It’s Tony Time!

On a Tuesday night last summer-July 14, Bastille Day-I saw my first play as The Observer‘s new theater reviewer. It was Vanities, an awful Off Broadway musical at the Second Stage, and the evening was memorable only because it was also the night the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the trade Read More

Is Broadway Ready for Afrobeat? Swivel Those Hips!

There was a lot of talk last season about the new Broadway beat of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Latino musical In the Heights (which became a multiple-Tony-winning hit), and Stu’s cult rock show Passing Strange (which didn’t). Mr. Miranda’s breakthrough musical was first staged at 37 Arts, the small, uninvitingly cold theater on West 37 Street where Read More