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Off-Broadway Review: “The Counter” at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (Closed on Sunday, November 17, 2024)

October 9, 2024 | Off-Broadway > | "The Counter", ” Susannah Flood as “Katie”, Amy Warren as “Peg”, Anthony Edwards as “Paul, Christopher Darbassie (Sound), David Cromer, David Roberts, Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, Meghan Kennedy, New York Theatre Reviews, Richard Hodge serves as Production Stage Manager, Roundabout Theatre Company, Sarah Laux (Costumes), Stacey Derosier (Lights), Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Walt Spangler (Sets)

Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machine” nearly every morning except Sunday. Paul and server Katie (a perceptive and secretive Susannah Flood) have exchanged what might be described as casual conversations for the past two…

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Broadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (Closed on Sunday, November 24, 2024)

“McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon of western literature through the life and writing of renowned playwright Jacob McNeal (a cantankerous but magnetic Robert Downing Jr) who is, at the play’s onset, “badgering” Chat GPT on his iPhone to predict whether…

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Off-Broadway Preview: Royal Family Productions Two-Part Adaptation of “Ann of Green Gables” Runs October 17 through November 4, 2024

October 3, 2024 | Off-Broadway, Uncategorized, water for > | "Anne of Green Gables", Anne of Green Gables: Finding Home, Chris Henry, David Roberts, L.M. Montgomery, New York Theatre Reviews, Royal Family Productions, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

New York: Outer Critics’ Circle award-nominated Royal Family Productions, a non-profit theatre company known for its innovative productions and development of new original work, will present Chris Henry’s two-part adaptation in full of LM Montgomery’s classic novel, Anne of Green Gables. The first part, Anne of Green Gables: Finding Home, was presented in a substantially different version in 2019, and…

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Broadway Review: “The Hills of California” at The Broadhurst Theatre (Extended through Sunday, December 22, 2024)

September 30, 2024 | Broadway > | "The Hills of California", Amy Ball (UK casting director, Bryan Dick, Cameron Scoggins, Campbell Young Associates (wigs, Candida Caldicot (musical supervision and arrangements), Charles M. Turner III (production stage manager), David Roberts, David Wilson Barnes, Ellen Kane (choreography), Ellyn Heald, Erin Rose Doyle, Gemma Fuller (associate choreographer), hair & makeup design), Helena Wilson, Jessica Baglow, Jez Butterworth, Jim Carnahan CSA, Joan Marcus, Joan Sergay (US associate director), JV Mercanti (US casting director), Kate Wilson (dialect coach), Lara McDonnell, Laura Donnelly, Leanne Best, Liam Bixby, Liz Pearce, Max Roll, Nancy Allsop, Natasha Chivers (lighting design), New York Theatre Reviews, Nick Powell (composer, Nicola Turner, Ophelia Lovibond, Q. Smith, Richard Lumsden, Richard Short, Rob Howell (designer), Sadie Veach, Sam Mendes, Sara Brians (US associate choreographer), Sawyer Barth, Sophia Ally, sound design and arrangements), Ta’Rea Campbell, The Broadhurst Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Verity Naughton (UK young persons’ casting director), Zoé Ford Burnett (associate director)

In Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California,” the four Webb sisters gather in the summer of 1976 at Seaview the guesthouse on the outskirts of Blackpool, an English seaside resort on the Irish Sea, where their mother Veronica (a once demanding and selfish Laura Donnelly) lies dying upstairs in what was their childhood home. Jill (an angst-ridden and spinsterish Helena…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II (Closed on Saturday, November 23, 2024)

September 26, 2024 | Off-Broadway > | "Fatherland", Anna Kahja, Costume Design by Danyele Thomas, David Roberts, Evan Bernardin Productions, Larry Poindexter, Lighting Design by Alison Brummer, Maria Baranova, New York City Center Stage II, New York Theatre Reviews, Patrick Keleher, Ron Bottitta, Scenic Design by Joel David, Sound Design by Stewart Blackwood, Stephen Sachs, Stuart Metcalf, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

The timing of the opening of Stephen Sachs “Fatherland” at New York City Center Stage II could not be more auspicious. Based on the true story of the 18-year-old high school senior from the Wylie part of Dallas (the conflicted but committed Patrick Keleher) who turned his father (the fiery and grieving Ron Bottitta) over to the FBI because of his militant role in the January…

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“Around the Sun” Anthology Audio Drama Series Announces its Season Four Cast via “Slice of Life” Profile

August 28, 2024 | Uncategorized > | Anthology Audio Drama Series, Around the Sun: Artists Within, Artists Within, Brad Forenza, Broadway Podcast Network, David Roberts, Finks, Gretchen Cryer, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road, Joe Gilford, New York Theatre Reviews, Sarah Saltzberg, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Voice Acting, Writer-Performers

Around the Sun, the award-winning, anthology audio drama series created by Brad Forenza and presented via the Broadway Podcast Network, has announced its season four cast. The announcement comes via an embedded slice-of-life profile of the new season’s voice acting cast members. They include: Gretchen Cryer, Joe Gilford, and Sarah Saltzberg, all celebrated writer-performers. In their slice-of-life profile, Gretchen Cryer…

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Off-Broadway/Dance Review: “Ain’t Done Bad” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage (Closed Sunday, September 1, 2024)

Jakob Karr’s “Ain’t Done Bad,” currently running at the Irene Diamond Stage, portrays the familiar story of a young LGBTQ man (Jakob Karr) attempting to grapple with his sexual identity in an abusive home atmosphere. His mother (Megumi Iwama) is supportive but his father (Adrian Lee), who is verbally and psychologically abusive to the son’s brother (Ian Spring), mostly keeps…

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Music News: PS Classics Presents the Long-Awaited Original Cast Recording of “Sycamore Trees”

August 20, 2024 | Uncategorized, water for > | "Sycamore Trees", David Roberts, Diane Sutherland, Farah Alvin, Jessica Molaskey, Judy Kuhn, Matthew Risch, New York Theatre, New York Theatre Reviews, PS Classics, Ricky Ian Gordon, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tony Yazbeck

PS CLASSICS, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American Popular Song, will release the original cast recording of Ricky Ian Gordon’s acclaimed autobiographical musical Sycamore Trees at all digital and streaming sites on Friday, August 30. A special limited edition of 250 CDs will follow on Friday, September 20. Released on the heels of Gordon’s acclaimed memoirs,…

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Broadway Review: “Job” at the Helen Hayes Theater (Closed on Sunday, September 29, 2024)

At the beginning of “Job” which is currently running at the Helen Hayes Theater, Jane (a frenetic yet oddly focused Sydney Lemmon) enters Lloyd’s (a seemingly focused yet not fully at ease Peter Friedman) office holding a gun, confident she knows “who he is.” Although she then briefly experiences some temporary doubt about her well-researched hypothesis, she is willing to…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Welkin” Never Comes to a Verdict at Atlantic Theater Company (Closed on Sunday, July 7, 2024)

June 28, 2024 | Uncategorized > | "The Welkin", Ahron R. Foster, Amanda Spooner, Ann Harada, Atlantic Theater Company, casting by The Telsey Office, costumes by Kaye Voyce, Dale Soules, Danny Wolohan, David Roberts, Destiny Lilly, Emily Cass McDonnell, Glenn Fitzgerald, Hair & Wigs by Cookie Jordan, Haley Wong, Hannah Cabell, intimacy direction by Crista Marie Jackson, Jennifer Nikki Kidwell, lights by Stacey Derosier, Linda Gross Theater, Lucy Kirkwood, MacKenzie Mercer, makeup by Gabrielle Vincent, Mary McCann, movement by David Neumann, Nadine Malouf, New York Theatre Reviews, Paige Gilbert, Sandra Oh, Sarah Benson, sets by dots, Simone Recasner, sound by Palmer Hefferan, special effects by Jeremy Chernick, Susannah Perkins, Telsey + Co/Karyn Casl, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tilly Botsford

Twenty-one-year-old Sally Poppy (a powerful yet broken Haley Wong) is convicted of murdering young Alice Wax and sentenced to hang in March of 1759 on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk, in England. Sally claims she is pregnant and if that is true, she cannot be hanged. To determine the truth of Sally’s claim, the Justice “calls for a jury…

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