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. …
Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson photos by Matthew Murphy By Ron Cohen The wonders of speech and sound, the mysteries of silence and the entanglements of love are interwoven into a deeply moving tapestry in Mark Medoff’s Children of a Lesser God. Now the drama, whose original Broadway production garnered it a…
Caissie Levy, Patti Muran by Julia Polinsky Speaking as the one and only American who never saw Frozen: The Movie, it was good to come on Frozen: The Broadway Musical from cold, so to speak. Surprise! No surprises! Basic, fantastically successful Disney format. Simple-ish story (absent parents, child who masters obstacles, grows up,…
Bill (Chris), one of New York’s not-so-finest, and Jeff (Michael Cera), a high-rise security guard, don’t see eye-to-eye in “Lobby Hero.” (JOAN MARCUS) By Marc Miller First, the theater. The Helen Hayes has been acquired by Second Stage, somehow lost the Helen, and undergone a needed renovation. The Hayes, at 597 seats Broadway’s…
Glenda Jackson,Alison Pill ,Laurie Metcalf (c) Brigitte Lacombe By Ron Cohen Three Tall Women, Edward Albee’s meditation on aging, dying and death, is undoubtedly among the most vibrantly alive shows on Broadway right now. Three superlative actresses – Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill — tear into Albee’s incomparable writing with intelligence, passion…
Amanda Lawrence, Andrew Garfield photos by Brinkoff Mogenburg By Eugene Paul In its finest presentation yet, Tony Kushner’s masterpiece, Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes spills its treasure over eight brief hours, before eager audiences most of whom were babes in arms when his great work – it really…
Máiréad Nesbitt and Rob Evan By Eugene Paul Rocktopia, which originated in Budapest eight years ago bills itself as a classical revolution, its logo a bust of Beethoven overlaid with an electric guitar, its stars Rob Evan, Chloe Lowery, Tony Vincent, Kimberly Nichole, Alyson Cambridge and Pat Monahan. That bust transforming electric…
Tammy (Lisa Howard) clicks with barkeep Brick (Eric Petersen) (© MATTHEW MURPHY) By Eugene Paul Director Christopher Ashley will be reveling in having two hits on Broadway at the same time, one from the heart, Come From Away, and one from Margaritaville. a great big confection,- make that an alcoholic confection – so…
Ethan Slater photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The first ripples of delight from the audience at the Palace Theatre, where the musical SpongeBob SquarePants has just washed up, is prompted by David Zinn’s jaw-dropping nautical set: an imaginative replica of what life beneath the waves would look like. The second…
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…