466 stories by "Michael Sommers"
★★★★ It takes three performers to portray the one-and-only Cher in a wildly entertaining jukebox show
The post The Cher Show: Truly Turning Back Time With a Singular …
★★★★ Melissa Gilbert is among the guests attending a holiday dinner drawn from a famous James Joyce story
The post The Dead, 1904: Dubliner Sisters Invite You to an I…
★★★ Theresa Rebeck's new semi-thriller digs some dark secrets from out of a cellar
The post Downstairs: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Tackle Kin Beyond Their Typical Ken appeared …
★★★★ A handsomely sung musical documentary relates an inspiring wartime miracle
The post All Is Calm: A Poignant Music-Theater Account of WWI’s Christmas Truce…
★★ Several Sardi's caricatures confront serious issues in a slick but kinda crass new musical
The post The Prom: Plenty of Showbiz Gagging Over Some Serious Issues appeared first…
★★★★ A schlub loses everything but later gains true love in a little, New York-y musical
The post The Other Josh Cohen: See a Loser Be a Winner By Doing the Right Thi…
★★★★ Signature Theatre smartly revives Will Eno's significantly meandering monodrama
The post Thom Pain (based on nothing): Some Existential Rambles With Michael C. …
★★★ The Public Theater premieres the threnody of a blameless woman's destruction
The post Eve’s Song: How Black Women’s Lives Don’t Always Matter in Ameri…
★★★ Playwrights Horizons premieres a satirical comedy that's tasty but underdone
The post The Thanksgiving Play: Knocking the Stuffing Out of White Liberal Correctness appe…
★★★★ The Druid company infuses Samuel Beckett's bleak drama with a wonderful sense of life
The post Waiting for Godot: Whiling Away a Few Fine Hours With an Irish Did…
★★★★ Kids will get a kick out of the 41st edition while their elders will see some nice sights, too
The post Big Apple Circus: A Lean, Keen, Family Show (and More) to…
★★★ Good acting breathes life into a comedy that unexpectedly turns sorrowful
The post Daniel’s Husband: A New Drama Cautions Same-Sex Couples to Tie the Knot appeare…
★★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: An expertly staged docu-musical remains a truly heartwarming experience
The post Come From Away: Get a Gander at Strangers Being Kind t…
★★★ A gay romance from the 1960s glimmers within a little musical bubble
The post Midnight at the Never Get: A Moody Cabaret About the Man That Got Away appeared first on N…
★★ A mash-up of fact and fiction shows that writing plays can be harder than rocket science
The post The Winning Side: What’s Love Got to Do With Wernher Von Braun? appeare…
★★★ Anne Bogart stages a 2,400 year-old Greek drama with a few modern notes
The post The Bacchae: Euripides’ Classical Tragicomedy of Wine, Women, and Wrong appeared …
★★ Able staging and acting can do only so much with a master author's minor material
The post Final Follies: Primary Stages Trips Over a Trio of A.R. Gurney Comedies appeared fir…
★★★★ Bob Dylan songs are artfully molded into a new musical of melancholy distinction
The post Girl From the North Country: A Visit to Desolation Row With Bob Dylan a…
★★ A woeful drama (in more ways than one) is performed simultaneously in two languages
The post I Was Most Alive with You: Craig Lucas Unleashes a Tsunami of Sorrows appeared fir…
★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: A smart jukebox musical remains a some kind of wonderful Broadway attraction
The post Beautiful: That Carole King Bio-Show Stays Good to Go an…
★★★ Kathryn Hunter conjures up the hothouse atmosphere of a vanished kingdom
The post The Emperor: The Curious Decline and Fall of Haile Selassie appeared first on New York…
★★★★ Richard Nelson's new version of Chekhov's intimate classic is artfully understated
The post Uncle Vanya: An Americanization of a Russian Classic appeared first o…
★★★★★ Long-Run Lookback: That musical madman remains as romantic as ever in his Majestic home
The post The Phantom of the Opera: Still Wonderfully Crazy After …
★★ A play about new love and old crimes amid Ireland's rural greenery strains credulity and patience.
The post The Naturalists: A Romantic Triangle Shoots Up in the Irish Country…
★★ Inconsistent acting styles and a needless frame obscure Shaw's portrait of pre-war English society
The post Heartbreak House: Framing Shaw’s Upside-Downton Abbey Saga ap…
