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…
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…
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…
Helene Yorke and Brandon Uranowitz in the Encores! staging of Grand Hotel at City Center, New York. Photo: Joan Marcus By Edward Medina With a deeply engrossing book by Luther Davis and the beautiful music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, the legend that is Grand Hotel, The Musical has reappeared once…
Máiréad Nesbitt and Rob Evan By Eugene Paul Rocktopia, which originated in Budapest eight years ago bills itself as a classical revolution, its logo a bust of Beethoven overlaid with an electric guitar, its stars Rob Evan, Chloe Lowery, Tony Vincent, Kimberly Nichole, Alyson Cambridge and Pat Monahan. That bust transforming electric…
Sturgis Warner, Jo Mei, Jeorge Bennett Watson, Sorab Wadia, Steven Skybell By Ron Cohen Babette’s Feast, a short story by Isak Dinesen, was famously transformed into an elegiac Danish movie in 1987, winning an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Now, the tale has been transformed once again into a pleasurable…
Eisna Davis,Zach Grenier, Aya Cash by Deirdre Donovan An idealistic freshman congresswoman attempts to clean-up what’s wrong in Washington. It’s time for Sydney Millsap (Eisna Davis) to press the flesh at her fundraiser at the swanky Four Seasons resort in Vail, Colorado. But the neophyte congresswoman from Dallas hasn’t left her hotel…
Christopher Green by Edward Medina An old woman sits quietly in a chair. Her chair is one of many in a circle. She sits amongst a group of fellow addicts that are in need of confession. Admissions and revelations begin spewing forth until she decides it’s her turn. She then tells the story…