From a large rectangular window, the curtains are pulled back to the mystical sounds of something removed and aware. We are being given a quiet glimpse...
It’s been another wild year, running back and forth from Toronto to NYC, with stops in London, England and London, Ontario, Canada. Mostly to make sure...
“If only we could control life.” This is one of the first simple yearnings presented by our lead character in Delia Ephron’s autobiographical play, Left on...
The piano is played, key by key, simply and charmingly by the town organist, Simon Stimson, played well by Donald Webber Jr. (Off-Broadway’s Whorl Inside a...
She moves through the curtained doorway and into the room as the music envelopes the space and the piano keys are fine-tuning us into the room....
Death is something that generally people don’t like to talk about. I wrote about this just a few days ago when reviewing Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film,...
In modern sharply defined boxes of light, the lead character, going by the scripted name of “DHH” and played with wise relish by Daniel Dae Kim...
With only corn and wide open spaces surrounding this framing, The Roommate, a new play by Jen Silverman (Spain), unpacks itself, somewhat casually and over time,...
A sigh and a song are what draw us into‘s emotionally engaging and tenderly produced revival of Home, forty-four years after this deliberate play, written by...
Here’s my list of who I think will win, who I think should win, and who ended up winning on June 11th, Tony night, as I...
Merrily We Roll Along has continued its award-winning roll, topping the list of winners for the 2024 Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards, chosen by Broadway.com readers. The hit...
A hush comes over the crowd before the strumming float in, singing a sweet tune that takes us back, as the stage is slowly illuminated by...
‘A play in five evictions’, reads the subtitle of the new Broadway star-filled gem of a play, Mother Play, unpacking heartache, disappointment, and complicated attachments, literally,...
Wide and deep, sits the Vivian Beaumont stage at the Lincoln Center Theater, with set-ups of seated spaces for Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya to play itself forward....
They sing a Russian song, sitting around a table drenched in red. “This country has been in a coma for 50 years,” we are told, as...
I almost forgot that I had seen this play before, downtown at the New York Theatre Workshop. It starred the talented Carrie Coon, who now is...
All the definitions of the word, “appropriate” hang above the stage as we walk in, giving alternative hints as to the title’s value and worth. It...
“What is the beginning of a family?” This wise and thought-provoking question is posed in the first few moments of Manhattan Theatre Club‘s ambitious new play,...
Danny DeVito (Roundabout’s The Price) is Sam, the grieving man at the center of this sweet-natured, cluttered play, I Need That. And even though I wouldn’t...
Dressing from a rack center stage, the cast of the impeccably done Broadway revival of Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch sets the Music...
It’s a hot summer’s day in Harlem. In the year 2019. With America and its immigrant stance turned upside down and aggressively armed by orange-stained politics...
“Context, darling,” the debonaire gentleman says to the lovely young woman floating around this lovely British period comedy giddy with love and romance. He, with that...
I had no idea what I was walking into. Much like Alex Edelman’s wild encounter with a roomful of racists that is at the center of...
As television’s roadrunner beep-beep’s its way into our consciousness, forecasting coyote casualty, trauma, and pain inside the girls’ giggle, the tension hangs overhead like the fleshy...
It all started back in the Summer of 1976, in Columbus, Ohio. “I didn’t like her child,” says one mother, layering a different level of disdain...
