If there were any concerns that David Yazbek and Itamar Moses' exquisitely melodic and introspective musical, THE BAND'S VISIT would have lost any of its understated beauty while moving from…
Last year, the small and intimate musical "The Band's Visit," based on the 2007 independent film of the same name, opened Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. The show, which earned…
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This singularly seductive show, based on an Israeli film, finds the ecstasy in ennui in a small desert town.
The set's a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn't spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political desert…
Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub share a quasi-romantic connection in the desert in this Middle Eastern musical by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses, based on the 2007 Israeli film.
An evocative show based on an Israeli movie opens as a irresistible entertainment
Katrina Lenk, Tony Shalhoub, and John Cariani star in the David Yazbeck–Itamar Moses musical based on the award-winning 2007 Israeli film.
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show " with …
Feed your soul: Go see The Band’s Visit. Now that this exquisite musical has moved uptown to Broadway – it opened tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre – I can make that r…
A chance encounter between Israelis and Egyptians in the desert is the subject of Broadway's newest musical.
"Once, not long ago," says a character in a weird new Broadway musical, "a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You probably didn't hear about it. It was not important." But the pre…
"The Band's Visit" takes place in the desert and, like a mirage, it shimmers. But better. It's real. And really beautiful.
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show " with …
The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical THE BAND'S VISIT opens tonight, November 9, 2017, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre 243 West 47th Street.
The opening of "The Band's Visit" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, after a triumphant off-Broadway run last spring, is very good news for many reasons. At its best, theater helps us fill a de…
Michael Schulman reviews the Broadway musical "The Band's Visit," starring Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk and based on the 2007 Israeli film.
It's demonstrably true that people who think they're supposed to hate each other due to cultural, racial, religious, ideological, and other differences amplified by tribalism can actually li…
BroadwayWorld will be streaming with Broadway's biggest and brightest stars LIVE from the red carpet of the opening night of THE BAND'S VISIT on Broadway Tune in starting around 445 PM EST.
John Cariani from The Band's Visit sits down with Susan Blackwell to play backgammon and dish on his journey from small-town Maine, to playwright, to Broadway.
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