DF City Paper Review: True West (Theatre Exile, 13 February 2014)
There’s the west of American Mythology, a place of open spaces, big dreams, and limitless possibilities. Trail-blazing heroes came there and discovered […]
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David Fox
University administrator and teacher by day, theater and arts critic by night.
DF Reviews Little Me at Encores (9 February 2014)
Hooray for Encores Great Musicals in Concert! Musical theatre aficionados will almost certainly know about this project, but for those who don’t […]
Woody Allen: What Do We Know (And What Do We Need To Know)?
Woody Allen’s tarnished personal reputation is again a topic in the news, reactivated when he won the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Spring 2006)
Ahhh…ahAhahAhahAh! That’s Tarzan’s voice you hear, bringing to a heavy landing the corporate musicals season of ’06-’07. Others included the vampirical, schmaltzy […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Summer/Fall 2004)
What’s up (and what’s coming) this season…. BARBARA COOK’S BROADWAY (Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse, 65th and Broadway). The […]
RIP: Maximilian Schell, Philip Seymour Hoffman
When I heard on Saturday that the great actor and director Maximilian Schell had died, I planned to write something. I waited […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Spring 2004)
From a fat-free FIDDLER to a singing bus… here’s New York’s Spring 2004 musical season in a nutshell. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Fall 2003)
(From the CITY PAPER ARCHIVE — more Broadway reviews.) It’s a busy season, so let’s cut straight to the chase.. AVENUE Q. […]
NEW YORK THEATRE REPORT (Spring 2003)
(More from the CITY PAPER archives — reviews of Broadway’s LA BOHEME, MAN OF LA MANCHA, Quoth Rodgers and Hart: “Spring is […]
DF CITY PAPER Review: OTHER DESERT CITIES (Walnut Street Theatre)
The theme of family ghosts that refuse to stay buried is gold dust to American playwrights, and it’s central to Jon Robin […]
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