Standing Room Only

If producers ever had any doubt of a celebrity’s effect on the box office, they need only look at this current theater season to see ticket prices. Popular movie star George Clooney is packing the Winter Garden Theatre and premium tickets are going for $777. Clooney and Grant Heslov adapted their movie “Good Night and […]

If you’ve seen the original David Mamet play or the movie version of “GlenGarry Glen Ross,” forget it and approach this revival with a fresh mind. Don’t compare the present cast to Al Pacino, Jonathan Pryce and Jack Lemmon or consider what makes it different from what you recall. Just revel in the talented cast […]

The phrase “the sins of the father are visited upon the son” suggests that parents’ actions can severely impact their children. In the new adaptation by Mark O’Rowe of Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi Newhouse Theater, parents’ choices have profound effects on the offspring. Although neither child in the story, Oswald nor Regina, […]

Composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson died before achieving success. He posthumously received three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his groundbreaking musical “Rent”. The musical began Off- Broadway in 1996, but tragically, Larson died from an aortic dissection the day before the first preview performance. So he didn’t get to see his show’s success. […]

What will you be doing when you turn 85? Living in a retirement community? Laying on the beach in Florida? Living in the spare room in your kid’s house? Not so for Judy Collins, the American singer/songwriter who is still going strong as she celebrates her 85th birthday. The festivities took place at NYC’s Town […]

How would you react after a terrible personal tragedy? Would you slip into a deep depression? In the new musical “Redwood” directed by Tina Landau at the Nederlander Theater, Idina Menzel’s Jesse rushes to get as far away as possible from her pain. In the show, co-conceived by Menzel and Landau with original music by […]

It’s hard to imagine our mothers’ lives when they were young women. What were their plans, goals, dreams? Do they have regrets? This is the premise of Bess Wohl’s new play, Liberation, presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, as the playwright envisions what her mother’s life might have been like. Standing in for the author, Lizzie […]

It’s not easy for an adult to learn a new language. If you ever tried, you will connect with the characters in “English” the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning play for Drama by playwright Sanaz Toossi now presented by Roundabout Theatre Company. Each of the four Iranian adult students in Marjan’s (Marjan Neshat) ) classroom are studying […]

Some Broadway musicals are classics, revived over and over again. And then there are the divas, the performers who create the starring roles. If you are lucky enough to see them, you will witness unforgettable performances. This year’s outstanding revival stars Audra McDonald as Mama Rose, the matriarch of the classic musical Gypsy with book […]

The Board of Directors of Eureka Day school, a private school in upscale Berkeley, California, prizes inclusivity above all else. So no issues will be resolved without complete agreement. “We only make decisions by consensus,” says Meiko, a member of the board. The group strives to be inclusive and always include the parents of a […]