Reviews of plays from other cities across the nation
I’ve been thinking a lot about Miss Saigon ever since seeing the new revival in New York City earlier this month. I’d like to take a moment here to speak about the controversies inherent in any staging of this play: When it first opened, there were all sorts of issues with “yellowface” casting (Jonathan Pryce […]
Having heard so much about Eva Noblezada’s Tony-nominated performance as Kim in the Cameron McIntosh-produced revival of Miss Saigon, the musical from Les Miserables creators Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, I was naturally disappointed to arrive at the theatre to find that she was being replaced by an understudy. I needn’t have worried. Of course this production would […]
David Henry Hwang’s Tony-Award-winning M. Butterfly was a controversial masterpiece in the 80s when it first graced the Broadway stage. For the first-ever revival of this modern classic, there was simply no one who could do the job but Julie Taymor, the inventive director who transformed Disney’s The Lion King from an animated film into one of the most […]
The greater story of what happened on 9/11 is well known, but the musical Come From Away shows us a much more confined, lesser known part of it. When all of the planes were grounded in the immediate wake of the attacks, has it ever occurred to you to wonder just where they went? American air space […]
This is not a review of the wonderful new musical at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, The Band’s Visit. It can’t be: The Band’s Visit hadn’t opened yet as of the time this article (not “review’) is being written. Thus, what I witnessed this afternoon was a preview, albeit one that followed a long off-Broadway run last year and a […]
If I had a whole Christmas tree full of green lights, I’d be tempted to award them to Ben Platt and Dear Evan Hansen. Hamilton might be much more spectacular, but this intimate musical, based on an original story, is so tightly crafted and brilliantly acted that, from the opening second when the light shines on Evan […]