Saturday, October 31, 2009

Brighton Beach Memoirs (Nederlander Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes It will be most unfortunate if the provisional closing notice posted for Neil Simon’s play about his Brooklyn childhood real...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Columbia Pictures)

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By Harry Forbes I must confess I am one of the few who never followed Michael Jackson’s career with much interest, and the tabloid stories d...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

After Miss Julie (American Airlines Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes Patrick Marber’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” transposes the action from 19th Century Midsummer’s Eve Swed...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Superior Donuts (The Music Box)

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By Harry Forbes Both sharply humorous and warmly sentimental, “Superior Donuts” concerns an aging Polish-American 1960’s draft resister, Art...

Memphis (Sam S. Shubert Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes “Memphis” is one of the biggest surprises of the new season: a genuinely winning musical about an illiterate white 1950’s DJ...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Amelia (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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By Harry Forbes This is an absorbing, old-fashioned (in the best sense of the word) biopic about the pioneering aviator and feminist Amelia ...

Bye Bye Birdie (Henry Miller’s Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes It’s perhaps an exaggeration to claim that the revival of “Bye Bye Birdie” – the first on Broadway since its original produc...
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