Notes on a preview of ‘Women on the Verge…’
Broadway has been inundated with musicals based on movies over the past decade, but I don’t think there has ever been a show that displayed more reverance for its film source material than “Women on...
View ArticleThe quintessential New York City feminist baby boomer
Julie Salamon gave us what is probably the best book ever written about the production of a movie — “The Devil’s Candy” — and you can now read the paperback edition of her terrific 20111 glimpse into...
View Article‘Scenes’: a bittersweet triumph for Jan Maxwell
You only have until August 9 to see Jan Maxwell give an extraordinary performance as a painter fighting the 16th century Venetian power establishment in “Scenes from an Execution” at Atlantic Stage 2...
View ArticleEven Linda Lavin can’t save ‘Brief Affair’
It’s frustrating to watch a great stage actress work very hard to put across a play that defeats her. Linda Lavin has spent the past decade or so demonstrating incredible stage presence and peerless...
View Article‘Altitude’: Jose Llana’s life in the theater
The amazingly versatile singer-actor Jose Llana celebrated two decades of work in the New York theater with a concert at Lincoln Center last year. The show was perfectly bookended by performances of...
View Article‘Act One’: better than its reputation
Although Moss Hart’s 1959 theater memoir, “Act One,” was an enormous best-seller, the subsequent 1963 movie version more or less vanished from sight until the Warner Archive DVD-on-demand program...
View ArticleThe return of Alyssa Bresnahan
A long run in “War Horse” and the challenges of parenthood took Alyssa Bresnahan away from the Connecticut theater scene for several years, but she’s back in the new play “Napoli, Brooklyn,” opening...
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