MINOR CHARACTER
IT’S IN THE TEXT - MINOR CHARACTER at Sharon Playhouse For something completely different, Sharon Playhouse, under new artistic...
DIVAS ONLY NEED APPLY: WAR PAINT
Divas dominated this Broadway season - Glenn Close reprising her role as Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOPULEVARD and Bette Midler making Dolly...
THE WHIRLIGIG (The New Group)
Thematically, Hamish Linklater's THE WHIRLIGIG could remind me of Clifford Odet’s AWAKE AND SING , just susbstitute an addicting drug of...
TIMELESS SHAW: HEARTBREAK HOUSE (Hartford Stage)
Bravo to Darko Tresnjak and Hartford Stage for producing George Bernard Shaw’s HEARTBREAK HOUSE. It’s easy to see why it’s seldom staged....
IN HOCK AND UNHAPPY - CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? (Vineyard Theatre)
The three main characters in Gina Gionfriddo’s CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? each seems to be seeking some kind of security. Tanya (Ella...
LONDON THEATRE WEEK MAY 15 -19
Six plays - four hits/two misses - in five days. At the Royal Court, Jez Butterworth, with expert direction of Sam Mendes, premiers THE...
NOT JUST “ANOTHER HAPPY DAY”: HAPPY DAYS
NOT JUST “ANOTHER HAPPY DAY” “No worse - no better, no worse, no change - no pain” says Samuel Beckett’ss Winnie. As HAPPY DAYS opens...
GREED STRAIGHT-UP, THANK YOU VERY MUCH: THE LITTLE FOXES
Lillian Hellman’s THE LITTLE FOXES, superbly staged in revival at Manhattan Theatre Club, is as satisfying as theatre gets. In this...
NORA'S BACK: A DOLL'S HOUSE PART 2
NORA'S BACK Lucas Hnath’s A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2 is the freshest playwriting on Broadway this season, ingeniously conceived,...
KEEP IT MOVIN': BANDSTAND
Good, old-fashioned American grit and determination get adrenalized in the ambitious musical BANDSTAND. The star of the show is the...
