The comic backstager has a long, bright history. (Think of Bottom and the rest of Shakespeare’s hapless mechanicals rehearsing Pyramus and Thisbe.) And—believe it—the genre is not going away anytime soon. (Consider Terrence McNally’s collection of ma …Read more

Can you ever really escape your past? This is the question posed by For the Last Time, a new jazz musical now playing at the Clurman Theatre. With music and lyrics by Nancy Harrow and direction by Will Pomerantz (who each additionally serve as co-lib …Read more

Syrian playwright and Applied Theatre practitioner Mohammad Al Attar launches a peaceful yet potent attack. His enemy is the world’s apathetic tendencies towards human suffering in the contentious Middle East.  His weapon is the theatre. In Could You …Read more

If Captain America had any musical talent and loved talking about sex, he would be in The Vaudevillians; like the famous superhero, the team of Dr. Dan Von Dandy (Major Scales) and his wife Ms. Kitty Witless (the terrific Jinkx Monsoon) were also cau …Read more

Theater has been pretty good to such biblical personae as Jesus (the superstar), Mary (who had her 2013 Testament), Joseph (of dreamcoat finery), Noah (who musicalized Two By Two), Adam and Eve (under The Apple Tree), and even Queen Esther (of The Ha …Read more

York Theatre Company’s production of the new musical Cagney, directed by Bill Castellino, is a wonderfully compelling biographical piece of theatre. Choreographer Joshua Bergasse works magic with the actors’ tap shoes, throwing the audience back to t …Read more

With a cast of six and a small orchestra, Tokio Confidential probably never intends to be more than a simple chamber musical; albeit, a chamber musical with a dense plot. The musical premiered in 2012 Off-Broadway directed by Johanna McKeon, with mus …Read more

When Lauren Worsham sings, you simply have to listen. Whether she’s doing The Turn of the Screw at the Met, or singing with her band Sky-Pony, she has one of those voices that demand your attention; her delivery is pristine without being fussy, and t …Read more

The Glass Menagerie, the semi-autobiographical “memory play” that launched the career of Tennessee Williams, takes place in a fragile space, presided over by an omniscient family photo and a narrator, Tom Wingfield (Richard Prioleau), who admits to t …Read more

B is for Broadway and Betty Buckley, and that may be no coincidence. One of the grande dames of the Great White Way, Miss Buckley has played Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Margaret White in Carrie (she also appeared in the Brian de Palma film ver …Read more