PICTURES FROM HOME by Sharr White based on the photo memoir by Larry Sultan Starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker Directed by Bartlet Sher Studio 54 Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer Earlier this season, I saw, but was too over-extended to review, a play by Joseph Dougherty called Chester Bailey, at the Irish …
SOME LIKE IT HOT Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Shaiman & Scott Wittman Based on the screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond Directed by Casey Nicholaw Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer Billy Wilder’s film, Some Like It Hot, screenplay by him and longtime collaborator I.A.L. …
A BRIGHT NEW BOISE by Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Oliver Butler Signature Theatre Reviewed by David Spencer A new employee is hired to be a cashier at an Idaho Hobby Lobby. For those who may only know that as the name of a national chain store not unlike Walmart, Hobby Lobby is famously a conservative …
THE WANDERERS by Anna Ziegler Directed by Barry Edelstein A Production of the Roundabout Theatre Company at the Laura Pels Theatre Reviewed by David Spencer Gosh, I’m not sure what to make of The Wanderers by Anna Ziegler, the Roundabout’s latest off-Broadway venture at their midtown Laura Pels space. A multi-generational story set in NYC, told …
A BEAUTIFUL NOISE Music and Lyrics by Neil Diamond Book by Anthony McCarten Directed by Michael Mayer Broadhurst Theatre Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer A Beautiful Noise struck me as a kind of Merrily We Roll Along told forward, without the dramatic point. Well, forward from the vantage of a flashback. We start with Neil, …
COLIN QUINN: SMALL TALK Written and Performed by Colin Quinn Directed by Bobby Moresco Returning March 30 Greenwich House Theater Official Website Reviewed by David Spencer I like Colin Quinn, I genuinely do. He’s a gifted performer, a smart, funny comedian, he holds an audience, he gets big laughs and he can sustain a themed set for …
