King of the Yees” is billed as a “kind of true” story about the disappearance of playwright Lauren Yee’s father Larry Yee, a prominent resident of San Francisco’s Chinatown, after the California ...
In this musical about a man who is born old and grows younger with each passing year, a company of 15 actor-musicians seemed to be having a stomping good time playing the lively Celtic-flavored ...
Election Day is exactly two weeks away, which makes Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Broadway debut feel well-timed given her previous performance as a morally bankrupt politician. (Read “The Collaborators,” ...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, making her Broadway debut, dominates this first Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities.” This is not because her performance stands out; it doesn’t. She simply ...
Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.
Sophia Anne Caruso as Colette, a French prostitute and diarist in Duncan Sheik’s posthumously produced musical, has a moment that struck me as straight out of his “Spring Awakening,” when she lets ...
In a fleeting moment but one that will last forever, Manuel Oliver found out that his 17-year-old son was shot dead, one of the 17 people killed on Valentine’s Day, 2018 at the Marjory Stoneman ...
Kramer/Fauci” is billed as a verbatim re-creation of a 1993 discussion of the AIDS epidemic on C-SPAN between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer, but the original hour on cable didn’t feature a caller ...
Below is a list of theater opening* in October, including four on Broadway – starry revivals of plays by Aaron Sorkin, Jon Robin Baitz, and Moliere; and a new monologue by Billy Crystal — while the ...
Almost a decade after we first met the students at the Aburi Girls Boarding School in Jocelyn Bioh’s breakthrough comedy, Paulina, now portrayed by Denée Benton, is as mean as ever, the meanest girl ...