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Question: How do you belt to the rafters when your theater is only eight feet high? Answer: With all the abandon in the world – especially if you’re international singing…
Thoughtful reviews of theatre, television and music.
Question: How do you belt to the rafters when your theater is only eight feet high? Answer: With all the abandon in the world – especially if you’re international singing…
Throughout Sarah Silverman’s career, going on nearly three decades, the famously ribald comedian has held very little back. Such was the case with her 2010 memoir The Bedwetter, a collage…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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…