Tag: Broadway
‘Don’t Make Me Come Down There’ — and Other COVID Comedy
On this episode of the Burke's Law podcast, we enjoy those that Trump once called "My generals" giving him a slap-down -- right in his tiny privates.
‘Jitney,’ in LA, Sings August Wilson’s Song of the Forgotten Man
Only 34 at the time that he wrote his first play, Jitney, August Wilson may or may not have known just how the emotion-driven...
Robert O’Hara: Finding the Beauty in the Horror
My old friend -- director of Broadway's hit "Slave Play" -- tells me why theater is the space for the complicated and the uncomfortable.
On Broadway, ‘Betrayal’ Is the Only Constant of Life
The hard elegance of the performances -- especially Tom Hiddleston, in his Broadway debut -- are a potent factor in the overwhelming success of this revival.
Musical Malaise: The Twilight of the Original Score?
The zeitgeist doesn’t bode well for top-flight musical theater scores. Unless...
Death of ‘Chicago’ Actor Jeff Loeffelholz: Updates, Debates
Who has legal standing to know the results of an investigation? What about a moral imperative?
Pip with Pizzazz: Ethan Mordden Assesses Barbra Streisand
Diversity, inclusion and curious sins of omission in a new book on the "greatest star."
‘Frankie and Johnny’ Beams a Strong Broadway Half-Light
Playwright Terrence McNally can be greatly thanked -- especially in the light of the moon.
All the Good News I Could Find
Nine not-a-little-bit-bougie pieces of good news and nice things for the decadent extremist in us all.
For Hnath, ‘Hillary and Clinton’ Are a, If Not the, Real...
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow cannonade a gratifying 90-minute, intermissionless play.
She’s Lear, She’s Here, Get Used To It
One thing about this obtuse king is undeniably magisterial: a larger-than-life rage.
Giving Chase to Choreographer Chase Brock
Dance "from character and situation and circumstance and plot and theme."
Halley Feiffer: Writing New Roles One Play at a Time
How an actor who has always been a writer became a writer who has always been an actor.
Of Sound Mind: Fitz Patton Sees Theater As Tonal Adventure
Sound designer? Composer? Photographer? Publisher? Call him what you like. But call: he's listening.
Shepard’s ‘True West’ May Not Be So True After All
I used to think this was a great play. Now I fear it's a great play wrapped in a gimmick.
In ‘Lab’ Strike Against B’way, Is Actors’ Equity Overreaching?
Writers disrespected...non-union actors bullied...Broadway pros offer a sharp critique.
I’m a Playwright, and Trigger Warnings Trouble Me
What right has anyone to tell me how audiences should experience my plays?
Atticus Finch Galvanizes Broadway
Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" astounds with the great Jeff Daniels.
In ‘Network’ on Broadway, Design Battles Howard Beale
Played by a craggy, and mesmerizing Bryan Cranston, he's not going to take it anymore.
Big, Black and On Broadway
But "King Kong," the musical, doesn't quite confront its disturbing history as a metaphor for racism.
RIP RGB, RIP GOP, RIP USA
None of the second-rate white men currently on the Supreme Court will receive the honors given to RBG when they finally die.
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Herman Cain (and Republicans Unable)
And then there was Jerry Falwell, Jr., with his open pants, evangelical FUPA and his hands veering into prime side-boob territory with -- hey, doesn't she have a name?
