Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham photos by Joan Marcus A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder By Michall Jeffers The time is ripe for a good laugh, either for the first time, or for a revisit. A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder is arguably the best musical of the season, and very possibly…
Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne Photos by Joan Marcus By Michall Jeffers Long Day’s Journey Into Night is aptly named. At nearly four hours long, this glimpse into the life of a highly dysfunctional family can take its toll. The Tyrones are a mess. James, the patriarch (Gabriel Byrne), is a second rate actor…
Jessie Mueller PHOTOs by JOAN MARCUS By David Schultz The treacle infused 2007 indie film by writer-director Adrienne Shelly, has been transformed into an emotionally resonant Broadway musical. Director Diane Paulus has whipped up a crackerjack cast, and with a deft touch erased the bad memories of the film. This musical fairytale of a…
Carmen Cusack photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star arrives at the Cort Theatre with a glowing cast and the twangy sound of blue-grass music. Directed by Walter Bobbie, and set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, it hopscotches between the 1920s and 1940s–and…
Frank Langella photos by Joan Marcus By Michall Jeffers If Frank Langella were a British actor, he’d be a Lord by now. There’s no one who’s better, both at comedy and tragedy. In The Father, he gets a chance to nimbly jump from one to the other, and the result is a production that…
Elizabeth Teeter as Betty Parriss, Saoirse Ronan as Abigail Williams and Tavi Gevinson as Mary Warren Production photos by Jan Versweyveld. by Rachel Goddard This 1953 historical drama takes on a whole new meaning when watched through the vision of Broadway director Ivo van Hove, fresh off of his Broadway directorial debut with…
JOAN MARCUS Laura Benanti and Zachary Levi in a new production of “She Loves Me.” By Eugene Paul Swollen with pride after fifty years of producing practical product for Broadway—and rightly so – the Roundabout has restaged in sentimental ardor their first restaged musical of a sentimental delight, She Loves Me. And blew it…
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Cassie Beck, Sarah Steele and Arian Moayed in The Humans. Photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan Stephen Karam’s new play, which originated at the Laurel Pels Theater in 2015, has settled in snugly at Broadway’s Helen Hayes. And if you haven’t seen this gem, put it on your must-see list. …
by Eugene Paul Theatrical deity Eugene O’Neill, whose masterworks continue to astound and gratify audiences around the globe, reached Broadway in 1920 with Beyond The Horizon, the first of his four Pulitzer prize plays. He was thirty-two. Steeped in theater, he had learned his craft from his parents, famous, self-burdened actors, at the…
By Eugene Paul As measured by the money meter, a palpable hit. “Who’s that?” my companion whispered, nudging sideways with her chin as the gorgeous, gorgeous creature squeezed by smiling apologetically. I nodded. “Yes, it is. And look over there.” She slid her eyes four seats over. Her eyebrows went up. I nodded, then…