Off-Broadway Archives

  • Postings To The Moon

    Simon Williams, Lucy Fleming.  Photo: Carol Rosegg     Postings To The Moon                        By Fern Siegel   Sometimes, the simplest presentation is the most effective. Postings To The Moon is a true story, set during World War II. It is tender, occasionally funny and quietly hypnotic. And it’s all told via letters. Now…

  • Newsies

      Newsies                            By Ed Lieberman At a time when the youth of the world are taking leadership roles in calling attention to issues such as climate change and gun control, Westchester Broadway Theatre is presenting Newsies, an exuberant musical adaptation of the 1992 Disney movie of the same name that starred Christian Bale. Although…

  • The Bodyguard: The Musical

      The Bodyguard, The Musical                                                            By Edward Lieberman The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) is hosting the regional premiere of The Bodyguard, the Musical, based upon the hit movie, “The Bodyguard,” which starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. The…

  • Electronic City

                                 By R. Pikser  The New Stage Theater, located in the partially finished basement of a hostel, complete with brightly painted steam pipes and outsized valves, provides a perfect entree to the theme of Electronic City by German playwright Falk Richter.  Electronic City is a critique of the pervasive gig economy and resultant transient lives…

  • Juno and the Paycock

    Maryann Plunkett and Ciaran O’Reilly Photo: Carol Rosegg   Juno and the Paycock                      By Fern Siegel Politics is a hot topic this season — on and off-Broadway. Revolution — political and familial  — is the subject of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, the second play in his Dublin trilogy, now at the…

  • Benny & Joon

    Joon (Hannah Elless) & Benny (Claybourne Elder)   Benny & Joon                   By David Schultz This current season (Hell, the last few years actually) is seeing its share of film to live theater treatments once again. Tootsie, Pretty Woman, Magic Mike (upcoming fall season), Beetlejuice, are currently in previews or up and running in…

  • Do You Feel Anger

    Tiffany Villarin, Megan Hill                                 Photo: Carol Rosegg   Do You Feel Anger?                    By Fern Siegel The title is clearly a rhetorical question, but playwright Mara-Nelson-Greenberg posits it less as a response to abuse, and more to emphasize, however surreal, the wacky mind-set of the abuser. And it’s billed as a comedy. The play,…

  • Sondheim – Wordplay

    Captions:  Ted Chapin, Co-host of Sondheim: Wordplay            Photo Credit:  Richard Termine Sondheim:  Wordplay A Review by Deirdre Donovan Teaser:  The 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series takes a closer look at Sondheim’s preternatural gift for wordplay. Sondheim, anyone?  The latest offering of the 92nd Street Y’s “Lyrics & Lyricists” series was entitled Sondheim: Wordplay, presented…