There's much to love (along with a few choices that mystify me) in Once, a sweet mash of tuneful, youthful, beautiful blarney that's successfully leapt from screen to stage.
Small-scale brilliance, a mystery hotel"and those singing Mormons!
Some of the best shows came and went in a flash.
What's so wrong with an "updated" Godspell? Golly, aren't they all updated? Perhaps no other American musical cries out for retrofitting more than this one, with its strung-together parables…
The Ethan Coen"Woody Allen"Elaine May triptych Relatively Speaking nearly drowns in its own shtick.
Print media, organized labor, and musical theater: Three institutions from Golden Age America so perennially beleaguered, they've more or less been reduced to camp. And really, what's so bad…
On hoping for the best, every August.
Fond of women who don't " correction, won't " know their place, confine themselves to their appointed range, or answer to any authority other than their own instincts, even if it means their…
Davis McCallum is a director to watch. Taking the reins of Michael Mitnick's Sex Lives of Our Parents,, he turns a wet little Freudian nightmare into a muscular seriocomedy " one that (to th…
Is there anything more glorious than an outdoor wedding in summertime? The bride blushing (and scheming and strategizing), the clueless horndog groom elaborately entrapped, and some fickle a…
Last week, I took a break from critiquing Off"Off Broadway plays about naked hip-hop Serbo lesbian forest children struggling with father issues and consumerism to interview actor-comedian J…
I didn't attend the Tonys " I prefer to experience shared cultural moments (awards ceremonies, inaugurations, targeted assassinations) the way nature intended, via telecast " but so far, I'm…
One Arm, Moisés Kaufman's fast, fierce, brutally beautiful stage adaptation of an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams, is more than a play: It's a time machine. Kaufman has retrieve…
What will Karin choose to believe? Does she even have a choice? Do we?
It's summer (on some days, at least), flesh is on display, and a young theatergoer's thoughts turn to sex, love, and the vast, throbbing emotionally militarized zone in between.
A mass repudiation of star power. A renewal of faith in the power of the old-fashioned musical to tackle taboo subject matter. A grim referendum on the last Harry Potter movie. There are a n…
Perhaps the most expensive Miami rest-home clap-along ever produced, Baby It's You! is this season's Memphis: Another "fact-based" musical about how tough it was, back in the fifties and six…
How long's it been since you were angry? And I don't mean "upset." I mean biblically angry " angry at whole institutions, cultures, abstractions, homo sapiens as a species. If it's been too …
Can we believe a word that comes out of this show's mouth, spoken or sung? What's this show trying to take us for? More to the point: do we want to be taken?
It's de-lovely.
The Book of Mormon resurrects the balls-out Broadway musical.
The Propeller troupe's version of Shakespeare's original one-crazy-weekend play is a boys' night out that just won't quit.
Nothing you'll experience here travels far outside the Palace's walls, but that's just fine.
The revival of Tom Stoppard's tantalizingly unrequited romance between mind and body both charms and challenges its audience. And also, one senses, its cast.