Michael Moore (© Joan Marcus) by Julia Polinsky Regardless of what you think of his opinions, Michael Moore can really tell a story that touches the heart. If you thought that The Terms of My Surrender would be all politics, politics, politics and no heart, think again. From the moment he enters…
Photos by Julieta Cervantes By Ron Cohen First published nearly seven decades ago, George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian dystopia, 1984, can still chill your bones with its depiction of things that may come – and may have already arrived on our doorstep: the dumbing-down and mechanization of language; evocation of mass…
By Ron Cohen Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room is a crazy quilt of familial attachments and tensions, deep sickness and the fulfilling nature of caring for one another. It’s threaded together with laughs, lots of them, softening the pain of its depictions of physical debilitation and mental instability. An off-Broadway hit in the early…
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. …
By Ron Cohen Since 1879, Nora Helmer, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, has been repeatedly slamming the door on her stultifying marriage, leaving behind household, husband and children. Now, in a sequel boldly written by Lucas Hnath and forthrightly entitled A Doll’s House, Part 2, it’s 15 years later, and…
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…
Photos by Joan Marcus By Marc Miller How au courant, how up-to-the-minute Six Degrees of Separation seemed in 1990. John Guare’s serious comedy, based on a then-recent true incident that happened to two of his friends, served up a tumult of contemporary issues in its 90 tightly packed minutes: race; sex; rich vs….