Ranking up there with MEDEA and OEDIPUS REX, Eugene O'Neill's family tragedy LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT would most likely make any playgoer's list of inappropriate classics to revive on M…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AM[SHARE]Playgoers in the know will arrive at any production of the 1937 West End smash ME AND MY GIRL already humming a bit of its legendary Act I closer The Lambeth Walk, looking forward to a rousi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:36AM[SHARE]'How're you gonna cap off your prepubescent years', a stony-faced teacher asks his competitive dance team members, shortly after winning a competition that saw one of their own suffer a seas…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:54AM[SHARE]Though the characters in bookwriterlyricist Bill Russell and composer Janet Hood's sweet, funny and very entertaining new musical UNEXPECTED JOY are all women, there's a guy in the mix who s…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:52AM[SHARE]Despite only three Broadway credits, Marin Ireland must be regarded as one of the absolute best actors to regularly grace New York stages during this century. Through her steady work Off-Bro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:48PM[SHARE]Escaping disillusionment through the comfort of alcohol while clinging to hopeless pipe dreams is rarely depicted with such crackling energy as it is in director George C. Wolfe's puzzling p…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:33AM[SHARE]'Raise your hand if you've ever been underestimated,' instructs Program Director Stephanie Ybarra before every performance of Shakespeare's HENRY V, as performed by The Public Theater's Mobi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:42AM[SHARE]The title character of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan was burned at the stake nearly 500 years before the play premiered at Broadway's Garrick Theatre in December of 1923, but for many vie…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06AM[SHARE]Czech-born British dramatist Tom Stoppard, whose densely intellectual plays may be the most potent augment known for America's need to step up its public education funding, was first noticed…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:33AM[SHARE]Now, if you want to sing along, you just go right ahead and sing, the hostess of Broadway's newest musical advises her audience at the top of the show. And if you want to dance, go 'head, fl…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:18AM[SHARE]If, like this theatre reviewer, you've managed to survive the last twenty years without reading a word of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of Harry Potter novels, nor taking in a screeni…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:24AM[SHARE]From SOUTH PACIFIC to THE KING AND I to FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and now MY FAIR LADY, director Bartlett Sher has been spending the better part of this young century perfecting his method of moun…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:48AM[SHARE]When I was young I was taught by my grandmother to listen to the night, says the title character of Lynn Nottage's nobly lyrical drama of the ivory trade, MLIMA'S TALE.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:06AM[SHARE]The willingness to suspend disbelief is a long-standing tradition in live theatre, and as long as playwrights and directors firmly establish their boundaries of realism, it's reasonable for …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:06AM[SHARE]During the first half of the 20th Century, there was no artist as important to the development of American musical theatre from strictly light entertainment to a legitimate dramatic art form…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AM[SHARE]While audiences gather at Lincoln Center to see Lerner and Lowe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, there's a different kind of Pygmalion story being played out at Studio …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AM[SHARE]The current American president is never mentioned in bookwriterlyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes and composerlyricist Erin McKeown's lovely and touching chamber musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL. But e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AM[SHARE]There's a theory, hopefully an accurate one, that the things that make you an outcast in high school are the things that make you awesome as an adult. And maybe that's why scenes in the buoy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22AM[SHARE]Magazine ads and television commercials may reach millions more, but perhaps the highest compliment I can pay Havana Club Rum's immersive theatre experience, AMPARO, is that it effectively g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AM[SHARE]Broadway's legendary composerlyricist Stephen Sondheim will be making a guest appearance next season on Rachel Bloom's musical romantic comedy television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in an epi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AM[SHARE]Older character men hungry for fresh scenery to chew will certainly look forward to the day when Shem Bitterman's The Stone Witch becomes available for regional and amateur productions.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PM[SHARE]It's been nearly three decades since the superb stage artist Glenda Jackson took her last opening night bow on Broadway, playing Lady Macbeth in 1988. Since then she's been working in the so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AM[SHARE]As with the Broadway season's earlier pop concert extravaganza, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, this theatre critic readily admits to not exactly being an ideal arts journalist to authoritatively rev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AM[SHARE]The best news coming out of 44th Street these days is that the refurbishing of the Helen Hayes Theater has been completed and that Second Stage, while retaining its longtime Off-Broadway hom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AM[SHARE]It wasn't exactly a stellar weekend for Donald Trump. Nationwide protest rallies condemned his party's relationship with the NRA, a woman revealed on national television that her life was th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AM[SHARE]Though the songwriting team of Robert Wright amp George Forrest is best remembered by Broadway enthusiasts for adapting the music of Edvard Grieg into SONG OF NORWAY and similarly using the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PM[SHARE]It was less than five years ago when little girls around the globe were presented with a computer-animated rebellious role model who was fed up with hiding her true self to conform to other …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AM[SHARE]Typically, the immediate attraction between Cinderella and the handsome prince is presented as simply a matter of physical chemistry, but in Company XIV's newest variation of Charles Perraul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AM[SHARE]The smiling, bobbing head and swaying shoulders of the self-proclaimed Parrothead who accompanied this Jimmy Buffett neophyte to the breezy fun new jukebox musical comedy, ESCAPE TO MARGARIT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AM[SHARE]Innovative genius Norman Lear will forever be remembered for expanding the limits of what television comedy could do by bringing Archie Bunker, and his everyday brand of casual and not-so-ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40AM[SHARE]Teaser There is a knockout of a surprise moment, cleverly devised and wonderfully played, contained within Pulitzer-winner Bruce Norris' mini-epic THE LOW ROAD, now getting a rollicking prod…
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