134 stories by "David Lefkowitz"
Even with good acting, a play told entirely in monologues can be difficult to make lively.
David Staller s production lacks realism in parts, but it s a lively take on George Bernard Shaw s comedy.
This play needs some trimming, but the inquiring mind at the heart of it makes for an intriguing character.
This adaptation of Uncle Vanya struggles as it straddles two worlds without committing to either.
God makes a visit to Earth in this new comedy, but the story is short on substance.
This is a fun musical about a nice Jewish boy with maxed-out credit cards and zero game with women.
An out-of-commission playhouse has one week to put on a play and save the town.
Rabbi Sol Solomon interviews actor Allen Lewis Rickman. Topics include: Yiddish, Alan Rickman, Coen Brothers, A SERIOUS MAN, Steve Sterner. Segment aired Feb. 4, 2017 as part of the "Dave's …
Unless you've been hiding under a rock far away from the theater district, you're aware that next week brings the Broadway opening of Hamilton, the much-anticipated musical from In the Heigh…
You may not know this. In fact, there's no particular reason for you to know it, but July 24th is "Tell an Old Joke Day." Yes, a day apparently exists that is devoted to recounting quips tha…
As they do every so often, stories of audience members behaving insufferably at the theater become newsworthy"usually making the papers because some actor or fellow playgoer finally pushes b…
Just finished watching the 2015 Tony Awards on CBS, and what a swell party it was. Oh sure, there are things to snark about (see below), and coulda-shoulda-woulda moments, but for three hour…
Dave Lefkowitz, a theater editor at Stagebuddy.com, is doing his annual, live, Tony Awards radio special TODAY (Sat, June 6), from 11am-4pm(Eastern). You can listen live at www.uncradio.com.…
It's that time again, when art meets commerce meets glitz meets schmaltz. It's the 69th Annual Tony Awards, happening Sunday night, June 7, at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS-TV broadcasting…
As a theater critic for more than 25 years, I'm used to getting free tickets to the plays I see, be they off-off-Broadway showcases or the latest multi-million dollar blockbusters in Times S…
SEE or SKIP: The Audience VENUE: Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, to June 28, 2015. INFO: Broadway continues its slavish Anglophilia with this look at the long reign of Queen Elizabeth …
SEE or SKIP: The Heidi Chronicles VENUE: Broadway's Music Box Theater, to May 3, 2015. INFO: Theatergoers have just a few more performances to catch Pam MacKinnon's staging of The Heidi Chro…
With so many shows opening on Broadway this spring, it's easy to overlook a light, frothy comedy. But never count Joe DiPietro out. His musical with Jimmy Roberts, "I Love You, You're Perfec…
Well, "The Wedding Singer" flopped but became a popular touring show, and "First Date" flopped but is bound to get lots of community-theater action, will another comic musical about romance …
1951 saw Broadway fall in love with Audrey Hepburn playing the innocent but oh-so-canny "Gigi" in the Anita Loos play of that title. 1958 caused a similar infatuation with Leslie Caron when …
A Broadway show about foul-mouthed hand puppets . . . could such a thing ever work? Ask the producers of "Avenue Q" (which is still running in its off-Broadway transfer). Okay, but can anoth…
When David Hare's romantic drama, "Skylight", first reached Broadway in 1996, critics lauded the show's balance of emotional, inter-personal drama with the playwright's realization that clas…
Before "Girls" and "Sex and the City" but after "That Girl" and "The Mary Tyler Moore" show came "The Heidi Chronicles", a comic look at a modern-day woman who wants and deserves to have it …
Old-fashioned, nostalgic glamour is big on Broadway this year, what with the eccentrics of "You Can't Take it with You" and the retro vibe of "Honeymoon in Vegas", not to mention the upcomin…
While American politics remains a rare topic on Broadway (this season's "Disgraced" notwithstanding), English intrigue is all the rage on the Great White Way. David Hare's socio-economic dis…
