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Journalist Deirdre Donovan has written for the Washington Post and the Boston Globe, among others. Her theater writing has been published in The Brooklyn Paper, Our Town, West Side Spirit, Curtainup, Theaterscene, and Offoffonline.
Sam Bolen, Jeremy Cohen Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg. Midnight at the Never Get by Deirdre Donovan Mark Sonnenblick’s new musical Midnight at the Never Get arrived at the York Theatre in early October with great expectations. It had attracted attention with successful runs at Don’t Tell Mama, the 2016 New York Music…
Derek Smith, Raphael Nash Thompson, Karen Ziemba, Tom Hewitt, Lenny Wolpe, Kimberly Immanuel, Jeff Hiller, and Alison Fraser, Photo Credit CAROL ROSEGG by Deirdre Donovan Gingold Theatrical Group’s ambitious new production of George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House takes the harlequinade and adds an original framing device that colors it with a World War…
Bonnie Milligan as Pamela (center) with Tanya Haglund, Samantha Pollino, Ari Groover and Amber Ardolino photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You don’t have to know a lick about Elizabethan times or the American rock band the Go Go’s to enjoy the new jukebox musical Head Over Heels, which opened at the…
Adam Milano (MAN) Marianne Tatum (Bookseller) By Dierdre Donovan Who said New York theater snoozes during the summer months? With the Potomac Theatre Project/NYC returning to the Atlantic Theatre Company for its 32nd season with three provocative works–George Tabori’s Brecht on Brecht, a quartet from Howard Barker’s Possibilities, and Caryl Churchill’s BBC…
God Bless America: The Music of Irving Berlin A Review by Deirdre Donovan Impresario Scott Siegel returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below with an homage to the great American songwriter who had a talent for giving the American people what they wanted. The celebration of Independence Day didn’t end with the Macy’s Day fireworks display over the…
by Deirdre Donovan Following a season with so many musicals suffering from elephantitis, the musical Lonesome Blues is refreshingly intimate. An homage to the legendary bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson, it breezed into the York Theatre on June 12th and will sojourn there for a brief run. Co-written by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde and…
Condola Rashad photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is a comedy, tragedy and romance wrapped into one powerful drama. Over the years, it has been staged in strikingly different ways from the raucous to the subdued. As the Manhattan Theatre Club presents it (at the Samuel J. Friedman…
Lynn Ahrens and cast Lynn Ahrens: A Lyrical Life by Deirdre Donovan Lynn Ahrens brought an exciting mix of chutzpah and charm to “Lynn Ahrens: A Lyrical Life,” the latest offering of the 92nd Street Y’s “Lyrics & Lyricists” series. Ahrens set precedent in the L & L series by wearing…
Erika Henningsen, Ashley Park, Taylor Louderman, Kate Rockwell photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The morphing of the 2004 hit film Mean Girls to a musical is drawing a lot of young millennials to the August Wilson Theatre nowadays. But if you think that only scrub-faced teens are in the audience, think again. …
By Deirdre Donovan Whether you are a flag-waving American or not, you would likely have been delighted by Irving Berlin: American, the latest offering from the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series. Directed, co-written, and choreographed by Noah Racey, the concert was choc-a-bloc with dozens of Berlin’s beloved songs and sprinkled with…