Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (Roundabout)
The title John Lithgow: Stories By Heart succinctly describes this one-man play starring, who else, John Lithgow, currently running at the Roundabout Theatre Club’s American Airlines Theatre:
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Will and George, Alec and Donald, Jim and Andy…and Tony
Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America: A Final Night With George W. Bush is my favorite Broadway production that I never actually experienced in person.
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IT ME
Besides AAAAAAAll the obvious reasons, I’m so looking forward to Springsteen on Broadway because I’ll finally be able to read my beloved theatre critics writing about the Boss.
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All The World’s a Stage, and All the Men and Women Merely Selfish Audiences
My main problem with criticism today, both formal and informal, can be summarized in the phrase: “the selfish audience.”
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DANIEL’S HUSBAND, and the Sniffle Show Championship of 2016-2017
Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband proves yet again that Primary Stages continues to be a bafflingly ignored hotbed of quality new plays.
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IN TRANSIT (Broadway)
Does anyone else still want to hear the “Director’s Cut” of In Transit that axes the score-tanking beatboxing?
You Can’t Stop the Arts (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
As if I needed another reason to adore @HarveyFierstein – PREACH BROTHER: https://t.co/kZDCS7jfUJ
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 27, 2017
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The Broadway Season in Play Revivals (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
All 3 play revivals this Broadway season have squandered special casts with staid at best, paltry at worst direction
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 22, 2017
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Theatre Roundup (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP
Bull in a China Shop (LCT3)
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway)
Escaped Alone (BAM)
THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Public)
Hamilton (Broadway)
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway)
The Object Lesson (NYTW)
The Present (Broadway)
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (McKittrick)
Sunday in the Park with George (Broadway)
Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic)
Write All Nite 