Broadway
Review: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ at New York Theatre Workshop
Mention the Sondheim-Furth musical “Merrily We Roll Along” to some and it will elicit groans. “It’s not my favorite,” a friend and drama critic said to me in hushed tones.
Indeed, after garnering negative review after negative review, “Merrily” lasted just 16 performances after its opening. In 1981. It was a flop. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth – and a story arc based …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Dec. 23: Life Expectancy Falls, Why Patients Lose Their Sense of Smell
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 988th day of the pandemic.
If you thought Covid-related cancellations on Broadway were a thing of the past, you’d be wrong.
“The Collaboration,” a new play based on the real-life artistic collaboration of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1984 and 1985, cancelled its opening night performance Wednesday night, as well as …
Review: ‘KPOP,’ Where the Orient Meets Broadway at Circle in the Square Theater
It’s a most unlikely setting, namely a camera rehearsal for the fictitious South Korean music agency RBY Entertainment’s debut of one of its biggest stars. Ruby, the company’s founder and CEO and a former K-pop singer, is obsessing over every detail with her star performer, MwE.
MwE is about to perform her song “엎드려 Up Du Ryuh (Bow Down)” but for reasons that are unclear becomes spooked when she sees Ruby …
Theater Review: ‘Camp Siegfried’ at Tony Kiser Theatre – ‘Anyone Can Be Seduced’
“We’re Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line” was a popular song at the start of the Second World War – and one of several reasons my father, born Siegfried Franz Spira, opted to change his first name to the initial “S.” when he emigrated to the United States after fleeing his native Austria in early 1939 via a Kindertransport to Great Britain.
The Siegfried Line – Westwall …
Coronavirus Morning News Brief – Nov. 20: CDC Advises Most New Yorkers to Mask, Beijing Urges Residents to Stay Home Monday
Good morning. This is Jonathan Spira reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 955th day of the pandemic.
In news we cover today, a surge in cases in Hong Kong may result in a cut in emergency services, residents of four of the five boroughs of New York City were told to mask up amidst high transmission rates of Covid, and the Chinese capital …
Can the Phantom Take Off His Mask at the Opera?
In Gaston Leroux’ 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, as well as film and stage adaptations of the work, including the 1925 motion picture starring Lon Chaney and the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Erik, also known as the Phantom of the Opera, or just the Phantom, is forced to wear a mask to hide his face because of a birth deformity (in the novel) or because he became disfigured …
Briefly Noted – Theater Review: ‘Parade’ at New York City Center
The tragedy of Leo Frank is the subject of the sadly little known musical “Parade,” currently undergoing a limited revival as part of New York City Center’s Encores program that was this year’s gala presentation at the historic theater.
Ben Platt takes his golden pipes on stage as Leo Frank, with Micaela Diamond as Lucille Frank. The show, set in the early 1900s, is based on the true story of Leo …
