2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: Isa Goldberg
December 31, 2023: Today's comedy routines and standup are tragic affairs - self-involved and monotonous. They can be a real downer, especially if you enjoy your own lau…
By: David Sheward
December 27, 2023: The revival of Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana from La Femme Productions at the Pershing Square Signature Center sounded so promising (Not…
Give the gift that Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, Playbill and TheaterLife are raving about, BroadwayHD.
December 23, 2023: Not finished with your Holiday shopping or do you want something ex…
By: David Sheward
December 23, 2023: Two Off-Broadway productions meld the past and the present with mixed results. Michael-John LaChiusa's musical The Gardens of Anuncia at Lincoln Cent…
By: Isa Goldberg
Buena Vista Social Club @ The Atlantic
December 23, 2023: Aged walls, stained with cigar smoke, sing the tale of Buena Vista Social Club. A tale about two sisters torn a…
A Festival of Physical Theater - January 5-14-23
By: Alix Cohen
December 22, 2023: What IS Physical Theater? Its most obvious definition includes mime/pantomime, dance, circus/clowning,…
Sign of the Times, Stranger Things, The Effect, Etc.
By: David Sheward
December 20. 2023: Yet another jukebox musical is headed our way. A Sign of the Times will feature music from 1960s…
Nostalgic picks from Broadway Babe: Kismet, She Loves Me, Joan Rivers, and Frank Sinatra
December 19, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Levine-Miller, has come up with some nostalgic treasures. …
Joe Rosario's staging of James McLure's dark comedy mines the pathos over the comedy.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 18, 2023:Â James McLure's dark comedy Lone Star, a tale about Roy…
By: Isa Goldberg
December 19, 2023: "We all like to socialize," is a challenging premise to the new Broadway musical, How to Dance in Ohio. Challenging because many adults have yet to mee…
By: David Sheward
December 18, 2023: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Appropriate premiered at the Actors Theater of Louisville in 2013 and subsequently opened Off-Broadway at the Signature Theate…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 18, 2023: Two recently opened shows raise the question: how do you turn a popular documentary film into a successful stage musical? The creators of Broadway'…
By: Paulanne Simmons
This is going to be a short review. The material does not need acute analysis.
December 18, 2023: Buena Vista Social Club, developed and directed by Saheem Ali, has…
By: Alix Cohen
December 19, 2023: The Trickster and The Fool are alive within all of us. The Fool is an archetype that holds universal wisdom, crosses mutable boundaries, and speaks trut…
Two-time Tony Winner, Christine Ebersole, shines at 54 Below with Billy Stritch.
By:Â Patrick Christiano
December 15, 2023:Â Performing together for 20 years, Christine Ebersole and …
By: Mark Rifkin
December 15, 2023: "Will I be totally humiliated if I mess it up?" Remy (Desmond Luis Edwards) asks in the Broadway premiere of Rebekah Greer Melocik and Jacob Yandura's …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 15, 2023: In 2015 Alexandra Shiva created a bittersweet but heartwarmingly inspiring documentary, How to Dance in Ohio, about a group of autistic persons, ra…
By: David Sheward
December 13, 2023: Two new musicals are inspired by real events and by documentaries which are readily available for viewing on the Max streaming services. This provides…
Circus Vasquez Can't Get Enough of NY and NY Can't Get Enough of Circus Vasquez, Now in Queens through January 7. Â
By: Ellis Nassour Â
December 14, 2023: On what has…
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 11, 2023: Graciela Daniele is an Argentina-born dancer, choreographer and director who has worked in theater, dance and opera throughout the United States. I…
By: Isa Goldberg
December 10, 2023: Unusual, in the world of musical theater, The Gardens of Anuncia is a delightfully understated work, and a departure for the writer/composer Michael Jo…
"Dixon's Soul of Broadway," an intimate evening with the Dynamic Brandon Victor Dixon @ 54 Below.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 5, 2023: Making his solo debut at 54 Below with a concer…
By: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: It should come as no surprise that Here We Are, the final effort by Stephen Sondheim, is unlike any other work from the late master of the American mus…
Hell's Kitchen Transfers; Busch and Izzard Return Off-Broadway
By: David Sheward
December 5, 2023: Hell's Kitchen, the new musical employing the songs of and inspired by the life of pop …
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 5, 2023: I Can Get It for You Wholesale, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and book by Jerome Weidman, based on his 1937 novel of the same name, is set i…
