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Review - Giant

November 24, 2012

If the world were a little more just and the general public's taste for musical theatre a lot more cerebral, news of a new Michael John LaChiusa musical would cause the same kind of box office frenzy that in the 1940s and 50s greeted announcements of Rodgers and Hammerstein's latest.

Review - Ivanov

November 19, 2012

Did somebody decide when I wasn't listening that this would be the season where all translations of classic plays must contain occasional forays into anachronistic contemporary language? First came An Enemy of the People and Cyrano de Bergerac, and now Carol Rocamora's adaptation of Chekhov's Ivan

Review - Checkers: Nixon in Love

November 13, 2012

When it comes to television, the 37th President of the United States is best remembered for an unfortunate debate against John F.

Review - Sorry

November 11, 2012

Playwright Richard Nelson first introduced audiences to the family of Apple siblings with That Hopey Changey Thing, which took place on election night 2010 and, by design, opened on that same night.

Review - The Whale: Lonely Room

November 10, 2012

You know those people who can eat whatever they want and never gain a pound? Charlie, the central character of Samuel D.

Review - Modern Terrorism and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

November 8, 2012

I daresay that playwright Jon Kern probably found a previously untried twist in the old staple of “meeting cute” in a romantic comedy by having the central couple of his play be a suicide bomber on a mission to sacrifice himself, and take as many lives as possible with him, on the observation de

Review - The Best of Broadway By The Year & Cyrano de Bergerac

November 2, 2012

The first 11 o'clock number of the evening came at around 8:05, when Marc Kudisch opened Town Hall's The Best of Broadway By The Year concert by caressing Lerner and Loewe's “If Ever I Would Leave You” with his rich, dramatic baritone and superlative musical acting skills.

Review - House For Sale

October 27, 2012

The program for Transport Group's premiere production of director Daniel Fish's stage adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's essay, House For Sale, tells us that every performance is different, because each actor has apparently memorized the entire ninety minute piece and the sections of the text they per

Review - Wild With Happy

October 26, 2012

Don't tell God, but for some people pop culture not even a century old can provide the same kind of spiritual inspiration and comfort as the ancient texts and traditions of organized religion.

Review - Broadway Originals & Grace

October 24, 2012

“We should not do a show more often,” quipped Ryan Silverman as he an Jill Paice took in the appreciative applause of the Town Hall audience before even singing a note of the Broadway musical they were expected to star in this season, Rebecca.

Review - Morning Observation

October 22, 2012

The only trouble with these 90-minute musicals that start at 7pm is that I really can't get all that enthused over the big 8:15 number.

Review - Loni Ackerman's Next To Ab-Normal

October 21, 2012

I suppose there's nothing unusual about a little kid waking up one morning to see a group of her parents' friends socializing around the family piano.

Review - Falling

October 18, 2012

When 18-year-old Josh pulls the string hanging from a box propped up on a shelf in his family's living room, he gets showered with dozens of soft white feathers.

Review - Heresy

October 16, 2012

Stephen Sondheim's “Uptown, Downtown,” that axed-from-Follies number about a woman who splits her personality between Schlitz and The Ritz, might well apply to the most recent plays of A.

Review - Him

October 15, 2012

I'll spare you any idioms regarding the distance between apples and trees while examining the newest work of Daisy Foote, the playwright who carries on the lineage of one of America's treasured dramatist, the late Horton Foote.

Review - A Chorus Line & An Enemy of the People

October 13, 2012

Twenty-five years after passing on, Michael Bennett still gets entrance applause in A Chorus Line.

Review - Ten Chimneys: Who's Afraid of Uta Hagen

October 9, 2012

It was a very clever idea playwright Jeffrey Hatcher had, to write a Chekhovian style comedy about American theatre's royal couple, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, set in their country home as they prepare to go into rehearsal for a production of The Seagull.

Review - Marry Me A Little: The Girl Upstairs

October 5, 2012

In musical theatre, it's not enough to write a good song.

Review - Through The Yellow Hour: Apocalyptic Boho Days

October 2, 2012

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Adam Rapp's Through The Yellow Hour is that the playwright/director has intentionally written a piece that will never be performed with a completely age-appropriate cast – at least not legally in this country – since it includes a fully nude, sexually sugge

Review - The Sophisticates

September 28, 2012

Before the comedy boom of the 1980s began dotting New York and every other major American city with clubs devoted exclusively to showcasing stand-ups, comedians worked primarily between sets at music venues or at random comedy nights at bars and restaurants.

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