William Shakespeare’s Pericles, directed by Trevor Nunn for Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is an amalgamation of so many Shakespearean plays. It’s like The Tempest and Twelfth Night with its multiple shipwrecks. It has …Read more
Trevor Nunn’s production of Pericles (playing at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center through March 27) has it all: shipwrecks, tragic priestesses, greedy brothel owners, fake deaths galore and refreshing musical interludes. With so much going on, the pro …Read more
Arriving into The Grand Paradise feels very much like what we have come to imagine as ideal travel: a pink hued, Pan Am-fantasia in which we are invited to leave all our troubles behind and succumb to the promise of what lies ahead. Travelers are wel …Read more
The latest Stephen Sondheim compilation album immediately courts scrutiny when it announces itself as The Essential Stephen Sondheim. For, as even the most cursory of musical theatre fans know, and as the digital booklet which accompanies the two dis …Read more
The curtain at Colman Domingo’s Dot shows a two-story house done in the pointillistic technique, which will make audience members think of one of two things: Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George or the establishing shot in a sitcom. Whil …Read more
Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year returned on February 22 for its landmark 16th season at The Town Hall, and with it came a new format, and one of the most memorable nights in 2016 musical theatre so far. The format change consists of a rather clev …Read more
In Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Greg Keller plays Seth, an obituary writer who discovers his mother Anna (Linda Lavin) had a torrid affair when he was a teenager. The discovery sends him down an introspective path along with his twin sister Abby (Kate …Read more
The one and only Charles Busch will be having his very first show at the American Songbook series presented by Lincoln Center. His show, titled The Lady at the Mic, will see him celebrate the careers of great entertainers Elaine Stritch, Joan Rivers, …Read more
After a landmark 2015 – which saw her give two of her finest stage performances to date – Kate Baldwin is starting 2016 with a residency at the renovated Sheen Center, which will see her headline three concerts, each of which will highlight the work …Read more
Director Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous and visually stunning production of Madama Butterfly is matched perfectly to the sweeping lush melodies of Giacomo Puccini. Lovingly directed and choreographed by Carolyn Choa, Mr. Minghella’s widow (Mr. Minghe …Read more
