Shaina Taub (Photo: Joan Marcus) Suffs By Fern Siegel Suffs is to women’s rights and the suffragette movement what Hamilton was to the founding father. It bursts with energy, sass and smarts. And that’s thanks to Shaina Taub, whose talent is extraordinary. As Alice Paul, a young suffragette passionate about a woman’s right to vote,…
The Ensemble of Patriots (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Patriots By Marc Miller It’s a constant issue with Peter Morgan: How much are we to believe? The playwright/ screenwriter/ TV writer traffics in dramatizations of 20th and 21st century historic figures and is responsible for, among other works, The Queen, The Crown, Frost/Nixon, and The Audience. So……
A new theatrical adaption of Sarah Gruen’s popular 2006 novel, Water for Elephants, has set up its Big Top smack in Times Square. Wonder of wonders, it culls much from the novel and trims the excess to streamline the drama to its fullest extent. As in most adaptations, there inevitably are dry patches with the…
Ali Louis Bourzgui (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) The Who’s Tommy By Julia Polinsky Hold on to your hats. It’s going to be a loud, stunning, bumpy ride. Worshipped by many, the revered subject of Boomer nostalgia and rocker adoration, The Who’s Tommy has held a unique place in the pop music world since…
Bring your tissues! The Notebook, Nicolas Sparks’ breakout romantic novel, which later became a blockbuster film, is now retold as a Broadway musical. This optimistic tearjerker is true to the book except it uses three pairs of actors portraying the same couple at different stages of their lives. It’s told from the point of view…
Jeremy Strong (Photo: Emilio Madrid) An Enemy of the People By Deirdre Donovan Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People comes to raw and explosive life at Circle in the Square. Directed by Sam Gold, and in a smart new translation by Amy Herzog (Gold’s real-life wife), this 1882 drama about small town corporate corruption…
Liev Schreiber, Amy Ryan (Photo: Joan Marcus) Doubt: A Parable By Julia Polinsky John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable has received a handsome new mounting at the Roundabout’s newly re-named Todd Haimes theater. Directed for maximum impact by Scott Ellis, this first Broadway revival of arguably Shanley’s most famous play doesn’t flinch from tough issues:…
If you were in high school in the late ’60s or early ’70s and had a streak of rebellious youth in you, chances are you got around to The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel. Hinton, who was Susan Eloise Hinton but felt it better to use her initials because who wants to read a gang-warfare…
Merrily We Roll Along By Deirdre Donovan Lindsay Mendez, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe (Photo: Matthew Murphy) The Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along, the problem child in the American musical theater, is back on Broadway! This new revival, deftly helmed by Maria Friedman, has Sondheim aficionados smiling. Theatergoers of a certain age…
The company of How to Dance in Ohio (Photo: Curtis Brown) By Deirdre Donovan Of all the musicals opening on the Great White Way this season, How to Dance in Ohio is by far the most groundbreaking. With its seven lead performers identifying as autistic in real-life, this musical brings autism out of the closet…