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Broadway Review: “Cost of Living” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 6, 2022)

“Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, and entertainment in different regions.” – Investopedia The folks in Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, are not “average people” and they experience the…

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Regional Review: “Evita” at Bucks County Playhouse (Closed Sunday, October 30, 2022)

September 26, 2022 | News, Previews, Regional (Pennsylvania) | "Evita", Amanda Rivera-Torres, Andrés Acosta, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bucks County Playhouse, Casting is by Paul Hardt CSA, Choreographed by Marcos Santana, Costume Design: Michael McDonald, David Roberts, Devin Cortez, Directed by Will Pomerantz., Edgar Cavazos, Edgar Lopez, Edlyn Gonzalez, Gabriella Enriquez, Hair and Wig Design: Bobbie Ziotnik, Jimena Flores Sanchez, Juan Guillen, Lighting Design: Mike Billings, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Madeline Serrano, Maria Bilbao, Marissa Barragán, Michelle Alves, Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Music Director: Aaron Jodoin, Pablo Torres, Scenic Design: Anna Louizos, Sean Francis Patrick is production stage manager., Sophia Viscuse, Sound Design: Charles Coe, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tim Rice, Zach Bravo

Anyone who might enjoy an evening at the theater and resides within a reasonable distance to New Hope, Pa., should definitely set aside some time to enjoy the current production of “Evita” at Buck’s County Playhouse. Director Will Pomeranz has transferred his production of this show from Bay Street Theater in New York, which is reimagined, placing dance front and…

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Off-Broadway Review: OHenry Productions “This Beautiful Future” at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Closed Sunday, October 30, 2022)

Elodie (Francesca Carpanini) and Otto (Uly Schlesinger) reunite in a bedroom after they meet in a town square in Chartres, France in August 1944. Crazy things happened in the square including Elodie having what seems an epileptic seizure. A woman laughed at Elodie, and Otto wanted to spit on her. Before Elodie arrives, she has visited the bombed out Gornall’s…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Los Otros” at A.R.T./New York Theatres – Mezzanine Theatre (Closed Saturday, October 8, 2022)

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the definition of “cycle” is a permutation of a set of ordered elements in which each element takes the place of the next and the last becomes the first. Using that definition, it seems safe to interpret the new musical production “Los Otros,” now playing at A.R.T., a song cycle. Two characters, Lillian (an enthralling…

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Broadway News/Previews: “Kimberly Akimbo” Opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on Thursday, November 10, 2022

The box office for the critically lauded and wildly popular new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, will open on Wednesday, September 7 at 10 a.m. at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). The Booth Theatre box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm. After opening to rave reviews last fall, Kimberly Akimbo will begin previews on Broadway…

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Broadway News/Previews: “Sweeney Todd” Begins Performances at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on February 26, 2023

Tony and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford will both return to Broadway this spring in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Thomas Kail. Featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will begin performances on February…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Kinky Boots” at Stage 42 (Currently On)

August 29, 2022 | joseph verlezza, joseph verlezza reviews, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway | Bella Coppola, Brianna Stoute, Callum Francis, Christian Douglas, costume design by Gregg Barnes, Cyndi Lauper, Danielle Hope, David J. Socolar, Devin Bowles, Ebrin R. Stanley, Ernest T. Williams, hair design by Josh Marquette, Harvey Fierstein, Ian Gallagher Fitzgerald, Jerry Mitchell, Joseph Verlezza, Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Kinky Boots, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, Lindsay Joan, Liz Pearce, Lucas Pastrana, make-up design by Darion Matthews, Marcus Neville, Maria Wirries, Marty Lauter, Matt Murphy, Matthew Michael Janisse, music direction by Will Van Dyke, Nick Drake, Primary Stages, Ricky Schroeder, Ryah Nixon, Ryan Halsaver, scenic design by David Rockwell, Sean Steele, sound design by Gareth Owen, Stage 42, Stephen Oremus, Tarion Strong, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tommy Martinez

Theatergoers who missed the successful Broadway production of “Kinky Boots” should make their way to Stage 42 for the Off-Broadway revival which will be sure to please. A more condensed version of the original does not compromise the structure or diminish any of the crucial themes of the story. It is actually quite a different experience because of the intimacy…

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Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022)

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo’s “On That Day in Amsterdam” (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted story of risk, disenfranchisement, immigration policy, art history, and duplicity that has little to do with the narrative’s main characters. This is unfortunate given the actors are outstanding, the direction first-rate, and the…

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Broadway Review: “Into the Woods” at the St. James Theatre (Currently On)

August 22, 2022 | Broadway, Dance, do this one thing for me, Music, she loves me, transl | "Into the Woods", Albert Guerzon, and Makeup Design), Andrea Hood (Costume Design), Annie Golden, Brian D’Arcy James as the Baker, Brooke Ishibashi, Cameron Johnson, Cody Renard Richard, Cole Thompson, Cookie Jordan (Hair, David Patrick Kelly, David Rockwell (Scenic Design), David Turner, Evan Zimmerman, Gavin Creel, James Lapine, James Ortiz (Puppet Design), Jason Forbach, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Henry, Julia Lester, Kennedy Kanagawa, Mary Kate Moore, Matthew Murphy, MurphyMade, Patina Miller, Phillipa Soo, Sara Bareilles, Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann (Co-Sound Designers), St. James Theatre, Stephen Sondheim, Ta’Nika Gibson, Telsey + Company, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tyler Micoleau (Lighting Design), Wigs

The most recent revival of the 1987 Broadway musical “Into the Woods” featuring music and lyrics from the late, great Stephen Sondheim is now making its triumphant return, playing at the St. James Theatre. It is without a doubt a fitting tribute to this musical theatre giant. Director Lear deBessonet has assembled an unrivaled cast of astute actors, who are…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Butcher Boy” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, September 11, 2022)

August 22, 2022 | butcher boy, Off-Broadway | "The Butcher Boy", Amanda Quaid is the Dialect Coach, Andrea Lynn Green, April Ann Kline is the Production Stage Manager, Asher Muldoon, Barry McNabb, Carey Rebecca Brown, Carol Rosegg, Casting is by JZ Casting, Christian Strange, Ciarán O’Reilly, costume design by Orla Long, Dan Macke, Daniel Marconi, David Baida, David Hancock Turner, David Roberts, Emma Camp, Emma Camp is the Assistant Choreographer, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jade Doina is the Assistant Stage Manager, Joe Cassidy, Kerry Conte, Liam Prendergast is the Assistant Director, lighting design by Kat Zhou, Mask Design is by Stanley Allan Sherman Mask Arts Company, Michele Ragusa, Nicholas Barasch, orchestrations by Muldoon and Sammy Grob, Patrick McCabe, Polly McKie, projection design by Dan Scully, Properties are by Brandy Hoang Collier, Rick Sordelet is the Fight Director, Sam Hartley, scenic design by Charlie Corcoran, Scott Stangland, sound design by M. Florian Staab, Teddy Trice, Theatre Reviews Limited

As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and spirited understudy Dan Macke at this performance) know they could “live this way forever.” But both boys live in Ireland’s troubling neocolonial times. The political violence and the economic…

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