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Review - If It Only Even Runs A Minute 3: The World Belongs To The Young

September 12, 2010

After reading far too many obituaries claiming, while not exactly mourning, the death of the Broadway musical, insisting that the art form can only be revived by injections of the kind of music that appeals to today's young audiences, I decided to take a night off from cabarets and piano bars a coup

Review - It Must Be Him: Left Coast Story

September 2, 2010

It's not shaping up to be a very promising season for alumni of The Carol Burnett Show.

Review - Wife To James Whelan: The Man That Got Away

August 31, 2010

Though Teresa Deevy was arguably the world's most famous female playwright in 1942, the year she completed her class-conscious romance Wife To James Whelan, the new management of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, which had already produced six of her plays, turned it down.

Review - The Punishing Blow: Rope A Dope

August 23, 2010

'I should have taken the jail time,' moans the solo character in Randy Cohen's The Punishing Blow, not quite under his breath.

Review - Power Balladz & Freud's Last Session

August 22, 2010

Lovers of the hair bands of 70s, 80s and 90s who find Rock of Ages just too intellectually complex shall rejoice at the arrival of Power Balladz, the show that puts the 'z' in 'rock anthem.

Review - Secrets of The Trade: Mama, A Rainbow

August 18, 2010

I was forty-five years old when a theatre professional I greatly admired first took me out to lunch to discuss his lifetime of experience and my fledgling career as a critic.

Review - Broadway Babies

August 15, 2010

Congratulations to David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris who are expecting twins this fall by way of a surrogate.

Review - Oh... Steven SLAter

August 11, 2010

I just spent the last two days trying to figure out why the bookwriter/lyricist of Spring Awakening was working as a flight attendant.

Review - The Flying Karamazov Brothers in 4Play

August 10, 2010

Family fun is rarely as tantalizingly edgy as when that troupe from of the old days of new vaudeville, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, is in town.

Review - Donna Lynne Champlin's Dressing The Part

August 4, 2010

Back in the day, the great ladies of the theatre were known to provide their own dresses and gowns as they toured the provinces in contemporary dramas and comedies.

Review - A Little Night Music: Look What Happened To Mabel

August 2, 2010

Bernadette Peters just had to go and ruin it for everybody, didn't she.

Review - See Rock City & Other Destinations: Short Excursions

July 29, 2010

All that was missing was an ice cold can of beer in my hand as I sat back in my folding beach chair and took in the sights as I imagined the ocean waves of Coney Island crashing in the distance.

Review - Broadway's Rising Stars: Welcome To The Theatre

July 23, 2010

'So what are you seeing next?' is a question I'm frequently asked and every year around this time when I answer, 'Broadway's Rising Stars.

Review - Viagara Falls: Liaisons?

July 22, 2010

There's something very endearing about watching a couple of old pros like Bernie Kopell and Lou Cutell exercise their finely tuned comedic chops as a pair of elderly widowers looking for a night of excitement; especially when that excitement comes in the form of Teresa Ganzel, who displays ample com

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