Emilio Madrid-Kuser

Broadway Review: “Chicken & Biscuits” at Circle in the Square Theatre (Closed Sunday January 2, 2022)

October 15, 2021 | Broadway > | "Chicken & Biscuits", Adam Honoré, Aigner Mizzelle, Alana Raquel Bowers, Circle in the Square Theatre, Cleo King, Devere Rogers, Douglas Lyons, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, Emilio Madrid-Kuser, Lawrence E. Moten III, Michael Urie, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Nikiya Mathis, Norm Lewis, Queens Theatre, Twi McCallum, Zhailon Levingston

Had the playwright, director, and creative team of “Chicken & Biscuits” taken a cue from their “Oklahoma” colleagues who occupied the same Circle in the Square Theatre space in 2019-2020, they might have inserted a break into their play’s overlong 120-minutes and served a small portion of chicken and biscuits to the members of the audience. This would have enhanced…

Off-Broadway Review: “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Westside Theatre

The most recent revival of “Little Shop of Horrors” by the musical theatre team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken surely proves to be timeless and timely. The musical numbers still seem to linger in your head long after you leave the theater just as they did when the show first opened off-Broadway at the Orpheum Theatre in 1982. The plot…