COME FOR THE SCORE, LEAVE FOR THE BOOK Prior to Geffen Playhouse’s world premiere musical The Lonely Few, a pair of orange ear-plugs in ironically loud cellophane is offered to patrons, indicating a loud show will soon be upon us. We enter the amazingly transformed Audrey Skirball Kennis black-box theater, which now has patrons seated […]
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ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces 2023-2024 Season ON BROADWAY I NEED THAT starring DANNY DEVITO at the American Airlines Theatre HOME at the American Airlines Theatre (one additional Broadway production will be announced at a later date) OFF-BROADWAY THE REFUGE PLAYS at the Laura Pels Theatre, in association with New York Theatre Workshop COVENANT at the Black Box Theatre JONAH at the Laura […]
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FROM THE BAILEY OF JOY At Off-Broadway’s Theatre Row on West 42nd Street, Stage and Cinema’s Gregory Fletcher spoke with Shanel Bailey, who stars in the first New York revival of Lynn Nottage’s professional debut Crumbs from the Table of Joy. Originally produced by Second Stage in 1995, the play clearly shows why so many […]
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Audible Theater Announces Four Performance Extension of Drinking In America Now Playing Through Thursday, April 13 Only At Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre Audible Theater has announced four additional performances of Drinking in America, written by three-time Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian, starring Andre Royo (The Wire), and directed by Mark Armstrong. The edgy, entertaining, thought-provoking show opened last night […]
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In little less than three months, several horse racing players and fans alike would begin putting on their paraphernalia in preparation for the Kentucky Derby. Held every year in spring at Churchill Downs, this sporting event is exhilarating and full of pomp. With it being an annual rite, one might think that there would be […]
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LIFE AIN’T JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES IN 1903 RUSSIA Written and set in 1903 Russia, Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard would be the master playwright’s final creation. Unless one already has knowledge of that time and place, the play — even with North Coast Rep‘s superlative production — becomes much easier to understand and […]
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A REAL BEAUTY Desert Theatricals’ line-up for next season is exciting, but there was nothing more thrilling than being in an audience filled with awe-struck children to witness this magical production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. It was a smash on Broadway in 1994 and it remains a smash in 2023, as corroborated by […]
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NOW AND ZEN Coming out of the Baryshnikov Arts Center after watching its current offering The Hunting Gun, I overheard a woman ask her husband what he thought of the show. Good, but long, he said, which pretty much mirrored my reaction to this mostly Japanese-language production based on the novella by Yasushi Inoue. Adapted […]
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A NEW SONDHEIM MUSICAL ANNOUNCED; LET THE PRAYERS TO THE THEATER GODS COMMENCE. A few months before he passed, Stephen Sondheim told Stephen Colbert during an interview that he was working on a show. And here I thought that the musical he was writing with David Ives known as Square One had been scrapped. Not so, […]
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NEW TRACK FEATURES VOCALS BY KPOP ICON LUNA & COMPANY LISTEN HERE WATCH THE VIDEO PREORDER & PRESAVE THE ALBUM HERE Well, we all know it happens. For whatever reasons, a show flops on Broadway, yet leaves behind a magical score. I suppose the producers imagined throngs of KPOP lovers would keep the show running for […]
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