Photo Joan Marcus Jan Maxwell, a five-time Tony-nominated actor whose performances spanned stage and screen, comedy and drama, died February 11 at 61 following a longtime battle with cancer. She became the fourth performer in Tony Awards history to be nominated in all four possible acting categories. She won Drama Desks for both Chitty Chitty Bang…
Burke Moses (Arthur Vance) and Lenny Wolpe (Ned Newley) Photos by Matthew Murphy By David Schultz If you are currently feeling burnt out with the political insanity and circus that seems to be unraveling daily before our eyes…. turn off the cable news stations, at least for two and a half hours and sit through…
Jonathan Groff Photo credit: Richard Termine by Deirdre Donovan What his life lacked in length, it made up for in height. Singer-songwriter Bobby Darin was born on May 14th, 1936, in East Harlem and died 37 years later on December 20th, 1973, in Los Angeles following a heart operation. But he left…
Amy Londyn in a scene from Eric B. Sirota’s new musical FRANKENSTEIN. Photo Credit: Adam Smith Jr. by Deirdre Donovan A new musical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic horror novel is now humming a ghoulish tune at St. Luke’s Theatre. Directed by Clint Hromsco, and with book, music, and lyrics by Eric B. Sirota,…
Chauncy Thomas and Spencer Sickmann photos by Carol Rosegg By Eugene Paul This is a heads-up: the St. Louis Actors’ Studio is presenting one of the best evenings in New York, three smashing one act plays consummately acted; you might have trouble getting tickets because it’s a short run in 59E59’s smallest theater, so be advised. Provocateur…
Robert Fairchild photo credit: Shirin Tinati by Arney Rosenblat An ambitious, visually beautiful attempt to transport an audience to another time and place. The Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein production reflects the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s executive artistic director Eve Wolf’s creative goal “to bring historical figures and works to the stage with…
Daniel Gerroll and Robin Abramson Shadowlands By Eugene Paul Playwright William Nicholson’s winningly romantic depiction of the love between lionized literary light C.S. Lewis and brave, brilliant poet Joy Gresham is being given a movingly enlightened revival in director Christa Scott-Reed’s keenly observed production, thanks to wonderful performances, particularly by Daniel…
Ian Holcomb, Orlagh Cassidy, Aaron Gaines, and Dewey Caddell photos by Carol Rosegg by Deirdre Donovan Of all the holiday shows in New York this season, none is as life-affirming as It’s a Wonderful Life: The Live Radio Play. This stage adaptation of Frank Capra’s classic film returns to the Irish Repertory Theatre…
Ethan Slater photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The first ripples of delight from the audience at the Palace Theatre, where the musical SpongeBob SquarePants has just washed up, is prompted by David Zinn’s jaw-dropping nautical set: an imaginative replica of what life beneath the waves would look like. The second…
Manny Urena and cast Photo credit Russ Rowland by Deirdre Donovan True story of a Guatemalan teen in the immigration courts in the United States. Thanks to Jefffrey Solomon’s new docudrama De Novo, theatergoers can now get an insider’s look at what really happens in the immigration courts in the United…