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Jez Butterworth's hit play is so robust and chock full of incident that I could not assimilate all of it in my one visit. I reviewed it in October, 2018, when several of its principa…
Terrence McNally is an acknowledged master whose home must house dozens of awards including several for a lifetime of achievement, four Tonys, an Emmy, and many more. In 1996 he was indu…
Orpheus is once again descending into hell in search of his beloved Eurydice; Hermes is around to keep the plot spinning; and Hades, the King of the Underworld, is madly maneuvering …
Nathan Lane is enjoying one of theatre's longest running careers. He's been brightening stages ever since 1975 when at 19 he made his off-Broadway debut, and 1982 when he first bounced onto …
Playwright Lucas Hnath, has served his apprenticeship in theatre by having work produced at some of New York's most reputable off-Broadway venues and at many out of town spaces like the Huma…
I saw the original Broadway production of this, Arthur Miller's second Broadway outing, when I was 20 years old; and it struck me as a sober introduction to a playwright who clearly represen…
"Tootsie" is fun company. "She" is actor Michael Dorsey's one ally in finding him a job in a New York play or musical. For Michael is a hard-to-cast 40 year old who is unable to charm the ca…
Playwright Lanford Wilson began the story in the play, set in New York in 1987, on the day after the death of Robbie, a gay choreographer. His apartment mate Anna, who was a dancer who'd bec…
On occasion I marvel at the insight and wisdom shown by the Elizabethan lad Will Shakespeare, not to mention the poetry and imagination and drive that helped him create a basket of enduring …
It's odd, but true. I still vividly remember certain sounds that wafted up to me in the second balcony of the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1944 when, as a teenager, I saw the original pr…
The cover of  the Playbill for this John Guare play shows a terrified older gent hanging on to the sides of a small boat that is being tossed about by a wild body of water. By the end of …
I wasn't exactly sleeping through the 1960s and 70s, but I seem to have missed most of the pop tunes and great combos that found their place at the time. I blush to admit that I did not know…
Andréa Burns has been brightening several recent Broadway and off/Broadway seasons by supplying supporting performances of great variety and equal quality. They range from Daniela in "In Th…
With thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" is back on Broadway in a fresh and rousing re-examination by director Scott Ellis and choreographer Warren Carlyl…
Maddie Corman is an actress who has worked extensively in film, TV, and theater proving herself proficient in all of them. In my acting days, I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with her i…
This small musical (which works very hard to be lovingly positive) opened at the Westside Theatre in mid-November and will run there until April 28th. I tell you up front that it has enjoyed…
This Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical first tried to roll along on Broadway in 1981. It did so"not so merrily"for just 17 performances; but the play on which it was based was a subs…
Sean O'Casey was the fifth surviving child of thirteen born into a lower middle class family in Dublin in 1880. Suffering from deficiency in his eyesight, he began as a laborer a…
There was a time, during what were called "the golden years" of musical theater, when the word "vehicle" was attached to a form of theatrical work that was designed to serve the talents of a…
Sam Shepard was born in 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois; and by 1964 he was ready to start becoming a highly original and prolific playwright. From his first work ("Cowboys") to his last in …
The priceless York Theatre Company, under the excellent leadership of James Morgan, is now presenting three Alan J. Lerner musicals in its series called "Musicals In Mufti" (Mufti is an army…
The Manhattan Theatre Club has dusted off Tarell Alvin McCraney's play which it first presented off Broadway in 2013, and it is now creating buzz on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman …
There is a phenomenon in San Francisco that has been running for over 6,000 performances ever since 1974; and, in my recent visit with family, I was taken to see it. I went as a …
T'is the season of the Titans on Broadway: Janet McTeer has tackled the roles of Hamlet and Sarah Bernhardt; Glenda Jackson is about to play King Lear; Elaine May is monumental as she …
Cher is an entertainer who has certainly had her ups and downs. Unlike many teenagers she was consumed with ambition to be a film star which was motivated by a single visit to Grauman's Chin…
