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…
(L-R) Sawyer Nunes, Alex Dreier, Laura Michelle Kelly, Aidan Gemme, Matthew Morrison, Christopher Paul Richards photos by Carol Rosegg by Russell Bouthiller From Mary Martin of mid-century to those millennial lost boys of Peter and the Starcatcher, Peter Pan and those adorable little Darlings have captured the imagination of children and adults for more…
Kristin Chenoweth as Lily GarlandPhoto: Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Screwball? Yes. Madcap? Yes. Zany? Yesss. Dizzying pace? Yes. Laughs? Galore. Laughs? Raucous. Laughs? Gut busters. Kristin Chenoweth? A scream. Peter Gallagher? A hoot. Andy Karl? A howl. Mark Linn-Baker, Michael McGrath, Mary Louise Wilson? Funny, funny, funny. Rick Faugno, Richard Riaz Yoder, Drew King,…
by Deirdre Donovan Hamilton, the much-awaited musical at the Public Theater, is making a mighty big noise at its downtown home in Astor Place. And if you go to only one show this season, it should be to this amazing new musical that breathes life into 18th Century American history and gives it a…
Emily Padgett as Daisy Hilton and Erin Davie as Violet Hilton by Eugene Paul This heartbreakingly ambiguous entertainment, flecked with moments of beauty and laughter, is based on (a) a true story, the wrenching history of Daisy and Violet Hilton, (b) a horror film, Freaks, the passionate brainstorm of Tod Browning, which ruined his…
Photographs by: Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul With a vast, overpoweringly produced, literally awesome demonstration of theatrical brawn, the Sting machine has taken on Broadway, no holds barred. When was the last time you saw crowds outside the theatre dazzled by musicians from the show playing live under the marquee, the star, 63…
Jay Armstrong Johnson, Tony Yazbeck and Clyde Alves photos by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul The Lyric Theatre, once again the Lyric Theatre after having been through several other incarnations since it grew bigger and more beautiful, is launching its now British ownership with the best, sweetest version of that very American delight, On…
Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane by Michall Jeffers The answer is Nathan Lane. The question is what’s the best reason to see It’s Only A Play. This nearly sold out smash hit is playing to full houses chocked with appreciative theater goers. Just as trumpeted, the laughs never stop. Director Jack O’Brien has done…
Photographs by Joan Marcus by Eugene Paul Once upon a time a long time ago in 1973, when a fat, smug country called the U.S.A was being upended with riots and protests about a perfectly natural condition which they had finally legislated in 1964 called Civil Rights, a beautiful baby boy named Lesane…
By Michall Jeffers Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig (Joan Marcus) There’s no doubt about it; Neil Patrick Harris is a rock star. His fans are out in force for his stellar turn as Hedwig, a transplanted “girly boy” from East Berlin who’s had a tough life, including a botched sex change operation. The angry inch…