13 stories by "Trey Graham"
"This Much I Know" at Theater J is about psychology, decision-making and Joseph Stalin's daughter but is way more entertaining than that sounds.
Ken Ludwig's "Lend Me a Soprano," staged at Olney Theatre Center, only sometimes sings.
If that long-promised revival of Smokey Joe's Cafe does come to Broadway this year, the producers could do worse than to put Patina Miller front and center " assuming they can afford her …
Two detainees, two cops, two (or is it three?) gruesome child-murders " that's the triad of pitch-dark dualities that underpin The Pillowman, a Grimm-ly funny brothers-in-extremis fable that…
The real fun of a cabaret is in the surprises. Not the necessary moments, as when a Karen Akers rolls out "Marieke" or a Patti LuPone throws an Argentine bone to the fans worshipping at her …
A delicate portrait gets coarse around the edges with the addition of an hour's worth of musical material.
There's leaning on the innuendo in a largely innocent song, and then there's what Tracy Lynn Olivera has done with "Brand New Key" " and what Tracy Lynn Olivera has done with "Brand New Key"…
Michael Urie is the kind of charmed storyteller who can get away with laughing at his own jokes. As an underemployed L.A. actor with a decidedly unusual day job, he'll drop some gem-sharp ab…
It's no coincidence that the giddily slender plot of Anything Goes plays like a particularly breezy episode of Frasier: Joe Keenan, that sitcom's best and most consistent writer, has a…
An acerbic academic gets wild and crazy with Old Scratch one midwinter's night, and that's not even the most unlikely event in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, a singular exercise in s…
From the very outset " a vigorous four-count windup which kicks off a rowdy riff on melodies traditional and original " the cast album for Broadway's Once serves notice that the stage versio…
On today's All Things Considered, film critic Bob Mondello takes a contrarian angle on the question of Hollywood remakes, arguing that they're not always evidence of a lack of imagination. …
The sheer filthiness of The Book of Mormon shouldn't surprise anyone: Broadway's biggest new hit came from the minds behind South Park and Avenue Q, both shining examples of cheerful modern …
