“Don’t worry. I may have my quirks but I’m not an animal. …or am I?” Martin McDonagh’s first new play in five years, Hangmen, is currently enjoying a very successful run in London’s West End. The hallmarks of McDonagh’s work — violence, gallows humo …Read more

I don’t know about you, but lately my social media feed has been exceptionally hostile. Peppered in amongst the usual think pieces and cat videos are comment exchanges that an outside observer might assume were between mortal enemies, but are ostensi …Read more

Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth has become something of a New York theater staple in the past few decades. It is never too long until another revival is ready; this is surely due in part to the fact that its subject of spoiled, reckless, rich Ma …Read more

The Improbable Fall, Rise & Fall of John Law: A New Play About Money, is a long title indeed, but then a shorter one wouldn’t do the real John Law’s improbable life justice. At over two hours long, it is but part one, as in the fall and rise. The …Read more

The Little Opera Theatre of NY’s production of Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ L’amant Anonyme is an exercise in restrained beauty that should inspire other opera companies to remember that the power of the artform isn’t bound by the size of the venue wh …Read more

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell deliver the brilliant gift that is Bright Star to audiences this spring, a new musical about how we choose to tell our stories. Set in the southern part of the United States in the middle of the 20th century, Bright Sta …Read more

The 2015-2016 theatre season saw us witnessing the fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. This means it is now proceeded by Show Boat, The Threepenny Opera and Porgy & Bess as the musicals most revived on Broadway. There have been many mo …Read more

Though rarely mentioned in the same breath as Fiddler, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein classics, the Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock and Joe Masteroff tuner, She Loves Me, ranks up there with the most loved and admired stage …Read more

Lyricist Sheldon Harnick is a bona fide Broadway legend, having created over a dozen musicals, many of which (particularly his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock) became part of the theatrical canon. He is also one of the rare writers who was aw …Read more

The central character in Olivier Letellier’s Oh Boy!, a young man by the name of Barthélémy, finds himself suddenly becoming father figure to three recently orphaned children, who will force him to leave behind his frivolous ways and dare him to grow …Read more