Photos by Maria Baranova By Eugene Paul Let’s say that the musical Be More Chill now playing to sold out houses at its Off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center moved to the Palace Theatre, 1743 seats on Broadway, and sold out there for a year. That’s 517,088 tickets. Let’s fantasize, let’s sell…
Ian Lessiter photos by Carol Rosegg by Arney Rosenblat Pushkin is a compelling, true-to-life historical blank verse play imagined and implemented by the creative playwright Jonathan Leaf that will both fascinate and spur the researcher in you to find out more about the man who is known as the Father of modern Russian…
Bonnie Milligan as Pamela (center) with Tanya Haglund, Samantha Pollino, Ari Groover and Amber Ardolino photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You don’t have to know a lick about Elizabethan times or the American rock band the Go Go’s to enjoy the new jukebox musical Head Over Heels, which opened at the…
By Ron Cohen In The House that Will Not Stand, Marcus Gardley delves into one of the many perverse chapters in the insidious annals of slavery: the sale by France of the Louisiana Territory to the United States in the early 19th Century. It meant that the African-Americans living in New Orleans…
Stephen Payne, Josh Charles, Armie Hammer and Paul Schneider in Straight White Men at the Helen Hayes Theater, New York. Photo: Joan Marcus Straight White Men By Eugene Paul What in hell? Oh. Provocation. Getting us, the audience, off on the wrong foot with that yowling souped up caterwauling. And that curtain? Entirely…
Kyle Taylor Parker, Dwayne Cooper, John Edwards and Jelani Remy. Photo: Gary Ng Is It OK to enjoy a musical without a message? Yes!!! By Jeanne Lieberman Imagine you are home alone back in the 50’s or 60’s, your parents have gone out, you turn the radio to your favorite rock ‘n roll station…
Joshua Balan and Ruthellen Cheney (Photo: Ted Alcorn) Twelfth Night By Fern Siegel To keep Shakespeare fresh for 21st-century audiences, directors often set the plays in new locales. Whether Shakespeare’s works are grounded in a Nazi-like England (Richard Loncraine’s Richard III) or a prison (Edward Hall’s The Merchant of Venice), it clicks with…
by Julia Polinsky Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope would be a pleasure even if all you got was a terrific retro revue of marvelous songs and electrifying singing and dancing. But you get more; you get vignettes of African-American people’s lives, stories told without a word spoken. Evenly matched with their own…
By David Schultz Actress Renee Taylor has brought back her one-woman show to her hometown. My Life on a Diet is based on her 1986 memoir about her endless trek through all manner of strange, quirky diet fads. Intermingled with her diet tips, an entire lifetime of struggling with her weight issues, her reminiscences…
Adam Milano (MAN) Marianne Tatum (Bookseller) By Dierdre Donovan Who said New York theater snoozes during the summer months? With the Potomac Theatre Project/NYC returning to the Atlantic Theatre Company for its 32nd season with three provocative works–George Tabori’s Brecht on Brecht, a quartet from Howard Barker’s Possibilities, and Caryl Churchill’s BBC…