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Broadway Review: THE BEST MAN
Broadway’s latest revival, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man is a marvelous reason to go to the theatre. This comedy is the tonic for the primary blues. The year is 1960 and the place is the Republican...
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Broadway Review: END OF THE RAINBOW
Tracie Bennett’s performance as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow is as exhausting to watch, as it must be to perform. With all of her ups and downs and neurotic behaviour, Bennett’s Garland is an...
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Broadway Review: EVITA
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita has been stunningly reimagined by director Michael Grandage in the show's first Broadway revival since it originally closed on Broadway in 1983. Evita tells the...
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Book Review: MR. BROADWAY
I only had the pleasure of meeting Gerald Schoenfeld, the Chairman of the Shubert Organization one time. I was having lunch with the press agent Shirley Herz at Sam’s restaurant on 45th St (it’s no...
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Broadway Review: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
Peter and the Starcatcher has just arrived on Broadway after last year's production at the New York Theatre Workshop and it still is an absolute delight. It has a perfect cast and ingenious direction...
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Broadway Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS
Not since Michael Frayne's Noises Off have I laughed so hard in the theatre as I did the other night at One Man, Two Guvnors. It’s thanks to James Corden, whose comedic skills are at the heart of this...
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Concert Review: ETHEL WATERS: BLUES, BROADWAY AND JAZZ
Jazz at Lincoln Center has brought back their wildly popular “Jazz and Popular Song” series curated by the master of the American songbook, Michael Feinstein. The first of this year's series was...
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the long and THE SHORT OF IT: GHOST, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
the long and THE SHORT OF IT was born out of the reality that there are only 24 hours in a day and only a portion of them can be spent working. Reviews published under this moniker will be more brief...
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Broadway Feature: Meet the 2012 Tony Award Nominees (Videos)
Harvey Fierstein - Newsies Audra MacDonald - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Norm Lewis - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work if You Can Get It Cristin...
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Broadway Review: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Nice Work If You Can Get It, the latest "new" musical with music derived from the trunk of the brothers Gershwin, George and Ira, is a standout among this season's musical entries; nothing beats it...
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Broadway Review: THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS
I have to say, it takes some gall to change the name of a classic American folk opera, effectively negating the contributions of two of the chief architects of the original work. Porgy and Bess...
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Broadway Review: WIT
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Wit was originally produced in 1995 at South Coast Repertory Company in Costa Mesa, California and then off-Broadway. This new production, being presented...
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Movie Review: CAROL CHANNING - LARGER THAN LIFE
My favorite kind of books to read are biographies. I love learning about peoples' lives, what makes them tick. Real life has always been far more interesting to me than fiction. And what a life...
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Broadway Review: SHATNER'S WORLD: WE JUST LIVE IN IT
You have to hand it to William Shatner, by his own admission, there have been very few projects to which he has said no. His latest frontier is Broadway. With his new one-man show, Shatner's World:...
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Off-Broadway Review: PAINTING CHURCHES
The new production of Tina Howe's Painting Churches, currently being presented by the Keen Theatre Company, is an enjoyable evening of theatre, but not without a few problems. This revival features a...
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Broadway Review: DEATH OF A SALESMAN
It is infrequent that I feel compelled to stand up during a curtain call. Standing ovations have come to be associated with any mediocre theatrical performance. There is no longer anything meaningful...
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FEATURE: The 2011-12 Theatre Awards Central
The 2012 Theatre Awards Season has begun. Below you will find a summary of announcement dates, presentation dates and press releases from the various theatre awards. This page will be updated...
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Broadway Review: ONCE
Just when I was thinking I was going to have to stab my eyes out because another movie is being turned into another mediocre Broadway musical, something special comes along. For Once, the musical is...
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Broadway Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Jesus Christ has returned (not really) in the new production of Jesus Christ Superstar which just arrived on Broadway from Stratford via La Jolla. At the helm of this new production is Des McAnuff, the...
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Broadway Review: NEWSIES
You have to hand it to the folks in marketing at Disney Theatrical. They started by playing it safe with their new musical Newsies by initially announcing it as "101 performances only." Then they...
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