

A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE - Classic Stage Company
At the Classic Stage Company (CSC), New York’s leading Off-Broadway venue for the revival of both dramatic and musical classics old and new, comes a most charming version of “A Man of No Importance”. This small gem of a musical is so sensitively staged and superbly cast, it modestly reveals all of its little perfections. Based on the 1994 movie, starring Albert Finney, it tells the tale of closeted, gay bus conductor Alfie Byrne in 1960s Dublin, who fills his lonely bachelo


1776: It’s In The Book
The most trenchant scene in the Broadway revival of “1776” is the dramatic conclusion wherein Thomas Jefferson - after relentless dissension from the Southern colonies - eliminates the paragraph in the Declaration of Independence that addresses the inhumanity of slavery so as to secure unanimous acceptance of the break from England. Intentionally, this was the case in the original Broadway production of 1969, and remains the case in 2022 even with a cast entirely composed o