Sierra Boggess. and David Burtka photos by Joan Marcus By Russell Bouthiller Putting together a wedding can be stressful, especially when the parents of the bride or groom wish the happy event were not taking place at all. Same old story: in the eyes of the parents, one’s not good enough for the other. …
Pictured (l-r): Blake Hammond, Jerry O’Connell, Renée Fleming, Douglas Sills, Scott Robertson, Anna Chlumsky. Photo Credit © 2015 Andrew Eccles By Russell Bouthiller Making her Broadway debut, three-time Grammy winning opera star Renée Fleming takes to the stage of the Longacre Theatre in the new play by two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro, Living on…
Tam Mutu & Kelli Barrett photo by Jason Bell by Eugene Paul In a huge, richly appointed – designer Paul Tazewell outdoes himself and most other shows dressing his vast company — unstinting production encompassing the breadth of the famed Boris Pasternak novel through its turbulent, painful years from 1903 to 1930, years of…
Vanessa Hudgens as Gigi photos by Margot Schulman by Eugene Paul On Broadway, it’s April, and Paris is in the air, Paris in the 1900’s – that’s Gigi – and Paris forty-some years later, in 1945, that’s An American in Paris, both musicals reborn versions of silver screen parentage, one of them sublime, the…
Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope by Eugene Paul Paris? 1945? This bare stage, a funny looking grand piano and a funnier looking piano player with a bum leg? He’s ex-G.I. Adam Hochberg (brilliant Brandon Uranowitz) confessing he’s a composer and we are off to the most enchanting musical on Broadway, delight after delight. How…
Michael Oberholtzer as Timothy, Geneva Carr as Margery, Steven Boyer as Jason, Marc Kudisch as Pastor Greg and Sarah Stiles as Jessica photos by Joan Marcus Hand To God by David Schultz Something strange and wonderful has just transpired. A truly unique and shocking play has just opened on Broadway. First seen Off-Off Broadway, then…
(L-R) Sawyer Nunes, Alex Dreier, Laura Michelle Kelly, Aidan Gemme, Matthew Morrison, Christopher Paul Richards photos by Carol Rosegg by Russell Bouthiller From Mary Martin of mid-century to those millennial lost boys of Peter and the Starcatcher, Peter Pan and those adorable little Darlings have captured the imagination of children and adults for more…
Bill Nighy and Carrie Mulligan Photos by John Haynes by Deirdre Donovan “I mean, to be a teacher, the only thing you really have going for you … there’s only one thing that makes the whole thing make sense, and that is finding one really good pupil.” Kyra, the schoolteacher character who is devoting…
Cromwell (Ben Miles) and King Henry (Nathaniel Parker) by Eugene Paul A huge, lavish, compelling retelling of the seething times of Henry VIII, how lust overcame religious duty Homo homini lupus. Hilary Mantel’s prize winning books, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” have been artfully fashioned by playwright Mike Poulton into a confident…
Elisabeth Moss and Jason Biggs Photos by: Joan Marcus by David Schultz Wendy Wasserstein’s award-winning play still packs a punch, but is more muted and wistful than it needs to be. Beginning in 1989 in a stuffy lecture hall, this wide-ranging play moves in episodic moments, both large and small. It attempts to show…