Dustin Lance Black’s 8, a play based on the Proposition 8 anti-gay marriage law in California and subsequent legal battle, is to play at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on September 19 to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the organization that filed a lawsuit against the state of California to overturn the Read More
First things first: Robin Williams on a Broadway stage, which is to say Robin Williams as a Broadway actor, which is more precisely to say Robin Williams not playing Robin Williams, is–and, when you think about it, this shouldn’t be such a surprise–pretty damned good.
The free-associative comic and manic movie star, who is also Read More
Wicked , the delightful prequel to the Wizard of Oz , directed by Joe Mantello at the Gershwin, has no real people. In that escapist sense, it might seem as if it’s following in the comfortable footsteps of Disneyfied Broadway with its living cartoons and puppets and lion kings for all the family. But what Read More
