Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, first staged on Broadway in a bloated 1998 production. Here, as she did with the recent Encores! production, she gives the musical a second chance to realize…
EXCLUSIVE: Without advance notice, Magnolia Pictures on Friday will release Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway on Prime Video and other digital platforms. The David Cromer-directed film is is a live-capture of the Tony-nominated play that broke records during its limited Broadway run at the Winter Garden Theatre. George Clooney directed the acclaimed…
The arrival of James Graham’s Punch on Broadway at this particular moment in time would seem thoroughly in keeping with horrific real-life events and the gut-wrenching zeitgeisty fictions like Adolescence that force us to confront violence, grief and whatever sort of forgiveness we can muster. But such groupings go only so far before each individual…
Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to conduct idiosyncratic conversations that only sound a bit absurd on the surface but actually speak to real emotion and…
Will Broadway‘s upcoming fall season match the starry line-up of last spring, when George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and other performers best known for their film and TV work brought in big audiences and bigger bucks? In a word, yes. Among the big names taking the stage in the months ahead are…
Paul Libin, a major figure in the American theater for nearly seven decades whose leadership positions at Circle in the Square Theatre and Jujamcyn Theaters contributed some of Broadway‘s most exciting and acclaimed stage productions, died June 27 in New York City after a brief illness. He was 94. During the span of his career…