In the game of baseball, signals rule the field: there is a call for safe, a call for an out, calling a player off a fly ball, a sign for a pitch, and face-touching from the coaches. In “The Signal Season of Dummy Hoy”, presented by the New York Deaf …Read more

SEE because: Think “Sweeney Todd” by way of Gilbert & Sullivan.  “Guide” is lighter and not in the same league, but still oodles of fun. Unlike so many movies-into-musicals, this takes a great comedy (the Ealing classic “Kind Hearts and Coronets” …Read more

SEE because: Brian Cranston isn’t just a star giving a grand performance, he’s exciting to watch as he ramps LBJ up from shell-shocked grief to energized commander in chief to driven, borderline-paranoid dealmaker. If you liked Spielberg’s “Lincoln”, …Read more

For the third time this season, Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theater has an opening. After the commercial failures of the musical “Soul Doctor” and the baseball drama “Bronx Bombers”, the venue now hosts “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill”, feat …Read more

It seems everyone is always waiting for the next big, splashy, funny, zany old-style musical to sweep Broadway off its feet, much as “The Producers” did more than a decade ago. There have been direct attempts since – e.g., “Nice Work if You Can Get I …Read more

SEE OR SKIP: Bullets Over Broadway  In this arts column, rather than provide a lengthy critique, we hit the bullet points and share our thoughts on whether a show is worth seeing or skipping. Of course, your own reasons for picking or ignoring a show …Read more

As tickets become harder to move, the divisive trend of casting movie stars on the Great White Way is becoming more and more ubiquitous. The current revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is no exception.  If a sold out Satur …Read more

SEE ot SKIP: Aladdin In this arts column, rather than provide a lengthy critique, we hit the bullet points and share our thoughts on whether a show is worth seeing or skipping. Of course, your own reasons for picking or ignoring a show might be based …Read more

The totally enjoyable “Greed” opened last night at the slightly-off-Broadway New World Stages. Billed as a musical, “Greed” is really more of a musical revue; there is no story, and little dialogue to speak of. The small ensemble cast features four p …Read more

Not everything translates well when delivered nearly a century after its creation. Certainly, making a stylistically dated piece play well—however avant-garde and progressive the piece may have been in its day—is a task for a nuanced touch. Mounting …Read more