I have very good news. Simon Russell Beale has unexpectedly taken over the role of King Arthur in that mad pleasure of a show, Monty Python’s Spamalot, and his smashing performance is a wonder to behold. It may even be the most amazing debut in a Broadway musical I’ve ever seen.
Mr. Beale is Read More
There’s a super play downtown at the tiny Soho Rep with the unusual title of [sic], and it’s the best new comedy I’ve seen in many a season. Why, it’s almost as if its hitherto unknown author, Melissa James Gibson, isn’t quite responsible for it-as if the odd, wry characters in [sic] have a life Read More
Hey-ho. And if I may say so: Ho-hum. The Roundabout Theater Company’s solid revival of that old cornfed potboiler, The Rainmaker , is a surprising choice even by nice and cozy middle-of-the-road standards. N. Richard Nash’s 1954 tearjerker about a con man who melts the heart of a spinster was a popular success, not a Read More
