Tag Archives: Broadway

The "tru-ish" story of what happened when a meticulous fact-checker challenged a poignant essay about a teen's suicide at a Las Vegas resort.

In this shimmering laugh riot Birbiglia relates his feelings with candor and authenticity. We become his intimates and he can tell us whatever he devises. We so want to listen!

Mendes has shepherded the actors to terrific performances and created a potent, masterful production that must not be missed.

Wordy and deep, Jez Butterworth's Olivier-Award-winning play leaps brightly into the sunshine carrying the bloody torch of Irish drama.

Well played all around, this Shakespeare's Globe production is blessed with the preternaturally naturalistic Rylance, whose severely manic-depressive and sometimes delusional King Philippe V of Spain is both brilliantly imagined and pulsatingly real.

Kyle Jarrow has conceived a story that puts the show's appealing characters into a doomsday scenario encrusted, sea anemone-style, with a surprisingly persistent if easy to take sociopolitical edge.

Broadway producer Daryl Roth struggled with the decision to close 'Indecent,' seeing the show each night for its 'final' two weeks and struck by the standing ovations. The last night, overwhelmed with emotion, she strode up to the closing notice and ripped it apart.

There has been such enthusiasm for the production since Yale (2015) that the ensemble, the musicians, the stage manager, and the assistants have remained together. As Vogel says, “We’ve all moved together as one.”

This version of the Tony Award-winning comedy, directed by Guy Unsworth, stands out because of the comedic timing and naturalistic performances of most of the cast.