HANGMEN by Martin McDonaugh Directed by Matthew Dunster John Golden Theatre Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer A little known fact in the US is that, until capital punishment was banned in the UK, the veteran hangmen who executed the doomed were celebrities of a sort, almost like sports figures. And why wouldn’t they be? Men …
MJ Book by Lynn Nottage Directed by Christopher Wheeldon Neil Simon Theatre Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer I’m as entertained—well, almost as entertained—as anyone by the by-now standard genre of pop-star biopic musical, but only a few times (Jersey Boys and Beautiful come to mind) have I been so to the point of feeling as …
MACBETH By William Shakespeare Directed by Sam Gold Starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga Longacre Theatre Official Site Reviewed by David Spencer Director Sam Gold’s staging of Macbeth is probably best reviewed in brief. There’s nothing wrong with the notion of doing a stripped-down, rehearsal clothes production of a Shakespeare play—in popular commercial theatre, that notion …
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT Book by Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell Music by Jason Robert Brown Lyrics by Amanda Green Directed by John Rando Starring Billy Crystal and David Paymer Nederlander Theatre Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer Mr. Saturday Night is the new musical based on the 1992 movie about a comic in …
