Broadway
‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,’ and ‘My Fair Lady’ Lead 2018 Outer Critics Circle Nominations
The 2018 Outer Critics Circle award nominations were announced Tuesday at the famed Oak Room in New York City’s Algonquin Hotel.
The award nominees were announced by Katrina Lenk, the award winning actress who originated the role of Dina in “The Band’s Visit,” and Jenn Colella, who earned the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Captain Beverly Bass in “Come From …
Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ at Marquis Theatre Offers Lessons for Innkeepers
Perhaps the most important lesson one can take away from “Escape to Margaritaville” is how innkeepers at otherwise questionable establishments can offer thousand thread-count sheets.
“Margaritaville,” the Jimmy Buffet jukebox musical that opened in March in the Marquis Theatre on Broadway, has a decidedly tropical look from the ushers’ tropical shirts to the obligatory margaritas to Walt Spangler’s colorful set that belies its past as the theater where I saw revivals …
Review: ‘Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes’ at Neil Simon Theatre
It’s 1985 in New York City. The AIDS crisis is about to hit home for Louis Ironson when he finds out at his grandmother’s funeral that his partner, Prior Walter, has become infected.
Thus starts “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” a two-part and rather complex play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner, a work that is a frequently metaphorical examination of AIDS and homosexuality in America.
Indeed, “History is …
From ‘Angels in America’ to ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘My Fair Lady,’ Major Shows to Open on Broadway in March and April
A number of important Broadway shows including several major revivals will open on the Great White Way over the coming few weeks.
Here’s a look at what to expect, in order of appearance:
“Escape to Margaritaville,” already in previews, will open March 15 at the Marquis Theatre. Featuring music and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett, it’s the story of Tully, a singer/bartender/lady’s man who thinks he has it all figured out.
Disney fans take …
Harry Potter Is Crossing the Atlantic. Will Magic Follow?
Not unlike many of our readers, Harry Potter and his family are crossing the Pond. Perhaps uncharacteristically, he’s not boarding a train at Platform 9 3/4 in London’s Kings Cross. Rather, he’s traveling with a somewhat large entourage that includes key members of the original cast of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” in the West End.
The play picks up with J.K. Rowling’s beloved characters 19 years after The Deathly …
Theater Review: ‘Jerry Springer – the Opera’ at Pershing Square Signature Center
Although I never watched TV’s “Jerry Springer Show,” I was more than just curious to see how a talk show that required multiple security personnel on stage to stop brawls and other similar entanglements would work on stage.
The truth is, it, that is “Jerry Springer – The Opera,” didn’t, and you, dear reader, need not read further if you have something more pressing to do, such as taking out the …
Just Another Bikini Bottom Day at ‘Spongebob Squarepants’ at Palace Theater – Review
When I think of Spongebob Squarepants, the Nickelodeon cartoon dish sponge I grew up watching, the last thing that comes to mind is “this would make a great Broadway musical.” Spongebob Squarepants, a popular cartoon character since 1999, lives in a pineapple under the sea next to his best friend, a starfish named Patrick, and both are friends with a scientist/karate squirrel in a spacesuit. Spongebob has a boss who’s …
