Broadway Plays Archives

  • Airline Highway

                                                                           Photos by Joan Marcus                                                     by Russell Bouthiller Set in the Big Easy, the Manhattan Theater Club production of Lisa DAmour’s comedy, Airline Highway, tackles a Grand Hotel plot and sets it at a less-than-grand motel.  Directed by the prolific Tony Award winner, Joe Montello tackles this dark comedy, which is set in New…

  • Fun Home

    Photos by Jenny Anderson                                        by David Schultz Standing out on its own unique oasis, this mesmerizing chamber musical strikes many emotional chords. No need to have lived this woman’s rather unusual life or suffered the extreme heartbreak she encountered to connect with it. This is first and foremost a memory play about family and…

  • It Shoulda Been You

    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. …

  • Hand To God

    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…

  • Skylight

     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…

  • Wolf Hall

    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…

  • The Heidi Chronicles

    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…

  • Fish in the Dark

    Rosie Perez & Larry David                                  photos by Joan Marcus                                     by David Schultz This practically sold-out hit is the hottest ticket on Broadway right now. Ticket sales have reached over four million, and counting. Television writer and star Larry David is the reason this work has ever seen the light of day. Minions of his…

  • The Audience

    by Eugene Paul Helen Mirren is in residence on Broadway as the Queen.  It behooves you to make haste to be in her presence. Here, in this splendiferous delight of ever in fashion old fashioned out and out theatrical craftsmanship, the compelling richness of Bob Crowley’s settings and costumes frame luminescent Helen Mirren as England’s…

  • The Elephant Man

    Bradley Cooper as John Merrick, Alessandro Nivola as Dr. Fredrik Treves & Patricia Clarkson as Mrs. Kendal                                                         By Michall Jeffers Fans of Bradley Cooper may well be amazed by his performance as John Merrick; many hardened theater critics will be, too. As the abused, tormented man cruelly twisted by deformity and fate, Cooper is…