Review: ‘Return to Spoon River’ at Theatre Row
Published in 1915, Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology - a collection of free-verse poems in which the deceased residents of a fictional rural...
Review: ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ at the Barrymore Theatre
John Guare's masterpiece from 1990 solidly launched his career, earning a run of 155 performances off-Broadway which extended to a run at the Beaumont...
Review: ‘The Little Foxes’ at the Manhattan Theatre Club
I've seen this play so many times. As a youngster of 19 I played "Horace" at NYU in a production that helped me along...
Review: ‘The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking’ at New World...
Did you ever wonder what happens when “a duck walks into a bar”? Anthony Caporale (performer, playwright, and Director of Beverage Studies at New...
Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ at the Shubert Theatre
I'm going to tell you a short story before I get to my review of Hello, Dolly! which is now playing at the Shubert...
Review: ‘The Reckless Season’ at TheaterLab NYC
What’s so funny about suicide, cremation, drug addiction, PTSD, and familial dysfunction? Playwright Lauren Ferebee finds the dark comedy in all of that, along...
Review: ‘The Assignment’ at A.R.T./New York Theatres
Socially relevant and thought-provoking, profoundly heartrending and often funny, playwright Camilo Almonacid’s The Assignment – inspired by a true story and developed by Houses...
Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Cort Theatre
Playwright Paula Vogel has been writing plays for almost forty years, in which she has dealt with issues that fueled her life. She's been...
Review: ‘War Paint’ at the Nederlander Theatre
This project began with a fine title, one that conjurs up a fun musical once you know it's about the battle for supremacy in...
Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ at the Forrest Theatre
When John Cameron Mitchell (book) and Stephen Trask (music and lyrics) were developing their gender-bending rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch for its Off-Broadway...
Michael Biello and Dan Martin Are Grooming for the Opening of...
Philadelphia-based artists Dan Martin (composer) and Michael Biello (lyricist) are about to make their Off-Broadway debut this month with Marry Harry at The York...
Review: ‘Oslo’ at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
I had only dim memories of the 1993 agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis, which had been secretly arranged by a Norwegian couple,...
Review: ‘Daniel’s Husband’ at The Cherry Lane Theatre
Family plays have changed so in the past few decades. They once concerned themselves with sibling rivalry for power and control (The Little Foxes),...
Review: ‘Present Laughter’ at the St. James Theatre
It doesn’t take much to create a smash Broadway hit. All you need for starters is a witty script that isn’t in a hurry...
Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ at The Lyceum Theatre
The Lyceum Theatre on Broadway is playing host to a most unusual guest.. It has brought in the Cornley University Drama Society’s production of...
Review: ‘AMÉLIE’ at The Walter Kerr Theatre
Based on a charming French film, Amélie the musical begins with a narrator letting us know we’re going to be in Paris and its...
Review: ‘Cabaret’ at the Academy of Music
Some shows never get old or lose their impact. The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony Award-winning revival of Cabaret, making its Philadelphia...
Review: ‘Luft Gangster’ at the Sheen Center
Developed out of a conversation playwright and lead actor Lowell Byers had with his cousin Lou Fowler - a Sergeant in the US Army Air...
The League of Professional Theatre Women’s 2017 Awards Celebration and Big...
Founded in 1981, the mission of the League of Professional Theatre Women, a non-profit advocacy organization headquartered in New York City, is to promote...
Review: ‘Sweat’ at Studio 54
It took a while, but the Oregon Shakespeare Festival helped by staging this remarkable play in the summer of 2014. It caused enough of...