1,209 stories by "Elyse Sommer"
Diane Paulus and her collaborators have created a fantastically, even giddily entertaining Porgy and Bess that has enough merits to make all the controversy about ill-conceived tampering mel…
Athol Fugard is deservedly revered for having proved again and again that the pen can indeed be a mighty weapon against injustice. However, despite a stellar cast, this revival illustrates h…
My favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
My favorite theater-related political quote of the week If Mitt Romney were auditioning for a part in a musical instead of as our commander in chief,…
Tweet Peeks at Off-Broadway show reviews. . Curtainup Broadway reviews coming this week: The Road to Mecca & The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Leo - Whether this mult…
Just a few days after I saw Outside People by Zayd Dohrn, the latest play about Americans in China, and just&nbs…
This latest play set in China is not without its contrivances and incomplete plot details, but it's a fast-paced, entertaining and thought-provoking look at the whirlpool of cultural adjustm…
LABrynth Theater Company continues ts FREE Barn Reading Series at the Bank Street Theater (155 Bank Street). Admission is free and LABPASS members ($35 for a pass) can make advanced reserv…
Long before theater goers embrace plays running just 90 minutes without an intermission magazine readers …
Warm up during the cold months to come with one of the FREE Thursday concerts at the David Rubenstein Atrium. at Lincoln Center, Broadwa…
As a theater magazine editor and critic, I'm always on the lookout for theater-related tidbits by news and political…
Reading Helen Simonson's delightful first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, is a bit like indulging in a sinfully &n…
a look back and forward
live theater at not much more than a movie ticketFive New Works by Emerging Artists inMetropolitan's Seventh Annual Living Literature Festival January 16 " 29, 201…
Our stage and screen page review comes down in favor of the Puppet Horses in War Horse, the play
Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his horse Joey in the movieDespite it's long run in London and New York and planned traveling productions, the incredibly imagi…
A Happy and Healthy Holiday to Our Readers. . .and everything good for 2012 &…
Connecticut -- If you're too young to remember radio plays. . . It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play- While it adds little to the warmth or sentiment of the original film, thi…
London Theater Goers have a chance to see Eddie Redmayne in Michael Grandage's farewell production at the Donmar. . .Richard II- Also the famous …
A Year On/Off Broadway Ends: Alas, With 3 Misfires After the delightful Once - a rare screen-to-stage adaptation that retains the charms of its s…
David Hyde Pierce stars as a workaholic book editor and failed father in Molly Smith Metzler new play which unfortunately does not give him a chance to fully exploit his comic talents
Hamlet at Home- How do you winkle out the magic and the thought behind Hamlet? Scott Elliott, the Artistic Director of The New Group did just that as part of the enjoyable "Dark N…
the move uptown is a case of overreaching. It's still light-hearted and purposefully silly fun, but it's just too slight and limited in broad audience appeal
if anyone can bring out the very best in a show and make a half-full cup of entertainment filled to the brim, Mayer's the man. At least I thought he was
a rare screen-to-stage adaptation that retains the charms of ther source but as a work of art in its own right . . .
