Frankie Moreno, Storm Large, Ryan Silverman, and Tony DeSare Photos by Richard Termine By Stewart Schulman Frank Sinatra made a “legendary opening” at New York’s Paramount Theater on December 30, 1942, inspiring Jack Benny to say: “I thought the goddamned building was going to cave in. I never heard such a commotion … All this for a…
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…
by R. Pikser Zhang Huan, who directed this production of the Canadian Opera Company’s Semele makes no bones about his directorial experience: He is a performance artist and this is his first opera. In this piece, he has worked with some excellent musicians. Sopranos Jane Archibald as Semele and Katherine Whyte as Iris, were…
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…
Lupita Nyong’o Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen It’s a rare work of theater that can transport audiences to a totally unfamiliar terrain and hold them there, transfixed, from start to finish. But that’s exactly what playwright Danai Gurira — with the help of a brilliant cast and director —…
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS: CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE WITH THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM OF THE HIT BROADWAY SHOW With TONY DANZA, ROB McCLURE and BRYNN O’MALLEY JULIE JAMES set to Moderate Sunday, March 15, 8:15 pm, tickets from $30 “A deeply-satisfying, sophisticated Broadway musical in a way few shows are anymore” – New York Times #HoneymoonBway is…
Emily Young and Noah Brody in a scene from Fiasco Theater’s “Into the Woods” (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) by David Schultz When this brilliant musical first hit the boards in 1987 it seemed a fresh take on all the fairy tale bedtime stories we were told as tiny tots. A mishmash of various characters…
Tonya Pinkins (above) and Dianne Wiest (below) (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) By David Schultz A scintillating cat and mouse treatise combines office politics and race into a frothy mix. Cunningly directed, makes for must see viewing. This new black comedy written by Joel Drake Johnson hits a lot of nerves. The subject of race…
Michael Alcide, Fernand Auguste, Ryan Jillian Kilpatrick, Chima Chikazunga, Darren Jerome Lamb, Cherith Scott. Photos by Gerry Goodstein by Eugene Paul There’s a prideful fervor in this Atlanta Black Theater Festival production of Dutchman which goes beyond the fact that Obie winner Dutchman is having yet another showing in the place that spawned it,…
Bart Feller & Stacy Shames with NJSO orchestra photo by Fred Stucker by Deirdre Donovan Maestro Johannes Debus and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) recently breezed into the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) with its program, “Mozart & Mendelssohn,” on February 27th. The first half of the program presented Mendelssohn’s rarely-performed The…