view feature on ChicagoTribune.com by Catey Sullivan For five years, actor Ari Butler has had up-close and personal access to the most exclusive halls of corporate power. In between theatre shows, Butler travels the world at the behest of Fortune 500 CEOs, called in to school the business world’s upper 1 percent on executive leadership […]
view feature on BroadwayWorld.com From the bustling streets of 1960’s New York City comes the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical comedy, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, continuing The Marriott Theatre’s acclaimed 2016 Season, previewing August 24, running through October 16 with a press opening on Wednesday, August 31 at 8 […]
by Morgan Greene view feature on ChicagoTribune.com The Marriott Theatre announced the cast of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” on Tuesday. The production stars Ari Butler as J. Pierrepont Finch, Jessica Naimy as Rosemary Pilkington, Terry Hamilton as J.B. Biggley, Angela Ingersoll as Hedy LaRue, Alex Goodrich as Bud Frump, Felicia P. Fields […]
“It feels like the universe is trying to tell me something.” -STRUCK The World Premiere of STRUCK by Sandy Rustin is now onstage at New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) through July 31st. With meticulous direction by Don Stephenson and featuring a stellar cast, this show is both entertaining and thought provoking. STRUCK strikes the […]
by Tom Chesek view article on app.com In “Struck,” the play that goes up in its world premiere this weekend at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, a woman finds her routine life taking an unexpected, maybe even cosmic turn when she is hit by a bicycle while crossing a New York City street. […]
“Hamilton,” the wildly popular musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, will likely win several Tony Awards this weekend for changing the form of musical theater from what most of us perceive it to be. He uses rap lyrics that challenge what we think we know about the founding of our nation. A lot of us were first […]
by Andrew Beck view article on Examiner.com It’s odd for a musical written by a celebrated composer-lyricist from England to have flopped out of town before reaching London, only to be discovered by producer David Merrick and remounted to significant success on Broadway. Yet, that’s the trajectory of “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell […]
by Christopher Arnott view article on Courant.com “The Roar of the Greasepaint — The Smell of the Crowd.” The very title of this 1964 cult musical by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse would seem to disparage theater audiences. But director Don Stephenson, who’s pushed through a rare revival of the show, has the utmost respect […]
view article on BroadwayWorld.com New Jersey Repertory Company, 179 Broadway in Long Branch, is proud to announce the cast of the World Premiere, STRUCK by Sandy Rustin.After being struck by a bike while crossing an East Village intersection, Vera Resnick feels an eerie, outer-body connection to the college-aged student responsible for the collision. Is this […]
view article on Playbill.com Tony Sheldon, who earned a Tony Award nomination for his performance as the drag goddess Bernadette in the 2011 musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert, will play the role of the patrician Sir in Goodspeed Musicals’ revival of the 1965 musical The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd. The […]
