Michael Oberholtzer as Timothy, Geneva Carr as Margery, Steven Boyer as Jason, Marc Kudisch as Pastor Greg and Sarah Stiles as Jessica photos by Joan Marcus Hand To God by David Schultz Something strange and wonderful has just transpired. A truly unique and shocking play has just opened on Broadway. First seen Off-Off Broadway, then…
Vanessa Hudgens as Gigi photos by Margot Schulman by Eugene Paul On Broadway, it’s April, and Paris is in the air, Paris in the 1900’s – that’s Gigi – and Paris forty-some years later, in 1945, that’s An American in Paris, both musicals reborn versions of silver screen parentage, one of them sublime, the…
Tam Mutu & Kelli Barrett photo by Jason Bell by Eugene Paul In a huge, richly appointed – designer Paul Tazewell outdoes himself and most other shows dressing his vast company — unstinting production encompassing the breadth of the famed Boris Pasternak novel through its turbulent, painful years from 1903 to 1930, years of…
Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope by Eugene Paul Paris? 1945? This bare stage, a funny looking grand piano and a funnier looking piano player with a bum leg? He’s ex-G.I. Adam Hochberg (brilliant Brandon Uranowitz) confessing he’s a composer and we are off to the most enchanting musical on Broadway, delight after delight. How…
Billy Carter, Brittany Vicars, Robert Petkoff, Arnie Burto Photos by Joan Marcus by Dorothy Marcic Going to see 39 Steps at the Union Street Theater is part film noir, part physical comedy, and part brilliant acting, with four characters playing so many parts you shouldn’t even try to count. Spend your time watching them…
(L-R) Sawyer Nunes, Alex Dreier, Laura Michelle Kelly, Aidan Gemme, Matthew Morrison, Christopher Paul Richards photos by Carol Rosegg by Russell Bouthiller From Mary Martin of mid-century to those millennial lost boys of Peter and the Starcatcher, Peter Pan and those adorable little Darlings have captured the imagination of children and adults for more…
Left to right: Ehud Asherie, Lezlie Harrison, Arthur Pomposello, Brianna Thomas, Hilary Gardner. Photo by Michael Stever. by Barry Bassis Arthur Pomposello aka Pompie, spent 18 years as the host and booker at the Algonquin’s Oak Room. While there, he presented such fabled singers as Julie Wilson and Andrea Marcovicci. He also promoted up…
PHOTO BY Richard Termine By Elliot Rush On March 13th, Sutton Foster, one of Broadway’s reigning leading ladies, made a remarkable return to the stage of Carnegie Hall as a guest of The New York Pops, just five days before her 40th Birthday. In what became her penultimate number, Sutton told the packed crowd…
Bill Nighy and Carrie Mulligan Photos by John Haynes by Deirdre Donovan “I mean, to be a teacher, the only thing you really have going for you … there’s only one thing that makes the whole thing make sense, and that is finding one really good pupil.” Kyra, the schoolteacher character who is devoting…
Cromwell (Ben Miles) and King Henry (Nathaniel Parker) by Eugene Paul A huge, lavish, compelling retelling of the seething times of Henry VIII, how lust overcame religious duty Homo homini lupus. Hilary Mantel’s prize winning books, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” have been artfully fashioned by playwright Mike Poulton into a confident…