Entertainment

A Little Night Music – on Broadway

November 4, 2010
Print Friendly

A Little Night Music Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler It was the “Send in the Clowns” that did it.  Tipped the scales in this cast’s favor, that is.  A Little Night Music opened in the fall of 2009 starring the incomparable Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta Jones.    And I saw […]

Share
Read the full article →

The Language Archive – Off-Broadway

October 4, 2010
Print Friendly

The Language Archive By Julia Cho I really enjoyed this sweet little play!  The Roundabout Theatre Company commissioned this piece – a comedy about a man studies languages, most notably those that are on the brink of extinction, yet one who struggles to communicate with the people closest to him. It’s a comedy and the […]

Share
Read the full article →

Fela! – On Broadway

September 24, 2010
Print Friendly

Fela! Book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones Music by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti If  you’re like me, you had no idea who or what “Fela” was when you heard the title of this Broadway show.  (And if you’re one of the people who did know who Fela was, well, then this review probably does not […]

Share
Read the full article →

American Idiot — On Broadway

September 13, 2010
Print Friendly

American Idiot by Billie Joe Armstrong, Michael Mayer and Green Day I don’t quite know what to write about this one as I don’t think they gave me enough in the 9o minutes to really critique it—-as a piece of Musical Theatre, that is. Is it loud?  Yes.  Is the dancing ‘gritty’?  Yes.  Did they […]

Share
Read the full article →

Lend Me A Tenor – On Broadway

July 19, 2010
Print Friendly

Lend Me A Tenor by Ken Ludwig What a fun night in the theatre!  This is an old-fashioned farce.  Plenty of sight gags…. foreign accents….mistaken identities…an over-bearing father… a nervous young man…flirtatious aggressive women…a cheeky hotel clerk….the list goes on and on.  This was a show where the entire audience roared with laughter again again….and […]

Share
Read the full article →
Page 3 of 4
1
2
3
4