In Aristophanes’ comic play, Lysistrata is a daring woman who tries to persuade the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers in order to force them to stop the Peloponnesian War. Fast forward from 411 BC to 2011 AD and meet Lyssie J. (played by Patti Murin) and her […]
What could a Broadway show about Bonnie and Clyde possibly have over the shoot-em-up screen romance in the 1967 film starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway? I thought. But the new Bonnie & Clyde at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater is a stunner. You don’t have to bite the bullet during the first act hoping that […]
The first act, Ethan Coen’s Talking Cure, is about a frustrated psychiatrist who is unable to make a connection with his patient at a mental institution. The patient, who won’t even admit he is one, is a mailman who went postal on his job, attacking a worker and even attacking a nurse in the […]
NEWSICAL—THE MUSICAL at Theater Row, 410 W. 42nd Remember Saturday Night Live in the days of John Belushi when the writers were on their game throughout the whole show and we didn’t have to depend on a guest appearance by Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga or a reunion with Tina Fay to get it […]
Both definitions of Follies—a musical review and a foolish action fit this revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman musical about former Follies stars who reunite for a last performance at a theater which is about to become a parking lot. Sally Durante Plummer played by Bernadette Peters, wife of Buddy Plummer (Danny Burstein) […]