Wayne Duvall

Broadway Review: “Swept Away” at the Longacre Theatre (Currently On)

December 3, 2024 | Broadway, Music > | "Swept Away", Adrian Blake, Alexandre Bleau, Brandon Kalm, Cameron Johnson, Chase Peacock, costume designer Susan Hilferty, David Neumann, David Roberts, David Rowen, Hunter Brown, Jillian Cimini, Jim Carnahan, John Gallagher Jr., John Logan, John Michael Finley, John Sygar, Josh Breckenridge, lighting designer Kevin Adams, Matt DeAngelis, Michael J. Mainwaring, Michael Mayer, music arranger and orchestrator Chris Miller, music arranger and orchestrator/music supervisor Brian Usifer, music director Will Van Dyke, New York Theatre Reviews, Orville Mendoza, Rico LeBron, Robert Pendilla, set designer Rachel Hauck, sound designer John Shivers, Stark Sands, The Avett Brothers, The Longacre Theatre, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tyrone L. Robinson, Wayne Duvall

“Swept Away,” currently on at the Longacre Theatre, was inspired by the 2004 album “Mignonette” by the American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers. Although the album was suggested by the shipwreck and survival story of the British yacht Mignonette, which sank in 1884, the narrative of the musical transcends time and space with its timeless themes of confession, forgiveness, redemption, transfiguration,…

Broadway Review: “1984” Wrinkles Reality at the Hudson Theatre

September 9, 2017 | asi wind, Broadway > | "1984", “Blowin’ in the Wind”, Bob Dylan, Cara Seymour, Carl Hendrick Louis, Chloe Lamford, Duncan Macmillan, George Orwell, Hudson Theatre, Julieta Cervantes, Michael Potts, Natasha Chivers, Nick Mills, Olivia Wilde, Reed Birney, Robert Icke, Tim Reid, Tom Gibbons, Tom Sturridge, Wayne Duvall

“Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist/Before they’re allowed to be free/Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head/And pretend that he just doesn’t see/The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind/The answer is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1962) Did the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties at the…