(l-r) Beanie Feldstein, Ramin Karimloo Funny Girl By Fern Siegel Fanny Brice was a funny girl — a funny Jewish girl who worked in burlesque and was a headliner for the great Florenz Ziegfeld. A hit on radio, the multi-talented Brice was beloved by many at a time when ethnic humor was in…
Anyone Can Whistle by David Schultz Master Voices One Night Concert revived a rarely performed early Steven Sondheim musical at Carnegie Hall for ardent Sondheim lovers. The Sold-Out crowd was primed and outwardly effusive to experience the work in full glory. Musical conductor Ted Sperling marshaled a 22-piece orchestra and 60-person chorus…
Phylicia Rashad in Skeleton Crew Photos: Matthew Murphy Skeleton Crew by Deirdre Donovan Hat’s off to the Manhattan Theatre Club for bringing us Dominique Morisseau’s searing new drama, Skeleton Crew! With a superb cast led by Phylicia Rashad, this play about a tight-knit working family in uncertain times, is profoundly moving and altogether real. Set in Detroit, Michigan, during the economic recession of 2008, the play…
(l to r): Michael Zegen ( Al Manners ) , Alex Mickiewicz ( Eddie Fenton ) , Don Stephenson ( Bill O’Wray ) Photo: Joan Marcus Trouble in Mind By Alice Childress Reviewed by Julia Polinsky Originally an off-Broadway success in the 1950s, the play was slated to move to Broadway, but the producers wanted…
Reza Salazar, Kara Young, Ron Cephas Jones, Edmund Donovan (Joan Marcus) Clyde’s By Lynn Nottage Directed by Kate Whoriskey Reviewed by Julia Polinsky It’s such a relief to laugh in the theater again that it might escape you that, really, Clyde’s is a morality play: a demon and a boddhisattva wrestle for the…
Chicken & Biscuits by Deirdre Donovan What’s cookin’ on Broadway? Douglas Lyons’ uproarious new comedy that recently opened at Circle in the Square. Under the direction of Zhailon Levingston, it’s overly long, but if you want to see a play…
We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert by Jeanne Lieberman photos by Phil McAuliffe Is the prematurely canceled concert celebrating New York’s victory over Covid a metaphor for incomplete victory as the Delta variant looms over us? The crowd came in exultant and in a celebratory mood. Their party personae reflecting the theme…
Photograph: Shaye Weaver/Time Out We got a first look at the gorgeous Immersive Van Gogh exhibit coming to NYC Get ready to take an emotional journey through the artist’s incredible paintings By Shaye Weaver Posted: Wednesday May 26 2021, 5:04 PM FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsApp Donning a hard hat covered in painted sunflowers, I stepped into the highly-anticipated “Immersive Van…
By Edward Rubin A pre and post-COVID-19-slanted offering much peppered with condemnation of Trump and the current administration – was presented one time only this past September–was HBO’s Coastal Elites. Originally written to be performed as a play at New York City’s Public Theater by playwright, and novelist Paul Rudnick, widely known for his humorous…
Carmit Levite (Leah Erdmann) and Curzon Dobell (Mark Erdmann) by Eugene Paul The bitterly ironic title of Iddo Netanyahu’s blunt weapon of a play leaves no room for waffling, which is the exact opposite of the behavior of his central characters, Mark Erdmann (sterling Curzon Dobell) and his stunning wife Leah (picture perfect Carmit…