OFF SCRIPT'S 2016 THEATRE HIGHLIGHTS
Annual “Top Ten’ lists seem arbitrary to me and, when it comes to theater, I couldn’t render a fully informed comprehensive order anyway...
JACKIE
Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s JACKIE redefines biopic, creating a way of looking at history that I’d never experienced in feature...
BETWEEN THERE AND THERE IS WHERE?
Multi-Tony Award winner and versatile director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall makes IN TRANSIT, billed as “Broadway’s first a...
WHERE’S THE BEEF?
In “Poetics”, Aristotle called spectacle the least artistic element of tragedy. NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 turns...
(BITTER)SWEET CHARITY
The New Group, uncharacteristically presenting a musical revival this season, rips a page out of the Menier Chocolate Factory playbook by...
WE ARE NOT ALONE
Once in a while a new musical comes along with an original story, a book that exactly integrates song, and characters who achieve...
JERSEY BOYS REDUX, SORT OF
Sometimes even the most stellar combination of exceptional creative talent doesn’t add up to exceptional theatre. That’s the case with...
IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO
The Broadway presentation of the Donmar Warehouse’s revival of LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES gets a little slack in its Atlantic crossing. La...
CHASING RAINBOWS: THE ROAD TO OZ - Goodspeed Opera House
Urban legends about Judy Garland, nee Frances Gumm, get softened around the edges and the popular music of the decade leading up to her...
THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE - Berkshire Theatre Group
Playwright Kate Cayley’s Bakelite Masterpiece is a fictionalized version of the trial of artist Han van Meegeren, who was arrested at the...
