3,560 stories by "Brian Scott Lipton"
Allegro Is Fast and Furious...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, the old saying goes. But what do you do if it is? In the case of musical theater, "revising" the show doesn't always end up being the solution.
Watching the New Group's bracing, brilliantly acted revival of David Rabe's 1971 drama "Sticks and Bones," now at the Pershing Square Signature Center, what we might expect to shock us sadly…
Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal are irresistible in ''The Real Thing''
Even those theatergoers who saw the piece previously at its New York premiere at LCT3 two years ago should strongly consider a return visit.
"Mad Men" star Vincent Kartheiser steals the show in Billy & Ray at the Vineyard Theatre
"...touching, frequently hilarious and sometimes upsetting..."
I don't think the Guinness Book of World Records has a category for "Most Inside Jokes About Broadway in a Broadway Play", but they need to add one now, thanks to Terrence McNally's "It's On…
Blythe Danner Leads Spirited Country House
No one goes to a Neil LaBute play expecting to see civilized conversation or polite people, but the vitriolic, narcissistic, and generally quarrelsome quartet in the provocative playwright's…
Welcome to Fanmail, our tributes to theatre artists we admire — Arrogance. Overconfidence. Ego. These may not be things one looks for in a friend or lover (though there’s no acco…
It's sadly appropriate that Scott Organ's play, "Phoenix," now getting a new production at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is named after the dull city in Arizona rather than the mythical bird of y…
Welcome to Fanmail, our tributes to theatre artists we admire — I ran into actress Jessica Hecht on the street unexpectedly a few months ago. As a longtime fan and acquaintance, I eage…
The oohs, the aahs, the screams begin for Kyle Dean Massey the second he takes center stage as the title character of the long-running Broadway revival of the musical "Pippin" at the Music B…
The presence of the remarkable actor Michael Shannon has convinced me over the past decade to check out many plays that didn't initially appeal to my sensibilities...
Russia's Vakhtganov State Academic Theatre's 3 ½-hour stage adaptation of Eugene Pushkin's legendary novel "Eugene Onegin," being presented at New York City Center as part of the Cherry O…
Megan Hilty's new cabaret act is the "total package."
The Kit Kat Club is back open for business after 10 long years...
Those of us who first saw Neil Patrick Harris as TV's precocious young medic, Doogie Howser, could hardly have imagined his greatest artistic triumph might come from portraying an embittered…
The amazing Sutton Foster in yet another Tony-worthy performance...
Movie star casting proves to be a double-edged sword in Anna D. Shapiro's production of John Steinbeck's 1937 drama "Of Mice and Men."
"Spring Is Here" with Lucie Arnaz at Cafe Carlyle
Tony Award winner Audra McDonald magically disappears into the heart, soul " and yes, voice " of the troubled jazz singer Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson's "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Gri…
This "Raisin" still has plenty of juice. Indeed, it's one of the season's few must-see shows.
If there's any question how much Broadway audiences have missed the presence of Idina Menzel, the once-and-forever Elphaba (and currently animated Elsa), just listen to the deafening entranc…
