“We’re Irish. We’re drunk. We sing here.” Enough said, and in the simplest of terms, A Man of No Importance, the musical revival currently being performed,...
Assassins at the Classic Stage Company is billed as a star-studded show that promises excitement and intrigue. With music by Stephen Sondheim and book by John...
” I did it because it was wrong for one man To have so much service when other men have none…” Before it even opened Classic Stage...
This FREE virtual event is a benefit for Classic Stage Company. On Thursday, April 15, at 8pm a star-studded array of theater legends for performances and...
Silence slowly overtakes the Classic Stage Company‘s auditorium as we are asked to tune in to the setup and what is about to happen. We are all...
It has always been one of my favorites, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, since the day I really sat down and studied the text as a college student about to...
If you d0 not know the story of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you would be so confused after seeing John Doyle’s version at Classic Stage Company. I can...
Know your history, that is my first piece of advice if… no… when you go see Classic Stage Company‘s mesmerizingly sing-song sonata of a play, The Cradle Will...
Classic Stage Company’s stripped-down revival of Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 The Cradle Will Rock seems right on the money and yet it lacks oomph. For a show...
The winds blow in strong onto the trio of souls (+1) that share the oval tiled space in the center of Classic Stage Company‘s theatre. Surrounded on...
Like O’Neil, Swedish-writer August Strindberg’s spiritual conflicts and intent are being reinterpreted and reexamined by adaptors. Over at Classic Stage Company (CSC) Yael Farber’s version of Mies...
“You’ll see enacted by our finest actors / The underworld’s most fabled malefactors! The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, is very rarely done. This 1941 play...
Bertolt Brecht on a rainy Friday night in New York City. Sounds sorta perfect, if you ask me. Like a heavy thoughtful and satirical night of...
The singing is glorious, as rich and stunning as that red dress, applied by the phenomenal costume designer, Ann Hould-Ward (CSC’s Pacific Overtures) that hugs the...
When you think of Carmen Jones,you think of how Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte broke boundaries. Ms. Dandridge was the first African American to be nominated for the Academy...
Classic Stage Company announced today that Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose will play the title role in the company’s new production of the musical Carmen...
Jessie Austrian, Emily Young Photo by Joan Marcus “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon...
I feel like I’ve been here before. The setting is surprisingly similar to the last Shakespearean journey I took just a few months ago when Classic...
Trusty Sidekick Theater Company’s production of The Stowaway, or How the Mistress Quickly Went from Madcap to Majestic at Classic Stage Company is a gem of...
Classic Stage Company has brought us a jazzy little pastoral comedy, edited down to a reasonable 100 minutes to help celebrate their 50th anniversary. First performed...
In 2012, an absolutely smashing production of As You Like It, directed by Daniel Sullivan, enchanted Shakespeare in the Park. Now, at the Classic Stage Company, co-produced...
Sondheim wrote in his fascinating (and time sucking) book, ‘Finishing the Hat‘, about a Japanese screen he saw one afternoon at the Metropolitan Museum. It was a three...
It seemed fitting that after a long day at the Women’s March NYC on Saturday, and the day after the Inauguration, I would find myself at...
F. Murray Abraham is Nathan the Wise, in Classic Stage Company’s revival of the 18th-century play by German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing with a new translation...
The revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1939 anti-war drama Mother Courage And Her Children at Classic Stage Company has caused controversy. Tony award winning actress Tonya Pinkins,...