In today's Wall Street Journal I review a Chicago revival of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town and the Broadway premiere of a new stage version of Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn. Here's an exc…
A rare kinescope of a complete TV performance of Wonderful Town, originally broadcast live by CBS on November 30, 1958. Rosalind Russell stars as Ruth Sherwood, the role she created in the 1…
Mike Daisey's acclaimed solo show The Trump Card will return to New York City for one final performance on November 1 at 8pm at Town Hall 123 W. 43rd Street.
Ruth Sherwood, the protagonist of Leonard Bernstein's 1953 musical "Wonderful Town," is a Bechdel test-passing, expert man-losing, scoop-searching journalist whose dreams catapult her out of…
The murder of a Nebraska teenager in a cornfield is at the center of "Bobbie Clearly," the dark and ambitious new play by the Chicago scribe Alex Lubischer, staged with great overall intensi…
Goodman TheatrepresentsMary Zimmerman's revival of Wonderful Town, extending the show through October 23. Featuring a company of over 40 actors and musicians, the Goodman production ofLeonar…
The first National Tour of FUN HOME, the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning Best Musical,will launch in Cleveland, OH at Playhouse Square and will then travel North America playing multi-wee…
If you're one of those people who feels as though this Presidential election campaign has been a joke or no laughing matter or somewhere in between, take heart the long-running, Tony Award-w…
Mary Zimmerman deftly directs a lavish revival of Leonard Bernstein's classic musical, featuring a company of more than 40 actors and musicians. If you're looking for larger-than-life stagin…
Spymonkey have conducted a frankly ridiculous and boldly profane treatment of all 75 onstage deaths in the works of William Shakespeare – and then some. Spymonkey (a clown troupe of fo…
In four days, we saw every show ever produced on or off Broadway except "Hamilton"; sadly, none of us was willing step up and perform the necessary sex work. We devoured upward of three dinn…
Producers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced today that Broadway veteran Mamie Parris will assume the iconic role of 'Grizabella the Glamour Cat' in the firs…
GOODMAN GIVES GOTHAM GLORY Wonderful indeed. Wonderful Town, Leonard Bernstein's 1952 tribute to the ever juicy Big Apple, has been wrongly overshadowed by the other N.Y.C. musicals he wrote…
"Wonderful Town," the highly enjoyable new Goodman revival of the challenging 1953 Broadway musical with a book by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Gre…
Our TownReviewed by Lovell Estell IIIActors' Co-op, David Schall TheatreThrough Oct. 23 It's been nearly eighty years since Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning paean to small town Ameri…
Politicians and members of the press are hardly the best of bedfellows. Unrestrained and violent, Ross Sutherland's Party Trap explodes this relationship in a dystopian TV interview between …
