Doug’s Fearless 2012 Tony Predictions
Below, my fearless predictions for the 2022 Tony Awards: BEST MUSICAL Girl from the North Country MJ Mr. Saturday Night Paradise Square Six A Strange Loop Will win: A…
Scenes of the Crime
David Morse and Mary-Louise Parker recreate the dark magic of How I Learned to Drive A unique kind of excavation is currently happening at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre –…
The Way We Get By
The wheels on the Antrobus go round and round in The Skin of Our Teeth Thornton Wilder’s World War II-era The Skin of Our Teeth is an inventive, and somewhat…
La Famiglia That Sings Together, Clings Together a review of Romeo and Bernadette
Romeo and Bernadette is a transporting, fun time From Rick and Ilsa to Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, some of the great love stories of all time have ended…
Town Without Piety – a review of The Minutes
The Minutes doesn’t waste a single one of them Slyly, slowly, The Minutes, ostensibly a play about the mundane power struggles within a group of city council members, reveals itself…
See What He Did There?
The stage production of Mr. Saturday Night gives Billy Crystal a second at-bat Having recently starred in When Harry Met Sally… and City Slickers, and amid acclaimed Oscars hosting gigs,…
Historical Friction – a review of Paradise Square
The center cannot hold for Paradise Square If you’ve seen Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, you’re likely familiar with the Five Points, the erstwhile crime-ridden Lower Manhattan neighborhood. It…
Face Value -a review of Cyrano de Bergerac
A new Cyrano de Bergerac cuts off its nose – but might not spite its face It was exciting to learn that James McAvoy, the mightily talented Scottish film and television…
A Lot to Process – a review of A Case for the Existence of God
A Case for the Existence of God is must-see theatre Review by Doug Strassler A Case for the Existence of God opens as two characters – a mortgage broker and…
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams
The Bare Facts – a review of Take Me Out
Review by Doug Strassler A winning ensemble helps lift up the Richard Greenberg revival Take Me Out, Richard Greenberg’s play about baseball, sexuality, and a whole bunch of things that…