2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By David Sheward
April 13, 2025. The first thing you notice upon entering the Winter Garden Theater for Good Night, and Good Luck., the riveting new play headlined and co-written by George …
By David Sheward
April 9, 2025. Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, which began life as a London tribute concert devised by uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh and then restaged for a commercial r…
George Clooney makes his Broadway debut in an adaptation of his acclaimed film, Good Night, and Good Luck, directed by David Cromer at the Winter Garden.
By Patrick Christiano
April 7, 202…
By Paulanne Simmons
The film Goodnight, and Goodluck, directed by Goerge Clooney and co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, was released in 2005. The film chronicles Murrow's campaign to …
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 6, 2025. The big reason many are paying premium prices at the Winter Garden Theatre to see Good Night, and Good Luck,is not because they're dying to witness a famo…
By David Sheward
April 5, 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's savagely funny takedown of cutthroat Chicago real-estate salesmen, has been a magnet for male actors to prove their theatr…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. First seen on Broadway 41 years ago (March 25, 1984), and revived three times since then (2005, 2012, and now, at the Palace), David Mamet's Glengarry Gle…
By Samuel L. Leiter
April 5, 2025. The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted by Kip Williams from the 1890 Gothic horror novel by Oscar Wilde (his only one), about a man who neither ages nor lo…
Reviewed by David Sheward
April 2, 2025. The family drama is making a dynamic comeback this theater season. Cult of Love, The Blood Quilt, We Had a World, and now Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Pu…
By Paulanne Simmons
April, 2, 2025. It's a well-known fact that playwrights have miserable childhoods. Their father was a drunken actor (Eugene O'Neill). Their father abandoned them, and th…
Jamie DeRoy & Friends to present 35th Anniversary Cabaret at Birdland to support The Entertainment Community Fund on Monday, March 31.
March 28, 2025: Producer Jamie deRoy will presen…
By David Sheward
March 28, 2025. In a dazzling feat of technology and acting pyrotechnics, Sarah Snook of Succession fame plays 26 characters and brings Oscar Wilde's 1891 classic of go…
By Samuel L. Leiter
In 2023, two new musicals, Broadway's How to Dance in Ohio and Off Broadway's Buena Vista Social Club (at the Atlantic Theatre), were directly based on popular documenta…
By Paulanne Simmons March 23, 2025. Sarah Snook's one-woman The Picture of Dorian Gray is a combination of melodrama and farce, enhanced by technology and enabled by sheer stamina. With the …
BroadwayHD BroadwayHD Marked 10 years of Excellence with a PIPPIN/ 50th Anniversary Celebration featuring Stephen Schwartz, Alex Newell, & Ben Vereen.
March 26, 2025: Bonnie Comley and…
By David Sheward
March 25, 2025. Two disparate musicals originating away from Broadway, one in London and the other Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre Club, recently opened with a day of …
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 25, 2025. Despite its somewhat comedic title, Operation Mincemeat, the spectacularly clever British musical spoof ("spoofsical"?) at the John Golden Theatre, is in…
By David Sheward
March 23, 2025. After 31 Broadway shows, three Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, orchestrator Doug Besterman is achieving a rare feat: three shows running simultaneously in o…
By Paulanne Simmons
March 23, 2025. Satires on war are perhaps as old as war itself. Consider Lysistrata, M*A*S*H, Catch-22 and now, Operation Mincemeat, the very energetic and occasionally…
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 22, 2025. Family dramas are theatrical staples, especially the kind where relatives gather from far and wide for some unifying function, like a holiday, death, or …
By David Sheward
March 22, 2025. "There is no straight line to tell this story," says Joshua, the character standing in for the playwright Joshua Harmon in his touching autobiographical wor…
By David Sheward
March 20, 2025. Sex plays a vital role in three classics works, now in revival Off-Broadway: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and, surpri…
By Samuel L. Leiter
March 19, 2025. We Had a World, the new, three-character, autobiographical dramedy by Joshua Harmon, Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage II, is …
By Iris Wiener
March 19, 2025. Tony-Award winner Idina Menzel (Wicked) sure knows how to make a much-anticipated return to Broadway. She currently stars in Redwood, a musical that she co-…
By Paulanne Simmons
March 17, 2025. If you're a fan of country music, and especially the music of songwriter JT Harding, you'll definitely like Bedlam's Music City. The show is directed …
