527 stories from reflectionsinthelight.blogspot.com
They've Got Magic to Do, Just for You and a Miracle Play to Play
By Lauren Yarger
If ever an opening number delivers on its promise, the exciting "Magic to Do" which opens the Broadway reviv…
I'll be highlighting some kid and family-friendy options for folks who will be spending time in the Big Apple this summer. Top picks for which shows to see will be coming soon, but we'll sta…
I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers
By John Logan
Directed by Joe Mantello
Starring Bette Midler
Booth Theatre
What's It All About?
A solo performance in which Bette Midler portrays …
Cicely Tyson, Cuba Gooding, Jr. Photo: Joan Marcus
A Slice of Life in Texas That Reaches Out and Makes an Audience in New York Sing a Hymn -- Now That's Theater!
By
Lauren YargerThe creati…
A Tender Look at a Sad Character
By Lauren Yarger
Nathan Lane gives a tender performance in Douglas
Carter Beane's newest play, The Nance
getting a run by Lincoln Center Theater on Br…
Michael Urie. Photo: © Sandra Coudert
Buyer & Cellar
By Jonathan Tolins
Directed by Stephen Brackett
Starring Michael Urie
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
(transfer to Barrow St…
And the winners are. . . (in red)
OUTSTANDING
NEW BROADWAY PLAY
Grace
Lucky
Guy
The
Nance
The
Testament of Mary
* Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
OUTSTANDING
NEW BRO…
A Dynamite Performance Keeps Us Riveted in a Play That Forces Us to Suspend All Reality
By Lauren Yarger
A stand-out performance by Tom Sturridge highlights the electrifying and terrifying B…
Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox. Photo: Chris Bennion
Jekyll & Hyde
Music by Frank Wildhorn
Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
Directed and Choreographed by Jeff Calhoun
What's It…
The Big Knife
By Clifford Odets
Directed by Doug Hughes
Roundabout Theatre Company
What's It all About?
Well, you tell me. The second Odets play to grace a Broadway stage this season had me…
Ruthie Ann Miles (center) and the cast of
Here Lies Love. Photo : Joan Marcus
Add Stages, Subtract the Seats and This Innovative Pop Operetta Equals a Whole New Way to Do Theate…
Mary Wants Us to See Her in a New Light, but This Version of Jesus' Mother is Too Dark
By Lauren Yarger
She's angry and bitter. Afraid and cautious. She's not the virginal, almost-godde…
Billy Porter and The Angels (L-R: Kyle Post, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Joey
Taranto, and Paul Canaan) in Kinky Boots. Photo: Matthew Murphy
Nominations for the 2013 American
Theatre Wing's Ton…
Brian d'Arcy James, John Dossett, and Kate Baldwin in the Public Theatre's Giant.
Photo: Joan Marcus.
Nominations for the 2013 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced this morning at 54 B…
Theresa Rebeck, Nikkole Salter, Frank Rizzo and David Lindsay-Abaire
By Lauren Yarger
I enjoyed attending part of the annual Writers' Weekend and Bookfair at the Mark Twain House in Hartfor…
The Parties Assemble, but Don't Do Much Else
By Lauren Yarger
I am not a fan of plays that make me work. I want to go to the theater and be entertained or thoroughly swept into the action/em…
Pippin leads The Outer Critics Circle Nominations for the 2012-2013 season with 11. Kinky Boots follows with nine and Chaplin and Cinderella both have eight.
The nominations are:
OUTSTANDI…
History Lessons Normally Aren't This Entertaining
By Lauren Yarger
The life of music legend Berry Gordy, written by Berry Gordy turns out to be an entertaining trip down memory lane featur…
Matilda's Mind Magic is Big on Broadway
By Lauren Yarger
The hype is big, with phrases like "The best musical to hit Broadway since…." "The hottest thing since Book of Mormon" and "A shoe-…
Struggling to Wait for the Call -- and Confirmation that It's Really Life's Calling
By Lauren YargerQuestions of race and motive come into play as a white couple seeks to adopt an African-Am…
Hannah Cabell and Elliot Villar. Photo: Carol Rosegg
Collapse
By Allison MooreDirected by Jackson GayThe Women's Project What's It All About? A dark comedy about the effects of the collapse…
Extra! Read All About It! One of the Pleasant Surprises of the Season
By Lauren Yarger
A film star in a Broadway show. That's not really news nowadays, when producers increasingly are relyin…
Billy Porter and The Angels (L-R: Kyle Post, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Joey Taranto, and Paul Canaan). Photo: Matthew Murphy
The Latest Film-to-Stage Musical is Kinky and Politically Correct En…
In Fragile, a word-free work of puppet theater, an inquisitive, Chaplin-like fellow embarks on a journey carrying a suitcase filled with magical surprises. Bunraku and shadow puppetry combin…
Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain opens in Los Angeles tonight starring Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh as C. S. Lewis under the direction of Tyler Marchant, who helmed …
