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 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 Michael Sommers read review on nytimes.com One of the nicest features of the Broadway revival of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor” back in 2010 was John Lee Beatty’s creamy rococo hotel suite where the operatic characters dashed about. The Paper Mill Playhouse’s exuberant staging of “Lend Me a Tenor” in Millburn utilizes Mr. […]
by Naomi Siegel view review on NYTimes.com The Congress is in obstructionist mode. Conservatives and liberals lock horns. Debates about taxes, an escalating war, the erosion of human liberties and a restructuring of the social order end in stalemate and standoff. “Piddle, twiddle and resolve; nothing ever do we solve,” is the way one wag […]
