Review - The Name on Everybody's Lips is Gonna Be...
How much you wanna bet the Weisslers will have Sarah Palin signed to play Roxie on Broadway by the end of next week?
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Review - Twelfth Night: What!?! You Will?????
The entirety of The Public Theater's positively scrumptious new Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night is played on and around designer John Lee Beatty's grassy field, which is dominated by two large hills.
Review - Shafrika, The White Girl & Euan Morton at The Metropolitan Room
While collectors of musical theatre trivia may be quick to mention that Anika Larsen - the cherubic-looking blonde with the belty R&B voice - was the only performer to be in both the original Broadway cast of Xanadu and the original Off-Broadway cast of Zanna, Don't!, it's her unusual upbringing tha
Review - The Wiz: Road Show
Along with contempt, familiarity is also pretty good at breeding hit Broadway musicals.
Review - The Full Monty: Who The Hell Is Margie Hart?
One of the unique and cherished aspects of the musical theatre is how the preceding plot and character development can allow a musical moment to achieve ethereal heights that establish a triumvirate of joyful feeling between audience, performer and character.
Review - Phylicia Rashad & Marilyn Maye (Though Not Together)
While the casting of Phylicia Rashad as the manipulative, pill-addicted matriarch of Oklahoma's abundantly dysfunctionAl Weston family in Tracy Letts' epic comedy/drama, August: Osage County may seem an odd choice for those who only know the actress from her television roles as the elegant Clair Hux
Review - Our House: Reality Bites
If you're old enough to recall the pre-Jimmy Carter era of American comedy, when dark pieces like Jules Pfeiffer's Little Murders and Robert Altman's MASH drew humor from a sense of being emotionally anaesthetized from the ugliness of your surroundings, you may be tricked into assuming that Theresa
Review - Mark Nadler's '...His Lovely Wife, Ira' at The Metropolitan Room
Just in time for the centennial of the great lyricist's bar mitzvah, Mark Nadler arrives at The Metropolitan Room with a smashing celebration of the words of Ira Gershwin.
Review - Next Fall: Biblical Sense
While the situations presented by playwright Geoffrey Nauffts in his drama Next Fall are certainly realistic, the evening suffers from a steady feeling of contrivance as the storytelling pieces fall too neatly into place and a nagging sense that the playwright has avoided certain obvious issues that
Review - Coraline: The Threepenny Children's Musical?
I suppose if Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill ever took a crack at writing theatre for young Weimar audiences, their effort might have had a strong likeness to Stephin Merritt and David Greenspan's creepily enchanting fantasy, Coraline, receiving a production from MCC that's far too interesting for vie
Review - I Love My Wife: There's No Place Like Home
One of the many reasons I've been a fan of the Opening Doors Theatre Company since their debut production of Bring Back Birdie two-and-a-half years ago is the consistent ability of their directors and choreographers to have as many as a dozen actors singing and dancing on the small cabaret stage of
Review - 10 Things to Do Before I Die & Accent on Youth
'Oh, I get it.
Review - Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version: It Might As Well Be Spring
Let me put it this way.
Review - Next to Normal: Is Normal The New nor'mal:?
It's a funny thing with musicals about women with psychiatric disorders; they seem to be more accessible when focused on the way loved ones try and achieve some kind of normalcy while dealing with the problem, rather than being about the disorder itself.
Review - For Lovers Only (Love Songs... Nothing But Love Songs): Back Off, Haters
Two possibilities crossed my mind when I counted 85 selections on the song list for For Lovers Only (Love Songs.
Review - Everyday Rapture: Plain and Fancy
Don't tell anybody in Topeka, but Sherie Rene Scott is currently in her 27th year of rumspringa.
Review - Joe Turner's Come And Gone: Shine It On
Forgive me if it has become too old a cliché, and perhaps even an unintentional racial stereotype, to point out the enrapturing musicality of language the late August Wilson displayed in his landmark decade-by-decade cycle of plays about African-American experiences in the 20th Century.
Review - Let The Sun Shine In On Tom O'Horgan
A Union Square Park bench, frequently occupied by the brilliant stage and screen director Tom O'Horgan, will be dedicated in his honor this coming Sunday, May 3rd at 1pm on the occasion of what would have been his 85th birthday.
Review - Kooza: How can you not love a show that features The Wheel of Death?
Perhaps shows would get better reviews if they all offered critics free champagne before the performance and unlimited trips to the chocolate waterfall at intermission, but even without the edge-removing libations and shots of sugar buzz, Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, now drawing gasps and cheers under
Review - Rock of Ages: If You've Never Heard It, It's New To You
Ah, the music of the mid-to-late 1980s.
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