Playing Around

I entered the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with trepidation. Neither a lay student of Russian history nor especially politically savvy, the [...]

Good Company is in rehearsal for “The Pursuit of Happiness,” the story of slave Sally Hemings and her Master/lover Thomas Jefferson. [...]

Flashing in stage light, be-sequined Dee Dee Bridgewater launches into a soaring “Nothing Will Be As It Was” (Milton Nascimento/Rene [...]

Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando, her most popular, was written for lover, Vita Sackville West. its noble protagonist changes from man [...]

“The trouble is, grownups write about teenagers from their own memories, or else write about teenagers from a stand-off, [...]

Realizing John Steinbeck’s iconic 1939 novel Grapes of Wrath, this modern opera creates a rich landscape of both Depression history [...]

Fifty-five years young, the eminent York Theatre Company this year presents longtime friend Liz Callaway in a superbly curated and [...]

A concept album in 1969, an extravagant Ken Russell film in 1975, and a 1993 Broadway version preceded this incarnation of Tommy. The [...]