In Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second of August Wilson’s 10 play Century Cycle, all the action occurs in a boarding house run by Seth Holly (Cedric the entertainer) and his wife Bertha (Taraji P.Henson in an excellent Broadway debut.) The two ser …Read more

Shows can have ornate settings and special effects like those in this season’s The Lost Boys; now playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village, KENREX only uses an open door frame, several free-standing microphones and a mobile staircas …Read more

Y You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your neighbors, that is unless you are Elliot Emerson (impressive Richard Thomas,) real estate agent and president of the Vernon Point Homeowners Association. Acknowledging changing demographics, he car …Read more

What do you do when you can’t figure out what, exactly, was your dad’s problem? That’s the central question in Broken Snow, a slowly burning thriller playing at Theater 71, written by Ben Andron, directed by Colin Hanlon and starring Tony Danza – yes …Read more

From show to movie and back to show. The cult 1975 movie Rocky Horror Picture Show is on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54. Directed by Jim Sharman, the film found its niche and as a cult favorite, has been showing somewhere in …Read more

Love transcends death. So do estates and trusts, intellectual property rights, and your grandmother’s ugly furniture. It’s just our actual bodies and consciousnesses that go kaput. (But don’t worry – Sam Altman is planning to disrupt death, as soon a …Read more

It takes a while for the title character to appear in the revival of Gina Gionfriddo’s play Becky Shaw. When Becky does appear, she changes the dynamics of the play. Becky is a catalyst who doesn’t change from beginning to end. Instead her character …Read more

Is madness inherited? Is genius inherited? Are the two connected? These are some of the questions posed in Proof, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play in 2001. When an aging parent needs help, often one child in the family assumes the …Read more

I’m a musical theater nerd and love classic Broadway musicals. Even though they may be dated now, I still have an affection for them. So when the television show called Schmigadoon aired in 2021 on Apple TV, parodying old musicals I became an enthusi …Read more

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