Laura Linney as Regina Giddens and Cynthia Nixon as Birdie Hubbard photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen Two actresses of top-drawer talent – Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon — command the stage, share top billing and even share roles in the latest Broadway revival of the American classic, The Little…
Jonathan Sayer, Greg Tannahill, Henry Lewis, Dave Hearn and Charlie Russell (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) By Eugene Paul If you’ve come to the Lyceum Theatre out of a disturbed sense of enjoying the sheer irony which impelled you to go to the theatre to see something called “The Play that Goes Wrong” because the title so…
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,…
Johanna Day as Tracey and Michelle Wilson as Cynthia photos by Joan Marcus. By Marc Miller If, like 65 million other Americans, you woke up last November 9 bewildered, aghast, and wondering how, how could this have happened, you are urged to make your way to Studio 54, where Lynn Nottage’s Sweat provides some…
by Deirdre Donovan Arthur Miller’s popularity certainly isn’t waning on Broadway. Just last season A View from the Bridge and The Crucible, both memorably directed by the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, were hot tickets on the Great White Way. Now, The Price returns to Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre under Terry Kinney’s…
Madison Ferris, Sally Field, and Joe Mantello (PHOTOs: JULIETA CERVANTES) by Deirdre Donovan The Glass Menagerie is Tennessee Williams’ gentlest play. But with Sam Gold at the helm, it gets quality of a Midwest prairie stretching into an unknown horizon. Whether you like it or not will depend much on your…
By Eugene Paul The healthiest, most American, brightest, most uplifting, most joyous, most American, most captivating, most inspiring, most American, goodest show in town thrilling audiences to their shouting beings, isn’t American, it’s Canadian. Isn’t that a kick in the heart… And coming at a time when our political capital is so sore,…
Sas Goldberg, Gideon Glick, and Rebecca Naomi Jones photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen “I’m almost twenty-nine years old and no one has ever told me they love me. That’s like a problem, isn’t it?” says Jordan Berman, the hero of Joshua Harmon’s angst-ridden comedy, Significant Other, which has come to Broadway…
by Deirdre Donovan Tracy Letts’ Man From Nebraska is the opposite of a feel-good theater experience. But any theatergoer who misses the current mounting of Letts’ 2003 play at Second Stage Theatre, deftly directed by David Cromer, will be the poorer. This play is in the vein of many other Letts’ works (think…