Emily Padgett, Sutton Foster, Asmeret Ghebremichael PHOTO CREDIT: Monique Carboni by Marc Miller One can revel in the sturdy construction of this fine example of late-golden-era musical making, which continued Gwen Verdon’s unbroken string of hits. Masterminded by her then-husband, Bob Fosse, it adapted—and, many argued at the time, took some of the…
Will Eno and Tracy Letts photo by Nancy Carmpton by Deirdre Donovan What’s up with Tracy Letts nowadays? In two words, a lot. His latest play, Mary Page Marlowe, premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago earlier this year and a revival of his 2003 play, Man from Nebraska, settles in at…
Photo by Joan Marcus, 2016 by Julia Polinsky With In Transit, director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall has worked theater magic. Marshall’s clear and accomplished direction transcends the expectations of much ensemble theater, which often blend into mush; this one leaves one indelible image after another. In Transit features a beatbox/vocal percussionist (Chesney Snow)…
Ken Jennings and Melissa Errico photos by Carol Rosegg by Eugene Paul Just say Finian’s Rainbow and a glow begins to emit, surely a built in protection concocted by leprechauns, what with the biggest and best leprechaun ever to appear in any of the many reappearances of Finian’s Rainbow making his appearance in…
Kilty Reidy (as Bill Brewer) and Jayson Elliott (as Buddy Baker). Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman What do you get when you cross Holiday Inn and White Christmas? You get Christmas Inn, this year’s holiday offering at the Westchester Broadway Theatre. The show, based upon a Richard Stafford revision of the…
By Rachel Goddard For the past eighty-four years, the Radio City Rockettes have faithfully reminded us just how magical New York is at Christmas. In the largest indoor theater in the world, this Christmas tradition has charmed audiences of tourists and New Yorkers alike ushering in the Holiday season. The Radio City Rockettes…
David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig photos by Chad Batka By Ron Cohen Conceptual director Sam Gold and cohorts take on William Shakespeare’s Othello with no holds barred in this hotly anticipated New York Theatre Workshop production. It’s a good, sometimes violent tussle, but the two who emerge indisputably victorious from this three-hour-plus fray…
Photos by Jeremy Daniel By Ron Cohen “You have so much information, you want to say everything, it’s very hard to stick to the point.” So says Aaron Port, the writer who is both the narrator and central character in Richard Greenberg’s play, The Babylon Line, just as he is about to wrap things up….
A Review by Deirdre Donovan At the end of David Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, the titular comet descends from the flies and comes into twinkling view at center stage at the Imperial Theatre. It’s a stunning spectacle that is matched in grandeur only by the whole emotional impact of this…
photo by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan There are few plays that hold a mirror up to life with such intensity as Richard Nelson’s three-play cycle The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family. His third installment in the series, Women of a Certain Age, opened at the Public Theater (at the LuEsther…