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Review - Knickerbocker: And None Of That Jazz

May 20, 2011

Those who miss the patter of little urbanites that made Thursday night sitcoms so popular in the 1990s should welcome the arrival of Jonathan Marc Sherman's angsty new comedy, Knickerbocker; a play generously populated by an assortment of smart, funny and hip New Yorkers whose charm lies in their ab

Review - Is Spider-Man Directing Itself?

May 13, 2011

You know the old saying, usually reserved for Oscar-nominated films whose directors are not likewise honored:  'Did this film direct itself?'

Review - By The Way, Meet Vera Stark

May 10, 2011

While older plays can often be interpreted to suit modern tastes and standards, films serve as permanent records of the public attitudes of their times; particularly when considering the ways ethnic minorities were portrayed.

Review - Curtains & Catch Me If You Can

May 9, 2011

There's a song in the backstage musical murder mystery, Curtains, that is unlike any other in the history of Broadway; a song guaranteed to make any musical theatre lover in the know choke up at least a little.

Review - The School For Lies & Celebrate Hope

May 5, 2011

Review - Lover. Muse. Mockingbird. Whore. & Wonderland

April 26, 2011

Another bed.

Review - Anything Goes, The Motherf**ker With The Hat & High

April 25, 2011

If there's one thing this town can't resist it's a gal who can reinvent herself, and in director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall's smashing new revival of the Cole Porter classic, Anything Goes, Sutton Foster foregoes the spunky wholesomeness that made her a Broadway star for a sleek, sophisticated

Review - How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying & Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

April 20, 2011

When the 1920s crooner heartthrob Rudy Vallee made his return to Broadway in the 1961 original production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, he wasn't exactly known as an actor, and certainly not known as a comedian who might excel in a scalding satire of the ups and downs of the c

Review - Go Back To Where You Are: Queer Interlude

April 13, 2011

'This is kind of a weird play.

Review - Urge For Going

April 11, 2011

'One man's facts are another man's fabrications,' notes Ghassan (Ted Sod) as he and several other characters in Mona Mansour's Urge For Going try to explain to the audience the circumstances that brought this family of Palestinian Arabs to live in a South Lebanese refugee camp that has been serving

Review - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: Survival Skills

April 9, 2011

With the opening of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a stroll through New York's theatre district now offers a fascinating history of the evolution of that musical theatre genre we call 'the jukebox musical.

Review - Marie and Bruce: Screams From A Marriage

April 6, 2011

'Let me tell you something.

Review - Kin & Arcadia

April 5, 2011

A Columbia literary scholar with a passion for the punctuation used in Keats' poetry starts dating a personal trainer who has moved to New York from Ireland.

Review - If It Only Even Runs A Minute & Ghetto Klown

April 2, 2011

There aren't many concerts around where you can hear a full house go berserk at the promise of hearing Jill Eikenberry sing a number from Onward, Victoria.

Review - La Cage aux Folles: Yeah... Chemistry

March 29, 2011

Advanced chemistry lessons are now being held eight times a week at the Longacre Theatre, where newly-added stars Harvey Fierstein and Christopher Sieber not only score individual triumphs as drag entertainer Albin and his dapper committed partner Georges in the Terry Johnson-directed revival of La

Review - Good People & That Championship Season

March 27, 2011

If Bill Clinton really was, as Toni Morrison put it, America's first black president, then perhaps it's about time we crowned David Lindsay-Abaire as America's leading female playwright.

Review - Double Falsehood & The Broadway Musicals of 1932

March 25, 2011

For nearly 300 years, theatre scholars have doubtEd Lewis Theobald's claim that his Double Falsehood was an adaptation of Cardenio, a lost collaboration by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher.

Review - Hello Again

March 23, 2011

No, dear playgoers, the fact that you've ventured into an unmarked building on a dark SoHo street, walked down a long hallway draped in red and are now in an open loft sitting mere inches away from a young couple enthusiastically going at it in a standing position up against one of the building's pi

Review - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

March 22, 2011

With a solidly funny book by Larry Gelbart and Bert Shevelove and a clever, under-appreciated score by Stephen Sondheim (It remains Broadway's only Best Musical Tony-winner with eligible music and lyrics that were not even nominated for Best Score.

Review - Where's Charley?: The Guy's Only Doing It For Some Doll

March 19, 2011

Although I'll admit to not being completely familiar with Cole Porter's See America First and George M.