What is comedy? Countless books have been written describing, explaining, analyzing and dissecting the genre. Yet we know it when we see it and Fallen Angels, the Noel Coward 1952 comedy of manners, is one of the funniest plays on Broadway. Although …Read more

Young girls often have BFFs (best friends) with whom they share everything. They swear to be besties forever, and sometimes they actually remain friends over the years. Through school, jobs, boyfriends and even husbands, the close friendships remain. …Read more

Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – The Fear of 13: Surviving Death Row. Nicholas Yarris was convic …Read more

From Off-Broadway to the West End to Broadway, the ship Titanique has traveled a long way. The musical parody of James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic has delighted its audiences so much that it has made the rare transfer to the St. James Theatre. This …Read more

“Cats:The Jellicle Ball” at the Broadhurst Theatre is not your mother’s “Cats,” the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. In the original musical, the poems, set to Webber’s memorable music, were …Read more

“Bad with money. Great with a spray gun.” Such is a supremely apt tease of Nicole Travolta is Doing Alright, the critically-acclaimed solo show written and performed by the titular comedian, currently selling out SoHo Playhouse through May 10th. Blen …Read more

“Experimenting on yourself is insane. An experiment on a single person, with no controls, tells you nothing. It is incapable of predicting anything.” Or… is it? Such is the premise of Spare Parts, the darkly comedic and deeply twisted new drama cur …Read more

In Dog Day Afternoon, playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has adapted a play from a movie based on an actual event. I knew nothing about the movie except that it starred Al Pacino, and nothing about the play except for its leads, veterans of FX’s popular …Read more

Though we understand their circumstances may have been a bit different, like Oliver and his clan of orphan boys, we’ve all fallen into a daze dreaming of “food, glorious food” at one point or another. After all, it’s been said that food is the great …Read more

Sometimes an actor gives such a commanding performance that he will always be that character. So it was with John Lithgow portraying Roald Dahl in the Olivier award- winning play Giant, recently transplanted to Broadway. Lithgow portrays children’s a …Read more