A curtain call used to feel like the beginning of the end. Now, sometimes, it is only the beginning of a show’s second life. More and...
Every awards season brings with it a nagging, but all too-familiar mixture of excitement and longing. Still, few announcements inspire quite the same feeling of theatrical...
A grand piano and a pink feathered gown, worn by the unexpected, usher us into this unapologetically delightful romp. Women in black tie and tails and...
An old-fashioned clock is stationed over the stage like a warning, or a stopwatch, counting down the minutes until High Noon strikes and Marshal Will Kane...
Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, and Paapa Essiedu in the West End production of All My Sons. Photo by Jan Versweyveld. The play opens in...
The highly praised London revival of Mel Brooks’ legendary musical The Producers is returning and transferring to the Garrick Theatre this autumn, following a sold-out run...
Standing and singing a song of sorrow and freedom in a fevered red dress is the woman of the moment; The Duchess [of Malfi], played with...
With an unexpected Irish flair, in both music and storytelling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – The Musical comes to vivid life on a foggy...
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...
It begins with a radio broadcast straight out of every World War II movie in existence, with England standing firm against the onslaught of German forces...
The draw wasn’t immediate. I’m not exactly sure why. But I needed a little convincing to take on this adaptation of Oedipus, now playing at the...
A box-strewn apartment, slightly angled and filled with the erotic glow of Barcelona sets the scene with music floating in from the streets. It quickly changes...
I read that the first published book written about a Shakespearian character was focused not on the legendary Macbeth or Hamlet, but on the “dodgy, obese,...
As she makes her way down the numerous flights of stairs, endless and amazing, The Hills of California, written with clever purpose by Jez Butterworth (The...
“As the dawn breaks” over the houses, a songbird’s tender melody flies this new musical forward over the three mornings, decades apart. As three households are...
Behind a large industrial gate, Verona stands hard and dominant in the stark white light. It’s 1597, as projected, but the energy is utterly contemporary and...
Last night West End Superstar Bradley Jaden made his US debut at Sony Hall. Jaden, is fresh off from his acclaimed performance in Stephen Sondheim’s Old...
It’s going to be some Shakespeare-heavy months ahead, especially around those famously doomed lovers named Romeo and Juliet, as I fly into the Stratford Festival (formally...
Oh, what a year it was. Running back and forth with a vengeance from Toronto to NYC, with stops in London, England, and London, Canada. Mostly...
It was one of those spontaneous but well-planned cross-Atlantic journeys, fueled by a one-show idea that blossomed into something bigger. Antonio and I (two theatre junkies...
Weaving together a memory play with a psychological study of epic historical proportions, the National Theatre delivers a mystery revolving most dynamically around a murder up...
The last time I saw Noises Off, the nearly perfect British farce from 1982 by playwright Michael Frayn (Benefactors; Make and Break), now celebrating its 40th...
Music floats in, all around us, from all sides. Beautiful stringed instruments are played by secretive musicians standing there amongst us in the aisle at the...
As someone who has never read the book or seen any type of adaptation; film or small screen, I felt like a bit of a virgin...
A quiet flies fast over the excited crowds in the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End of London, as Andrew Scott (Veracity Digital’s Sea Wall the...
