Ben Stanton (lighting design)

Broadway Review: “The Collaboration” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Saturday, February 11, 2023)

Unlike the typical one-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle where the completed puzzle matches the image on the cover, “The Collaboration’s” dénouement and resolution are nothing like the playwright’s supposed intention when writing the script. Anthony McCarten sets us up for a scuba diving expedition. The playwright teases us into a deep-sea dive into the wreckage that is the lives of two disparate…

Broadway Review: “Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol” at The Nederlander Theatre (Closed Sunday, January 1, 2023)

November 21, 2022 | Broadway, on that day > | "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol", Ben Stanton (lighting design), Cookie Jordan (hair and makeup design), Dane Laffrey (scenic and costume design), David Roberts, Jefferson Mays, John Kristiansen (puppet design), Joshua D. Reid (sound design), Justin Scribner (associate director and production stage manager), Lucy Mackinnon (projection design), Michael Arden, Stephen Kopel (casting director), Susan Lyons, The Nederlander Theatre, Theatre Reviews Limited

Under Michael Arden’s meticulous direction, Jefferson Mays navigates through his adaptation (with Susan Lyons and Michael Arden) of the five staves of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” with the full arsenal of his impressive craft. In addition to the protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge, Mr. Mays portrays and reimagines fifty of Charles Dickens’ iconic characters with the full range of emotion from…