With its juicy clash between a famous writer and her ambitious young protégé, Collected Stories can't help but raise a whiff of All About Eve. The Manhattan Theatre Club's splendid new production of the play at the Samuel Friedman also summons several other sighs of haven't-we-been-here-before.
Like the Texas corporation that posted big revenues in the 1990s without having assets, Enron is heavy on sizzle, light on steak.
The new production, directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford, is stylish and handsome, but only occasionally memorable. Aside from the pop gems, catchy as ever, the dancing is dynamic and K…
American Idiot will likely wind up doing a good deed for Broadway, simply by hauling in cash from a mosh-ready audience otherwise repelled by the place. It will also do its part to make the morbid "Broadway musical" seem a bit more with it. In return, the show had the good taste not to screw up its source material. Unfortunately, neither did it find a way to bring much to a great disk it didn't have already.
Thanks for the music, Green Day. But, jeez, could you have spared a story? And a couple characters who aren't clichéd stick figures? Because that's what a Broadway musical needs to make it …
Yes, the Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein musical was just here five years ago, urging, like the 1983 original, to see things "from a different angle." Director Terry Johnson follows that advic…
A few things are missing from Million Dollar Quartet, a jukebox musical that'd fit right in on the Vegas Strip: a buffet dinner, slot machines and, more importantly, a story.