2,359 stories by "Matthew Wexler"
By Samuel L. Leiter Late in Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, we learn that the title refers to a mantra suggested by a dentist for those who grind their teeth at night. Some ma…
The boys are back on Friday, November 7 for a night of theatrical/burlesque/circus revelry. After multiple sold-out, standing-room-only productions, and the most recent Atlantis cruise where…
by Matthew Wexler We have a lot to be thankful for this November as Broadway and beyond welcomes revivals galore, hoping to capitalize on familiar titles and cult favorites. We'll see who ha…
by Samuel L. Leiter I first saw the movie version of James Dickey's 1970 novel Deliverance, a story of survival in the backwoods of North Georgia, when it appeared 42 years ago, and unlike m…
by Samuel L. Leiter Two promising ingredients come together in Lift, now playing at 59E59 Theaters: one is playwright Walter Mosley, the popular and prolific African American novelist,…
by Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler A star has been born on Broadway this season at the Lyric Theatre. Unfortunately you won't see him onstage because it's choreographer Joshua Bergasse, …
by contributor Samuel L. Leiter Considering the place of former Beatle John Lennon in New York's cultural history, one would think it about time that Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, a jukebox…
Contributor Samuel Leiter goes for a dip with the latest production from the Debate Society. Ars Nova is one of those intimate, creatively flexible venues, like the Soho Rep, where you never…
There is an old record player (remember, those?) placed at the foot of the stage. Dylan Ebdus (played by Adam Chanler-Berat) enters, puts on an old Motown-inspired vinyl, and begins to weave…
The New York theater season is proving to be filled with an invigorating sense of creativity, including the latest venture from the team that brought us [title of show]. With a book by Hunte…
Contributor Samuel Leiter goes on a poet’s journey with The Belle of Amherst starring Joely Richardson. The Emily Dickinson we see in William Luce's one-woman biodrama, The Belle…
Broadway is going meta and I wonder if producers are interested in plot lines that don't involve a life in the theater. Earlier this month we saw the opening of The Country House by Donald M…
Have you tired of those happy-go-lucky musicals packed with leggy chorus girls and perfectly coifed gents tapping their way through a perky Cole Porter dance break? Fear not, the dark, under…
The Tony Award-winning revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a new (unconventional) leading man: Michael C. Hall. The Golden Globe and Drama Desk Award winner is no stranger to the stage.…
Contributor Marcus Scott reviews the revival of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth. Playing at the Cort Theater, it has become apparent that Broadway finally has its first mumblecore chef-…
Ah, life in the theater. It can be so DRAMATIC. So playwright Donald Margulies wants you to think in his latest effort, The Country House, which opened last week at Manhattan Theatre Club's …
The Broadway community mourns the loss of Geoffrey Holder, the 1975 Tony Award-winning director and costume designer of The Wiz who died on Sunday at the age of 84…
The ACLU reported on Monday "The Supreme Court of the United States today denied review in all of the marriage equality cases pending before it. As a result of the Court's action, same-sex c…
by Samuel Leiter Marcus Potter's gripping drama of revenge and absolution, Stalking the Bogeyman, a cross between conventional theater and docudrama, is based on an autobiographical story by…
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler reviews the Olivier Award-winning play based on a novel by Mark Haddon. The opening tableau of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a …
Contributor Samuel Leiter revisits Lee Blessing’s political drama in a revival presented by Keen Company. If you were walking down West 45th Street in the theater district in 1988, you…
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler offers his monthly picks of what’s hot on The Great White Way and beyond. The 2014-15 Broadway season is in full force with revivals, new pla…
Star of stage and screen Tony Danza (who stars in Jason Robert Brown’s highly anticipated new Broadway musical, Honeymoon in Vegas, starting performances at The Nederlander on Nov. 18)…
Broadway Blog editor Matthew Wexler chats with Andrew Lippa as he prepares for "I Am Harvey Milk,""a one-night-only concert event on October 6 at Avery Fisher Hall. Proceeds will benefit the…
In reaction to a piece written by New York Post journalist Michael Riedel criticizing the new musical Finding Neverland, the producers of the show found out that Riedel had not seen the show…
