Sunday, July 7, 2013
This week's column examines the new recording of Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2013
An all-male boarding school serves as the starting point for Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy. During a school ceremony, tenor Pharus Jonathan Young is interrupted -- mid-solo -- by a homop…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2013
This month's column looks at the obscure talkie "Perfect Understanding," with Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier; Harold Lloyd's silent classic "Safety Last!"; K…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:47PM[SHARE]Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sp…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:36AM[SHARE]Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's She Loves Me proved thoroughly delightful June 22 as the opening attraction of the Caramoor Arts Festival in Katonah, New York. Conductor/director Ted Sperli…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
This week's column examines the original Broadway cast recording of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Cinderella, along with a Laura Osnes collection of songs by Maury Yeston.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
Seriously demented fun is on display at <em>The Explorers Club</em>. That is, the new play by Nell Benjamin at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 1 at City Center.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Errors -- of identification, understanding and more -- abound in the Public Theater's current Shakespeare in the Park offering, <em>The Comedy of Errors</em>.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:14PM[SHARE]This month's column looks at award-winning director Jack O'Brien's memoir, "Jack Be Nimble."
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SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
There's a cutting-edge, politically provocative, modernistic new-style musical at the Public Theater that will have you literally dancing in the aisles.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 9, 2013
This week's column examines conductor John Wilson's salute to "Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Movies" and the cast album of the long-lost Gene Kelly musical ClownAround.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
The answer, in a word, is: a lot. The question being, how much does Jane Lynch -- the antagonistic cheerleader coach of <em>Glee</em> -- add to the heretofore sleepy revival of &…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards opened with a stunning, site-specific coup-de-théâtre: the curtain at the Music Box rose on the Pippin set, with a familiar musical vamp and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 2, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast recording of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Off-Broadway musical Dogfight.
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This week's column examines the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa's Giant.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
Laura Benanti—a Tony Award winner for her appearance as the title character in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, more recently seen in In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Women on the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2013
This is an edgy, gimmicky, nouveau musical wrapped in a gaudily immersive, dinner theater atmosphere; "an electropop opera ripped from a slice of <em>War and Peace</em>,&quo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2013
This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Wouldn't it be hysterical to mix the romantic world of Bollywood musicals of the 1950s with the farcical world of Marx Brothers-like comedies of the 1930s?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Byrne has joined with the Public's Oskar Eustis and an altogether impressive production team to turn <em>Here Lies Love</em> into -- what? A musical? A disco musical? A theatric…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:27PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2013
Audra McDonald stepped onto the stage at Avery Fisher Hall in a flowing teal-colored gown last night and once again demonstrated how reliably superb she is on the concert stage. The event, e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
City Center Encores! ends its 20th season with a bright and flavorful production of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 musical, On Your Toes. Guest conductor Rob Fisher—the organization's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 5, 2013
This week's column looks at Arthur Bicknell's backstage chronicle "Moose Murdered" and the newly revised vocal score of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2013
This week's column examines the new-to-CD original cast album of the 1966 musical A Time for Singing, along with digital releases of the 1962 Bravo Giovanni and the 1963 studio cast albu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tony winner Barbara Cook began a limited engagement at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below April 23, and Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2013
This month's column looks at Baz Luhrmann's "Strictly Ballroom"; the recent documentary "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy"; the Judi Dench sitcom, "A Fine Romance"; and Anthony Andrews and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
Jeremy Jordan, Norm Lewis, Julia Murney and Jennifer Laura Thompson joined the New York Pops April 12 to celebrate the work of Academy Award-winning and Tony-nominated composer Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2013
Last week's column was the first of our two-part salute to Broadway's own Elaine Stritch, who will soon pack her bags and retrace her steps back to Michigan. In Part 1, we follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2013
In honor of Elaine Stritch's retirement this spring, here's part one of a roundup of cast-album tracks that best represent the mellow, earthy, fearless actress known for the musicals…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2013
This month's column looks at the international blockbuster "Les Misérables"; Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"; Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear&qu…
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