'Finding Neverland' - Peter Pan Minus Enchantment
The company of Finding Neverland. (Photo © Carol Rosegg) For over 100 years now, J.M. Barrie’s tale of “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” (i.e. Peter Pan) has spark…
The company of Finding Neverland. (Photo © Carol Rosegg) For over 100 years now, J.M. Barrie’s tale of “the boy who wouldn’t grow up” (i.e. Peter Pan) has spark…
Tom Galantich, Kerry Butler, and Duke LafoonClinton The Musical. (Photo © Russ Rowland) A chance to revisit the glories and infamies of President William Jefferson Clinton’s eigh…
Ben Miles and Lydia Leonard in Wolf Hall. (©Johan Persson) Played in two parts that collectively run just under six hours, the stage version of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which …
Grantham Coleman, Tessa Ferrer, and Michael Stahl-David in Buzzer. (©Joan Marcus) Being pioneers in a rough neighborhood in Brooklyn that’s gentrifying has a host of unexpected…
Fan Fare, a roundtable series from Stage17 is honoring the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof with a special four-part episode dedicated to one of the all-time classics of musical theat…
Helen Mirren in The Audience. (©Joan Marcus) Perhaps under different circumstances, Queen Elizabeth II might have made a particularly shrewd therapist. At least that’s the overr…
Conor Ryan and Kate Baldwin in John & Jen. (©Carol Rosegg) Spanning nearly four decades and encompassing everything from the Viet Nam War to the rise of talk television in the late…
Jo Mei, Jennifer Lim and Francis Jue in The World of Extreme Happiness. (©Matthew Murphy) Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig reveals a richly dangerous universe in The World of Extreme H…
Stacey Sargeant, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Libby Winter in Big Love. (©T. Charles Erickson) The battle of the sexes probably has never looked as pretty as it does in the Signature Theatr…
James Lecesne in The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. (Photo courtesy of the company) There’s wondrous magic going on at Dixon Place in James Lecesne’s astonishing one-man…
Ronald Keaton in Churchill. (Photo courtesy of the company) For people who can’t get enough of British history or for anyone who has yet to catch The Audience on Broadway, the new sol…
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Mirandain Hamilton (©Joan Marcus) The use of hyperbole and superlatives in reviews can be a dangerous thing. A critic w…
Clifford Samuel and Neve McIntosh in The Events (©Matthew Murphy) Part modern day Greek tragedy and part internal psychological drama, David Greig’s searing play The Events, whi…
Benjamin Scheuer in The Lion (©Matthew Murphy) Last June, Benjamin Scheuer took me, my colleagues, and theatergoers by surprise when he opened his solo autobiographical musical The Li…
Cheryl Stern and Steven Rattazzi in City Of. (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Guys flirt with guys. An older woman begins to embrace her mortality, even as a younger one pines to unleash the opera…
Betty Gilpin and Reed Birney in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard. (Photo: Ahron Foster) Halley Feiffer’s new play I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, which opened last week at …
A scene from Nevermore. (Photo courtesy of the company) A torrent of song and rhyming couplets stream through the new music-theater piece Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death …
(clockwise from top) Emily Young, Ben Steinfield, Claire Karpen, Patrick Mulryan, Noah Brody, Jennifer Mudge, and Andy Grotelueschen in Into the Woods. (Photo: Joan Marcus) Theatrical whim…
Eric Idle, Victoria Clark, William Ferguson, Lauren Worsham, and Marc Kudisch in Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy) (©Erin Baiano) The holiday season in New York got a lo…
As 2014 winds down, there are a lot of new recordings to talk about, both cast recordings and individual vocalists. Releases from the former category are being covered in a column on B…
Stephen Rea and Lloyd Hutchinson in A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations) (©Matthew Murphy) One part Greek myth and one part television procedural Sam Shepard’s newest play …
Claybourne Elder, Randy Redd, Elizabeth A. Davis, Malcolm Gets in Allegro (©Matthew Murphy) For anyone who is encountering Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Allegro for th…
Quincy Dunn-Baker and Deirdre O’Connell in By the Water (©Joan Marcus) In Sharyn Rothstein’s new play, By the Water, which Manhattan Theatre Club opened last night at City…
Nneka Okafor and Joaquina Kalukango (left) and company in Our Lady of Kibeho (©Joan Marcus) Faith is tested at a Catholic girl’s school in a remote section of Rwanda in Katori Ha…
Hugh Jackman in The River (©Richard Termine) Hugh Jackman has returned to Broadway and brought neither his song-and-dance man persona nor his action hero Wolverine one. Instead, in Je…