3,560 stories by "Brian Scott Lipton"
If you're in need of a good laugh, it would be unwise to skip Unconstitutional right now.
In the restaurant world, great atmosphere often substitutes for the need to serve great food. Fortunately, theatergoers visiting Kazino, the lavishly decorated 6,000-square-foot supper club …
Right now, Lindsay Mendez could be found in the dictionary under "U" for ubiquitous, but that's no problem for the talented actress or her many fans. She will be at Joe's Pub on Wednesday, M…
Irina Dvorovenko has got legs " and she knows how to use them. The great Russian ballerina's remarkable flexibility is no surprise to regulars of American Ballet Theatre, but Broadway musica…
A man and a woman, originally strangers, come together in a futuristic society where people mysteriously disappear. Will their love survive? Will good triumph over evil? No, you're not readi…
Russian intellectuals are hardly a new sight onstage at Lincoln Center, but audiences expecting the skillfull melding of fact and fiction that were the hallmark in Tom Stoppard's three-part …
Many of us know what it feels like to fight to keep one's job in today's economy. But tough-talking British playwright Mike Bartlett " last represented on these shores by the provocative Coc…
We won't know the big winners of the 2013 Drama Desk and Tony Awards until May 19 and June 9, respectively. But here are some things we do know about many of the productions, actors, and des…
The finest new musical of the 2012-2013 season!
Mothers are consistently celebrated for their deep, abiding love towards their children -- and perhaps no more so than the Virgin Mary. But in Colm Toibin's provocative and often searing mon…
There are so many magical doings onstage at the Music Box Theater in Diane Paulus' superlative staging of the 1972 musical Pippin, you often don't know where to look. Gorgeous tumblers and h…
There's a lot less eating on the stage of the Booth Theatre by the voracious Hollywood agent Sue Mengers than one might expect in Tony Award winner John Logan's delicious new bioplay, I'll E…
It may be a cliché that home is where the heart is, but no playwright has ever made those words seem more universal than the late Horton Foote in his plays about his home state of Texas. An…
Without question, Alan Cumming is toiling mightily upon the stage of Broadway's Barrymore Theatre in the National Theatre of Scotland's version of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. For just und…
Artistically, there's no really good reason to revive Jekyll & Hyde. This 1997 tuner is a shoddily plotted, musically bombastic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel about a sc…
Bobby Cannavale has charisma to spare, which proves to be a good thing since he's on stage practically every minute of Doug Hughes' lavish yet leaden revival of Clifford Odets' melodrama, Th…
The perils of star casting on Broadway have been constant fodder for gossip mills in the past several years, most recently with director Daniel Sullivan's seemingly ill-fated decision to cho…
If Neil Simon had somehow mated with A.R. Gurney, would they have produced Richard Greenberg? This odd question raced through my mind at Greenberg's often hilarious, bittersweet new play, Th…
No custom-made suit could fit Nathan Lane quite as beautifully as the role of Chauncey Miles in Douglas Carter Beane's ambitious and affecting new play, The Nance, now being presented by Lin…
The music business is full of people who might say that Motown founder Berry Gordy Jr. is his own worst enemy, and based on Broadway's Motown: The Musical, now at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, …
The decision to embrace motherhood. The challenges of cross-cultural adoption. The poor medical conditions in Africa that have led to millions dying of AIDS. Tanya Barfield is to be commende…
How do you solve a problem like Matilda? Given that Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel has been beloved for years by girls who identify with the title character " unloved by her parents and …
All of us wear masks of some kind, visible or not, but more people in society are literally donning disguises in an effort to help society and fight crime. This unusual phenomenon gave rise …
There may be awesomely flexible drag queens, six-inch stiletto heels, and even a hairy man in a t-shirt, but there is absolutely nothing in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots that will sto…
In a theatrical season full of boldfaced names taking center stage " Ann Richards, Mike McAlary, Sue Mengers, the Virgin Mary " perhaps it's not altogether surprising to find ourselves in th…
