Lupita Nyong’o Photos by Joan Marcus By Ron Cohen It’s a rare work of theater that can transport audiences to a totally unfamiliar terrain and hold them there, transfixed, from start to finish. But that’s exactly what playwright Danai Gurira — with the help of a brilliant cast and director —…
HONEYMOON IN VEGAS: CONVERSATION & PERFORMANCE WITH THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM OF THE HIT BROADWAY SHOW With TONY DANZA, ROB McCLURE and BRYNN O’MALLEY JULIE JAMES set to Moderate Sunday, March 15, 8:15 pm, tickets from $30 “A deeply-satisfying, sophisticated Broadway musical in a way few shows are anymore” – New York Times #HoneymoonBway is…
Emily Young and Noah Brody in a scene from Fiasco Theater’s “Into the Woods” (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) by David Schultz When this brilliant musical first hit the boards in 1987 it seemed a fresh take on all the fairy tale bedtime stories we were told as tiny tots. A mishmash of various characters…
Michael Alcide, Fernand Auguste, Ryan Jillian Kilpatrick, Chima Chikazunga, Darren Jerome Lamb, Cherith Scott. Photos by Gerry Goodstein by Eugene Paul There’s a prideful fervor in this Atlanta Black Theater Festival production of Dutchman which goes beyond the fact that Obie winner Dutchman is having yet another showing in the place that spawned it,…
Tonya Pinkins (above) and Dianne Wiest (below) (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) By David Schultz A scintillating cat and mouse treatise combines office politics and race into a frothy mix. Cunningly directed, makes for must see viewing. This new black comedy written by Joel Drake Johnson hits a lot of nerves. The subject of race…
Bart Feller & Stacy Shames with NJSO orchestra photo by Fred Stucker by Deirdre Donovan Maestro Johannes Debus and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) recently breezed into the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) with its program, “Mozart & Mendelssohn,” on February 27th. The first half of the program presented Mendelssohn’s rarely-performed The…
by Deirdre Donovan Hamilton, the much-awaited musical at the Public Theater, is making a mighty big noise at its downtown home in Astor Place. And if you go to only one show this season, it should be to this amazing new musical that breathes life into 18th Century American history and gives it a…
Clark Scott Carmichael, Jennifer Hope Wills By Edward Lieberman The story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has inspired generations. One of its more recent iterations was Camelot, a musical crafted by Broadway legends Alan J. Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music), which ran on the Great White…
Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane photos by Richard Termine By Eric Grunin The magnificent production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh now at BAM is a must-see for any lover of the play, the playwright, Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy, or great acting in general. I have never in my life seen so many fine…
by Linda Amile Burns Lights, camera, action! Making his L & L debut, the multi-talented performer, playwright Charles Busch presented and hosted a dazzling program of music and song entitled “Here’s To The Girls! – Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” on February 7-9, 2015. He put together a terrific creative team with musical director/arranger John McDaniel…