Sandra Mae Frank and Austin P. McKenzie photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You’ve got to hand it to Deaf West Theatre for reviving the rock musical Spring Awakening on Broadway this season. After all, the memory of Steven Sater’s and Duncan Sheik’s 2006 Spring Awakening, which snagged 8 Tony Awards and launched…
JOAN MARCUS by Eugene Paul Since we all know from long experience of Pinter plays that, with very few exceptions, we are gathered here to admire, not to enjoy, our role is pre-defined. How to make the admiration roll out differently is the task at hand for director Douglas Hodge and company and all…
Pictured Center: Josh Young @2015, Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Every play that manages to get on its feet and actually presented before the public is the result of many acts of faith, love and magical thinking. It’s enough to keep Tinker Bell whizzing around the globe forever more. Amazing Grace is all of…
By Michall Jeffers Suggestion: if you have out-of-town visitors this summer, take them to see Mama Mia. At the performance I attended, the audience was filled with foreign tourists, many of them Asian, and they were having a ball. Let’s face it, the plot is simple, and the language is easy to understand for anyone with…
Chita Rivera as Claire Zachanassian and the cast of The Visit – Photo by Thom Kaine by David Schultz It took 14 years for this dark-hued musical to settle into a Broadway house. The Visit debuted in September 2001 in Chicago, then at the Signature Theatre in 2008, with additional out-of-town developments and workshops. A…
Photos Joan Marcus by Julia Polinsky Right from the start, Michael James Scott, as The Minstrel, treats the audience to the opening song (“Welcome to the Renaissance”), a real razzle dazzle, over the top, you-can’t-touch-this Broadway song and dance. In doublet and pantaloons. The curtain rises; the ensemble joins in; farthingales sway and knee…
Ken Watanabe as the King of Siam & Kelli O’Hara as Anna photos by Paul Kolnick By Michall Jeffers A hush comes over the house. This is the moment we’ve been waiting for, and we’re not disappointed. In the middle of the friendly dance, the King tells Mrs. Anna that holding two hands is not…
Pictured (l-r): Blake Hammond, Jerry O’Connell, Renée Fleming, Douglas Sills, Scott Robertson, Anna Chlumsky. Photo Credit © 2015 Andrew Eccles By Russell Bouthiller Making her Broadway debut, three-time Grammy winning opera star Renée Fleming takes to the stage of the Longacre Theatre in the new play by two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro, Living on…
Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope by Eugene Paul Paris? 1945? This bare stage, a funny looking grand piano and a funnier looking piano player with a bum leg? He’s ex-G.I. Adam Hochberg (brilliant Brandon Uranowitz) confessing he’s a composer and we are off to the most enchanting musical on Broadway, delight after delight. How…
Tam Mutu & Kelli Barrett photo by Jason Bell by Eugene Paul In a huge, richly appointed – designer Paul Tazewell outdoes himself and most other shows dressing his vast company — unstinting production encompassing the breadth of the famed Boris Pasternak novel through its turbulent, painful years from 1903 to 1930, years of…