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Why Tom Hollander’s Madcap Performance  Is Unmissable Review of ‘Travesties’ Photo credit: Joan Marcus Be sure to bring a dictionary and a copy of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest with you when you attend the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, directed by Patrick Marber. Starring the masterful actor Tom Hollander, […]

Lauren Ambrose Dazzles as Eliza Doolittle Photo credit: Joan Marcus It’s one classic Lerner and Loewe song after another: “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face,” “On The Street Where You Live,” “I Could Have Danced All Night.” I’d forgotten how many wonderful songs the musical team wrote for the award-winning musical My Fair Lady until […]

A night of fun whether or not you are a     Parrothead Photos: Matthew Murphy Paul Alexander Nolan and the original Broadway cast of Escape to Margaritaville Saturday, April 21, 2018 BY ELYSE TREVERS If Broadway musicals were rated the way movies are, “Escape to Margaritaville,” the jukebox musical crafted around Jimmy Buffett songs, […]

Screen Stars Michael Cera and Chris Evans Are Giving Broadway a Go Photo credit: Joan Marcus Jeff is a “f-ck up.”  Kicked out of the Navy and in debt, he’s living in one room that he rents from his brother.  For the last nine months, he’s been working the graveyard shift as a security guard […]

Photos: Brigitte Lacombe Alison Pill, Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” Most of the people at The Golden Theatre were there for one major reason- to see actress Glenda Jackson in her return to the Broadway stage after thirty years. There was a palpable sense of excitement in the audience and […]

Ron Cook, Deborah Findlay, and Francesca Annis in The Children. Photo credit: Joan Marcus Lucy Kirkwood’s award-winning play The Children, a disturbing tale about nuclear power that mirrors real events, is troubling from the onset. The frame around the stage is tilted and Rose, the lone character standing mid-stage, has blood streaming from her nose onto […]

Keegan-Michael Key, Jeremy Shamos, Amy Schumer, and Laura Benanti in Meteor Shower. Photo credit: Matthew Murphy. It takes effort to make a marriage work — sometimes even self-help tapes, movies and therapy sessions.  Corky (Amy Schumer) and Norm (Jeremy Shamos) have been at it for years. Yet they are ill-equipped to handle the challenges of […]

Photo credit: Joan Marcus The King is having a bad day; he can’t catch a goldfish in a glass bowl.  King Philippe V of Spain has a “brain inflammation” and appears to be going mad.  In Farinelli and The King, the new drama at the Belasco Theatre, the superb Mark Rylance portrays the king who […]

Peter Gosik (Wild Bill Hickock); Rosalie Burke (Katie); Dallas Padoven (Ensemble); Kristin Wetherington (Calamity Jane); Caitlin Evans (Ensemble); Abby Hart (Ensemble). Photo credit: Milliron Studios Photography March is Women’s History Month. What better way to spend a few hours than with Calamity Jane, a real life frontierswoman and professional scout?  Presented by Musicals Tonight!, the […]

Photos by Brinkhoff & Mögenburg Nathan Lane, and Susan Brown performing “Angels in America” By QNS Staff / editorial@queenscourier.com / Saturday, March 31, 2018 / 2:00 PM BY ELYSE TREVERS There are those who have experienced it and those who have yet to.  I’m referring to audiences who have spent an epic day at the […]