Carol Schultz as Mrs. Malaprop and Jessica Love as Lydia Languish photo by Al Foote III The Rivals by Eugene Paul There’s a persistent literary rumor that Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s perilously near fatuous hit play, The Rivals, was a particular favorite of George Washington’s. Yes, that George, “The Father of Our Country”. Doesn’t…
Bass: Pete Donovan; Piano: Jeffrey Klitz; Clarke Thorell; Leslie Kritzer; Ted Sperling; Sax, Todd Groves; Violin, Antoine Silverman Photos by Richard Termine Lyrics & Lyricists at 92nd Street Y – Ziegfeld Girl: The Many Faces of Fanny Brice by Linda Amiel Burns This is the first time that the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and…
(CLOCKWISE) LINDSAY NICOLE CHAMBERS, SCOTT RICHARD FOSTER, MARCUS STEVENS AND NATALIE CHARLÉ ELLIS (KNEELING) IN A SCENE FROM THE ORIGINAL CAST OF FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING. PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG. Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging By Michall Jeffers It’s considered an honor for a show or performer to be skewered by Forbidden Broadway which has…
nominees Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. (© Joan Marcus AND THE NOMINEES ARE………… Time to get serious as the pre-Tony theater organizations summon their voters to decide the winners of this very varied and wonderful theater season With no obvious frontrunners the race is wide open The 2013-2014 Tony…
Marisa Tomei and Michael C Hall Photos by Joan Marcus In spite of its misleading title, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses is a charming new play that is bound to tickle your funny bone and make you think twice about the people who live next door. Directed by Sam Gold, and featuring a top-notch cast,…
Daniel Radcliffe photos by Johan Persson The Cripple of Inishmaan By: Eric Grunin Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first: this is an excellent production of a very good play, and you should all go see it. Don’t be scared off by the tragic aspects, because in all likelihood you’ll…
Chris O’Dowd and James Franco in Of Mice and Men (photos by Richard Phibbs) OF MICE AND MEN by EUGENE PAUL If you’ve managed to keep up with the smoothly ongoing hype machine which has propelled James Franco into the front ranks of media stars you are also aware that New York City police…
By Eugene Paul Audra McDonald Photos by Evgenia Eliseeva Beg. Borrow. Steal. In a breathtaking leap, famed Audra McDonald has vaulted past anything she’s ever done to this pinnacle of performance art, her portrait of Billie Holiday, the mesmerizing, tragic figure who haunts us still with the beauty and wreckage of her life, and…
By Michall Jeffers Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig (Joan Marcus) There’s no doubt about it; Neil Patrick Harris is a rock star. His fans are out in force for his stellar turn as Hedwig, a transplanted “girly boy” from East Berlin who’s had a tough life, including a botched sex change operation. The angry inch…
03/31/2014 Amaluna By: Eugene Paul Prospera in Amaluna Costume designer: Mérédith Caron (Photo credit: Yannick Déry) For perhaps its loveliest incarnation, Cirque du Soleil, the most unbelievably successful traveling circus in the world, has acquired renowned Broadway theater talents to weave and present the astounding human talents Cirque du Soleil scours said world to find,…