610 stories by "Richard Seff"
Some time between 1890 and 1891 Frank Wedekind managed to complete a play in his native German, which contained all sorts of forbidden fruits. It dealt with adolescence, puberty, sexuality, …
The Mint Theater, in a 100 seat space on the 3rd floor of an office building on West 43rd Street, has been fulfilling its mission of re-discovering forgotten gems from the past, and offer…
I think we can safely call her the last Broadway Diva of the golden age. For she’s been putting together a career that is unique in this day and age in that it has been lived almost…
Master Playwright A.R.Gurney has used his own life as background material for some 50 plays, 4 musicals, plus 3 novels. Born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York, he decided early on to “write…
There are many plays that are known for their sparkling dialogue, others for their rapid fire words that require actors who can deliver them in machine gun manner. Now we have the prolifi…
It’s miraculous that this musical managed to cross the finish line, to land at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway. We all know how difficult it is to mount a musical these days, not o…
This year’s Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home opened in New York when I was in California. I finally caught up with it this weekend at the Circle in the Square Theatre, where it h…
Patty LuPone is a highly original and always welcome star who has built a brilliant career primarily on stage, and we who love live theatre have been its beneficiaries. Season after season s…
Joshua Harmon’s first play Bad Jews introduced us to him as an imaginative writer with an uncanny ear for authentic dialogue. It also informed us that he could write with rage about ma…
As summer fare this highly imaginative black comedy by Robert Askins is not what you’d expect. No Butterflies are Free, no Barefoot in the Park romantic romp is this play that features…
Jim Parsons was put together with pieces of PeeWee Herman, Jerry Lewis, and James Stewart and the result is a most appealing actor who’s found himself a character very close to the…
Many scribes have been offering opinions on who might win the Tony Awards this coming Sunday, June 7th, and for those of you who haven’t yet made up your minds, I offer my own thoug…
"This is one of those rare times when a play has been completely submerged so that a production can draw attention to its staging. Mr. Van Hove turned this family into the insane and certain…
Roundabout has given the play its usual A-1 production under Doug Hughes' meticulous direction. Cherry Jones is dressed as an elegant tart .. she's never been more beautiful than she is here…
Richard Seff reviews Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and A Free Man of Color, both at Lincoln Center.
DCTS columnist Richard Seff and his fellow creators of the new musical Shine!, based on the Horatio Alger stories, describe getting this old school musical - it's orchestrator equates it to …
Richard Seff is grateful to the Atlantic for "taking this one off the library shelf, dusting it off, giving it a David Auburn spin & letting us have a look at what was attracting the crowds …
Richard Seff reviews The York Theatre's production of The Road to Qatar! "James Beaman and Keith Gerchak as the Authors are talented lads, and Sarah Stiles is adorable".
Critic Richard Seff puts 20th century playwright Teresa Deevy in the same league as Inge and Chekhov after seeing her 1936 play, newly discovered by NY's Mint Theatre.
To watch Ms. Redgrave's thought processes, emotions conveyed without the use of words - to delight in Mr. Jones' canny ways with lines that are not nearly as funny as he makes them - there's…
To watch Ms. Redgrave's thought processes, emotions conveyed without the use of words - to delight in Mr. Jones' canny ways with lines that are not nearly as funny as he makes them - there's…
He's sly, this Bedford [as Lady Bracknell] - no histrionics on display, though he's miles away from the Strasberg Studio method, and thanks for that. He knows how to remain deadly still to …
The first act, dazzling as it was, promised much, the next two acts delivered unevenly, and by final curtain we were all a little dazed by overkill.
DCTS columnist Richard Seff and his fellow creators of the new musical Shine!, based on the Horatio Alger stories, describe getting this old school musical - it's orchestrator equates it to …
Richard Seff is back on the beat (his musical Shine! closed at NYMF, and extolls the production and cast of Lee Hall's "rich stew of a play."
