Photo: Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade) By Jeanne Lieberman Brace yourself Broadway! A Big Brawny Musical may be heading your way led by Harry Connick, Jr. and a tireless troupe of terpsichorean tap dancers. Papermill’s latest shiny production follows a prestigious journey starting from George Roy Hill’s award winning 1973 iconic film, which was loosely based…
Harry Clarke: Bill Crudup Photo: Carol Rosegg By Fern Siegel Identity is fertile ground for drama, but disassociation kicks it up a notch. Or as our narrator explains: “I’ve gotten on a ride I can’t get off.” And it’s a wild one. The narrator is Billy Crudup — and for 80 minutes at…
by Edward Medina The Amazing Kreskin is a mentalist of the highest order and has been for the past fifty years. By his own count he has had a television series, his own board game by Milton Bradley, twenty published books, and a major motion picture inspired by his work. Kreskin is also a…
By Deirdre Donovan Whether you are a flag-waving American or not, you would likely have been delighted by Irving Berlin: American, the latest offering from the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series. Directed, co-written, and choreographed by Noah Racey, the concert was choc-a-bloc with dozens of Berlin’s beloved songs and sprinkled with…
Lauren Ridloff and Joshua Jackson photos by Matthew Murphy By Ron Cohen The wonders of speech and sound, the mysteries of silence and the entanglements of love are interwoven into a deeply moving tapestry in Mark Medoff’s Children of a Lesser God. Now the drama, whose original Broadway production garnered it a…
Caissie Levy, Patti Muran by Julia Polinsky Speaking as the one and only American who never saw Frozen: The Movie, it was good to come on Frozen: The Broadway Musical from cold, so to speak. Surprise! No surprises! Basic, fantastically successful Disney format. Simple-ish story (absent parents, child who masters obstacles, grows up,…
Bill (Chris), one of New York’s not-so-finest, and Jeff (Michael Cera), a high-rise security guard, don’t see eye-to-eye in “Lobby Hero.” (JOAN MARCUS) By Marc Miller First, the theater. The Helen Hayes has been acquired by Second Stage, somehow lost the Helen, and undergone a needed renovation. The Hayes, at 597 seats Broadway’s…
Billie Piper Photo Credit: Stephanie Berger By Arney Rosenblat With every beat of Her heart she and the audience slip further into searing despair as her desire to be a mother and have a child of her own unravels into an unfulfilled dream, which leaves the audience as wounded as Billie Piper, who…
Amanda Lawrence, Andrew Garfield photos by Brinkoff Mogenburg By Eugene Paul In its finest presentation yet, Tony Kushner’s masterpiece, Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes spills its treasure over eight brief hours, before eager audiences most of whom were babes in arms when his great work – it really…
Glenda Jackson,Alison Pill ,Laurie Metcalf (c) Brigitte Lacombe By Ron Cohen Three Tall Women, Edward Albee’s meditation on aging, dying and death, is undoubtedly among the most vibrantly alive shows on Broadway right now. Three superlative actresses – Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill — tear into Albee’s incomparable writing with intelligence, passion…