Thoughtful reviews of theatre, television and music.
There are a lot of themes afoot in The Wanderers, Anna Ziegler play that just opened tonight at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theater, but it won’t take long to unpack them,…
A New York theatre stalwart gets the spotlight he so richly deserves – a second time Eight seasons earlier, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy took New York City…
The barroom gathering play has been a familiar subgenre long before Harry Hope started pouring drinks. It’s the perfect intersection for characters of various cultural, economic, emotional, and social backgrounds…
More than twenty-five years into its run, the revival of Chicago on Broadway has gotten some new razzle dazzle. No shade to the show, which has lost some of it…
I’m not sure I have matured or regressed, but watching the premiere of the thirteenth season, I no longer felt crippling anxiety watching the women repping the Garden State. What’s…
Esteemed photographer Larry Sultan published his collection “Pictures From Home” in 1992, in which visuals told the story of his aging parents, Irving and Jean. It was a well-regarded study…
Deadpan comedian Romesh Ranganathan slayed the audience at Manhattan’s Town Hall on January 28. Part of the venue’s Crossing The Pond Comedy Festival, Ranganathan, best known for the BBC shows…
Never have I seen a show as consumed with its own dourness as A Beautiful Noise, the new bio-musical about Neil Diamond that recently opened on Broadway. Directed by Michael…
Comedian Colin Quinn has a bone to pick with the way we live these days in his new show, Small Talk, which just opened at the Lucile Lortel Theatre. Quinn’s…
You’ve never seen Tony Yazbeck like this before. Truly. The gifted performer – New York’s only surefire triple threat showed a new side of himself at his most recent performance…
