April is a GREAT Month for Disabled Actors in NYC. By Nicholas Linnehan I’ve been saying that someone should write an article about what an outstanding month April has been for actors who are differently-abled. No one did, so I will endeavor to do my best here. But the three main theater companies that…
Kylie McVey and Bowdie Photo Credit: Matt Urban Mobius New Media. By David Schultz Because of Winn-Dixie is based on the beloved children’s book penned by Kate DiCamillo. This still morphing show has been kicking around since 2013. It is in its final stages and is Broadway-bound. The simple plot details the warm and emotional friendship between…
Sierra Boggess. and David Burtka photos by Joan Marcus By Russell Bouthiller Putting together a wedding can be stressful, especially when the parents of the bride or groom wish the happy event were not taking place at all. Same old story: in the eyes of the parents, one’s not good enough for the other. …
Pictured (l-r): Blake Hammond, Jerry O’Connell, Renée Fleming, Douglas Sills, Scott Robertson, Anna Chlumsky. Photo Credit © 2015 Andrew Eccles By Russell Bouthiller Making her Broadway debut, three-time Grammy winning opera star Renée Fleming takes to the stage of the Longacre Theatre in the new play by two-time Tony winner Joe DiPietro, Living on…
Jill Shackner and Karyn Quackenbush photo by Joan Marcus by Barry Bassis Iowa begins promisingly with a self-possessed little girl, Kolette Tetlow, singing. The promise vanishes when the music ends. A ditzy divorceé named Sandy (Karyn Quackenbush) suddenly informs her 14-year old daughter Becca (Jill Shackner) that she is going to marry a man…
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…