Tuesday, February 28, 2023

The Red Mill (Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live!)

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By Harry Forbes This is VHRP Artistic Director Alyce Mott’s fourth go-round with Victor Herbert’s popular musical comedy -- originally a veh...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Pictures from Home (Studio 54)

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By Harry Forbes The solid performances of Nathan Lane, Zoë Wanamaker, and Danny Burstein are the most striking points of interest here. The ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The Collaboration (Manhattan Theatre Club)

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By Harry Forbes Playwright Anthony McCarten, who’s written solid screenplays based on real-life personages (e.g. “The Two Popes” (Benedict X...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Merrily We Roll Along (New York Theatre Workshop)

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By Harry Forbes The latest revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 Broadway failure proves, yet again, that the work, adapted by George Furth fro...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Some Like It Hot (Sam S. Shubert Theatre)

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By Harry Forbes The 1972 Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical “Sugar” -- based, like the current offering, on Billy Wilder’s riotous 1959 film -- ...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Downstate (Playwrights Horizons)

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By Harry Forbes Here’s a gripping adult drama from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”) about four sex offenders -- all of ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

& Juliet (Stephen Sondheim Theater)

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By Harry Forbes Here’s an often witty and generally clever feminist riff on “Romeo and Juliet.” In this telling, William Shakespeare's s...