★★★★☆ Keone and Mari Madrid lead highly-energized 12-member dance troupe with inspiration
Broadway
Grand Horizons: The Kids Aren’t Alright
★★★★☆ Bess Wohl gets big laughs from a long-married couple, their potential divorce, and their flabbergasted adult children
Grand Horizons: Senior Citizen Sex Comedy Gets Boost from Jane Alexander
★★☆☆☆ Strong comedy performances offset the surprisingly mild script by the usually adventurous Bess Wohl
A Soldier’s Play: Charles Fuller’s Pulitzer-Winner in Stunning Revival
★★★★☆ Kenny Leon directs David Alan Grier, Blair Underwood and skilled cast on race madness
A Soldier’s Play: A Stodgy Whodunit, and a Thoughtful Meditation on Racism
★★★☆☆ This probing but flawed Pulitzer winner gets a gorgeous revival staged by Kenny Leon with David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Maternal Affairs
★★★★☆ Laura Linney shines in this Richard Eyre–directed one-woman show about the unbreakable, intricate mother-daughter bond
My Name Is Lucy Barton: Her Name Is Laura Linney, in an Illuminating Performance
★★★★☆ Elizabeth Strout’s best-seller is convincingly brought to the stage in Rona Munro’s adaptation, directed by Richard Eyre
The Feingold Column: Recollections of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference – Part 2
More summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O’Neill Conference.
Harry Connick Jr.: Celebrating Cole Porter With Brass and Multimedia
★★★★☆ The crooner smoothly guides us through the Porter songbook, sparking the evening with theatrical surprises
Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter Where Anything Goes
★★★★☆ The actor, singer, and virtuoso pianist pays tribute to Cole Porter with a Broadway extravaganza