits

July 6, 2011

Former 90s club kids nostalgic for theme nights at Limelight should get a kick out of director David Esbjornson's frequently flashy and enjoyable mounting of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure; a production where, under a simple, but austere cathedral-like setting, the antics straddle the line betwee

Review - Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana

July 3, 2011

See enough Cirque du Soleil productions and the formula becomes clear very quickly.

Review - The Greenwich Village Follies: Interesting People On MacDougal Street

June 29, 2011

From Jerry Herman's Parade to Martin Charnin's No Frills Revue to nights with Betty Comden, Adolph Green and The Revuers, the original song and sketch revue has been a favorite of downtown audiences for nearly a century.

Review - All's Well That Ends Well: He's Just Not That Into You

June 28, 2011

While Shakespeare's canon includes many couples whose relationships are of questionable health - Kate and Petruchio, Beatrice and Benedick, Mr.

Review - Unnatural Acts: The Boys In The Dorm

June 26, 2011

On a weekend when New Yorkers who favor marriage rights for gay couples are celebrating an important victory, Classic Stage Company's Unnatural Acts is a sobering dramatization of a shameful episode involving a Joseph McCarthy-type gay witch hunt from nearly a century ago that was only recently unco

Review - Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

June 24, 2011

The funny thing about 70 million dollar musicals is that the paper used to write them costs no more than the paper used to write church basement showcases budgeted on the limit of someone's maxed-out credit card.

Review - One Arm

June 19, 2011

There's much to be admired in director/adaptor Moises Kaufman's staging of Tennessee Williams' unproduced screenplay based on his 1942 short story, One Arm.

Review - Lysistrata Jones: She Likes Basketball!

June 10, 2011

When Aristophanes premiered the knockabout comedy, Lysistrata, in 411 B.

Review - A Little Journey

June 7, 2011

Though playwright Rachel Crothers was regarded as the toast of the town for many a Broadway season - she had 29 plays debut there in the years between 1906 and 1940 - she's scarcely know by 21st Century playgoers.

Review - I Married Wyatt Earp

June 6, 2011

Under Artistic Director Cara Reichel, the Prospect Theater Company has earned a reputation for presenting unconventional musicals that explore interesting topics and their newest entry, I Married Wyatt Earp, co-produced with New York Theatre Barn as part of 59E59 Theater's 'Americas Off Broadway' se

Review - Jesus, It's a Woman!

May 28, 2011

Though the current tenants at the Eugene O'Neil claim to be presenting 'God's Favorite Musical,' the new gang moving into Circle In The Square this October may have something to say about that as the first Broadway revival of Godspell gears up for a November 7th opening.

Review - The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman

May 26, 2011

With an uneventful 6pm coming and going on the evening of May 21st, I rested comfortably that night secure in the knowledge that any predictions of the arrival of Judgment Day were, at the very least, miscalculations.

Review - Lucky Guy & Sister Act

May 24, 2011

Unless the names 'Noel' and 'Coward' are involved, I tend to be a bit wary about musicals with the book, music, lyrics and direction all by the same person, but Willard Beckham makes a very entertaining go of it with his campy, country/western musical comedy, Lucky Guy.

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