Review - I'm A Stranger Here Myself & The Testament of Mary
Mark Nadler is one of those cabaret performers who serves up his entertaining antics with healthy portions of art education and history lessons.
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Review - Jekyll and Hyde
Quite appropriately, Jekyll and Hyde is one of the most polarizing musicals ever to hit New York.
Review - The Memory Show
At separate moments early on in Sara Cooper (book/lyrics) and Zach Redler's (music) ambitious and noteworthy The Memory Show, each of the musical's two characters refers to herself as being a funny person while acknowledging that funny people are often the sad ones.
Review - Orphans
For those who would enjoy David Mamet plays if there wasn't so much cursing and misogyny, I offer Lyle Kessler's very funny, testosterone-laced drama, Orphans.
Review - The Assembled Parties & Macbeth
Apparently, not all upper west side Jewish families spend Christmas Day going out for Chinese food and a movie.
Review - Here Lies Love
The only thing that'll keep you from dancing in aisles at The Public Theater's production of the enormously fun and exhilarating new musical, Here Lies Love, is the fact that there are no aisles.
Review - The Nance
I suppose the problem with being the greatest Broadway comic actor of your generation is that once the label sticks you rarely get the opportunity to prove that you can also turn in great dramatic performances.
Review - Motown, the Musical: A Tale of Two Cities
It was the best of musicals, it was the worst of musicals.
Review - The Big Knife & Matilda
Theatre writers who were lured to that other coast by Hollywood greenbacks have been known to express their disillusionment with the film industry via the Broadway stage.
Review - The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream
Ya gotta love those 60s bands with their matching outfits.
Review - The Call
After numerous miscarriages, unsuccessful tries with fertility medications and an arrangement with a pregnant American woman that falls through, white metropolitan couple Annie and Peter (Kerry Butler and Kelly AuCoin) decide to adopt a child from Africa.
Review - Lucky Guy
In a time when discussions of rape culture and the possibility of the media slanting rape coverage against accusers are controversial subjects in our national conscious, its rather fortunate timing that the highest profile play of the Broadway season involves a New York tabloid reporter whose career
Review - Hands On A Hardbody: They Shoot Documentaries, Don't They?
'Don't make any judgments.
Tilda Swinton to Make Broadway Debut in 'The Maybe'
Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton is set to make her Broadway debut in her solo performance piece, 'The Maybe'.
Review - Breakfast At Tiffany's
Even if Richard Greenberg's stage adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast At Tiffany's doesn't completely seduce Broadway, I have a hunch that shortly after the amateur and regional rights eventually become available, this will be one of the most produced plays in the country.
Review - It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman: High Flying, Adored
The shorthand response for why the original production of It's a Bird… It's a Plane… It's Superman only managed to eke out a three and a half month run on Broadway has traditionally been that the show opened during a newspaper strike.
Review - Cirque du Soleil's Totem & The Broadway Musicals of 1961
A human ball of silver glitter hanging from a cord is lowered above what looks like a bungalow-sized muffin top.
Review - Detroit '67
Nearly 40 years ago, producer Norman Lear brought a television program about a black family's life in a Chicago housing project into millions of American homes.
Review - The Flick
On paper, Annie Baker's The Flick is 122 pages long.
Review - Cinderella Occupies Broadway
'This is like children's theatre for 40-year-old gay people!'
