by Sylviane Gold view review on NYTimes.com What’s playing at the Goodspeed? I’ll tell you what’s playing at the Goodspeed. Story of a high-rolling gambler who wins way more than he bargained for when a mission doll upsets his game. Yes, Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown are back, along with their pals Nathan Detroit, Miss […]
by Brooks Appelbaum view review on ShorelineTimes.com Most of us envision (or remember, if we’re lucky) a perfect production of Guys and Dolls, the exuberant musical based on Damon Runyan’s tales of 1930s New York and New York characters (as in “What a character”). With a book by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling, and music […]
by Frank Rizzo view article on Courant.com Don Stephenson knows “Guys and Dolls” inside and out. After all, his father-in-law — Frank Loesser — wrote the score. But he hasn’t performed in the musical based on Damon Runyon’s stories of colorful saints and sinners of long-ago Times Square since he played Angie the Ox when […]
by Michael Sommers view review on NYTimes.com It is not essential to know the Russian plays of Anton Chekhov to like the all-American charms of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” Christopher Durang’s amiable comedy about a wacky weekend spent in Bucks County with three middle-aged siblings and a boy toy. Such knowledge lends […]
by David Rooney view article on HollywoodReporter.com Brian Stokes Mitchell and Laura Osnes lead this stage remake of the 1953 MGM classic, with Tracey Ullman and Michael McKean channeling Betty Comden and Adolph Green On the busy assembly line of screen-to-stage remakes, few properties might seem like more natural fits than the great MGM movie […]
by Lindsay Champion view article on Broadway.com There’s a whole slew of stars jumping on The Band Wagon! The Encores! production begins a limited engagement November 6, and we’ve got a first look at the new cast, who took a break from rehearsal to take this gorgoeus snapshot. Featuring music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics […]
by Michael Conniff view review on HuffingtonPost.com ASPEN, COLORADO—To say a play is “dated” is to confine it to the dustbin of history and simultaneously to leech the story of any contemporary meaning. In a movie, being dated is an irrevocable curse that can arrive with the wrong soundtrack or a cellphone as big as […]
by Sharon Eberson view article on Post-Gazette.com Don Stephenson gets out of his chair in a Pittsburgh Public Theater conference room to demonstrate what it has been like filling in for Tony nominee Jefferson Mays in “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” this season’s most nominated Broadway show with 10. He performs as eight […]
by Stefanie Cohen view article on WSJ.com Even veteran stars are succumbing to illness this winter. Earlier this month, Jefferson Mays’ greatest fear came true: He fell victim to a virulent stomach flu in the middle of his starring run in the hit Broadway musical, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” “It’s such a […]
by Adam Hetrick view article on Playbill.com The creative team has been announced for the Avery Fisher Hall concert presentation of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone’s Tony Award-winning musical Titanic. Manhattan Concert Productions, which presented the starry concert of the Tony-winning musical Ragtime last winter, will return to Lincoln Center for the Feb. 17, 2014, […]
