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 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…
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…
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…
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…
(Left to right) Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale, and Adrian Lester in The Lehman Trilogy Photo: Julieta Cervantes The Lehman Trilogy by Deirdre Donovan For those history buffs that have been hankering for a theatrical event that…
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…
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,…
Nantucket Sleigh Ride at the Mitzi E, Newhouse, 150 W. 65th St. Nantucket Sleigh Ride By Eugene Paul There’s an artistic and philosophic argument going on in playwright John Guare’s Nantucket Sleigh Ride which is splashed all over the Mitzi Newhouse stage, up and down as well as sideways, and even back and forth in…
Photo by Joan Marcus The Cradle Will Rock By Eugene Paul The Cool, attractive, more an homage than a fiery presentation of Blitzstein’s original fury. There’s a story that, in 1937, when Kurt Weill saw The Cradle Will Rock, he is rumored to have said to a friend, “Have you seen my…