David Roberts

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

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 (Through 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 > | "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 (Through 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 (Through 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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Off-Broadway Review: “Three Houses” at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theatre (Through Sunday, June 9, 2024)

Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses currently running at Signature Theatre’s Linney Theater is a retelling/interpretation of the classic fairy tales “The Three Little Pigs” and “Red Riding Hood” (among other cautionary folklore narratives) in which The Big Bad Wolf appears. Stand-ins for Little Red Riding Hood and those Three Little Pigs are Susan (a manic and hedonistic Margo Seibert), Sadie (a…

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Broadway Review: “Water for Elephants” at the Imperial Theatre (Currently On)

April 4, 2024 | book review, Broadway, Dance, Music, the ally, water for > | "Water for Elephants", Alexandra Gaelle Royer, Antoine Boissereau, Asa Somers, Brandon Block, Broadway, Caroline Kane, casting by Tara Rubin Casting, Charles South, choreography by Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, circus design by Shana Carroll, Cirque du Soleil, costume design by David Israel Reynoso, Dance, David Roberts, fight direction by Cha Ramos, Gabriel Olivera de Paula Costa, Grant Gustin, Gregg Edelman, hair & makeup design by Luc Verschuren for Campbell Young Associates, Harley McLeish, Isabella Luisa Diaz, Isabelle McCalla, Jessica Stone, Joe De Paul, Keaton Hentoff-Killian, Ken Wulf Clark, lighting design by Bradley King, Marissa Rosen, Matthew Murphy, Matthew Varvar, Michael Mendez, Michelle West, music direction by Elizabeth Doran, music supervision and arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Benedict Braxton-Smith, musical, New York Theatre Reviews, Nicolas Jelmoni, orchestrations by Daryl Waters Benedict Braxton-Smith and August Eriksmoen, Paul Alexander Nolan, Paul Castree, Pig Pen Theatre Co., production stage management by Timothy R. Semon, projections by David Bengali, puppetry design by Ray Wetmore JR Goodman and Camille Labarre, Rachael Boyd, Rick Elice, Samantha Gershman, Samuel Renaud, Sara Gettelfinger, Sara Gruen, scenic design by Takeshi Kata, Sean Stack, Sound Design by Walter Trarbach, Stan Brown, Taylor Colleton, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Wade McCollum

When does “life” begin? Depending upon one’s religious beliefs, or scientific beliefs, or social media threads, the answer to the question is different. Does “life” begin at conception; in utero; at birth; in childhood; in adolescence; in old age; in death; or after death? Seen through the eyes of his older self in “Water for Elephants” (currently on at the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Hamlet” at the Orpheum Theater (Through Sunday, April 14, 2024)

March 29, 2024 | hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, Queer > | "Hamlet", David Roberts, Didi Hopkins (Movement Director), Eddie Izzard, John Gore, Mark Izzard, Mick Perrin Worldwide, New York Theatre Reviews, Selina Cadell, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tom Piper (Set), Tom Piper and Libby DaCosta (Costume Stylists), Tyler Elich (Lighting), WestBeth Entertainment

Adapted by Eddie Izzard’s sibling Mark Izzard, this “Hamlet” is among the best “Hamlets” on stage, screen, or stream. From the first scene of the iconic tragedy on the battlements of the royal castle at Elsinore when Marcellus relieves Francisco from his watch and where he, Horatio, and Bernardo encounter the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, to the closing scene where…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Seven Year Disappear” at the Pershing Signature Center (Through Sunday, March 31, 2024)

As patrons enter the performance of Jordan Seavey’s “The Seven Year Disappear” at The Pershing Square Signature Center, they see Miriam (Cynthia Nixon) sitting across from her thirty-something son Naphtali (Taylor Trensch). The two are motionless and intently staring at one another in the style of Yugoslav performance artist Marina Abramović facing off with a MoMA patron in the famed…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Ally” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, March 24, 2024)

Asaf and the members of the audience are the unwitting protagonists of Itamar Moses’s “The Ally” which is currently running at the Public’s Anspacher Theater. Asaf Sternheim (a well-meaning but uncommitted Josh Radnor) is Jewish, a writer, and an adjunct professor of writing at a prestigious American University in a struggling American city where his Korean American wife Gwen Kim…

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