The Inheritance
Written by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Ethel Barrymore Theatare
December 26, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Nothing is more wonderful then curling up with a good book – a good thick book that will take you though the lives of many people and occupy many hours of page turning –and when the book is a good one the time just cannot be beat!In Matthew Lopez’s beautifully sculpted play, The Inheritance you in in for a full day’s read in the best possible sense – it is being read live right in front of you.The seven plus hours of production occupies your day from 2:00 to 10:00pm and gives you four intermissions and a dinner break.It is theatre heaven!The staging even provides 28 men sitting around the giant coffee table of a stage – all in bare feet – ready to take us through the journey. Continue reading The Inheritance→
Oklahoma
Music by Richard Rogers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed by Daniel Fish
Circle in the Square
June 12, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I have never seen a golden age musical go down this plywood covered path before!Wow!When I first entered the stage I thought that Oklahoma was going to be more gimmick than art.The thrust stage was all boarded up in raw plywood – the floor and all the walls.Crockpots of chili were cooking away on long picnic tables where front row audience members were seated.Audience lights were going to be kept up for the majority of the production.I thought this was going to be a long night. Continue reading Oklahoma!→
Hillary and Clinton
Written by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Joe Mantello
Golden Theatre
June 8, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Laurie Metcalf rules Broadway in the summer.One year Three Tall Women, one year Doll’s House Part 2, this year Lucas Hnath’s Hillary and Clinton – and a possible next summer with a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf.And each one just keeps getting better and better.In way of thinking what makes Laurie Metcalf so wonderful on stage is the great ease she brings to her work.You sense no effort on her part.She is not obviously working.She is simply talking, reading and being with her partner – there is no artifice here.
The Play That Goes Wrong
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by Matt Dicarlo
New World Stages
April 19, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
The Play That Goes Wrong just keeps on going strong. This zany, wonderful farce had a long full life on Broadway and has recently been planted at New World Stage for one last blast of life before heading out on the road to tour. I was fortunate to see the production in the first few weeks on Broadway and was eager to see what had happened to it – with the necessity of greatly shrinking everything about the show. Here is my take on seeing the show on Broadway: The Play That Goes Wrong
Choir Boy
Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by Trip Cullman
Manhattan Theatre Club
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
January 1, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I loved this play, and I NEVER realized the power of gospel music in igniting passion and brining an audience in.Choir Boy centers on the tensions in a prestigious prep school for African American boys when a flamboyantly gay youth is named leader of their celebrated gospel choir.Essentially is a coming-of-age story for a gay student surviving and thriving in a mostly straight prep school with the strongest and most stringent of values to create “ethical black men.”Continue reading Choir Boy→
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