3,560 stories by "Brian Scott Lipton"
It's been about 450 Sundays since I first saw Billy Crystal fill the Imperial Theatre to the brim with his theatrical memoir, 700 Sundays, and revisiting this very special solo show is like …
"Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight" Stephen Sondheim wrote in the opening of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," and that dictum can now come true for those audiences member wis…
Audiences who know Beth Henley only from her quirky Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, "Crimes of the Heart," are in for a bit of a shock while watching "The Jacksonian."
Few playwrights know how to get the conversation flowing " onstage and off " like Bruce Norris.
In his screen adventures as James Bond, Daniel Craig is immeasurably fond of his martinis (shaken, not stirred, of course). But as the cuckolded book publisher Robert in Mike Nichols' involv…
Is it Ibsen? Is it Chekhov? No, as it happens, The Snow Geese, now bowing at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is the work of current-day dramatist Sharr White.
Coming to terms with one's past can be a challenge for most people " but for Alison Bechdel, who intently wonders if her coming out as a lesbian during college resulted in the suicide of her…
In the case of acclaimed British director Max Stafford Clark's revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, now being presented by the Culture Project at 45 Bleecker, I had two initial reasons fo…
If Mary Bridget Davies doesn't break a piece of your heart in A Night With Janis Joplin, the accomplished bioplay-cum-rock concert now being smartly staged at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, your…
The 2013 season may be over for the New York Yankees, but fans of the boys in pinstripes can still get their fix at the Duke on 42nd Street thanks to the Primary Stages' world premiere produ…
The exquisitely calibrated work of four remarkable actors, led by two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones, bring a fresh dose of both poignancy and humor to this enduring masterpiece.
Thwarted love affairs. Family squabbles. Fights about inheritances. These plotlines are staples of the plays of one of the 20th-century's greatest dramatists, Horton Foote. The Old Friends, …
Will Power's "Fetch Clay, Make Man," is a powerful play of ideas now being given a dazzling production at New York Theatre Workshop under the direction of Tony Award winner Des McAnuff.
The director helms Mike Daisey’s ambitious new monologues — If your vision of a theatre director is someone who spends their days blocking actors’ every step, endlessly rea…
Sutton Foster may be beloved by many as Broadway's brassiest belter, but her trademark big notes are few and far between in the two-time Tony Award-winning star's thoroughly enchanting new s…
It's admittedly early in the theater season to make predictions, but I'm still willing to bet (at least the paycheck for this review) that no one will make a more assured Broadway debut over…
Here are a couple of truths about theater: if you're a writer and have a story you feel the need to share, you must often find a way to tell it yourself. And if you're a performer and you fe…
About three-fourths of the way into Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman's go-for-broke musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's bittersweet romance Love's Labour's Lost, now being presented…
Unexpected visits from long-lost family usually end up causing major disharmony " especially in theater " but few of these reunions cause the kind of major upheaval found at the end of "Harb…
Summer is a great time for reading murder mysteries on the beach or in the backyard. Fortunately, city dwellers stuck in the Big Apple now have a pleasant alternative...
If not for the almost Herculean efforts of the show's eight multitalented performers, this lightweight confection might actually evaporate while you were watching it.
The first time Luis Bravo's Forever Tango hit Broadway back in 1997, most Americans couldn't tell the difference between the Argentine Tango and the Watusi. But the popularity of ABC's "Danc…
"There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low," Irving Berlin famously wrote in Annie Get Your Gun. Broadway and television favorite Matthew Morrison proved just how true…
Quite the spectacle, but is this a journey worth taking?
A nearly flawless production that never seems to be preaching to the choir...
