Broadway
Theater Review: ‘The Honeymooners’ at Paper Mill Playhouse
The Great White Way is littered with the detritus of failed attempts to use the small screen as an inspiration for live theater. Some shows borrow characters, atmosphere, and tone, rather than plot, some completely eschew episodic reference, some adopt a satiric tone, while others build on an episodic reference and stake out new territory.
The latter is what the developers of “The Honeymooners,” which recently opened at the Paper Mill …
Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ at Palace Theatre is Fantastically Magical
The biggest hit in the West End deserves all the accolades it’s receiving. For those unfamiliar with it, it’s “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which follows J.K. Rowling’s magical seven-volume Harry Potter series, picking up 19 years later as he enters middle age as a parent in London and civil servant employed at the Ministry of Magic. The two-part, five-hour sequel will soon be casting a spell on both …
Review: ‘Prince of Broadway’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Harold Prince, a theatrical producer and director with 21 Tony Awards and who is associated with many of the best-known and most successful Broadway shows of the 20th century, is far too big a persona to be portrayed by just one actor. Indeed, it takes an entire ensemble to portray him.
In “Prince of Broadway,” a retrospective of his life, every cast member takes a turn portraying Mr. Prince wearing a …
Theater Review: ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ at Belasco Theater
If Michael Moore doesn’t end up running for president or directing another movie, he may have a future as a late-night television talk show host. That’s the impression I was left with after spending two hours, without an intermission, in the (studio) audience of “The Terms of My Surrender.”
The filmmaker cum activist started his career, he tells us, by running for the local school board on a platform to have …
Review: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at John Golden Theatre
Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” is a three-act play that was first performed in 1879. Set in a small Norwegian town of that era it explores the fate of Nora Helmer, who, as a married woman in late 19th century Norway, lacks the legal status and ability to simply be herself. At the end of the play, Nora leaves the house, a slammed door heard around the world.
Fifteen years later, …
Review: ‘Assassins’ – Encores Off Center at City Center
Four U.S. presidents, namely Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, were assassinated while in office, all by gunshot, and all within a period of one hundred years. In addition, two U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, were injured in attempted assassinations and others, including Andrew Jackson and William Howard Taft, were the targets of assassination plots, as was Richard Nixon, whose would-be assassin planned …
Review: ‘1984’ by George Orwell at Hudson Theatre
What is truth? If you have pondered this question recently, in an age of alternative facts, you need look no further back than to 1948 when George Orwell wrote his dystopian novel, “1984.”
More prescient than one might have realized at the dawn of the Cold War, the novel introduced vocabulary and concepts such as Big Brother, doublethink thoughtcrime, telescreen, and of course alternative facts, the latter having gained a newfound …
