Hailey Kilgore and cast Photos by Joan Marcus by Julia Polinsky Every moment of this revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once On This Island touches the heart and rings true, from start – with the best “turn off your phone” reminder in recent history – to the happy/cry ending. Splendid…
By Eugene Paul Shining new star Katrina Lenk and shining stellar Tony Shalhoub head a brilliant cast in a brilliant, loving new show. There they are, fresh, crisp and immensely proper – except for Haled (marvelous Ari’El Stachel), who is flirting as usual – the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra right off…
Clive Owen and Jin Ha (Copyright Matthew Murphy) By Edward Medina There’s a prison cell on stage at the Cort Theatre. It’s occupied by a single prisoner. The man in the box is a civil servant convicted of betraying his government. He’s been imprisoned mind, body, and soul along with the remembrances of the…
Alistair Brammer as Chris and Eva Noblezada as Kim in Miss Saigon. Miss Saigon by Deirdre Donovan The chopper is back on Broadway! Cameron Mackintosh’s anticipated new production of Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical Miss Saigon opened on Broadway at The Broadway Theatre on March 23rd as fresh as an orange blossom. …
Bette Midler Photo Credit: Julieta Cervantes By Eugene Paul Well, she’s back where she belongs, that sassy, brassy, inimitable force of good natured Dolly Levi and I hope she never goes away again, only this time she’s Bette Midler who used to be known as the Divine Miss M but now bids fair…
By Eugene Paul In 1910, when Sholem Asch was 50 years old, he scandalized the world of the Jewish Theatre with God of Vengeance, his play about the Jewish owner of a brothel, his wife, an ex-prostitute, seeking to gain respectability through the marriage of their carefully sheltered, innocent daughter to a rabbi’s…
Photos by Jeremy Daniel By Eugene Paul Broadway professionals are incredibly good, better than they’ve ever been before. We’ve grown to expect this absolute best and the wonderful people who create the performances delighting, astounding, moving us dig deeper every time to please, not just us, but themselves, every bit…
Christy Altomare and Derek Klena photos by Matthew Murphy by Marc Miller What Anastasia has, and it’s welcome because it’s lacking to some degree in virtually every other new musical of the past several seasons, is craft. Scan the credits: book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens—the trio…
Joan Marcus Cobie Smulders and Kevin Kline By Ron Cohen Everybody loves Garry Essendine. Ladies say they have lost their “latch keys” as a pretense to spend the night in his posh apartment. His longtime secretary, Monica, and even his estranged wife, Liz, watch over him like a pair of guardian angels. A…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Eugene Paul Two of Broadway’s “innest” leading ladies, award winning Patti LuPone and award winning Christine Ebersole, in the same show? Must see. Playing the leading power icons in the beauty business, Helena Rubinstein, Empress of Unguents and Elizabeth Arden Queen of Creams? Gotta See. At dirty,…