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BROADWAY GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH ‘WEST SIDE STORY’: REVIEW

February 20, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Video has a starring role in the dazzling new revival of West Side Story.

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UNIRONIC ‘JAGGED LITTLE PILL’ AIMS TO SAVE THE PLANET: REVIEW

December 6, 2019 by Philip Boroff

The world is in crisis. Jagged Little Pill  is on it.

Gun violence? “Fear has no place in our schools,” an onstage placard reads. Climate change? Name-checked in another sign. Rape? The musical dramatizes an attack via metaphorical modern dance. Opioid addiction? The show’s matriarch buys and pops down black market Oxycodone, a scene played out forward and in reverse.Continue Reading

DIVORCED. BEHEADED. BOFFO: ‘SIX’ REVIEW

August 26, 2019 by Philip Boroff

CAMBRIDGE, MASS — Six,  the pop-concert musical featuring the wives of Henry VIII cracking wise and woeful about their tragic destinies, is an inventive and exuberant take on 16th-century history for the Snapchat generation and beyond.Continue Reading

SARNA LAPINE REINVENTS ‘ANNIE GET YOUR GUN’: REVIEW

August 9, 2019 by James Feinberg

Sparkling lead performances help make Bay Street Theater’s new Annie Get Your Gun  a warm, nostalgic visit to an earlier era.Continue Reading

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ REVIEW

July 26, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Three decades after The Phantom first dropped his chandelier in New York and Jean Valjean took up pursuit here, along comes another Paris-based musical spectacle and prospective blockbuster.Continue Reading

MERCEDES RUEHL IN SAG HARBOR CAMPUS POWER PLAY: REVIEW

July 8, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Alan Fox’s Safe Space  at Bay Street Theater is a provocative exploration of academic freedom in our call-out culture — and a three-character cage match to control the narrative during a campus crisis.Continue Reading

‘A STRANGE LOOP’ EXPANDS BOUNDARIES: REVIEW

June 18, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Did he really just say that? And sing that?Continue Reading

DANIELLE BROOKS IN JOYOUS ‘MUCH ADO:’ REVIEW

June 11, 2019 by James Feinberg

Halfway through the first act of Shakespeare in the Park‘s Much Ado About Nothing, I found myself on Danielle Brooks’ lap.Continue Reading

SUSAN SARANDON, R&H MIX AWKWARDLY IN JESSE EISENBERG’S ‘HAPPY TALK’: REVIEW

May 16, 2019 by James Feinberg

Marin Ireland & Susan Sarandon/Monique Carboni

“I always thought that my lot in life was to help people en masse,” pontificates Susan Sarandon as an unbearable community theater diva in Jesse Eisenberg’s half-baked new play, Happy Talk.

“Through my work. People see me on stage. They see the human condition — it filters through me — and maybe they learn a little something about themselves,” Sarandon’s character, Lorraine, says.Continue Reading

LONDON ‘MAN OF A LA MANCHA’ SCORES: REVIEW

May 7, 2019 by James Feinberg

LONDON — Man of La Mancha  is being revived at the London Coliseum, starring Kelsey Grammer as a blustery Don Quixote. Directed by Lonny Price, with the English National Opera’s 30-piece orchestra, it’s a luscious delight.

For the show — the 1966 Tony Award winner for Best Musical — lyricist Joe Darion and composer Mitch Leigh crafted a perfect score, built on a base of Spanish guitars periodically punctured by explosions of brass.Continue Reading

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