Mateo Ferro in Working: The Musical at New York City Center Photo: Joan Marcus Working: The Musical by Deirdre Donovan The qualities that have made Studs Terkel’s Working a modern classic are all present in the current revival of Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso’s musical of the same name at New York City Center. The…
Maria Bilbao (as Gloria Estefan) Photos by John Vecchiolla On Your Feet By Edward Lieberman For its summer production WBT is cranking up the heat! Its 211th production is On Your Feet, the sizzling musical retelling of the career of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Cuban emigres who became the first crossover artists to hit…
An Evening with Gavin Creel by Deirdre Donovan . Theatergoers recently got a real taste of Broadway at the 92nd Street Y with “An Evening with Gavin Creel” on July 17th. The program, which was part of their popular Concert series, showcased the Tony Award winner Creel who regaled the audience with some…
Toni Stone By Ron Cohen Toni Stone loved baseball. Now, you may ask, Who? Or so what? History, as oft said, has a way of erasing the accomplishments of American women, and particularly, women of color. So, if you need filling in, Toni Stone (1921-1996) was the first female professional baseball player, playing…
Jesse Pennington and Brenda Meaney Photo by Todd Cerveris. The Mountains Look Different By Marc Miller . If there’s one thing the Mint Theater Company excels at, it’s polishing—dusting off old, forgotten properties, and getting them to gleam. And if there’s another thing, it’s rediscovering playwrights we may not know about, but who…
photos by Joan Marcus Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theater By Barry Bassis Do you watch those classic 1930’s screwball comedies, like The Awful Truth or Twentieth Century? The plot lines often involve a man and woman who had unsuccessful prior relationships with each other and for most of the course of the action…
Chris Dwan in Enter Laughing Photos: Carol Rosegg Enter Laughing by Deirdre Donovan The York Theatre Company is well-known for bringing new musical theater works to its boards. But in celebration of their 50thanniversary year, the company delves into their past and dusts off one of their sparkling gems: Enter Laughing. With a book by Joseph…
Michael Urie, Kevin Chamberlin photos Joan Marcus Encores! High Button Shoes by David Schultz & Jeanne Lieberman This is the 75th anniversary of Encores! the immensely successfuli concert series dedicated to performing rarely heard American musicals, Presented by New York City Center since 1994, Its first production, Fiorello! (1959), was sold out in hours. Their selections have reached back…
photos Deen van Meer Frankie & Johnny In The Clair De Lune By Eugene Paul Full, glittering turnouts are greeting every performance of this extraordinary revival of dear old Terrence McNally’s beloved schmatte of a play. For cause. Previous incarnations have always treated it as a schmatte, and why not, it’s coarse,…
Octet By Eugene Paul The most shattering, the most piercing theatrical event in New York at the present time has just opened, right in the teeth of the feverish voting season scene and it blows them all away. It is Octet, the blazing chorale of musical magician Dave Malloy, the book, the lyrics,…