How to Succeed (Walnut Street Theatre) and the Great Frank Loesser (DF for the City Paper)
In 1950, Frank Loesser redefined how musical theater looked at New York. Oh, other composer-lyricists – notably Cole Porter— got there first. […]
DF Reviews Of Mice and Men at the Longacre Theatre, New York
This Broadway season has brought revivals of several American classics – The Glass Menagerie, A Raisin in the Sun, and Of Mice […]
DF Reviews Irma La Douce at Encores, New York (May 2014)
The good news: Encores brought to the party many of their usual virtues, including superlative orchestral playing and conducting, strong casting in […]
DF City Paper Review — Gint (EgoPo Classic Theatre, 8 May 2014)
Among the pleasures provided by EgoPo Classic Theater’s season devoted to Henrik Ibsen has been an opportunity to revel in the astonishing […]
Critics & Criticism: Why Critics Should Dread Opening Nights
I love going to the theater. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be in this business. Whether as a critic or a civilian […]
DF City Paper Review — Midsummer (a play with songs) (Inis Nua, 17 April 2014)
Since the term “rom-com” fills my tiny critic’s heart with dread, let’s start with the good news. Midsummer (A play with songs) […]
DF Reviews The Most Happy Fella at Encores, New York (April 2014)
Some things look so good on paper that success seems a sure thing. Take Encores second show of the season, The Most […]
DF Reviews The Realistic Joneses at the Lyceum, New York (April 2014)
What can I say about Will Eno’s intriguing, amusing, frustrating The Realistic Joneses, without revealing too much? I can tell you what it’s […]
Death and Television: The Good Wife, James Rebhorn
They are two of modern life’s certainties, but still – when death and television collide, it shakes our world, as we saw […]
Requiem for the Boyd / Alas, Poor Theater (from the Archives)
The Boyd — then and now As I write this, demolition is underway at Philadelphia’s Boyd Theatre. Opened in 1928, it was […]
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