1,209 stories by "Elyse Sommer"
Halley Feiffer's funny-sad new play
A new God, shares his with and wisdom with Broadway Audiences Read More
All the Way a Triumphant Transfer From Stage to Screen
his almost sung-through version of the much told story has been brought to fascinating, lushly staged new life.
a compendium of theater critics talking about their craft in the new media age
Cirque du Soleil tackles Broadway as a real musical plus its usual acrobatic razzle-dazzle
Nick Payne, seen by many as an heir to Tom Stoppard, is back with another science themed intellectual puzzle. It's about the workings of that most mysterious human organ, the brain. Nick Pa…
True to the title, Penelope Skinner's dystopian drama takes on a multitude of disastrous effects of a continued head-in-the-sand response to climate change and economic problems
The history of the revered but also reviled Sholem Asch play God of Vengeance has been been ingeniously and entertainingly crafted by playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman fro…
Pulitzer prize winner GuiaraAlegra Hudes' bar play at the Signature Theatre, directed by Hamilton's Thomas Kail . . .
- a show most worth Encore-ing as a case study of why Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim's only collaboration misfired. .
a single incident escalates into a heart-stirring, highly original and believable new musical about a society with an alarming increase in teen suicides and drug addiction as well as social …
Jessica Lange headlines an outstanding cast in the Roundabout's splendid revival of O'Neill's masterpiece. .
George C. Wolfe and his starry team turn this mostly forgotten musical into an entertaining history lesson about black musical theate
a promising Broadway debut for singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles and another award-winning performance by Jessie Mueller
the top heavy plot with its too convenient details makes one wonder if Cate Ryan's new family drama wouldn't work better as a documentary.
Ike Holter tackles our dysfunctional public education system with a compelling mix of poignancy and humor. .
despite all the food preparation and ideas toossed into Anne Washburn's "Big Chill" play you're left hungry for more clarity.
- Ivo Van Hov's highly effective take on Arthur Miller's classic allelgory
Another bluegrass tuner, this one on Broadway and by the multi-talented Steve Martin and songwriter Edie Brickell.
Aaron Posner's clever riff of Chekov's The Seagull at the Pearl's 42nd Street home
- Tarell Alvin McCraney uses a dysfunctional Louisiana family to tackle Book of Job questions
- a dark comedy about the publicly condemned but business as usual world of private investment firms
The romance that propels her plot may at first seem like a mostly authorial device to lighten things up, but it turns out to be as as combustible and unsettling as the complexities of the si…
Jeff Daniels and Michell Williams still make the aptly named David Harrower's psychodrama harrowing
