73 stories by "Jack Quinn"
Terrence McNally, the four-time Tony-winning playwright of Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class and Ragtime, died March 24, 2020, at 81. Looking back at 16 TheaterScene.net reviews and co…
NYC theater this week, Nov 2–8, 2026: Broadway and Off-Broadway openings, previews, closings, news and galas, from Wanted to Here There Are Blueberries.
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The New York Pops opened its Carnegie Hall season on October 23, 2026, with “007: James Bond Forever.” Music director Steven Reineke conducted, with Lena Hall as guest artist. Drawing on…
Stephen Sondheim, the composer and lyricist who reshaped the American musical, died on Friday, November 26, 2021, at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 91. His lawyer, F. Richard Pappa…
Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who went from the pop charts to Broadway and gave Spring Awakening its rock score, died on September 17, 2026, in New York. He was 56. His family had said…
Anna Louizos, the three-time Tony-nominated scenic designer behind Avenue Q, In the Heights and School of Rock, died August 25 at 69. TheaterScene's critics reviewed her work 19 times, from …
The New York Pops’ 43rd Birthday Gala honoring Stephen Schwartz did not present itself as a ceremonial evening. It moved with purpose, cleanly built, with no drag between numbers and no ne…
There was something inherently ambitious"perhaps even unwieldy"about The New York Pops' season finale, "United in Sound: America at 250." Spanning two and a half centuries of Ame…
For Jackson, this concert marked her Carnegie Hall debut, and it was a thrilling one. Known to Broadway audiences for her luminous Daisy Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" and for a career…
I spoke with set designer Andrew Robinson and writer/director Sherry Stregack Lutken about how the porch came into being"not as an object, but as a way of thinking. What follows is a focused…
Review by Jack Quinn, publisher Amelia Grace Beckham and Gavin Cole in a scene from Josée Klein's "Falling Out" at UNDER St. Marks (Photo credit: Seana E. Rogovin) Falling Out is a rock mus…
The opening sequence established that tone. "Deck the Hall" and "We Need a Little Christmas" moved briskly and confidently, their energy functional rather than decorative. Reineke kept the w…
Performed beneath Rashid Johnson's "A Poem for Deep Thinkers," "The Hikers" unfolds inside the Guggenheim rotunda, where architecture, elevation, and live music shape a restrained duet by Ll…
Jennifer Blackmer's "Predictor" expands a single moment of insight into a sharp examination of authorship and agency. Anchored by Caitlin Kinnunen's quietly compelling performance as Meg Cra…
Dominick LaRuffa Jr. speaks without mythology about acting, teaching, and building a sustainable life in the business. In this conversation, he reflects on discipline, long-term patience, an…
Most people delete scam emails. I don't. I answer them in character"Columbo, Paul Lynde, Truman Capote, Fred Garvin"to see what happens when urgency meets performance. What began as curiosit…
Cabaret artist and storyteller Fiona-Jane Weston launches a pair of online Christmas History Salons tracing the holiday's evolution from ancient ritual to modern tradition. Blending historic…
Mary Foster Conklin's Mirrors Revisited stripped Peggy Lee's 1975 art-album down to its core. With a tightly aligned ensemble led by John DiMartino, Yoshi Waki's bass, Vince Cherico's percus…
Kathy Kaefer's Kiss Me Once: Stories from the Homefront transforms 1940s wartime songs into moving portraits of real families, lovers, and soldiers. Through tender storytelling and beautiful…
Steve Ross and a gifted ensemble brought Noël Coward's world vividly to life at the Episcopal Actors' Guild, blending wit, longing, and theatrical history. Highlights included Shana Farr'…
With Tom Stoppard's passing, we look back on a career that transformed theatrical language and feeling. Our tribute revisits Arcadia, Leopoldstadt, Travesties, and The Real Thing through The…
Eddie Bruce brings warmth, wit, and timeless swing to Winter Rhythms, marking his first Urban Stages appearance with charm, heart, and musical finesse.
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Harlem Holidays features Renée Elise Goldsberry in an intimate CTH celebration of music, storytelling, and community-driven artistry on Dec 15, 2025
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The occasion was the 20th Anniversary Gala of Gingold Theatrical Group, the company that celebrates and revitalizes the work of George Bernard Shaw
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Douglas Taurel brings veterans' stories to life in The American Soldier, a gripping, award-winning solo performance.
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